From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Hilman Subject: Re: PCI SATA controllers on embedded, no-BIOS targets Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:52:32 -0700 Message-ID: <44EB3650.1080404@mvista.com> References: <44EB32E4.8080706@mvista.com> <44EB33BB.4090101@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:6153 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750973AbWHVQwd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:52:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44EB33BB.4090101@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Deepak Saxena Tejun Heo wrote: > Kevin Hilman wrote: >> I have a Silicon Images 3112 PCI card on an XScale IXP425 platform. >> The card works well in a PC, but I haven't got it to work in on the >> ARM platform. On the PC, I see the cards BIOS executed and am >> guessing that since this can't happen on the ARM, that's why things >> aren't working. >> >> The card is at least detected on the ARM, and the driver tries to >> probe for devices, but times out an moves on. >> >> Before I debug this too deeply, I want to make sure this should work >> on embedded boards, even without the BIOS execution. > > sil3112 works fine w/o any BIOS initialization. > I'm curious what platforms this has been tested. Any non-x86 platforms? Any big endian platforms? Thanks for the quick response. Kevin