[U-Boot] [PATCH] SATA: do not auto-initialize during boot

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Dec 12 01:01:23 CET 2008


Dear Kumar,

In message <29E3D6BF-AA38-40C3-AC21-87DCBBB82CAE at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> 
> > I agree with Kumare - having to run "sata init" manually is annoying.

Sorry for the bodus 'e' here.

> > We should auto-run it upon the first "sata" command if it hasn't been
> > called before (but still keep the option  to  run  it  manually,  for
> > example   to   (re-)   initialize   the  system  after  changing  the
> > configuration while the system is running).
> 
> But its not just sata commands.  I know I've used a SATA disk w/ext2  
> load commands.

But this will eventually call some S-ATA function  intenrally,w  hcih
can  check  that S-ATA has not been initialized yet, and run the init
function?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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