RE: USB controller hand-back (original thread: Missing USB devices.)

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
> 2.9.2013 09:01, Melki Christian (consultant) wrote: > > Exactly. > > The EHCI handback is provided by the EHCI spec handover state machine. > Problem is, most BIOS:es don't implement it, or just screw it up trying. > > The scenario is like this: > > Load grub2 with EHCI usb. > > Grub2 loads windo

RE: USB 1.0/1.1 devices on modern machines with only EHCI/XHCI.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Ales, Yep. The Dell works fine now. :) I thought it had something to do with missing companion controller. But it turned out to be the truncation bug. The Broadcom 5880 works perfectly! BR, Christian > 2.9.2013 10:49, Melki Christian (consultant) wrote: > > Sorry Ales, > > > > Here is a lsusb -v

Re: USB controller hand-back (original thread: Missing USB devices.)

2013-09-02 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 02.09.2013 23:33, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > 2.9.2013 09:01, Melki Christian (consultant) wrote: >> Exactly. >> The EHCI handback is provided by the EHCI spec handover state machine. >> Problem is, most BIOS:es don't implement it, or just screw it up trying. >> The scenario is like this: >> Load grub

USB controller hand-back (original thread: Missing USB devices.)

2013-09-02 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
2.9.2013 09:01, Melki Christian (consultant) wrote: Exactly. The EHCI handback is provided by the EHCI spec handover state machine. Problem is, most BIOS:es don't implement it, or just screw it up trying. The scenario is like this: Load grub2 with EHCI usb. Grub2 loads windows 7 or something. Wi

Re: USB 1.0/1.1 devices on modern machines with only EHCI/XHCI.

2013-09-02 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
2.9.2013 10:49, Melki Christian (consultant) wrote: Sorry Ales, Here is a lsusb -vvv dump of the E6430 machine. I meant to include it the first time. According to this file, it looks like Smart card reader is connected in port 8 at internal USB2 hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024. Did you

Re: [PATCH] Missing USB devices.

2013-09-02 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Vladimir: Please, when you will very important review/commit Christian patch, consider also my two previous latest USB patches - please review them (I can commit them myself, no problem) or commit. I mean these two patches: - simple patch related to reset SMI (sent in ML in thread [PATCH] Re

[PATCH] GRUB manual link to source results in 404

2013-09-02 Thread Adrian Yanes
Closes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39714 # Bazaar merge directive format 2 (Bazaar 0.90) # revision_id: aya...@gnu.org-20130902180649-q3k19yzi6mb8bf3q # target_branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ # testament_sha1: a72bfe91c298879b8c289c7b03d152464fb30da4 # timestamp: 2013-09-0

RE: [PATCH] Missing USB devices.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Found the bug after a couple of hours digging. Quite serious. Patch provided. Trivial but extremely irritating none the less. Vladimir: Please apply. Regards, Christian usb_hub_ports_20130902.patch Description: usb_hub_ports_20130902.patch ___ Grub-de

RE: USB 1.0/1.1 devices on modern machines with only EHCI/XHCI.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Sorry Ales, Here is a lsusb -vvv dump of the E6430 machine. I meant to include it the first time. BR, Christian dump.gz Description: dump.gz ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

RE: [PATCH] Re: Missing USB devices.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Yes. My patch looked exactly like that. Minus the comment changes. ;) I can not see any harm from this while running. Maybe this needs to be tested more? Linux looks like it has it as default. linux-3.10/drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c. Looks like it hands over from BIOS and disable the ehci-contro

RE: USB 1.0/1.1 devices on modern machines with only EHCI/XHCI.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
> Hi, > what do you mean exactly by "GRUB does not detect this device"? > 1) Do you mean it is not listed by "usb" command? > 2) Or do you mean it is not listed by "ls" command as disk? > > In the case 2) it is most probably caused by this: Such device is not mass > storage class device. I.e., it

RE: Missing USB devices.

2013-09-02 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
> Hi guys, > sorry for the delay - I was too busy on business trip... > > > Vladimir: > ... > >> I am waiting mainly for Vladimir's "Go on!" :-) > > I don't see any messages in mymailbox from you tagged as pending > > patches. Can you tell me the date and subject? > Oh, sorry, maybe I missed some