April 2003 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Re: Quick Question, If you Please
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

I am swamped at the moment so I will redirect this to the LinuxBIOS mailing list and see you get some answers. Eric Kevin Takacs <kevin(a)berndtgroup.net> writes: > Hello, > > I came across your informative article at: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4888 . > > I read with some interest as a potential client has approached us with > installing a flavor of Linux on an embedded device (sis550). We're > primarily a Java web app shop and don't know where to begin looking to > see if this is outside the realm of our skills. I've done countless > installs of various distros, but have never recompiled kernels and the > like. > > Would you mind suggesting a few links for a beginner like me? Or > possibly sketching what's involved in taking the piece of hardware and > install Linux on it. For example, do you create a file system on a > flash card? How? Are there any vanilla (pre-built) solutions > particular chip sets? > > Thank you in advance for any information you could supply. > > Regards, > Kevin > -- > Kevin Takacs > Vice President, Technical Services > The Berndt Group, Ltd. > www.berndtgroup.com > > Always Thinking. > > 2850 N Charles St, 2nd Fl > Baltimore, MD 21218 > Email: kevin(a)berndtgroup.net > Voice: (410) 889-5854 > Fax: (410) 889-5904

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newbie -- general question
by Fery April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

Hi all! I am sorry if I am asking stupid, I have just falled into an embedded software project. So far I have only developed desktop applications, but I have a strong affection to embedded systems. :) So, the task I want to get through is as follows: We have an existing product (a medical bedside monitor) working on a x86-based system, the "kernel" is dos/dpmi, which, in fact, is used only to switch the processor to protected mode (no task management, (almost) no memory management, etc.). Now, we have to rewrite the program, as the hardware is changing, the code is unmanageable (it was not me, I am a fresh employee at the company :), and anyway. The new hardware's core will be the geode gx1 processor with the CS5530 companion chip, and we have an Advantech PCM-5820 mainboard with these chips to start developing and play with, and possibly use in the final system (if the self-made mainboard developing is too slow / too much money). I proposed to use a kernel under our new program, as we do not need to implement many low- and middle-level protocols (such as the tcp/ip stack, ethernet driver, etc.), maybe(?) task management, etc. As nobody used this approach at the company yet (me neither), there are no experiences how hard to port a kernel to a custom hardware, and what constraints place the kernel upon our program. I have a few years linux experience (but not hardware or kernel module programming), so naturally my first idea was linux or rtlinux. I have also found the linux4.tv project, which use quite similar hardware, downloaded the source, but I didn't get the point except that possibly we can get out the fb video driver source code for gx1. As currently this motherboard has quite slow bios boot-up, and my idea to use linux, I have found the linuxbios project. And, because there are many smart people here, I have some questions to you: 1. Can I use linuxbios to boot a single executable, which is analog to the current use of dpmi? E.g., I use linuxbios (beside that it boots up the hardware) to switch into protected mode, and I have a single binary what somehow gets some parameters (e.g., memory size), and runs in privilege level 0 (no kernel)? Can I use standard tools (like gcc) to compile and link such a beast? 2. Can I use linuxbios to boot RTLinux? 3. Can I use linux/rtlinux only as a "big lib" of device drivers and other stuff? I.e. the scheduler is at my hand, and rtlinux is only a process which runs when I let him run, and not too long either. :) 3. Do you know a good mailing list about rtlinux and embedded systems programming for a newbie? 4. Maybe are there other (possibly non-free) kernels which come into question? Sorry about the long and slightly offtopic post. Thanks: Circum

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R: Problems with etherboot + AA patch IDE
by Pellanda Luca April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

When I run " make bin32/3c900-tpo.ebi" it's ok but if I try to run "make bin32/3c900-tpo.fd0" I see the same error. Regards, Luca -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Adam Agnew [mailto:agnew@cs.umd.edu] Inviato: giovedì 3 aprile 2003 10.21 A: Pellanda Luca Cc: 'linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org' Oggetto: Re: Problems with etherboot + AA patch IDE Instead of running "make", run "make bin32/sis900.ebi" or possibly "make bin32/mynetcard.ebi" if your board doesn't use a sis900 (not that it should matter, the network booting is left as a fall back if the polled ide booting doesn't work). - Adam Agnew On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pellanda Luca wrote: > > > I'm running as 2.11.90.0.29 and compiling etherboot 5.0.6 + the AA IDE boot > patch found on the list causes problems: > > gcc -E -Wp,-Wall -DASK_BOOT=3 -DANS_DEFAULT=ANS_NETWORK -DMOTD -DIMAGE_MENU > -DBA > CKOFF_LIMIT=7 -DCONGESTED -DLINUXBIOS -DCONFIG_TSC_CURRTICKS > -DCONSOLE_SERIAL - > DCOMCONSOLE=0x3f8 -DCOMPRESERVE -DCONFIG_PCI_DIRECT -DELF_IMAGE > -DPOLLED_IDE -O > s -ffreestanding -fstrength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=i386 > -malign-jumps > =1 -malign-loops=1 -malign-functions=1 -Wall -W -Wno-format -Wno-unused > -DVERSIO > N_MAJOR=5 -DVERSION_MINOR=0 -DVERSION=\"5.0.6\" -DRELOC=0x400000 start32.S > | as > -o bin32/start32.o > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:119: Warning: indirect ljmp without `*' > {standard input}:235: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `ljmp' > make: *** [bin32/start32.o] Error 1 > I think that RELOC is not good value. Why ? > >

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Re: Problems with etherboot + AA patch IDE
by Adam Agnew April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

Instead of running "make", run "make bin32/sis900.ebi" or possibly "make bin32/mynetcard.ebi" if your board doesn't use a sis900 (not that it should matter, the network booting is left as a fall back if the polled ide booting doesn't work). - Adam Agnew On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pellanda Luca wrote: > > > I'm running as 2.11.90.0.29 and compiling etherboot 5.0.6 + the AA IDE boot > patch found on the list causes problems: > > gcc -E -Wp,-Wall -DASK_BOOT=3 -DANS_DEFAULT=ANS_NETWORK -DMOTD -DIMAGE_MENU > -DBA > CKOFF_LIMIT=7 -DCONGESTED -DLINUXBIOS -DCONFIG_TSC_CURRTICKS > -DCONSOLE_SERIAL - > DCOMCONSOLE=0x3f8 -DCOMPRESERVE -DCONFIG_PCI_DIRECT -DELF_IMAGE > -DPOLLED_IDE -O > s -ffreestanding -fstrength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=i386 > -malign-jumps > =1 -malign-loops=1 -malign-functions=1 -Wall -W -Wno-format -Wno-unused > -DVERSIO > N_MAJOR=5 -DVERSION_MINOR=0 -DVERSION=\"5.0.6\" -DRELOC=0x400000 start32.S > | as > -o bin32/start32.o > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:119: Warning: indirect ljmp without `*' > {standard input}:235: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `ljmp' > make: *** [bin32/start32.o] Error 1 > I think that RELOC is not good value. Why ? > >

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Problems with etherboot + AA patch IDE
by Pellanda Luca April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

I'm running as 2.11.90.0.29 and compiling etherboot 5.0.6 + the AA IDE boot patch found on the list causes problems: gcc -E -Wp,-Wall -DASK_BOOT=3 -DANS_DEFAULT=ANS_NETWORK -DMOTD -DIMAGE_MENU -DBA CKOFF_LIMIT=7 -DCONGESTED -DLINUXBIOS -DCONFIG_TSC_CURRTICKS -DCONSOLE_SERIAL - DCOMCONSOLE=0x3f8 -DCOMPRESERVE -DCONFIG_PCI_DIRECT -DELF_IMAGE -DPOLLED_IDE -O s -ffreestanding -fstrength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=i386 -malign-jumps =1 -malign-loops=1 -malign-functions=1 -Wall -W -Wno-format -Wno-unused -DVERSIO N_MAJOR=5 -DVERSION_MINOR=0 -DVERSION=\"5.0.6\" -DRELOC=0x400000 start32.S | as -o bin32/start32.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:119: Warning: indirect ljmp without `*' {standard input}:235: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `ljmp' make: *** [bin32/start32.o] Error 1 I think that RELOC is not good value. Why ?

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Flashing
by Philippe CABANNES April 3, 2003

April 3, 2003

What is the best way to re-flash an Epia? -------------------------------------------------- Oreka ! Nous sommes l'internet moins cher ! Surfez 25% moins cher avec http://www.oreka.com

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I´m novice
by Philippe CABANNES April 1, 2003

April 1, 2003

I´m novice, and i´m trying to follow the instructions of the Epia´s How to file. I can´t execute the config tool. My file is named "NLBConfig.py,v" , why is there the ",v" at the end of the file? is it normal? This is the the same for my config file. I renamed them as "NLBConfig.py" and "motherboard.config" but impossible to execute. I used "python .../NLBConfig.py ..../motherboard.config /.../" It gives me a mistake at the first line, so i don´t think this is this way it works. -------------------------------------------------- Oreka ! Nous sommes l'internet moins cher ! Surfez 25% moins cher avec http://www.oreka.com

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