[okl4-developer] okl4 off the disk

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:48:24AM -0500, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
> The PCI ID according to lspci -vvnb is (8086, 2289), which is not
> supported in oklinux/wombat
> 00:1f.2 0106: 8086:2829 (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
> 
> Can I make it work just by adding the relevant PCI ID in drivers/ata/ata_piix.c?
> 

Sometimes to support a new device you just need to add a the
PCI ID.  If it is more than that you will need to take a look at the
changes required to support your drivers and port those changes
to the ata_piix driver.


> Also, I created /dev/console (MAJ=5, MIN=1) in the rootfs package by
> adding the following lines in "linux/rootfs-2.6.23-v2/etc/init.d/rcS"
> 
>    mknod /dev/console c 5 1
> 
> Upon booting in qemu, I can verify the existence of device
> 
> BusyBox v1.00 (2008.05.27-15:41+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
> / #
> / # ls -l /dev/console
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root       5,   1 Jan  1 00:00 /dev/console
> / #
> 
> 
> However, it doesn't help in getting msgs on the actual hardware. Any
> suggestions? Thanks,
> 

I've booted something very close to the 2.1 release for another
project and can verify that the VGA should work.  There might be still
some outstanding issues with VGA support though, we only test QEMU
and the one or two pieces of hardware we have access to.

	-gl