Subject: Re: au1550 support IDE harddisk or not?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: port-evbmips
Date: 04/24/2006 07:50:22
Simon Burge wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" wrote:
>   
>> Simon Burge wrote:
>>     
>>> "Garrett D'Amore" wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Simon Burge wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Needing PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE is a function of what the firmware you have
>>>>> on the board does, so this should be a kernel config file option and
>>>>> not an std.alchemy option.  It's entirely possible that another Alchemy
>>>>> based board has firmware that sets up PCI nicely for us.
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Given what I've seen in the YAMON source code, I'd be shocked and amazed
>>>> if this were true.  That said, *I* made modifications to YAMON to do
>>>> just that, but even in this case I think PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE is OK,
>>>> because in the worst case the configuration will change between what the
>>>> PROM is using and what the kernel uses.  But this will happen after the
>>>> kernel is loaded (possibly from a PCI device) and before it starts using
>>>> PCI.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> There's nothing that says YAMON has be used in every Alchemy board
>>> design...
>>>   
>>>       
>> Very true.  I've contemplated other bootloaders myself.
>>     
>
> So we're in agreement then that we don't want PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE
> enabled by default (in std.alchemy)?
>   

Yes.

    -- Garrett
> Simon.
> --
> Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
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>   


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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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