coreboot October 2002

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by Andrew Ip

Does anyone know if IPMI works under LinuxBIOS? AFAIK, there is a Linux driver patch but dunno if it still works under LinuxBIOS. -Andrew -- Andrew Ip Email: aip(a)cwlinux.com Tel: (852) 2542 2046 Fax: (852) 2542 2036 Mobile: (852) 9201 9866 Cwlinux Limited Unit 202B 2/F Lai Cheong Factory Building, 479-479A Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: (852)2542 2046 Fax: (852)2542 2036 For public pgp key, please obtain it from http://www.keyserver.net/en.

18 years

a board with SA1110

by Deprun, Jean-Francois

Hi, After the lart project, I would like to know if some one has done a board with SA1110 and where I can found: 1) schematic, gerber, orcad files.... 2) Bios and Linux software 3) tools (compilator, linker, debugger)... 4) Application (do you know if there is a list of Lart/SA1110 applications ) 4) vendor board. Thank you for your help. When I will have answers I send you back. Jean-Francois

18 years, 5 months

More details on the Eden support

by Kevin Hester

In case ya'll are curious, here is a typical startup for the Eden/vt8601/vt8231. Debugging messages are a bit verbose, because I have POST codes redirected to the serial port. Yay! LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Oct 29 10:35:58 PST 2002 starting... <35><36>Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. <11><12><fe>Jumping to LinuxBIOS. <fd>POST: 0x39 LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Oct 29 10:35:58 PST 2002 booting... POST: 0x40 Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 POST: 0x5f Scanning PCI bus...PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 POST: 0x24 PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/0601] PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/8601] PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/8231] PCI: 00:11.1 [1106/0571] PCI: 00:11.2 [1106/3038] PCI: 00:11.3 [1106/3038] PCI: 00:11.4 [1106/8235] PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3058] PCI: 00:11.6 [1106/3068] PCI: 00:12.0 [1106/3065] PCI: 00:14.0 [1033/0035] PCI: 00:14.1 [1033/0035] PCI: 00:14.2 [1033/00e0] POST: 0x25 PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 POST: 0x55 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 POST: 0x55 done POST: 0x66 Allocating PCI resources... PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 0 PCI: 00:01.0 1c <- [0x00001000 - 0x00000fff] bus 1 ÿÿÿÿÿÿ°io PCI: 00:01.0 24 <- [0xfeb00000 - 0xfeafffff] bus 1 ÿÿÿÿÿÿ°prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 20 <- [0xfeb00000 - 0xfeafffff] bus 1 ÿÿÿÿÿÿ°mem PCI: 00:11.1 10 <- [0x00001c50 - 0x00001c57] io PCI: 00:11.1 14 <- [0x00001c70 - 0x00001c73] io PCI: 00:11.1 18 <- [0x00001c60 - 0x00001c67] io PCI: 00:11.1 1c <- [0x00001c80 - 0x00001c83] io PCI: 00:11.1 20 <- [0x00001c40 - 0x00001c4f] io PCI: 00:11.2 20 <- [0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f] io PCI: 00:11.3 20 <- [0x00001c20 - 0x00001c3f] io PCI: 00:11.5 10 <- [0x00001000 - 0x000010ff] io PCI: 00:11.5 14 <- [0x00001c90 - 0x00001c93] io PCI: 00:11.5 18 <- [0x00001ca0 - 0x00001ca3] io PCI: 00:11.6 10 <- [0x00001400 - 0x000014ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 10 <- [0x00001800 - 0x000018ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 14 <- [0xfeb02000 - 0xfeb020ff] mem PCI: 00:14.0 10 <- [0xfeb00000 - 0xfeb00fff] mem PCI: 00:14.1 10 <- [0xfeb01000 - 0xfeb01fff] mem PCI: 00:14.2 10 <- [0xfeb03000 - 0xfeb030ff] mem done. POST: 0x88 Enabling PCI resourcess...PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 06 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 07 PCI: 00:11.0 cmd <- 87 PCI: 00:11.1 cmd <- 81 PCI: 00:11.2 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:11.3 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:11.4 cmd <- 00 PCI: 00:11.5 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:11.6 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:12.0 cmd <- 83 PCI: 00:14.0 cmd <- 02 PCI: 00:14.1 cmd <- 02 PCI: 00:14.2 cmd <- 02 done. Initializing PCI devices... PCI devices initialized POST: 0x89 sizeram: returning 0xfc00 KB sizeram: NOT returning 0xfc00 KB sizeram: there are still some SPD problems ... sizeram: SO we return only 0x10000 KB POST: 0x70 totalram: 64M Initializing CPU #0 POST: 0x60 Enabling cache... Setting fixed MTRRs(0-88) type: UC Setting fixed MTRRs(0-16) type: WB DONE fixed MTRRs Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 64MB, type WB DONE variable MTRRs Clear out the extra MTRR's call intel_enable_fixed_mtrr() call intel_enable_var_mtrr() Leave setup_mtrrs POST: 0x6a done. Max cpuid index : 1 Vendor ID : CentaurHauls Processor Type : 0x00 Processor Family : 0x06 Processor Model : 0x07 Processor Mask : 0x00 Processor Stepping : 0x03 Feature flags : 0x00803035 POST: 0x92 MTRR check Fixed MTRRs : Enabled Variable MTRRs: Enabled POST: 0x93 Disabling local apic...done. POST: 0x9b CPU #0 Initialized POST: 0x75 POST: 0x77 IDE enable in reg. 50 is 0x7 set IDE reg. 50 to 0x7 IRQs in reg. 4c are 0x4 setting reg. 4c to 0x4 enables in reg 0x40 0x8 enables in reg 0x40 read back as 0xb enables in reg 0x9 0x8f enables in reg 0x9 read back as 0x8f command in reg 0x4 0x81 command in reg 0x4 reads back as 0x85 Mainboard fixup POST: 0x91 POST: 0x92 POST: 0x05 POST: 0x05 POST: 0x05 POST: 0x06 POST: 0x95 POST: 0xec POST: 0x9a Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done. POST: 0x96 Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000500 - 00000670 checksum bcd2 Jumping to linuxbiosmain()... POST: 0xed Welcome to start32, the open sourced starter. This space will eventually hold more diagnostic information. January 2000, James Hendricks, Dale Webster, and Ron Minnich. Version 0.1 POST: 0xf1 37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfff80000 zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff Gunzip setup gunzip_setup output data is 0x00100000 Gunzipping boot code flush 0x00100000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00108000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00110000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00118000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00120000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00128000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00130000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00138000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00140000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00148000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00150000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00158000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00160000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00168000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00170000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00178000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00180000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00188000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00190000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x00198000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x001a0000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x001a8000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x001b0000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x001b8000 count 0x00008000 flush 0x001c0000 count 0x00005670 <973> POST: 0xf8 POST: 0xf9 POST: 0xfa command line - [root=/dev/hda1 single console=ttyS0,115200n8] Jumping to boot code POST: 0xfe Linux version 2.4.17 (kevinh@bumpy) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Oct 29 10:15:10 PST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003f00000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 16128 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12032 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 single console=ttyS0,115200n8 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 533.359 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 1064.96 BogoMIPS Memory: 62104k/64512k available (530k kernel code, 2020k reserved, 167k data, 68k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: Centaur VIA Samuel 2 stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Scanning bus 00 Found 00:00 [1106/0601] 000600 00 Found 00:08 [1106/8601] 000604 01 Found 00:88 [1106/8231] 000601 00 Found 00:89 [1106/0571] 000101 00 Found 00:8c [1106/8235] 000000 00 Found 00:8d [1106/3058] 000401 00 Found 00:8e [1106/3068] 000780 00 Found 00:90 [1106/3065] 000200 00 Found 00:a0 [1033/0035] 000c03 00 Found 00:a1 [1033/0035] 000c03 00 Found 00:a2 [1033/00e0] 000c03 00 Fixups for bus 00 Scanning behind PCI bridge 00:01.0, config 010100, pass 0 Scanning bus 01 Fixups for bus 01 Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent Bus scan for 01 returning with max=01 Scanning behind PCI bridge 00:01.0, config 010100, pass 1 Bus scan for 00 returning with max=01 PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/0601] at 00:00.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt8231 (rev 10) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1 VP_IDE: 100% native mode on irq 14 VP_IDE: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on! ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0cc0-0x0cc7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide_init_via82cxxx: c01ae4d4 VP_IDE: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on! ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0cc8-0x0ccf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio ide_init_via82cxxx: c01ae4d4 hda: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored jamming drive present for hda hda: WDC WD800BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155009/16/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed INIT: version 2.84 booting mount: proc has wrong device number or fs type proc not supported Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console mount: proc has wrong device number or fs type proc not supported Activating swap. Adding Swap: 980268k swap-space (priority -1) Checking root file system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda1: clean, 21565/488640 files, 99406/976247 blocks EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal System time was Tue Oct 29 18:23:17 UTC 2002. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Tue Oct 29 18:23:18 UTC 2002. Checking all file systems... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda2: clean, 21548/488640 files, 98781/976248 blocks /dev/hda3: clean, 2009/122624 files, 45566/245070 blocks /dev/hda6: clean, 2461/8552448 files, 406944/17088497 blocks Setting kernel variables. Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A grep: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory /etc/init.d/rcS: [: =: unary operator expected Mounting local filesystems... kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on ide0(3,2), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. /dev/hda2 on /altroot type ext3 (rw) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on ide0(3,3), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. /dev/hda3 on /var type ext3 (rw) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. /dev/hda6 on /user type ext3 (rw) Starting hotplug subsystem: usb. Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate. No usable address families found. socket: Address family not supported by protocol Setting up IP spoofing protection: FAILED Configuring network interfaces: No usable address families found. socket: Address family not supported by protocol done. grep: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Tue Oct 29 18:23:25 UTC 2002 Recovering jove files ... Done. Running ntpdate to synchronize clock. Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. Initializing random number generator... done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D for normal startup): hardlife:~#

18 years, 5 months

bios savior for via eden

by Jody Belka

Hi, Does anyone know which model of the bios savior is needed for via eden motherboards? I would like to try out LinuxBIOS, but would like to have an easy way back if anything goes wrong. Jody

18 years, 5 months

RE: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.

by Phil Brooks

Ron, Is this the Advanced Digital Logic MSMP3-S? I had been talking to Gary Karns at ADL about getting the Linuxbios running on our system. We are using the MSMP5 (PII/266) - Gary tells me they use the same board, only the processor and graphics chip are different - and I don't know how this will interact with linuxbios. We are looking to use linuxbios on our medical monitoring system, mainly for (boot) speed issues. I am happy to help out with development tasks, provided I am comfortable with level of effort needed. I will touch bases with Gary on this. Thanks Phil Phil Brooks - Software Engineer Olympic Medical 206-268-5119 philb(a)olymed.com -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:47 PM To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started. This is a PIII?750 in a PC/104 form factor. Fast! This one was a pain. Where it stands: - it is up, but I have to set IOBASE to 0x2000. There is hardware (ACPI) at 0x1000 that I can't get to turn off, it seems. This problem has never cropped up on piix4e before, so I'm not sure what happened here - etherboot still can't work the ethernet interface. But it can load from IDE, and Linux has no troubles at all, so we put a beoboot Phase 1 boot in CF and let etherboot load Linux, which then boots. Other than that it works fine. I'm working on a better solution to these problems. On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

18 years, 5 months

smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.

by Ronald G Minnich

This is a PIII?750 in a PC/104 form factor. Fast! This one was a pain. Where it stands: - it is up, but I have to set IOBASE to 0x2000. There is hardware (ACPI) at 0x1000 that I can't get to turn off, it seems. This problem has never cropped up on piix4e before, so I'm not sure what happened here - etherboot still can't work the ethernet interface. But it can load from IDE, and Linux has no troubles at all, so we put a beoboot Phase 1 boot in CF and let etherboot load Linux, which then boots. Other than that it works fine. I'm working on a better solution to these problems. On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. ron

18 years, 5 months

RE: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.

by "Hammond, Jean-François"

Hi, I am porting the linux bios to the evaluation board SBC8240. This is almost the same processor has the MAC but a little bit smaller. This board looks like a PC without a box, keyboard and mouse. Have a nice day! Jean-François Hammond Software Designer Mindready Solutions inc. 2800, avenue Marie-Curie Saint-Laurent (Québec) Canada H4S 2C2 Tel. : (1) 514-339-1394 ext. 2121 Fax. : (1) 514-339-1376 mailto:jean-francois.hammond@mindready.com www.mindready.com -----Original Message----- From: ollie lho [mailto:ollie@sis.com.tw] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:01 PM To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:46, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. > Cool, are you working on an off the shelf MAC ?? Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

18 years, 5 months

Re: RE: More details on the Eden support

by Jody Belka

My eden motherboard has a PLCC socket, and the image of an eden motherboard on the via website (http://www.viavpsd.com/product/4/8/epia_mini_itx_H.jpg) shows a socket as well, so i'm assuming that all of the eden boards do. I'm also going to get a bios savior for it which will make hot-swapping as easy as pie. This only costs about £30, so is well worth getting. Jody ------- Original Message -------- From: steve(a)nexpath.com Subject: RE: More details on the Eden support Date: 30/10/02 10:10 A number of the Giga-byte boards seem to have the bios soldered, in particular the the GA-6VEML (the Walmart $199 computer). The Via Eden appears to also but I am just looking at the photo. For the EPIA, if you bongo the PLCC (socketed), you'll need another PLCC bios mobo to fix it and hot swapping a PLCC has got to require a deft touch. -Steve

18 years, 5 months

Shadow ROM memory PROBLEM

by Adam Agnew

Hello. In our PCBIOS efforts, we're running into a snag. We're experience corruption of our shadow memory region, even after we've set it to read only (using the sis630). mov eax, #0x80000070 mov dx, #0x0cf8 out dx, eax mov eax, #0x0000FFFF mov dx, #0x0cfc out dx, eax we're not doing any pci writes at this point (once we've set it to read only), so does anyone else have any theories on what could cause this? Here's an example of the insanity going on: Here, the bios has finished and we're ready to run lilo. The shadow memory is correct: 000F3189L 260F015408 LGDT fword ptr ES:[SI]+08 000F318EL 2E0F011E69F8 LIDT fword ptr CS:[f869] 000F3194L B002 MOV AL,02 000F3196L E680 OUT 80,AL Then, we run lilo and we load an unmodified linux kernel. After a random amount of calls to int13 and int15 to copy the kernel into memory (sometimes it just takes 20 or so, sometimes 58, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all) the shadow memory gets corrupted. and we get stuff like this: 000F3199L 260F01B002E6 LMSW word ptr ES:[BX+SI]+e602 000F319FL 80011E ADD byte ptr [BX+DI],1e 000F31A2L 69F883C8 IMUL DI,AX,c883 As you see, its all scrambled. The op codes get into a weird order. I'll try to illustrate with this mapping.. 260F015408 2E0F011E69F8 B002 E680 1111111111 222222222222 3333 4444 260F01B002E6 80011E 69F883C8 111111333344 442222 2222 and the addresses in general are all shifted down. Any ideas, suggestions, insights? - Adam Agnew

18 years, 5 months

Flashing the Tyan S2642?

by Bill Rugolsky Jr.

[ This is a resend; I inadvertently posted it the first time from a defunct e-mail acct. ] Last weekend I was looking at installing LinuxBIOS on my Tyan S2462, and got to the point of building the romimage, but couldn't figure out how to flash it. devbios (from CVS) reported (in /proc/bios) that it was an unsupported Macronix part, and flash_rom (from linuxbios CVS) didn't appear to recognize it either. Am I doing something really stupid or simply looking in the wrong place? Thanks, Bill Rugolsky

18 years, 5 months

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