Re: PCI SATA controllers on embedded, no-BIOS targets

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Kevin Hilman wrote:
> 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.

I've personally seen it working on XScale and ATI's mips.

-- 
tejun