[ltp] t42p ata_piix

Carlos Moffat linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:44:28 -0500


On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:35 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 06:22 +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 schrieb Carlos Moffat:
> > > 
> > > > Argh. Ok. Thanks, I'll give it a try. Please let me know if you remember
> > > > anything about this, as I've been trying this switch for a while now.
> > > 
> > > Does your dmesg log indicate that the ide chipset has been found? If yes, 
> > > please post the message. Maybe there is still some IDE part active that 
> > > occupies the hardware first.
> > > 
> > 
> > I couldn't figure out how to save the dmesg output from the BusyBox
> > shell, but using Ulrich's config I noticed this:
> > 
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver revision 7.00alpha2
> > ide: assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with
> > idebus=xx
> > 
> > I need to check again with a kernel without the IDE stuff at all to see
> > if this shows up.
> 
> It doesn't.  Get rid of CONFIG_IDE, you don't want it on any T4x with a new
> enough (2.6.2x) kernel.
> 

You're right, Henrique. Withouth CONFIG_IDE I don't get any of those
messages, although I still get stuck in 'waiting for root filesystem' or
something like that.

Damn.

Carlos