February 2005 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping
by YhLu July 19, 2005

July 19, 2005

About APIC and ACPI. Some chipset has problems with apic and the workaround must to be used with acpi BIOS. YH

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RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by Jamie Rollins March 8, 2005

March 8, 2005

I agree very strongly on this point. If linuxbios is going to move forward, it's public face needs to be very well presented, which at the moment, it is not. The linuxbios.org web site is very out of date. The page desperately needs a documentation section, and a better way to download the most recent source code other than through the CVS. I also can't stress enough how important an up-to-date and well maintaned list of linuxbios compatible motherboards is to the success of the project. If people don't know which hardware linuxbios will work on, people won't ever try it. This is a absolutely necessary resource. How-to's for different motherboards should also be made more publicly available. jamie. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: > I think it would be MOST helpful if the linuxbios web site reflected > true and accurate recent information. It appears to be very out of date > and doesn't even say how to get to freebios2 IIRC. If I knew more of > what WAS true and correct, I would offer to help update the site. But > alas, I am just lurking on this mailing list and absorbing what I can... > > Alan Mimms, Senior Architect > F5 Networks, Inc. Spokane Development Center > Liberty Lake, Washington > v: 509-343-3524 f: 509-343-3501 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: linuxbios-admin(a)clustermatic.org > [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Bari Ari > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:40 AM > To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > Subject: Re: new free software foundation crusade: > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html > Importance: Low > > Also on Slashdot earlier today: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/28/1126226.shtml > Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS > > > Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > if you see errors let me know (I did not write this but they will take > > input). I know the comment about linuxbios being stripped-down linux > is > > not quite right; anything else? > > > > Nevertheless it is really great to see the FSF weigh in on this issue. > > > > > If your company is a supporter of linuxbios, or other free bioses such > as > > U-boot etc., then you should definitely contact the FSF and get your > name > > listed. > > > > ron > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios >

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Any update on linuxbios for laptops
by Justin Rietz March 8, 2005

March 8, 2005

I have been following/searching this mailing list, and haven't been able to find whether or not there has / will be a successful attempt at linuxbios on a laptop. Any news? Thanks. -Justin

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Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
by sherlock＠vsnl.com March 2, 2005

March 2, 2005

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 23:37, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > well if you are determined and/or have funding there might be two > other ways. > > 1) I recall Ron describing rom-as-ram trick to get the emu86 > running and get the memory setting this way. Slow as molasses I'm > told. Any pointers? my mail archive does not throw up aything. > 2) get a pci debugger card. around $5k i think. can watch the pci > traffic on it to see what it writes as ram config. It does not > always work but when works it is pretty good. Jeez. That is a whole lot of money. Perhaps a HP LA might do the job. I might be able to get hold of one. Or rig up a couple of PALs to snoop on the bus - presuming that the load dont screw up the timing. rgds jtd

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AMD Opteron D0 support
by yhlu March 1, 2005

March 1, 2005

Any one got D0 Opteron? It seems that AMD put the D0 releated info in their BIOS porting guide (PUBLIC Version). But didn't release new revision guide about that. YH

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Re: new free software foundation crusade:http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by sherlock＠vsnl.com March 1, 2005

March 1, 2005

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:04, Alan Mimms wrote: > One problem tho: no form for creating usernames. > Was this intentional? The names (type nos) of motherboards are very region dependent and boards with same parts will have different nos depending on the region and manufacturer. Why not add the chipset partnums to the motherboard info on the Supported motherboard page. rgds jtd

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Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios March 1, 2005

March 1, 2005

That's odd. My understanding might be lacking. I think the PIRQ table parser in 2.6.10 seems to work because it works when I use the normal BIOS. Therefore allowing the inference that 2.6.10 can read the table that was generated by the normal BIOS, right? What do you think? I'm now reading through the Alan Cox/Christer geode PIRQ discussion to see if I missed something. --- "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, ramesh bios wrote: > > > I used Linux 2.6.10. I'm reading through the list > > archive now for any related kernel issues. > > From 2.4.19 on, the IRQ parser for PIRQ tables for > geodes is broken. > > That could be part of the problem. > > ron > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

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RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by Ronald G. Minnich March 1, 2005

March 1, 2005

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: > Woo. Very nice. Thanks to all - maybe we can create some nice content > for this cool new container! I will do what I can when I have some > content to share. Yh Lu did a great job of adding content to day. I am hoping to get guys like Eric and Richard Smith to get accounts and add content! ron

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Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios Feb. 28, 2005

Feb. 28, 2005

Hi all, I'd been away for a while. I have picked up another geode gx1 to play with. Previously I used the irq_tables from the pcm-5823 and that worked just fine as far as I could tell. This time around, with this board I hit trouble. I saw the: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:0b.0. in the log. And so I ran getpir, replaced the irq_tables.c file, rebuilt and reflashed. But I still get the same problem. I tried adding pci=biosirq but the error still occurs and appears to prevent getting ethernet working. Here's what getpir generated from my board. I'm gonna go try to understand what all of this means. If anyone has any advice or suggestions on what to do, please do let me know. Thanks! Ramesh --- const struct irq_routing_table intel_irq_routing_table = { PIRQ_SIGNATURE, /* u32 signature */ PIRQ_VERSION, /* u16 version */ 32+16*3, /* there can be total 3 devices on the bus */ 0x00, /* Where the interrupt router lies (bus) */ (0x12<<3)|0x0, /* Where the interrupt router lies (dev) */ 0x1020, /* IRQs devoted exclusively to PCI usage */ 0x1078, /* Vendor */ 0x2, /* Device */ 0, /* Crap (miniport) */ { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }, /* u8 rfu[11] */ 0xf6, /* u8 checksum , this hase to set to some value that would give 0 after the sum of all bytes for this structure (including checksum) */ { /* bus, dev|fn, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, slot, rfu */ {0x00,(0x0a<<3)|0x0, {{0x01, 0xdeb8}, {0x02, 0xdeb8}, {0x03, 0xdeb8}, {0x04, 0x0deb8}}, 0x1, 0x0}, {0x00,(0x0b<<3)|0x0, {{0x02, 0xdeb8}, {0x03, 0xdeb8}, {0x04, 0xdeb8}, {0x01, 0x0deb8}}, 0x2, 0x0}, {0x00,(0x13<<3)|0x0, {{0x01, 0xdeb8}, {0x00, 0xdeb8}, {0x00, 0xdeb8}, {0x00, 0x0deb8}}, 0x0, 0x0}, } }; __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
by sherlock＠vsnl.com Feb. 28, 2005

Feb. 28, 2005

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:42, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > I think a two computer solution might be easier. If one can get > > early serial on the target machine, then a small romcc program > > could read commands from the serial port, execute them, and > > transmit back the results. (I think I even saw an email from > > someone that did this in pure assembler.) That would be a neat universal solution. Ite8705 is the multio device on the P4M266. Linuxbios had code for it (just managed to download cvs from SF was down for three days and refused to login, - timeouts). > > That is a *very* cool idea. > > > Then, a specially modified emulator could run the original bios > > on a second machine, forwarding memory reads/writes and io > > reads/writes through the serial port to the target machine. > > I like it a lot. > > ron So where to start. rgds jtd

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