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that last code I sent
by ron minnich Jan. 14, 2004

Jan. 14, 2004

still is not quite right. It can be simpler I just realized. I can look at the bridge_ctl and if vga is set, I should be able to figure out that it needs to be set in amdk8. Off to look some more. ron

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答复: [Fwd: [Beowulf] linuxbios]
by YhLu Jan. 14, 2004

Jan. 14, 2004

Lathama, I will let Charlie to contact you to see if We can help. Regards Yinghai Lu -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年1月14日 10:54 收件人: Bari Ari 抄送: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org; lathama(a)lathama.com 主题: Re: [Fwd: [Beowulf] linuxbios] On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bari Ari wrote: > What are the success stories out there. I am starting to play and am already > downloading some stuff I just wondered what the group thinks about this. well there is the largest K8 cluster in the world, here at LANL, 1408 nodes. Built by linuxbios, arima mobo, linuxbios support from linux networx. Tyan will sell you K8 mobos with linuxbios on them. Hopefully the tyan people reading this will get in touch with you. There are a few other companies that will do K8 mobos with linuxbios but nothing public yet. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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[Fwd: [Beowulf] linuxbios]
by Bari Ari Jan. 14, 2004

Jan. 14, 2004

Just forwarding this since there wasn't much of a response from the beowulf list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Beowulf] linuxbios Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Latham <lathama(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: lathama(a)lathama.com To: beowulf <beowulf(a)beowulf.org> Just got my "Linux Journal" and was reading about the linuxbios. It mentioned tyan (My fav.) I searched tyan.com and found nothing related. (just thought about googling tyan.com) Any Tyan MB Linux BIOS users out there? What are the success stories out there. I am starting to play and am already downloading some stuff I just wondered what the group thinks about this. http://www.clustermatic.org/ http://www.linuxbios.org ===== /---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Andrew Latham -LathamA - Penguin Loving, Moralist Agnostic. What Is an agnostic? - An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as, a god or the future with which religions are concerned with. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time. LathamA.com - (lay-th-ham-eh) - lathama(a)lathama.com - lathama(a)yahoo.com \---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf(a)beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

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答复: Tyan S2885 + K8 + Nvidia GEForce FX 5600 + testbios: WORKS!
by YhLu Jan. 14, 2004

Jan. 14, 2004

Great, I would have a try. So the vgabios will be in the tree. How about the util/testbios? YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年1月9日 14:35 收件人: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Tyan S2885 + K8 + Nvidia GEForce FX 5600 + testbios: WORKS! We just brought up an AGP card using the freebios/util/vgabios/testbios code! It's an Nvidia and it works fine. I think the emulator path is going to work for linuxbios. There are still some sharp corners to round off but this is really exciting. This is as far as we have ever come with VGA support that will work safely and across all architectures. I will be putting a fix into the linuxbios resource code to deal with the problems we encountered. It is a trivial fix. It is amazing how well the resource setup code in V2 is working, however; bridges and things just tend to get set up correctly. Anyway, just thought you'd all want to know. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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For VGA ...
by ron minnich Jan. 14, 2004

Jan. 14, 2004

VGA is "special". This code: src/devices/device.c:static void allocate_vga_resource(void) is great. This loop: while(bus) { bus->bridge_ctrl |= PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA; bus = (bus == bus->dev->bus)? 0 : bus->dev->bus; } is close, but as noted it is somewhat pci-centric. It works darned well though: it sets up most bridges just fine. But VGA is just so darned "SPECIAL". I am thinking of adding a new device_operation just for good old vga. void (*endable_vga)(dev, vga_dev) The loop changes to this: while(bus) { if (bus->dev->ops && bus->dev->ops->enable_vga) bus->dev->ops->enable_vga(bus->dev, vga); else bus->bridge_ctrl |= PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA; bus = (bus == bus->dev->bus)? 0 : bus->dev->bus; } I think this is all we need. Most of the devices would have this empty, but the amdk8 would have an entry so it could: - set the VGA_EN bit in the correct PCI I/O register - set up an MMIO pair for the a0000-affff range I realize this is a special case, but all of vga is a special case, and VGA is *very* *important* to the embedded space. Our goal is to have a VGA filo or etherboot prompt. comments? Absent serious objections I want to put this in today. ron

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Solo fails - once again..
by Stefan Reinauer Jan. 13, 2004

Jan. 13, 2004

Note, it says it's doing interleaving. Funny enough, it also interleaves with one DIMM module. Stefan LinuxBIOS-1.1.5.0-Fallback Di Jan 13 17:12:12 CET 2004 starting... setting up resource map.... AMD8111 southbridge is connected to HT link 00000000 setting up resource map.... done. Enabling routing table for node 00000000 done. Enabling UP settings Disabling read/write/fill probes for UP... done. coherent_ht_finalize done SMBus controller enabled Ram1.00 setting up CPU00 northbridge registers done. Ram2.00 133Mhz Interleaved RAM: 0x00080000 KB Ram3 Initializing memory: done Ram4 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. Best regards, Stefan Reinauer -- Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG Teamleader Architecture Development

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SiS Patch
by Ted Rolle Jan. 12, 2004

Jan. 12, 2004

The patch is linux-2.4.7-sis.patch from the K7SEM HOWTO. I have a K7SEM board. Here is the output from lspci: root@marvel / # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02) 00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) r Thanks for the quick reply! Ted

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Source for linux-2.4.7 SiS patch
by Ted Rolle Jan. 12, 2004

Jan. 12, 2004

Can someone tell me the location of the SiS patch for linux 2.4.7? Or, if a later version of Linux is available, the patch to that one. Ted

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答复: DIMM relocation on Tyan S2885
by YhLu Jan. 12, 2004

Jan. 12, 2004

After ron solve the VGA support on LinuxBIOS and We must make sure the performance meet some degree, We can talk about remapping the AGP ram in to some other range. Regards Yinghai Lu -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年1月11日 21:42 收件人: Matt Harvey 抄送: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: DIMM relocation on Tyan S2885 On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Matt Harvey wrote: > So the question to the panel is: Will LinuxBIOS solve this problem for > me? The task this machine was purchased for really does require as much > RAM as possible. well, I think we can solve it for you. I have one of these boards, if you want to do the homework on how to do it I'll try to do it. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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V2 EPIA compilation problem
by Dave Reader Jan. 12, 2004

Jan. 12, 2004

Hi, Having built V1 for epia, I wanted to try V2. I'm hitting the following problem with romcc segfaulting when trying to build. The buildhost is Debian Stable on a P4 machine. I have upgraded binutils to 2.14.90 & gcc to 3.3 in case the problem lie there, but i still have this problem. I've seperated out the gcc options show below for readability. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, d. dave@dr:~/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/targets/via/epia/epia$ make if (cd normal; \ make linuxbios.rom)\ then true; else exit 1; fi; make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/targets/via/epia/epia/normal' cp /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base crt0.S gcc-3.3 -no-gcc -x assembler-with-cpp -DASSEMBLY -E -I/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src -D__ROMCC__=0 -D__ROMCC_MINOR__=37 -I/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/include -I/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/arch/i386/include -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/include -DARCH='i386' -Di586='1' -Di686='1' -DCPU_FIXUP='1' -DCROSS_COMPILE -DCC='gcc-3.3' -DHOSTCC='gcc' -DOBJCOPY='objcopy' -DLINUXBIOS_VERSION='1.1.5' -DLINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION='.0Normal' -DLINUXBIOS_BUILD='Mon Jan 12 14:23:13 GMT 2004' -DLINUXBIOS_COMPILE_TIME='14:23:13' -DLINUXBIOS_COMPILE_BY='dave' -DLINUXBIOS_COMPILE_HOST='dr' -DLINUXBIOS_COMPILE_DOMAIN -DLINUXBIOS_COMPILER='gcc version 3.3.3 20031206 (prerelease) (Debian SSP - skx(a)debian.org)' -DLINUXBIOS_LINKER='GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.7 20031029 Debian GNU/Linux' -DLINUXBIOS_ASSEMBLER='GNU assembler version 2.14.90.0.7 (i386-linux) using BFD version 2.14.90.0.7 20031029 Debian GNU/Linux' -DCONFIG_CHIP_CONFIGURE='1' -DCONFIG_USE_INIT='0' -DHAVE_FALLBACK_BOOT='1' -DUSE_FALLBACK_IMAGE='0' -DFALLBACK_SIZE='0x20000' -DROM_SIZE='0x40000' -DROM_IMAGE_SIZE='0x10000' -DROM_SECTION_SIZE='0x20000' -DROM_SECTION_OFFSET='0x20000' -DPAYLOAD_SIZE='0x10000' -D_ROMBASE='0xffff0000' -D_RESET='0xffff0000' -D_EXCEPTION_VECTORS='0xffff0100' -DSTACK_SIZE='0x2000' -DHEAP_SIZE='0x4000' -D_RAMBASE='0x4000' -DXIP_ROM_BASE='0xffff0000' -DXIP_ROM_SIZE='0x10000' -DCONFIG_COMPRESS='1' -DCONFIG_UNCOMPRESSED='0' -DHAVE_OPTION_TABLE='1' -DUSE_OPTION_TABLE='0' -DCRT0='/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/arch/i386/config/crt0.base' -DDEBUG='1' -DCONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA='0' -DCONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGBUF='0' -DCONFIG_CONSOLE_SROM='0' -DCONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250='1' -DDEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL='7' -DMAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL='7' -DTTYS0_BASE='0x3f8' -DTTYS0_BAUD='19200' -DTTYS0_LCS='0x3' -DMAINBOARD='/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/mainboard/via/epia' -DMAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER='epia' -DMAINBOARD_VENDOR='via' -DCONFIG_KEYBOARD='1' -DCONFIG_LEGACY_VGABIOS='0' -DCONFIG_SMP='0' -DCONFIG_MAX_CPUS='1' -DCONFIG_MAX_PHYSICAL_CPUS='1' -DCONFIG_LOGICAL_CPUS='0' -DHAVE_MP_TABLE='0' -DCONFIG_IDE_STREAM='0' -DCONFIG_ROM_STREAM='1' -DCONFIG_ROM_STREAM_START='0xfffe0000' -DHAVE_PIRQ_TABLE='1' -DIRQ_SLOT_COUNT='5' -DIDE_BOOT_DRIVE='0' -DIDE_OFFSET='0' -DHAVE_HARD_RESET='1' -DMAX_REBOOT_CNT='3' -DINTEL_PPRO_MTRR='1' -DCONFIG_UDELAY_TSC='0' -DFAKE_SPDROM='0' /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/src/mainboard/via/epia/auto.c > ./auto.E gcc -g -Os -Wall -DVERSION='"0.37"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"21 October 2003"' /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c -o romcc /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:20: warning: #warning "FIXME boundary cases with small types in larger registers" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:21: warning: #warning "FIXME give clear error messages about unused variables" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:22: warning: #warning "FIXME properly handle multi dimensional arrays" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:208: warning: #warning "FIXME this assumes 32bit x86 is the destination" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:3679: warning: #warning "FIXME multiple #elif and #else in an #if do not work properly" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:3782: warning: #warning "FIXME macros with arguments not supported" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:3992: warning: #warning "FIXME do not hardcode the include paths" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:4741: warning: #warning "FIXME can I just cast all operands like this?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:5018: warning: #warning "CHECK_ME is this the right place to transform arrays to pointers?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:7947: warning: #warning "Extend relational exprs to work on more than arithmetic types" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:7990: warning: #warning "Extend equality exprs to work on more than arithmetic types" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:8444: warning: #warning "FIXME implement a more general excess branch elimination" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:9177: warning: #warning "FIXME implement bitfields to reduce register usage" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:9639: warning: #warning "FIXME more consistent initializer handling (where should eval_const_expr go?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:12902: warning: #warning "FIXME is this O(N^2) algorithm bad?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:13931: warning: #warning "FIXME should this be a merge instead of a splice?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14481: warning: #warning "WISHLIST visit just those blocks that need it *" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14534: warning: #warning "WISHLIST recalculate all affected instructions colors" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14672: warning: #warning "FIXME ignore cases that cannot be fixed (a definition followed by a use)" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14708: warning: #warning "FIXME should I call find_constrained_def here only if no previous constrained def was found?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14752: warning: #warning "WISHLIST implement live range splitting..." /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:15948: warning: #warning "FIXME see if simplify does anything bad" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:16005: warning: #warning "FIXME constant propogate through expressions with multiple left hand sides" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:16069: warning: #warning "FIXME do I need to do something here?" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:16605: warning: #warning "WISHLIST implement single use constants (least possible register pressure)" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:16606: warning: #warning "WISHLIST implement induction variable elimination" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:16789: warning: #warning "WISHLIST figure out how to use pinsrw and pextrw to better use extended regs" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:17339: warning: #warning "FIXME force types smaller (if legal) before I get here" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:19154: warning: #warning "FIXME I have observed instructions between the test and branch instructions" /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c: In function `mask_uint': /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:4115: warning: left shift count >= width of type /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c: At top level: /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:4126: warning: `short_type' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:4138: warning: `void_func_type' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:5829: warning: `bit_count' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:6058: warning: `check_lhs' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:9525: warning: `isdecl_specifier' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:12775: warning: `unin_triple' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:12784: warning: `unout_triple' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:13828: warning: `different_colored' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:14196: warning: `verify_graph_ins' defined but not used /home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/util/romcc/romcc.c:19443: warning: `print_tokens' defined but not used ./romcc -O -mcpu=c3 ./auto.E make[1]: *** [auto.inc] Segmentation fault make[1]: *** Deleting file `auto.inc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/targets/via/epia/epia/normal' make: *** [normal-rom] Error 1 dave@dr:~/LinuxBIOS/freebios2/targets/via/epia/epia$

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