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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can not boot from sata on ck804, the
reason is that the sata controller can not work on compatible mode. If you real
want to boot from SATA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>you
need to porting driver from kernel to FILO_IN_ETHERBOOT to make use simple
scsi interface to access the sata disk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>or
easy way is boot one tiny kernel ( with ck804 sata support and kexec
support) from IDE(FILO, Etherboot), USB(FILO_IN_ETHERBOOT), Network(Etherboot)
and use kexec tools to boot the kernel on your SATA disk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Current USB IRQ setting in LinuxBIOS should
be good enough to make use device working. Please make sure setting on
mptable.c is right. Also you may need to set apic for kernel to enable io-apic
to be used.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>YH<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Anil B G<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 01, 2006
8:40 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Jonathan Sturges<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> linuxbios@linuxbios.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [LinuxBIOS] Enabling
USB 2.0</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks. I plan to boot
from SATA and not from USB. Do any other boards supported by LinuxBIOS
(whose source is available in the source tree) bringup USB that I could use as
a reference?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 9/1/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jonathan
Sturges</span></b> <<a href="mailto:jsturges@speakeasy.net">jsturges@speakeasy.net</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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Anil B G wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I am trying to enable USB on a board similar to Tyan s2892
(CK804) <br>
> chipset?<br>
> Is there anything that else that needs to be done separately other<br>
> than setting the irqs et al correctly? Specifically do we need to<br>
> write some sort of a driver to enable the USB host controller. <br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
> Anil<br>
<br>
<br>
Assuming you don't hope to boot from USB, all you really should need is<br>
to setup the IRQ map, AFAIK. Then the Linux kernel will detect it
and<br>
be able to attach the appropriate driver. <br>
<br>
-Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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