Re: au1550 support IDE harddisk or not?
"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]>
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Simon Burge wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" wrote:
>
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>> Simon Burge wrote:
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>>> 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.
-- Garrett
> Simon.
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