Re: xhci support?

[Aleš Nesrsta]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:48:29PM -0700, walt wrote:
> Hi!  I have an amd64 machine with an add-on usb3 adapter which
> works well with the linux xhci driver, but the machine's BIOS
> doesn't see any disks in the usb3 docking station I use.
> 
> My (elderly) grub-1.99-rc1 also doesn't see the outboard usb3
> drives, so grub is depending on the BIOS for disk detection(?)
> 
> Am I mis-configuring grub, maybe?  I see that grub sources, even
> the latest 1.99, include ohci.c and uhci.c, but not xhci.c, so maybe
> it's not supported yet?

XHCI is not supported yet, related driver does not exist in GRUB. So, it
is not possible to access any USB device connected to XHCI if XHCI is
not supported by BIOS (Your case...).

BR,
Ales

> 
> Thanks!
> 
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