-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 12/03/2018 04:35 AM, Felix Held wrote: > Hi! > > >> No idea why combined mode is the default, it's only useful for OSes from >> the '90s. It's not about the type of drives (SATA vs PATA) connected but >> how the SATA controller identifies itself to the OS. > > > I agree that the combined mode isn't the best default, but I can't say > that it's totally useless. In combined mode you have the first 4(?) SATA > ports connected to an AHCI controller and the last 2(?) to a legacy > IDE/ATA controller. I had some SATA->PATA bridge to connect a PATA > device to a mainboard and the adapter I had only worked on SATA ports > that were connected to a legacy IDE/ATA controller, but not on SATA > ports connected to an AHCI controller. I didn't further debug that issue > though, so I can't say why it didn't work on an AHCI controller. > > > Speaking of the KGPE-D16: I still have this patch [0] in my review queue > that is needed for coreboot to work on the board when the BMC firmware > flash is installed, but it seems that neither Timothy nor owners of that > board really care about that patch any more (I poked a few people about > that patch a few times), which I find quite sad. Would be good if > someone would address the last 3 comments and actually tests the patch > on the real hardware, so it can be merged to fix that show-stopper. > > > Regards > > Felix
First, thanks for the patch and work on the KGPE-D16. I've been meaning to do a better job at helping maintain the platform, but right now life has gotten somewhat in the way in that I haven't had proper access to the KGPE-D16 development system in quite a while (space taken up with Talos / Blackbird boards for the most part). Things should settle down some after Christmas, so I'll see what I can do to pull the old D16 dev platform back out at that time and start testing / merging patches. Are there any others that I should also help take a look at? - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJcC0PGAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFb2pkIAIhqutZr52Z591tjkMzTdCWf HCNrJdcyg6bI4t7GAIT59F8EYVeVsZq8guc5+Sttp36ojpnLbnG7LtdSThsEzlhL /uIRF5Fx1joi1eE9r79zQ0gl7RGaKvjzgqgvgLMXVgepMP/H03cRFc4xqyx1iuDY 4OimTJCR82Fl7aG/SnS7snYDO7DNRtOvpv4KIO6AONBKtSVcDElk/aBOW864yVgF WEkQHq26Mg32zO6rN21MBuGFBhNsWgQ+MmFrltlmr/KqOnL4mRlKDs7QbuaXIhMl 1DcdXRz6sqXVK3GU2JgaSTca6RbK1G6dpvGUFca+mQYU7E3IH0x1JkPfbq9CV50= =CjaW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot