May 2005 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping
by YhLu July 19, 2005

July 19, 2005

About APIC and ACPI. Some chipset has problems with apic and the workaround must to be used with acpi BIOS. YH

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
by YhLu June 8, 2005

June 8, 2005

What i did about Intel LinuxBIOS support 1. change ICH5 to ICH5R in v1. 2. move E7501 and ICH5R from V1 and V2. For SB, documentation should be enough. For NB, I guess there is some undocumented info, and you may talk to intel directly or hack it out. YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven J. Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:22 AM > To: YhLu; linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching > > > Maybe change to use AMD or other platform, or even PowerPC. > > The architecture is fixed. I either have to find a way to > make LinuxBIOS work with it, or switch to something else. > Which comes back to my original question...is there any more > information available on the undocumented things the > LinuxBIOS E7501 code does? Does the LinuxBIOS community > support this code, or recommend against using it? > > Steve > > >

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
by YhLu June 3, 2005

June 3, 2005

No. Acctually you should select that according to your applicance.... Maybe change to use AMD or other platform, or even PowerPC. YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven J. Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:14 AM > To: YhLu; linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching > > > From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com] > > why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support > LinuxBIOS, because they have EFI.... > > So, you'd recommend using EFI over LinuxBIOS? > > Steve > > >

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[LinuxBIOS] How is 'arch' working for you?
by Ronald G. Minnich June 3, 2005

June 3, 2005

Are folks getting along with 'arch' ok? Are you able to download as needed? How does it compare to CVS? Is there a different SCM you would like to see used? thanks ron

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
by YhLu May 31, 2005

May 31, 2005

It should be working. But I wonder some AMD check in about MTRR or CPU initialization would break it. YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:40 AM > To: YhLu > Cc: Steve Magnani; linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching > > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:03 -0700, YhLu wrote: > > why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support > > LinuxBIOS, because they have EFI.... > > > > BTW, is tyan s2735 code in the current tla tree working? We > tried to use it as a base for a supermicro board but failed. > > -- > Li-Ta Lo <ollie(a)lanl.gov> > Los Alamos National Lab >

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
by YhLu May 31, 2005

May 31, 2005

why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support LinuxBIOS, because they have EFI.... YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:20 PM > To: linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching > > Hi, > > Does anyone (Steven James? yhlu?) know what registers 0x14, > 0xD8, and 0xF4 in the E7501's D0:F0 PCI configuration space > are for? I know that 0x80 and > 0x88 are undocumented, but I didn't see anything in the code > (northbridge/intel/e7501/raminit.c) that said these others > were undocumented. Unfortunately, they seem to be; at least, > I can't find any mention of them in any of the Intel > documentation I have. > > Also, if I am reading the code correctly, the last entry in > register_values[] will update D2:F0:0x50. That register is > also undocumented. > > Any help would be much appreciated... > > Thanks, > Steve Magnani > www.digidescorp.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxBIOS mailing list > LinuxBIOS(a)openbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios >

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[LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
by Steve Magnani May 27, 2005

May 27, 2005

Hi, Does anyone (Steven James? yhlu?) know what registers 0x14, 0xD8, and 0xF4 in the E7501's D0:F0 PCI configuration space are for? I know that 0x80 and 0x88 are undocumented, but I didn't see anything in the code (northbridge/intel/e7501/raminit.c) that said these others were undocumented. Unfortunately, they seem to be; at least, I can't find any mention of them in any of the Intel documentation I have. Also, if I am reading the code correctly, the last entry in register_values[] will update D2:F0:0x50. That register is also undocumented. Any help would be much appreciated... Thanks, Steve Magnani www.digidescorp.com

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Is any notebook with Nvidia NForce4 or Ck804?
by YhLu May 26, 2005

May 26, 2005

ATI Xpress 200M in HP ZV6000 support pci-e. I wonder why there is no Nvidia CK804M for NB. Too hot? First NB support LinuxBIOS? YH > -----Original Message----- > From: YhLu > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:13 PM > To: linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Is any notebook with Nvidia NForce4 or Ck804? > > Is any notebook with Nvidia NForce4 or CK804? > > It seems there is some with NForce3..... > > YH > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxBIOS mailing list > LinuxBIOS(a)openbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios >

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[LinuxBIOS] CK804 hard_reset
by Stephen.Kimball＠bench.com May 26, 2005

May 26, 2005

One of the hard_reset() functions are wrong. The two files don't agree: src/mainboard/tyan/s2895/auto.c src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/ck804_reset.c I think auto.c is correct, but I'd suggest changing it to: static void hard_reset(void) { set_bios_reset(); pci_write_config32(PCI_DEV(1, CK804_DEVN_BASE + 0x1, 0), 0xe8, 0x0); /* hard reset */ outb(0x0a, 0x0cf9); outb(0x0e, 0x0cf9); L1: goto L1; /* loop till reset */ }

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[LinuxBIOS] RE: does the CK804 code work?
by Stephen.Kimball＠bench.com May 26, 2005

May 26, 2005

We have the CRB working. We'd like to work with you and nVidia to improve what you have released. Steve -----Original Message----- From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:15 PM To: Kimball, Stephen Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: RE: does the CK804 code work? You could talk to Nvidia to see if I can release support code for their CRB.... It seems that you have spend lot of time on it. YH > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com [mailto:Stephen.Kimball@bench.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:29 PM > To: YhLu > Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: does the CK804 code work? > > > YH, > > After running the new CK804 code, I'm having trouble getting > the CK804 devices to work. Most references to ck804_enable > are commented out. > I'm wondering how devices get enabled. > > Steve >

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