RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by Jamie Rollins
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 The linuxbios.org web site is very out of date.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 It appears to be very out of date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
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14 years, 4 months
Any update on linuxbios for laptops
by Justin Rietz
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
14 years, 4 months
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
by sherlock＠vsnl.com
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
14 years, 4 months
AMD Opteron D0 support
by yhlu
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
14 years, 4 months
Re: new free software foundation crusade:http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by sherlock＠vsnl.com
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
14 years, 4 months
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios
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
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14 years, 4 months
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by Ronald G. Minnich
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
14 years, 4 months
Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios
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},
}
};
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14 years, 4 months
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
by sherlock＠vsnl.com
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
14 years, 4 months
