April 2004 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Why devices ARE or NOT on bus 0 ?
by Li-Ta Lo April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

Hello guys, How does the enumeration decide if the devices in 8111/8131 are on bus 0 or other bus ? Isn't that all these non-coherent devices are on PCIDEV(0,0,0), at power up ? How are they changed to their "real" PCIDEVFN ? We are having problems on ibm/e325 that these devices remain on bus 0 such that the current HT and PCI scan or resource allocation is totally fucked. The devices are on bus 0 device 1 or something, these devices are enumerated first than the northbridge so the northbridge does not get correct information about its "link" and can not set IO/MEM/BUS routing correctly (actually it refuse to set at all). Does anyone can help on this ? Ollie

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Via Epia-MII BiosSavior problems
by Ignacio Verona April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

Hi! Just a few minutes ago I've built my first linuxbios romimage. This week, I bought a RD1-PL BiosSavior for my MB (PLCC socket) and installed it. For all this week, the BiosSavior has been working, with the switch on "ORG" position, and correctly loading factory bios. And, for writing my new BIOS to the "backup" memory of the BiosSavior, I did put the switch to the RD1 position, and then #./flash_rom romimage. Ok, it seems to be well written to the memory, but before trying to load the new linuxbios I wanted to boot using the old and... It will not boot!! With the switch on ORG position, using the serial console, I can see LinuxBios boot up, but I hangs (this does not worry my at this time), but the only way I can boot my mobo is removing the biossavior and installing the original flash chip into the original socket... Did I bought the wrong BiosSavior? What happens?? Thanks.

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答复: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

I have talked to the LSI two times. I have asked our HW engineers to use adapted chip except special customer requirement. Adaptec don't need download FW into it. Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 14:20 收件人: YhLu 抄送: ebiederman(a)lnxi.com; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: tyan s2880 build broken? On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: > So I need disable the code always, and don't send the image to the end user. > > What's pity! you might want to talk to LSI about this, but Eric is right. LSI needs to get their act together. ron

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答复: PVR with LinuxBIOS. What board is recommended? Some questions
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

S2850 would be better that s2880. It only takes one CPU. YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Hendricks David W. [mailto:dwh@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 14:11 收件人: Jochen Roemling 抄送: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: PVR with LinuxBIOS. What board is recommended? Some questions On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Jochen Roemling wrote: > I spent hours on the net trying to find a suitable motherboard. To be > serious: I found not even one that seems to be supported by LinuxBIOS, > supports everything I need and is still in the shops of the retailers or > eBay. The Status page on linuxbios.org seems to contain mainly very > small boards with only 2 or 3 PCI slots that are aimed towards cluster > nodes. The EPIA-M seems to be a popular choice for personal video apps. > reply at least yes or no, I would then commit a HOWTO if I get the whole > stuff working: Awesome. > 1. I found out that LinuxBIOS supports VGA only for very few chipsets > like the SiS630. If I would use a VGA card that comes with it's own BIOS > (let's say some ATI radeon) and not using any on-board-VGA-device, would > it work if the mainboard has a LinuxBIOS-supported chipset? My feelings > say "yes", don't they? Vendors haven't exactly been the most cooperative with sharing VGABIOS info. But we do have video working at least on the EPIA, SiS630, and now the Rage XL chips that come on server boards like the S2885 and HDAMA. However, you probably want something more powerful than those. We don't have nVidia or ATi Radeon support coming up from the get-go just yet, but so far we've been able to start a GeForce FX vgabios with 8x AGP support on a Tyan S2885. This is done with an x86 emulator that runs the vgabios after LinuxBIOS has already started. > 3. Just to verify that I understood everything right: The Kernel that is > burned into the DoC will be the kernel that runs the machine after > bootup and it is possible to mount the root fs via NFS just like LTSP > does? Or will the kernel on the DoC just to be used to initialize the > hardware and then load another kernel via the net or from disk? Or do I > have both possibilities? You can boot your kernel from pretty much anywhere. If your flash part is big enough, you can put a kernel on it. Otherwise, you can boot off an ide hard disk, compact flash, or over the network. > 4. Is it correct that kernel 2.4.19 is the latest one supported by > LinuxBIOS? Should the patches be good for 2.4.26 also? What about 2.6? You can run any kernel. We're currently running 2.6.5 on our Opteron systems. > Maybe you can recommend some motherboards out of the box that are still > available in the shops? They should support CPUs with about 1200 MHz, HOw much did you want to spend on the thing? If you want fast, you might want to try a Tyan S2880, as YhLu has that working with VGA (Rage XL). It also has plenty of PCI slots, and will take dual Opterons. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Re: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

So I need disable the code always, and don't send the image to the end user. What's pity! YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ebiederman(a)lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 11:12 收件人: YhLu 抄送: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: tyan s2880 build broken? YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes: > I will change the code to disable the lsi_scsi as the default. > > Do you have lsi 1030 onboard? You need to use it? > > If you need to use it, I send you pre-built image, because I can not publish > the source code of lsi_scsi. LSI don’t want to. If you can't publish the source then distributing the binary with the code compiled from that source linked in violates the GPL. Eric

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amd opteron dram controller
by HC Wang April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

Hi, I am working on post code for an embedded opteron board, I have some problem with dram controller initialization, problem I have seen are (1) after setting DramInit bit (bit 8) in dram configuration low register (bus 0, dev 24, func 2, reg 0x90), processor clear this bit after a while but DramEnable (bit 10) and MemClrStatus (bit 11) never set high, is this a problem? If so what is causing it? (2) After DramInit bit is cleared by processor, I can access sdram from 0x00000000 to 0x0009ffff, fill it with pattern and verify it. But I can't write into address space from 0x000A0000 - 0x000EFFFF, even MTRRs associated with it are set to UC type. Is this correct? (3) Can't write memory above 1M (from 0x00100000 and up), but I can alter the memory content by using AMD HDT.. Any ideas? Thanks, HC

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Re: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

I will change the code to disable the lsi_scsi as the default. Do you have lsi 1030 onboard? You need to use it? If you need to use it, I send you pre-built image, because I can not publish the source code of lsi_scsi. LSI don’t want to. Regards YH _____ 发件人: HC Wang [mailto:hcwang@netd.com] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 10:15 收件人: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: tyan s2880 build broken? Hi, I checked out linuxbios2 tree from sourceforge.net, and I have problem with building bios for tyan s2880 motherboard, here is the error message from buildtarget tyan/s2880: Configuring PART mainboard, path tyan/s2880 ===> NOTE: Changing default value of LB_CKS_RANGE_START ===> NOTE: Changing default value of LB_CKS_RANGE_END ===> NOTE: Changing default value of LB_CKS_LOC Configuring DIR ../common/lsi_scsi/Config.lb ===> ERROR: Could not open file "/home/hcwang/linux-bios/freebios2/src/mainboard/tyan/s2880/../common/lsi_sc si/Config.lb" tyan/s2880/Config.lb:0 mainboard/tyan/s2880/Config.lb:0 ../common/lsi_scsi/Config.lb:0 [hcwang@primary targets]$ pwd /home/hcwang/linux-bios/freebios2/targets Has anybody experience similar problem? Thanks, HC

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答复: 答复: 答复: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

When I using the new config to deal with it, the tool seems doesn’t support expression. I will check that in current config tool. YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 10:57 收件人: YhLu 抄送: HC Wang; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: tyan s2880 build broken? On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: > When enabling lsi_scsi support, It need leave 48k in the BIOS ROM for > lsi_scsi fw. So need to change normal mode ROM_SIZE to 512k-48k. OK, BTW you can do this: option ROM_SIZE = 512*1024 - 48*1024 which is not as readable as 512k-48k, but is pretty readable. ron

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答复: 答复: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

When enabling lsi_scsi support, It need leave 48k in the BIOS ROM for lsi_scsi fw. So need to change normal mode ROM_SIZE to 512k-48k. After that, cat fwx, normal linuxbios, fallback linuxbios to 512k final image. YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 10:49 收件人: YhLu 抄送: HC Wang; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: 答复: tyan s2880 build broken? On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: > Don't forget 2. otherwise the final image will short some. What should it be? ron

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答复: tyan s2880 build broken?
by YhLu April 26, 2004

April 26, 2004

1. In freebios2/src/mainboard/tyan/s2880/Config.lb comment out dir ../common/lsi_scsi 2. In freebios2/targets/tyan/s2880/Config.lb comment out option ROM_SIZE = 475136 Don't forget 2. otherwise the final image will short some. Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月26日 10:42 收件人: YhLu 抄送: HC Wang; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: tyan s2880 build broken? I just commented out the #dir ../ entry in mainboard/tyan/s2880/Config.lb and the buildtarget seems ok. I will commit. ron

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