Subject: Re: au1550 support IDE harddisk or not?
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-evbmips
Date: 04/24/2006 11:06:42
"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...
Simon.
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