From 6fb6c2a396bb1b851a4ec8a6f5e605a15c218d10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:26:59 +0200 Subject: microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list: IRC. SATA. --- .../mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn | 15 +++++------ .../hardware_compatibility_list/discussion.mdwn | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'microkernel/mach') diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn index 2152c079..6c984784 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # CPU Architecture @@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ All common IDE drives should work. Some drive geometries do not work, e.g. drives with hundreds of GiB of storage space, see [[!GNU_Savannah_bug 26425]]. -[[!toggle id="SATA" text="SATA drives may work in compatibility mode."]] - -[[!toggleable id="SATA" text=""" +## SATA + +SATA drives may work in compatibility mode. + This is how booting a [[GNU/Hurd_system|hurd]] will typically fail if GNU Mach couldn't connect to the hard disk, e.g., in a SATA system without IDE compatibility mode: @@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ compatibility mode: There *may* be an option in the system's BIOS setup to configure enabling such a compatibility mode. -"""]] + # Device Drivers diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/discussion.mdwn index 69ca3190..2b65956a 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/discussion.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,33 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] + Further information may still be found on and could perhaps be incorporated into that page. --[[tschwinge]] + + +# SATA + +IRC, freenode, +hurd, 2011-07-24 + + youpi: concerning the ide compatibility problem, it seems some + bioses provide several modes + youpi: "legacy ide" and "native ide" + i don't know what native ide really means, but when debugging ide + probing in gnumach, it just looks like there is nothing to detect + and even in this mode, linux uses the ahci driver + apparently native means it still uses the IDE protocol, but + possibly with other IRQs + i.e. you need a PCI driver to handle that + ok -- cgit v1.2.3