[coreboot] AMD Serengeti Cheetah devices

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 09.10.2008 17:40, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>>> Very nice.  Now how do we disable the 8111 nic and EHCI (like v2 does)?
>>>>         
>>> I'm
>>>       
>>>> still curious how that works.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Disable for scanning or disable once it is all scanned and address
>>> space allocated?
>>>       
>> Good question.  What did the v2 disable mean?
>>
>>     
>
>
> so here are the cases. You might not want to scan the device, or you
> might want the device to actually not be visible.
>
> make it not scanned, put enabled = "0" in dts.
> *possibly* make it disappear, put enabled = "0" in dts but also have a
> phase4_enable_disable that will look at dev->enabled and make the
> magic happen.
>   

That disappearance trick only works only with geode right now and needs
disable_vpci or somesuch set in the dts. I had a patch which allowed you
to use "hidden" as a property in the dts. I can dig it up if you want.


> For now, you can try
> enabled = "0"; in the dts entry for the nic.
>   

I thought it was
disabled;
but I'm not so sure anymore.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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