Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Compact Flash install

[Jan H. P. <jh...@jh...>]

Hi Andrzej,

> This is probably a completely new motherboard (by the way, show off what the MBs).
>

Not completely new. The board I'm working with at the moment is an Aewin
CB-8902 board and the board is probably about 5 or 6 years old. Attached
is some board information.
> I wrote on a Devil-linux-Develop list, that the new MBs have USB 3.0 
> controllers instead of USB 2.0 and for this chips xHCI host driver is 
> required. This driver is by default compiled with the kernel as a module.
>
> BIOS sees the USB storage device and can boot. The kernel sees them only when 
> udev loads device drivers. This happens when a configuration is already 
> unpacked on a ramdisk and the CD is mounted. For configuration was seen when 
> on USB 3.0 mass storage device, xHCI driver must be loaded before, which 
> requires either modification scripts in the initrd and addition the driver to 
> the initrd or static linking xHCI driver to the kernel via 
> CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y setting.
>
> Heiko made ​​this change to CVS on my request at February 8.

Although the problem is probably not the same (no USB 3.0) the solution
might indeed be something I have to look at. I would need to find out
what driver I need to compile static into my kernel.

The build I created was from somewhere in the beginning of this month, I
would guess that your change is allready in it.
Let me quickly check ....

build/dist/dist/devil-linux-1.6.5-2014-03-10-pentium4/DL-kernel-config:CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y

So indeed, this one is in it. I will have to do some digging.

> Try D-L compiled after that date, or compile D-L yourself with current 
> sources. If this is not possible for you, please contact me on priv and I will 
> give you link to my mod compilation - you will see if this works for you.

Thanks,
Jan Hugo Prins