May 2004 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Resource Allocation for Option Rom
by Li-Ta Lo June 24, 2004

June 24, 2004

Hello, It seems that the resource allocation for option rom is not implemented in LinuxBIOS, is it ? Is there one have any idea how to add this ? Ollie

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Hibernation?
by lbios_kk＠redfenix.com June 2, 2004

June 2, 2004

I'm sure if someone has thought of doing this before, but I haven't found mention of it anywhere. Has any work been done toward the goal of "Hibernation"? I'm writing of the type that would use a separate partition equal to ram + swap space to store the current memory state. If no one has done any work to this effect, how difficult would it be? I may be willing to help the effort. I've never programmed for a BIOS, but I've done mmap() stuff before. --Kevin

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Chipsets: status page?
by Joshua Wise June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I read the FAQ looking for information on chipsets supported in LinuxBIOS, and it pointed me towards the status page, however I can only find information about mainboards on that page. Am I looking in the wrong place? For reference, I'm wondering if the AMD-760 and the VIA VT82C686 are supported. Thanks, joshua - -- Joshua Wise | www.joshuawise.com GPG Key | 0xEA80E0B3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAt6GIPn9tWOqA4LMRAv+PAJ9UATxRWjvrc3RCuXSeuZlT5DuWFwCfdk8u JgBq6tZPGH9xZhz4adcmH6Y= =ndYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Native LinuxBios Support
by Mathieu Deschamps June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hello, I've rere-reread LinuxBios port to AMD64 guide during some documentation making. I am wondering about Linuxbios Native Support and VGA init... Linuxbios is supposed to support "Trident Cyberblade 3d" natively and I have a Cyberblade/i1 rev 6a in my chipset... Please don't tell me that I've spend time making it work, though it isn't really, while there is a native support ?!? this must be a joke ! If not and that is tue and after i eat my jeans on the go, is that meaning that i've just to set CONFIG_VGABIOS and that would be all ? mathieu

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Has anyone heard about EPIA MII FastBoot ROM Utility?
by Ignacio Verona June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hi! Here http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=343 under Booting Utility I've found what via calls FastBoot ROM. It says we can boot from PCMCIA-CompactFlash and MDOC on epia MII, and source code is provided. I'll be givin a try this week, because it will be nice to my proyect if I can boot from CF, so I can forgot about using harddisk. What do you think about? Anyone has used this?

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Re: Greetings
by Hendricks David W. May 29, 2004

May 29, 2004

Welcome! Did you have anything specific in mind? A specific mainboard that you want to work on, perhaps? On Fri, 28 May 2004 jcantara(a)comcast.net wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to: This List, and Linux in general. > > Why I joined: I have a keen interest in both Linux and BIOSs, and may be able to provide some help on the BIOS and hardware end of things. > > Some about me: I work for a company that provides "aftermarket" Award BIOSs, built from source provided to us through an agreement with Award themselves. I'm a semi-recent graduate of Electrical Engineering, and live in Massachusetts. I actually concentrated in embedded systems design, but I ended up here, configuring BIOSs, and working on the company website, go figure :) > > I thought I might be able to provide some help on the hardware side of things, having a lot of insight into the BIOS. Obviously I can't share the source code we have, or violate any of the agreements my company has though. > > This list seems fairly busy, from the few mails I've already received today since I signed up. > > -Jesse > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios >

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testbios: other chips?
by Joshua Wise May 28, 2004

May 28, 2004

I've seen various success stories of testbios being used to execute VGA BIOSes and get VGA cards running. This led me to ask the question of whether it would be feasible to get BIOSes from other option cards, such as my "00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 04)" to execute and initialize. Thanks, joshua -- Joshua Wise | www.joshuawise.com GPG Key | 0xEA80E0B3

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Know someone available for a freebios port to an SMP Opteron motherboard? (fwd)
by Hendricks David W. May 28, 2004

May 28, 2004

Any takers? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:52:18 -0700 From: William J. Earl <earl(a)agami.com> To: ollie(a)users.sourceforge.net, ebiederm(a)users.sourceforge.net, dhendricks(a)users.sourceforge.net Subject: Know someone available for a freebios port to an SMP Opteron motherboard? I am working with freebios for an SMP Opteron motherboard, but I am very new to the source base. Would you know of anyone who might be available for a short contract to configure and bring up freebios on a new Opteron motherboard? I have the relevant documentation and the cooperation of the vendor, and working boards. I am writing to you as you have recently been checking in improvements to freebios for Opteron.

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答复: 答复: 答复: 答复: Getting Started with freebios2!
by YhLu May 28, 2004

May 28, 2004

You got time for USB boot debug? Do you have any idea about: USB device control ed works well, but the bulk ed doesn't work, USB report device not responding? Does the code in baremetal work? In the code, signature of cbw and csw define missed 0x. Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Steven James [mailto:pyro@linuxlabs.com] 发送时间: 2004年5月27日 15:56 收件人: YhLu 抄送: ron minnich; Jay Miller; ebiederman(a)lnxi.com; LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: 答复: Getting Started with freebios2! Greetings, I'm finally getting dug out after being snowed under :-) The spec is probably part of: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usbcdc11.pdf The communications class. I'm guessing it would be a subset of POTS modem with a transparent data protocol. That would imply line contol on the control ep, and either bulk transfer or isochronous pipe pairs for the serial data. It's a lot more involved than a simple UART, that's for sure. On a side note, I THOUGHT I would have time by now to bang on the USB boot. Hopefully, I'll be able to do more with it now (so I say :-) As soon as I get up to speed on freebios2, I'll have a good test platform. For the serial, UHCI and OHCI will be good. EHCI can likely be ignored for the BIOS since fast devices are required to fall back and EHCI always has one of UHCI or OHCI to handle low speed USB. G'day, sjames -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 2701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office & fax 866.545.6306 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 27 May 2004, YhLu wrote: > So the LinuxBIOS need to > 1. init USB controller > 2. create usb_dev to be serial. > 3. use usb_control_msg and usb_bulk_msg to talk with the serial device. > > What the USB type, OHCI or UCHI or EHCI?? > > I wonder if some source code or documents that define No 3 above? > > Regards > > YH > > -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] > 发送时间: 2004年5月27日 14:23 > 收件人: YhLu > 抄送: Jay Miller; ebiederman(a)lnxi.com; LinuxBIOS > 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: Getting Started with freebios2! > > On Thu, 27 May 2004, YhLu wrote: > > > Usb to serial ??? > > yes, it's now needed :-( > > ron > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios >

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答复: 答复: [COMMIT] romcc 0.63 and some fixes...
by YhLu May 28, 2004

May 28, 2004

After I get USB boot done, I will try that and modify the auto.c..... Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ebiederman(a)lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] 发送时间: 2004年5月28日 9:56 收件人: YhLu 抄送: LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: 答复: [COMMIT] romcc 0.63 and some fixes... YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes: > I'd like to wait it to produce smaller code. Otherwise if I enable superio + > ati support, It will be greater than 64K in debug mode. > > When will that be ready? The code is feature complete so it will correctly not inline functions (producing smaller code) if it does not run out of registers. My simple test cases have worked well. My complicated test case that uses an old version of production code ran out of registers after consuming just the 8 general purpose registers. So mostly it is a matter of playing with the code, and figuring out why weird things are happening. Eric

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