Re: GRUB as coreboot payload with *working* AHCI mode support

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On 28.04.2013 11:02, Paul Menzel wrote:

> Dear GRUB folks,
> 
> 
> just for your information, I successfully tested revision 4911
> containing the AHCI support, Vladimir committed yesterday. Big thanks to
> Vladimir! Here is the serial log from running coreboot with the GRUB
> payload on the ASRock E350M1.
> 

Nice to hear. Thanks for testing.


>         02.316: <1b>[H<1b>[J<1b>[1;1Hdisk/ahci.c:211: dev: 0:11.0
> 
> Here the debug messages start as there is `set debug="ahci"` in
> `grub.cfg` in the memdisk. (Not sure where the strange characters in the
> beginning come from though.)

It's an escape sequence ehich causes screen clear when running vt100
compatible terminal.

>         02.317: disk/ahci.c:267: AHCI is in compat mode. Switching
> 
> I have to read about that and figure out, if and where I can configure
> that mode in coreboot. Vladimir, could you please add to the error
> message, to what mode the mode is switched to?

It's not an error, it's perfectly specified part of AHCI startup. It's
GHC.AE

>         10.269: 
>         10.269: <1b>[m<1b>[4;2H+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+<1b>[5;2H|<1b>[5;79H|<1b>[6;2H|<1b>[6;79H|<1b>[7;2H|<1b>[7;79H|<1b>[8;2H|<1b>[8;79H|<1b>[9;2H|<1b>[9;79H|<1b>[10;2H|<1b>[10;79H|<1b>[11;2H|<1b>[11;79H|<1b>[12;2H|<1b>[12;79H|<1b>[13;2H|<1b>[13;79H|<1b>[14;2H|<1b>[14;79H|<1b>[15;2H|<1b>[15;79H|<1b>[16;2H|<1b>[16;79H|<1b>[17;2H+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+<1b>[m<1b>[18;2H<1b>[m
>         10.269:       Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
>         10.269:       Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands
>         10.269:       before booting or `c' for a command-line.
>         […]
> 
> So my Western Digital WD20EARS seems to take about ten seconds to start
> up. (Under SeaBIOS it has the same behavior.)

Hm, it's somewhat slow to spinup but sounds credible that some drives
would need so much time.


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