On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 20:34 +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote: > Since updating my cubietruck to u-boot-2014.10 the SATA hard drive > connected to it performs emergency head parking around the time > uboot hands over control to kernel (or kernel is booting).
I think that probably explains the click I've been wondering about. > Could u-boot put SATA drive into standby (or at least ask it to sync > and park its heads) prior to handing control over to kernel? Yes, this would be great, thanks. > On the other hand it would be nice if SATApower could be preserved > along the different steps of boot process. I suppose something is resetting the GPIO controller and therefore the power GPIO before the SATA drivers come along and configure it. I've no idea if there exists any infrastructure in the kernel to preserve initial setup of the GPIO (I expected there is). It would be useful to investigate. Cheers, Ian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
