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[LinuxBIOS] bios of single devices
by spidermantm＠freenet.de 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

hello dear bios-workoholics, does anybody know, if there is only one bios on the motherboard, or if every single hardware device or item of a PC-System, like hard-disk or cd/dvd-rom drive or pci-card or floppy, has an own little bios-chip, for to be recognized by BIOS on mainboard ??? the ques is, for example, if PC beginner simply plug off such a device, while PC is switched on, and "damage" this device, that probably this device is not damaged, cause you only need to re-flash this little BIOS-chip or hardware-TM-brand-chip of concerning device ??? or ? tuvm for response

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[LinuxBIOS] Re: LinuxBIOS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 12
by hema ku 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

hello every body i am new to linuxbios , can add a linuxbios patch to linux-2.4.21 /2.6.12 on this board , 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 82) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) 03:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) thanks in advance hemanth __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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[LinuxBIOS] some questions....
by Huang-Jen Wang 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Dear all , I have some questions , hope you can give me some idea 1.What is the difference between normal booting and fallback booting? When linuxbios will use normal booting and when linuxbios will use fallback booting? I remember I use the hdama code , and it always use fallback booting, and now my new porting it always use normal booting. 2.VGA problem, I tried to add VGA, I have succeeded before when I use hdama code , now I follow the same way , but I got a message "Incorrect Expansion Rom Header Signature ffff ", I trace the code and found the rom_address become fc000000, not the fff80000 we have set, could anyone tell me what mistakes I made?Does it related to my question 1? Thanks...

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[LinuxBIOS] Solaris
by Justin Cormack 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Has anyone looked at what it would take to get Solaris booting under Linuxbios on Opteron? If not I might dig around (there is a modified grub - I think that does some of the init work; one suspects that because of its heritage it is quite BIOS-unencumbered). justin

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[LinuxBIOS] First instruction in linuxbios
by Jorge Cardona 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi. I'm new in this, and i'm reading the source and i have a question, which one it's exactly the first instruction that the processor execute when the pc is booting?, in which file is it? I don't complete understand the relationship between a normal bios and the kernel, i think that the bios it's has to pass some data to the kernel, if that's true ¿how exactly is that data passed to the kernel? In linuxbios, how it's this issue handle? PD: sorry for my english Thanks -- Jorge Eduardo Cardona jorgeecardona(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------ Linux registered user #391186 Registered machine #291871 ------------------------------------------------

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[LinuxBIOS] Suggestions for a digital video recording system?
by Marko Mäkelä 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi all, I was going to give LinuxBIOS a try in order to reduce the start-up time of my VDR based digital TV tuner and recorder. Currently, it takes 40 seconds to start up, of which slightly over 10 seconds is spent in BIOS. Last night, I tried to migrate the system from a VIA686 based mainboard to a i440ZX based one (Asus P2-99 with a 933 MHz Pentium 3 and 256 MB RAM). The machine felt unreliable (often, it hanged with a black screen after reset, sometimes even after power-on) and also old: there is no on-board sound. I have followed the development of VIA Mini-ITX (Epia) boards, and I would like to know if there are OpenFirmware or LinuxBIOS based solutions, or how far the Epia support of LinuxBIOS is from being useable? I will need a programmable wake-up timer (nvram-wakeup) and, if possible, wake-on-LAN. The board should have either well-supported onboard video (VIA CLE266 is a bit tricky) or an AGP slot. Some PCI slots and IDE are needed as well. Unless there is hardware MPEG-2 acceleration, the processor should be equivalent to a 700 to 900 MHz Pentium 3. Marko

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[LinuxBIOS] AMD Geode LX processor
by Maxim Moroz 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hello, Is there any work on AMD Geode LX processor with GeodeLink architecture. Any information appreciated. Best Regards, Maxim Moroz.

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[LinuxBIOS] Potential copyright issues with decompiling ACPI tables?
by Ken Fuchs 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I haven't spend much time working with ACPI tables, but there may be copyright issues with decompiling these on a COTS BIOS and using the result in LinuxBIOS. Does anyone agree there may be a copyright concern here? I don't think there is, but I'm not a copyright lawyer. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs(a)winternet.com>

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] [Fwd: Info for LinuxBIOS Summit announcement]
by Ken Fuchs 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Which day is the LinuxBIOS workshop, Oct 11 or Oct 12? The meeting details web page says Oct 11. http://lacsi.rice.edu/symposium The registration web page says Oct 12. https://ssl.linklings.net/registrations/lacsi/ > MEETING DETAILS > > The LinuxBIOS Summit will be at the 2005 LACSI Symposium, > October 11-13, 2005 in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. See > lacsi.rice.edu/symposium. We will > begin as a full-day workshop (among nine others) on the Symposium's > first day (October 11). Then we'll have another 1.5 days to meet in > parallel with the Symposium. > > REGISTRATION > > Register for the LACSI Symposium at > https://ssl.linklings.net/registrations/lacsi/ > and select the LinuxBIOS Summit as your preferred workshop. > You'll have all the perquisites of a Symposium attendee (access to > all workshops, reception, research presentations, panels, proceedings) > as well as to the LinuxBIOS Summit meetings. Registration is $350 until > September 5, then $400 until October 5 or on-site. > There are also student rates. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs(a)winternet.com>

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[LinuxBIOS] EPIA-M first round of patches.
by Jonathan McDowell 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Attached are my first round of EPIA-M patches. They get it compiling to the point of hitting the udelay patches and are basically what had been committed to my arch tree. 01-epiam-config-fixup.diff Fix up the config files so buildtarget runs 03-vt8235-fixup.diff Fix up compilation of the VT8235 southbridge 04-epim-mainboard-config-fixup.diff Fix up the mainboard config file for the southbridge devices etc. 05-vt8623-fixup.diff Fix up the VT8623 northbridge. 06-vt1211-fixup.diff Fix up the VT1211 SuperIO device. Comments appreciated; if I don't hear anything by the end of the weekend I'll assume it's ok to commit. J. -- Web [ noodles is now open ] site: http:// [ ] Made by www.earth.li/~noodles/ [ ] HuggieTag 0.0.23

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