Questions on BX Chipset
by Meinrad Sauter
Hi,
after a short period of pain, I finally made LinuxBIOS running on my machine
(Siemens Fujitsu Multitainer / i440BX Chipset). I use this device as a
digital video recorder running (of course) Linux and Klaus Schmidingers
famous VDR.
Unfortunately there are some features I couldn't get to work until now,
probably you can give me some hints:
- Soft Power-Off: I used the APM-BIOS in my Original Setup for this. I
understand that LinuxBIOS doesn't implement such BIOS functions. I also found
a kernel patch that implements this feature for SIS-Chipsets. Is there a
possibility to get that thin running on a BX board?
- HD-Spindown: Same as above, simply doesnt work with my current LinuxBIOS
setup
- VGA: The Multitainer has an onboard MPACT2 Graphics adapter. It would be
nice to have, but not really required. From the docs, I think I could make it
work using ADLO or with the builtin VGA support. What do you think?
- Wake on RTC: Not even the original BIOS supported this. Anyway I don't think
its a hardware limitation. Do you think it is possible to implement this for
LinuxBIOS?
Thanks for your answers and keep up the good work!
Meinrad
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Meinrad Sauter
email: meinrad.sauter(a)gmx.de
15 years, 7 months
EPIA-ME6000
by Leon Woestenberg
Hello,
I have been fiddling with etherboot 5.0.10 and freebios(v1) from CVS today
on a EPIA-ME6000 platform.
This is the unit with a low speed clock (500MHz?) Eden C3 processor
which copes with passive cooling. I think it is EPIA-M9000 alike otherwise.
Using a hardware flash programmer, I first copied the VIA BIOS from the
STT39SF040A (256Kbytes) into a STMicro 29F040B (512Kbytes) device.
That only worked after I copied the BIOS into the upper half of the larger
device (from 0x40000 to 0x7FFFF). So I recon the highest address line
is not connected on the board and so the FlashROM sees high-impedance
on its most significant address line (and addresses the upper half always)>
I followed the HOWTO/EPIA document to the letter (without the VGA
BIOS at first) booting linuxbios w/ via-rhine.elf payload.
When booting, I merely got garbled output on the serial port.
I have double checked that the config file reads 115200 and that my
terminal reads 115200 8N1. (The 115200 is assembly hardcoded in
the vt82c686 superio code -- does it cope with my different processor
speed? I do not have the datasheet (yet?).
After that, I have tried all speeds on the terminal without result.
Is the EPIA-ME6000 (aka M6000) already reported to work here,
or are you guys'n'gals refering to the M9000 and M10000 alone?
How can I help?
Regards,
Leon.
15 years, 7 months
K7SEM support broken in freebios?
by Thomas Wehrspann
Hello,
is seems that the support for the ecs k7sem got broken.
When i use the current CVS copiling is no problem, but when i boot
linuxbios stops before the mtrr stuff with "Enabling cache...".
I followed the procedure in the howto and used the serial console (no debug).
The CVS version from 2003-04-01 works, the one from 2003-05-01 works not.
Thomas
15 years, 7 months
Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
Great. Then there should be no big issue on opteron any more.
Can you send to the new raminit.c to me now?
Regards
Yinghai Lu
15 years, 7 months
Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
Several Macro in console/console.h should be changed.
For example:
#define print_debug_hex8(HEX) printk_debug("0x08x", ((HEX))
#define print_debug_hex16(HEX) printk_debug("0x016x", ((HEX))
#define print_debug_hex32(HEX) printk_debug("0x032x", ((HEX))
to:
#define print_debug_hex8(HEX) printk_debug("0x02x", ((HEX))
#define print_debug_hex16(HEX) printk_debug("0x04x", ((HEX))
#define print_debug_hex32(HEX) printk_debug("0x08x", ((HEX))
regards
Yinghai Lu
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主题: 答复: Fixes for Tyan s2880
Eric,
I see.
I move some code from raminit.c setup_top_ram to it and have a try.
Regards
Yinghai Lu
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主题: Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> I have checked your old k8/cpufixup.c, and it already has TOM2 etc setup.
> and SYSCFG_TOM2_EN...etc...
I shift by 12 instead of 10 for the low half of TOP_MEM2...
Which tends to leave TOP_MEM2 at 4GB...
Eric
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re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
It works. For 6G. Tommorrow I will try 12G.
Thanks.
Yinghai Lu
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主题: 答复: Fixes for Tyan s2880
Eric,
I see.
I move some code from raminit.c setup_top_ram to it and have a try.
Regards
Yinghai Lu
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收件人: YhLu
抄送: ron minnich; Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org
主题: Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> I have checked your old k8/cpufixup.c, and it already has TOM2 etc setup.
> and SYSCFG_TOM2_EN...etc...
I shift by 12 instead of 10 for the low half of TOP_MEM2...
Which tends to leave TOP_MEM2 at 4GB...
Eric
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答复: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
I see.
I move some code from raminit.c setup_top_ram to it and have a try.
Regards
Yinghai Lu
-----邮件原件-----
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发送时间: 2003年7月31日 20:40
收件人: YhLu
抄送: ron minnich; Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org
主题: Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> I have checked your old k8/cpufixup.c, and it already has TOM2 etc setup.
> and SYSCFG_TOM2_EN...etc...
I shift by 12 instead of 10 for the low half of TOP_MEM2...
Which tends to leave TOP_MEM2 at 4GB...
Eric
15 years, 7 months
Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
I have checked your old k8/cpufixup.c, and it already has TOM2 etc setup.
and SYSCFG_TOM2_EN...etc...
Regards
Yinghai Lu
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发送时间: 2003年7月31日 20:18
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主题: Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> I have made two changes in raminit.c
> 1. csbase counting
> 2. fill_last to make sure kernel to scan NUMA successfully.
>
> For s2880 it can work with 4*1G+2*256M RAM, and doesn't work with
> 4*1G+2*512M or 4*1G+2*1G.
>
> I would try to substitute raminit.c with hardcode one to test for 6G, if
it
> can help.
>
> Please advise.
There has been enough code churn that my head is still spinning in
trying to get in sync with the main tree.
I have updated raminit.c so that it now handles the case of each
memory controller starting from 0 cleanly, and I have updated
cpufixup.c so that we are handling > 4GB of memory properly. TOP_MEM2
was not getting set to the proper value.
fill_last was pretty much a duplicate of route_dram_access except
different assumptions were made, so I have removed fill_last again.
If you have memory that doesn't get setup properly now holler.
So we should be pretty close. Before I can go much farther I need a
test for pre rev c0 cpus. Because a lot of the remaining memory code
needs to be conditional on it.
I am in the last stages of stabilizing an internal version to
be used in large scale testing to search for hardware
incompatibilities.
I also have a the links width and speed being automatically setup
properly. But the way I discover the links is still kind of
nasty, so I am not quite ready to push the code back yet.
I should be switching over to the new configuration system on Monday
and once that is sorted out quite I can start putting hard codes
where they belong in the board specific configuration.
Eric
15 years, 7 months
Re: Fixes for Tyan s2880
by YhLu
Eric,
I have made two changes in raminit.c
1. csbase counting
2. fill_last to make sure kernel to scan NUMA successfully.
For s2880 it can work with 4*1G+2*256M RAM, and doesn't work with
4*1G+2*512M or 4*1G+2*1G.
I would try to substitute raminit.c with hardcode one to test for 6G, if it
can help.
Please advise.
Regards
Yinghai Lu
15 years, 7 months
is there any way to boot linux without etherboot?
by gimyung han
I followed you HOWTO and succeed in Linux using LinuxBIOS with VGA
Is there other way to boot Linux using LinuxBIOS without etherbooting?
I saw message asking whether I will choose netbooting or local on the
logging message?
is option to choose the way to boot system? like local boot?
If so, how to do that?
do I need to load whole Linux kernel on the bios rom? lik using a DoC ?
is anyone who boot Linux in other way on the EPIA mainboard?
Thank for any help...........
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