[coreboot] IDE cable select question

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:15 AM,  <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>>
>>  It is the Intel 82801DB ICH4 chipset. I think most of the ICH's are
>>  the same on this. So are you saying this can be set in filo, or
>>  coreboot?
>
> I think coreboot has to do it ... if the kernel can not.
>
> ron
>
Ok then, I think it may complicate things too much if we had a  
IDENTIFY_DRIVE command query to the drive (Note: this command query is  
also used for DMA settings). That would be like basicly re-writing an  
IDE driver??

So, I propose a global option (IDE_CABLE = 40 or 80) that can easily  
be adjusted from Config.lb in the targets directory, that sets the  
value for a simple function in  
src/southbridge/intel/i82801xx/i82801xx_ide.c.
Does that make sense?


Thanks - Joe