coreboot October 2002

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ieee 1394 support
by "Hammond, Jean-François" 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

Does any one know if the IEEE 1394 is supported ? Regards, 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

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LinuxBIOS instead of Dell BIOS
by Billy Mullins 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

Hi, I work with a couple small clusters of Dell PC's, and I'm wondering if someone would be able to give me an educated guess as to whether or not LinuxBIOS will work out of the box for these PC's. I've looked at the supported mb list, and they don't seem to be listed, but maybe... The machines are the Dell Optiplex Gx240, they use the standard Dell BIOS Release A02, and have the Intel 845 chipset. What are the factors that play into whether or not you can use LinuxBIOS out of the box(maybe that is in a faq somewhere)? For example, just the chipset, strange motherboard quirks, etc... Also, what would it take, and has anyone tried to get a Dell PC to run LinuxBIOS? Thanks much, Billy Mullins

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[Fwd: Re: [PPCBoot-users] PPCboot vs ARMboot or Blob and a Merge with LinuxBIOS]
by Bari Ari 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

in message <3DA3D18E.4000109(a)onelabs.com> you wrote: > > LinuxBIOS was designed to use Linux to boot the OS of choice. So was PPCBoot, but without excluding the resto of the world. > It uses some assembly to do some basic init and config and then jumps to > Linux to fully configure the rest of the system, after that LinuxBIOS > jumps to whatever OS kernel is wanted. So your boot sequence is LinuxBIOS => Linux => LinuxBIOS => Target OS? Seems a bit overkill to me. Especially in systems where (flash) memory is tight it might be a PITA to have to reserve space for a Linux kernel just to initialize the hardware. > LinuxBIOS has booted; Linux, Plan9 and Win-CE. There is currently an > effort to boot BSD and also another to boot Win32 (probably XP). > Architectures include x86 and Alpha. IA64 is also in the works. The current version of PPCBoot boots Linux, VxWorks, QNX, and NetBSD. It comes with out-of-the-box configurations for 98 x PowerPC boards (MPC8xx, MPC824x, MPC8260, MPX7xx, MPC74xx, IBM 4xx), 3 x StrongARM boards, 2 x ARM7 and 3 x ARM9 systems. This includes a couple of commercial products like boards by esd, Gespac, Microsys, TQ, but also desktop systems like the AmigaOne or real-life products (from ISDN routers, Bluetooth LAN Access Points to bigger things like huge mobile cranes). Ports for ColdFire and XScale are in the works. x86 is being discussed. > For simple systems PPCboot looks like a great way to go. LinuxBIOS would > add support and config for more complex systems that include PCI, PCI > Express, Infiniband and Hypertransport. It seems you do not know much about PPCBoot. PPCBoot supports a LOT of devices, of course including PCI. But also plain flash, DOC, flash disk, Compact Flash, harddisk, CDROM, SCSI devices, even some USB. PPCBoot provides a very powerful method to store configuration parameters and command sequences. In most systems you do not need tools like ifconfig, route, etc. because PPCBoot can pass all required information to the Linux kernel's IP autoconfig mechanism. The environment is protected, and can be stored redundand so it is a very reliable mechanism. PPCBoot also provides powerful scripting capabilties; busybox' "hush" shell has been integrated, so you can write standard shell scripts or run conditional command sequences using "if...then...else...fi", "for...do...done", "while...do...done", "until...do...done", or using shortcuts like "cmd1 && cmd2" or "cmd1 || cmd2". A lot of complicated things like reliable software upgrade procedures with guaranteed fall-back to the old, working version can be implemented in PPCBoot with just a few lines of script. PPCBoot also provides many additional features that are less frequently required, but very handy when you need them, for example dial-in support (so you can attach a modem to the serial console for remote administration), password protection, extensive POST code, etc. etc.

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acpi error
by zhu shi song 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

I compile acpi into the kernel. When the kernel booting, through doc , acpi error. When I boot it from bios , it's ok. I'm using cvs freebios, linux-2.4.18. who met the problem? thanks zhu __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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LinuxBIOS in 512KB flash
by Hieu T. Tran 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

We're working to port LinuxBIOS to a via 133 platform with a 512KB boot flash. We believe that the flash is wired such that on reset, 0xFFFF0 is mapped to 0x7FFF0 on the flash, which is slightly below 512KB on the flash. We have been trying various config file settings (ROMTOP, ROMSIZE, PAYLOAD_SIZE) to position ROMTOP and reset_vector accordingly without much success. Simply getting a larger flash wont help since the board will only recognize the first 512KB. Has anyone solved this problem? -- HT htran(a)viosoft.com

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can't find keyboard of winfast6300
by zhu shi song 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

I am using cvs freeebios , linux kernel 2.4.18 and winfast6300 mainborad. All is Ok, but linux kernel can't find keyboard. it said keyboad timeout. what's the problem? I hope I can get your help. thanks zhu __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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Re: [ARMboot-users] ARMboot vs BLOB
by Bari Ari 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

Wolfgang Denk wrote: >In message <3DA35343.3010606(a)onelabs.com> you wrote: > > >>We're looking at trying to merge ARMboot or BLOB into the LinuxBIOS tree >>to give LinuxBIOS >>http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ a common code base to boot ARM. >> >> > >You may consider PPCBoot (or "Das U-Boot" = the Universal Booter as >the next major release will be renamed), too. > >PPCboot is where ARMBoot descended from, and where it has been merged >back (more or less completely). Ports for other architectures >(including ColdFire, XScale, and even x86) are in the works or being >discussed. > > LinuxBIOS has mainly evolved for x86 and Alpha for large clustering applications and has built up good a user and developer base. It's also gaining popularity for x86 embedded applications. LinuxBIOS also includes support for Etherboot. LinuxBIOS currently boots x86 to Linux and Plan9. It's also being used to build a new 10TeraFLOP cluster at LANL. http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/02-106.shtml Bari

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getting started
by Matt Walsh 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

All, I would like to get my feet wet and build a cheap 3 node cluster to play with linux bios, beowulf, etc. Soo, if you were starting from scratch and wanted the motherboard that... - is cheap - has good linux bios documentation - has a good success rate ...which would you choose? Thanks in advance, --matt __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com

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Walmart PC from MicroTel
by Ronald G Minnich 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

my very nice $600 non-Windows PC from Walmart is a deal. The chipset is SiS .... for P4 .... SDRAM .... Hey, Ollie, where is the port? ron

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LinuxBIOS on Slashdot Again
by Bari Ari 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

LinuxBIOS makes Slashdot again: http://science.slashdot.org/science/02/10/08/0324241.shtml?tid=106 Bari

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