July 2004 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

sis630et and sis630 difference
by zhu shi song July 17, 2004

July 17, 2004

The only difference between ecs p6stmt MB and winfast6300 is that they use the different sis chipset. P6stmt use sis630ET, winfast6300 use sis630. So Doc2001 which can work on winfast6300 can't work on P6stmt. Is it right? thanks zhu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign!

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how to setup dll.inc of sis630
by zhu shi song July 17, 2004

July 17, 2004

I've got elitegroup MB P6STMT based sis630e. It's hard for me to setup the correct value of dll.inc(0x8c~0x8f). (1) I copy the value from winfast6300. My Doc2001 can boot but linux kernel will hangup. (2) I copy the value from pcchips/m787cl+. MB halt. (3) I copy the value from elitegroup/p6stp-fl. It is just the same as winfast6300. who know how to guess the four values in dll.inc? thanks zhu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign!

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I'm offline for a period of time
by ron minnich July 16, 2004

July 16, 2004

----- Message Text ----- There is some work going on here and I will not be available for technical discussions. I hope to be back in a bit. thanks ron

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sis630 ipl SDRAM initializtion make some trouble
by zhu shi song July 16, 2004

July 16, 2004

I've got two kind of sis630e motherboard, one is winfast 6300 Max pro, the other is from ellite group. (1) for winfast 6300 I've burned one DOC2001 to boot it, for some SDRAM it works well, for some other SDRAM it can't boot, it hangup on jmp spl_vector(after my debug testing ). (2) for ellite board The same doc2001 chip which works well on winfast 6300 can't boot ellite board. It also hangup on jmp spl_vector. For some SDRAM it can boot linux, but linux will hangup at anytime. (3) conclusion I think IPL SDRAM initialization has some problem. So the SDRAM can't work stably. Who has sis630 manual? I can check if I can adjust the SDRAM control parameters. Or someone can point out what's the exact reason causing the problem. tks zhu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

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by zhu shi song July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

I find winfast 6300 Max pro using Sis630e chipset. The problem of reading spd RAM type byte is also return 01 or 00 for different SDRAM but no 04. Is it a problem? thanks zhu --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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Re: V1 PIRQ table
by Richard Smith July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

ron minnich wrote: > no, it's worse than that. > > If the copy fails, and you're uncompressed, and you don't map ram over > flash, the table is still there. > > Yeah, it sucks all right. > >>There must be some sort of ELF section alignment thats missing in the >>linking of irq_tables.o > > We have to fix this. I just never had time. Can't ELF do alignments? If so then we can just create this table into a seperate section and tell the linker to align it properly or perhaps locate it absolutly.

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Re: E7501 support in V2
by YhLu July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

Eric, When can you commit cpu releated changes in the public tree? Please advise if I could commit E7501/P62h2/82801EB-R into the v2 now or after you commit CPU stuffs. Regards YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ebiederman(a)lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] 发送时间: 2004年6月25日 17:27 收件人: YhLu 抄送: ron minnich; Stefan Reinauer; LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: E7501 support in V2 YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes: > Eric, > > I find the problem, need to call init_timer in p6 cpu fixup. It works well > now. > > Some code should be moved to p6 or even p5. > > For example: > apic_timper.c > enable_mmx_sse.inc/disable_mmx_sse.inc Except for the Opteron init_timer is really not appropriate as a cpu thing. In general it is a motherboard type decision. It is one of the rough areas in V2 right now. For the rest you can see why I am in the process of reworking the cpu initialization code. Eric

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Can someone please explain this VGABIOS Error
by David Aubin July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

Hello, I got the testbios built and tried it and got the following error doing: ./testbios -d 0x200 -t vgabios.bin I made my vgabios.bin by doing: dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=128 The error is: c000:00dc 6e OUTSB AX=1cff BX=ffff CX=ff00 DX=60ac SP=fff4 BP=0000 SI=0002 DI=0002 DS=0040 ES=0000 SS=0030 CS=c000 IP=00de NV UP DI PL NZ NA PE NC c000:00dd f4 HALT halt_sys: file ops.c, line 9804 halted AX=1cff BX=ffff CX=ff00 DX=60ac SP=fff4 BP=0000 SI=0002 DI=0002 DS=0040 ES=0000 SS=0030 CS=c000 IP=00de NV UP DI PL NZ NA PE NC c000:00de 6e HALT Can someone please explain this error to me and how to possibly fix it? I have a Tyan mb with a 2885 chipset. AMD64 chip. And an Nvidia FX 5950 video card. Any help would be appreciated:) Thank you, Dave

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SiS 530
by Andrew Richardson July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

Dear All, I am new to this list and have been emailing Ron a few times about the SiS530. Ron sugested that I use FILO for my project and I have had a trawl around to find filo, and have downloaded a BZ from a fairly unreputable looking web site. Does anyone have the "official" website address at all? Also Ron said to configure LinuxBIOS for the 530, but I thought that it was not supported by the LinuxBIOS project. I understand (basically) the idea of having payload code (which is filo from your advice), but I think I may need some more explicit instructions: do I assume correctly that I need to flash my current 530 board bios with LinuxBIOS with a payload of filo and have filo point to boot off HDA1? Then this leads me onto another question: can I pull a bios chip from another PC and use that to flash LB onto to use with the 530, or are some regions of the BIOS chip un-writable and/or mobo specific? If the latter then would it not be safer to get a small DoC and flash that, as I only have one 530 Mobo. Thanks andy ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Serenade BIOS
by Tony Cheng July 15, 2004

July 15, 2004

Hi Ollie, I finally got the AMD Seranade board and tried the Serenade Linux BIOS. But I've got the serial port message like following and doesn't have any VGA output. (Seranade board come with a ATI Rage VGA card), I suppose the current Serenade LinuxBIOS doesn't have the VGA support? The serial output has a lot of "POST: 0x00" message output at at beginning and ending make me think I probably missed something. The changes I did with the BIOS is very minor. they are: 1. option ROM_SIZE changed to 512K, instead of 1MB to fit my Flash Part size. 2. option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL and option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL changed to value 7, instead of value 8, in order to build. (Follow your instruction) Any input would be appriciated. Thanks Tony --- Attached Seranade LinuxBIOS Serial Port output ---- POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0Fallback Tue Jul 13 19:16:21 PDT 2004 starting... setting up resource map....done. 02 nodes initialized. coherent_ht_finalize done ht reset - LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0Fallback Tue Jul 13 19:16:21 PDT 2004 starting... setting up resource map....done. 02 nodes initialized. coherent_ht_finalize done PCI: 00:01.00 PCI: 00:01.01 PCI: 00:02.00 PCI: 00:02.01 PCI: 00:03.00 PCI: 00:04.00 PCI: 00:04.01 PCI: 00:04.02 PCI: 00:04.03 PCI: 00:04.05 PCI: 00:04.06 PCI: 00:18.00 PCI: 00:18.01 PCI: 00:18.02 PCI: 00:18.03 PCI: 00:19.00 PCI: 00:19.01 PCI: 00:19.02 PCI: 00:19.03 Ram1.00 Ram1.01 Ram2.00 Ram2.01 No memory for this cpu Ram3 Initializing memory: done Clearing LinuxBIOS memory: done Ram4 PCI: 00:01.00 PCI: 00:01.01 PCI: 00:02.00 PCI: 00:02.01 PCI: 00:03.00 PCI: 00:04.00 PCI: 00:04.01 PCI: 00:04.02 PCI: 00:04.03 PCI: 00:04.05 PCI: 00:04.06 PCI: 00:18.00 PCI: 00:18.01 PCI: 00:18.02 PCI: 00:18.03 PCI: 00:19.00 PCI: 00:19.01 PCI: 00:19.02 PCI: 00:19.03 POST: 0x39 LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0Fallback Tue Jul 13 19:16:21 PDT 2004 booting... POST: 0x40 Finding PCI configuration type. POST: 0x5f Enumerating static devices... Enumerating buses... POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 POST: 0x55 POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 POST: 0x55 POST: 0x24 POST: 0x25 POST: 0x55 POST: 0x55 POST: 0x55 done POST: 0x66 Allocating resources... done. POST: 0x88 Enabling resourcess... Kid 0 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 Kid 1 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 Kid 2 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 Kid 0 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 Kid 1 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 Kid 2 of k8: bridge ctrl says: 0x0 done. Initializing devices... POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 POST: 0x00 ............ Senerade BIOS will keep sending "POST: 0x00" message. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Li-Ta Lo" <ollie(a)lanl.gov> To: "Tony Cheng" <tony_cheng(a)pcmagic.net> Cc: "LinuxBIOS" <linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: Re: Serenade BIOS > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:17, Tony Cheng wrote: > > Hi Ollie, > > > > The Serenade BIOS I've got from CVS Server can not build. Do you see > > this also? The payload size of my binary is about 55k. > > > > The error messages are as follow: > > > > objcopy -O binary linuxbios_c linuxbios_payload.bin > > ./nrv2b e linuxbios_payload.bin linuxbios_payload.nrv2b > > input/output = 67188/26767 = 2.510 > > cp linuxbios_payload.nrv2b linuxbios_payload > > gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o > > /usr/bin/ld: section .id [ffffffd8 -> ffffffef] overlaps section > > .payload [ffff9750 -> ffffffe2] > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[1]: *** [linuxbios] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory > > `/root/dl/freebios2/targets/amd/serenade/serenade/fallback' > > make: *** [fallback-rom] Error 1 > > > > It is the 64kB size limit problem. Please set the > > option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8 > option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8 > > in Config.lb to some lower value. > > Ollie > > > > > Thanks > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > >

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