From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: PCI SATA controllers on embedded, no-BIOS targets Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:26:07 +0900 Message-ID: <44EB3E2F.4040504@gmail.com> References: <44EB32E4.8080706@mvista.com> <44EB33BB.4090101@gmail.com> <44EB3650.1080404@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:56489 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932293AbWHVR1L (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:27:11 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so462814wra for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44EB3650.1080404@mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Hilman Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Deepak Saxena 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