scupt-tc real hardware: 0/3

[John J. Karcher]

On 07/09/2018 05:44 AM, Alexander Boettcher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 06.07.2018 05:51, John J. Karcher wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my AMD FX-based system
>> mostly worked - the SATA hard drive wasn't detected, but the on-board
>> (Realtek) NIC worked, as did an external USB hard drive.
>>
>> I haven't tried virtualization yet (because I can't wipe the external
>> drive), but I will try it when I can.
> 
> as written on the Sculpt TC release website, a _recent_ Intel-based PC
> is the main target. So, AMD machines may work to some degree, but it is
> not expected to work well.
> 
> Regarding SATA/AHCI and AMD, in Sculpt TC the driver manager only
> considers Intel AHCI chips [0], so your SATA disks can't work since no
> driver is started at all.
> 
> It would be great, if AMD users out there test/debug our AHCI driver
> with some simpler scenario and open up feature issues on github, so that
> it be added for the next releases.

I'm afraid I've communicated poorly here.  I was just playing around 
with it, and was surprised it worked as well as it did on an unsupported 
system.

If/when adding AMD support becomes a priority, I'll be happy to help 
with testing, etc.  Until then, I'm happy with what we already have.

Actually, I'm planning on getting a refurbished ThinkPad soon, so I 
should be able to join the supported hardware club!  With some luck, I 
will try to use Genode as my "daily driver", since I already run 
everything in VirtualBox VMs.