[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Fix IEI NOVA4899 board

[Luis Correia]

Hi Uwe,

On 5/15/07, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> could you please post a patch to add the license header to
> targets/iei/nova4899r/Config.lb, this would fix issue#53:
>
> http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/changeset/2508

Patchset submitted in two emails
(now i realised that i wrote the wront ticket number, it is not 35 but
53, please fix it while commiting)

>
> Also, what's the status of the IEI board now? What works, what doesn't?
> We should fix up the table in the wiki to reflect the current status.
>

The IEI board is now functional to a higher level then before, but
still not as good as I would expect. This board has some serious
hardware design faults IMHO.


fixed: IRQ routing issues
broken: eth1 is disabled by design as it interfeers with other devices
not-functional: sound, vga, hardware monitor, internal I2C bus
working: eth0, eth2, PCI slot, USB ports, serial console

VGA console can and will be implemented, but is currently pending some
work which is being done with Juergen Beisert.

BIG FAT WARNING:
Since the eth1 device is 'disabled by design', Linux 2.6 does some
funky stuff like assign a device to it (eth1) but as it fails to bring
it up, it then frees the device name. Some _tmp'random numer' device
will be present.
Therefore you should restrain yourself from using something that would
get an 'eth%d' device name on the PCI slot.
Further testing will be done with an Atheros wireless card (that gets
an ath%d) device name.

>
> Thanks, Uwe.

Luis Correia