[U-Boot-Users] Boot direct on SATA drive

[Rune Torgersen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebastien.douheret
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 09:11
> To: U-Boot mailing list
> Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Boot direct on SATA drive
> 
>   Hi all,
> Does anyone has successfuly boot directly on a SATA drive with
> U-Boot ?

Depends on the SATA disk controller. I've booted a SII3112 directly
using the ATA driver sice that chip happens to have a IDE (PATA)
compatability layer.
Newer controllers use AHCI standard for the interface, and needs a
completely different driver.
I ended up just booting the kernel image from FLASH instead....