[U-Boot] [PATCH] fix IDE_BUS(dev) macro

Rogan Dawes rogan at dawes.za.net
Sun Jun 3 22:23:15 CEST 2012


On 19/04/2012 08:38, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Le 18/04/2012 23:37, David Purdy a écrit :
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Luka Perkov<uboot at lukaperkov.net> wrote:
>>> IDE_BUS assumes that each bus has two devices and thus returns the first
>>> bus even when the second one should be probed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz<gmbnomis at gmail.com>
>>> Tested-by: Luka Perkov<uboot at lukaperkov.net>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Simon discovered this while adding support for new board IB NAS6210.
>>>
>>> More info can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-April/122525.html
>>>
>>> When this is commited I will do a coding style cleanup. There are tabs
>>> after few "#define" parts in include/ide.h.
>>>
>>> include/ide.h | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/ide.h b/include/ide.h
>>> index 8ecc9dd..385e909 100644
>>> --- a/include/ide.h
>>> +++ b/include/ide.h
>>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>> #ifndef _IDE_H
>>
>> Simon, Luka, Prafulla, etal,
>>
>> I've tested this out on the Seagate GoFlex Net (Kirkwood) device,
>> which also has dual SATA ports, and it resolved the long-standing (and
>> irritating) bug/unwanted-feature that required us to boot from _only_
>> the right side port.
>>
>> I would guess that other Kirkwood dual-SATA-port boxes would be
>> happier because of this, as well.
>>
>> Nice catch, Simon.
>
> Not my main area of expertise here, but I am not sure how this plays on
> Marvell non-kirkwood platforms (e.g., orion5x).
>
> ISTR it is not the first time we deal with the whole IDE number of bus /
> number of ports [ / useable ports ] issue, and we may be running in
> circles here, fixing one platform and breaking another.
>
> I'll try this on EDMiniV2 in the coming days, and let people know the
> results in this thread.
>
>> regards,
>>
>> Dave
>
> Amicalement,

I had something similar for my DNS323 port (orion5x-based), which other 
people may be remembering.

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-August/075589.html

I seem to recall Wolfgang was not terribly enthused about it for some 
reason, though.

Rogan



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