What i did about Intel LinuxBIOS support
1. change ICH5 to ICH5R in v1.
2. move E7501 and ICH5R from V1 and V2.
For SB, documentation should be enough.
For NB, I guess there is some undocumented info, and you may talk to intel
directly or hack it out.
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven J. Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:22 AM
> To: YhLu; linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
>
> > Maybe change to use AMD or other platform, or even PowerPC.
>
> The architecture is fixed. I either have to find a way to
> make LinuxBIOS work with it, or switch to something else.
> Which comes back to my original question...is there any more
> information available on the undocumented things the
> LinuxBIOS E7501 code does? Does the LinuxBIOS community
> support this code, or recommend against using it?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
No.
Acctually you should select that according to your applicance....
Maybe change to use AMD or other platform, or even PowerPC.
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven J. Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:14 AM
> To: YhLu; linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
>
> > From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com]
> > why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support
> LinuxBIOS, because they have EFI....
>
> So, you'd recommend using EFI over LinuxBIOS?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
Are folks getting along with 'arch' ok? Are you able to download as
needed? How does it compare to CVS? Is there a different SCM you would
like to see used?
thanks
ron
It should be working. But I wonder some AMD check in about MTRR or CPU
initialization would break it.
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: Steve Magnani; linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
>
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:03 -0700, YhLu wrote:
> > why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support
> > LinuxBIOS, because they have EFI....
> >
>
> BTW, is tyan s2735 code in the current tla tree working? We
> tried to use it as a base for a supermicro board but failed.
>
> --
> Li-Ta Lo <ollie(a)lanl.gov>
> Los Alamos National Lab
>
why still waste time on Intel platform? They will not support LinuxBIOS,
because they have EFI....
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Magnani [mailto:steve@digidescorp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:20 PM
> To: linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Intel E7501 Northbridge head-scratching
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone (Steven James? yhlu?) know what registers 0x14,
> 0xD8, and 0xF4 in the E7501's D0:F0 PCI configuration space
> are for? I know that 0x80 and
> 0x88 are undocumented, but I didn't see anything in the code
> (northbridge/intel/e7501/raminit.c) that said these others
> were undocumented. Unfortunately, they seem to be; at least,
> I can't find any mention of them in any of the Intel
> documentation I have.
>
> Also, if I am reading the code correctly, the last entry in
> register_values[] will update D2:F0:0x50. That register is
> also undocumented.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Magnani
> www.digidescorp.com
>
>
>
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Hi,
Does anyone (Steven James? yhlu?) know what registers 0x14, 0xD8, and 0xF4
in the E7501's D0:F0 PCI configuration space are for? I know that 0x80 and
0x88 are undocumented, but I didn't see anything in the code
(northbridge/intel/e7501/raminit.c) that said these others were
undocumented. Unfortunately, they seem to be; at least, I can't find any
mention of them in any of the Intel documentation I have.
Also, if I am reading the code correctly, the last entry in
register_values[] will update D2:F0:0x50. That register is also undocumented.
Any help would be much appreciated...
Thanks,
Steve Magnani
www.digidescorp.com
ATI Xpress 200M in HP ZV6000 support pci-e.
I wonder why there is no Nvidia CK804M for NB. Too hot?
First NB support LinuxBIOS?
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:13 PM
> To: linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Is any notebook with Nvidia NForce4 or Ck804?
>
> Is any notebook with Nvidia NForce4 or CK804?
>
> It seems there is some with NForce3.....
>
> YH
>
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One of the hard_reset() functions are wrong. The two files don't agree:
src/mainboard/tyan/s2895/auto.c
src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/ck804_reset.c
I think auto.c is correct, but I'd suggest changing it to:
static void hard_reset(void)
{
set_bios_reset();
pci_write_config32(PCI_DEV(1, CK804_DEVN_BASE + 0x1, 0), 0xe8, 0x0);
/* hard reset */
outb(0x0a, 0x0cf9);
outb(0x0e, 0x0cf9);
L1: goto L1; /* loop till reset */
}
We have the CRB working. We'd like to work with you and nVidia to
improve what you have released.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:15 PM
To: Kimball, Stephen
Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org
Subject: RE: does the CK804 code work?
You could talk to Nvidia to see if I can release support code for their
CRB....
It seems that you have spend lot of time on it.
YH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com [mailto:Stephen.Kimball@bench.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: YhLu
> Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org
> Subject: does the CK804 code work?
>
>
> YH,
>
> After running the new CK804 code, I'm having trouble getting
> the CK804 devices to work. Most references to ck804_enable
> are commented out.
> I'm wondering how devices get enabled.
>
> Steve
>