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Re: [LinuxBIOS] A question about compiling linuxBIOS
by Stefan Reinauer Sept. 19, 2005

Sept. 19, 2005

* Frank Samuel <windrainman(a)yahoo.com> [050916 21:22]: > Then flash_rom is used to > flash the image to the IWILL DK8S2 machine. But after > doing this and reboot the machine, it never comes up. > Is there something wrong with the procedures I > performed? Greatly appreciated. How big is your flash chip? How big is the image you are burning? Do you have a serial cable attached to the machine and the correct baud rate set? Stefan

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[LinuxBIOS] PLCC removal trick
by Dave Ashley Sept. 18, 2005

Sept. 18, 2005

I don't know about anyone else but the dental floss idea didn't work at all for me, the floss interferes with the pins. I had this idea on how to remove the chip easily, but I haven't tried it. Just get some strong epoxy and glue onto the top surface of the flashrom something to act as a handle. After it's dry, use that to pull the chip out. JB Weld might work. -Dave

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[LinuxBIOS] More epia-sp + ethernet
by Dave Ashley Sept. 18, 2005

Sept. 18, 2005

I switched from the rtl8139 to the rhine VT6102 debugging, since this is actually working well enough for etherboot to successfully get a bootfile. Within linux the via-rhine.c reports when debugging is turned up: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 00000040. This bit (40) represents a PCI Bus Error. Here's our linuxbios/etherboot/kernel output (see below). Any advice appreciated. -Dave LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Thu Sep 15 14:55:02 PDT 2005 starting... MISC FIXUP Done Enabling SMBUS Enable skipped ENABLING MAINBOARD DEVICES MAINBOARD ENABLED ENABLING SHADOW RAM SHADOW RAM ENABLED ENABLING SDRAM SETTING NORTHBRIDGE FUNCTION2 REGS djb_replicate_award2_regs starting 00000200 is the cpu controller djb_replicate_award2_regs returning 00:06 11 59 22 06 00 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 10:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50:a8 be ef 88 30 28 00 69 00 30 00 00 00 b2 88 c7 60:ff ff 00 ff ff 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70:bb cc bb cc 70 08 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Setting SDRAM registers djb_replicate_award3_regs starting 00000300 is the dram controller djb_replicate_award3_regs returning 00:06 11 59 32 06 00 00 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 10:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40:01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 45 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50:e0 00 00 00 01 0a a5 1a 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60:01 00 00 00 00 99 82 00 85 8f 65 10 00 00 80 00 70:7a 77 3b 3e 94 00 0e 12 13 11 a1 62 00 00 00 00 80:00 00 30 00 00 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0:00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0:aa 00 aa 00 99 00 00 00 ee 00 ee 00 10 11 00 00 f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ENABLING SDRAM 00000200 is the dram function 00000300 is the dram function QUICK CHECKING SDRAM MAIN is DONE Copying LinuxBIOS into ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuzBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Thu Sep 15 14:55:02 PDT 2005 booting... Enumerating buses... Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI_DOMAIN: 0000 enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/0259] enabled PCI: 00:00.1 [1106/1259] enabled PCI: 00:00.2 [1106/2259] enabled PCI: 00:00.3 [1106/3259] enabled PCI: 00:00.4 [1106/4259] enabled PCI: 00:00.7 [1106/7259] enabled PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/b198] enabled PCI: 00:0d.0 [1106/3044] enabled PCI: 00:0f.0 [1106/3149] enabled PCI: 00:0f.1 [1106/0571] enabled PCI: 00:10.0 [1106/3038] enabled PCI: 00:10.1 [1106/3038] enabled PCI: 00:10.2 [1106/3038] enabled PCI: 00:10.3 [1106/3038] enabled PCI: 00:10.4 [1106/3104] enabled PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/3227] enabled PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] enabled PCI: 00:11.6 [1106/3068] enabled PCI: 00:12.0 [1106/3065] enabled PCI: 00:14.0 [10ec/8139] enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 done Allocating resources... Reading resources... (DA) pci_bridge_read_bases 1c = f0 (DA) pci_bridge_read_bases 1d = 0 PCI: 00:01.0 1c <- [0x00fffff000 - 0x00ffffefff] bus 1 io PCI: 00:01.0 24 <- [0x00fff00000 - 0x00ffefffff] bus 1 prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 20 <- [0x00fff00000 - 0x00ffefffff] bus 1 mem Done reading resources. Setting resources... ERROR! register 0x5c is not set! ERROR! register 0x5d is not set! I would set ram size to 0x200000 Kbytes PCI: 00:00.0 10 <- [0x00e0000000 - 0x00efffffff] prefmem PCI: 00:0d.0 10 <- [0x00f0004000 - 0x00f00047ff] mem PCI: 00:0d.0 14 <- [0x0000002400 - 0x000000247f] io PCI: 00:0f.0 10 <- [0x0000002820 - 0x0000002827] io PCI: 00:0f.0 14 <- [0x0000002840 - 0x0000002843] io PCI: 00:0f.0 18 <- [0x0000002830 - 0x0000002837] io PCI: 00:0f.0 1c <- [0x0000002850 - 0x0000002853] io PCI: 00:0f.0 20 <- [0x0000002800 - 0x000000280f] io PCI: 00:0f.0 24 <- [0x0000001000 - 0x00000010ff] io PCI: 00:0f.1 20 <- [0x0000002810 - 0x000000281f] io PCI: 00:10.0 20 <- [0x0000002480 - 0x000000249f] io PCI: 00:10.1 20 <- [0x00000024a0 - 0x00000024bf] io PCI: 00:10.2 20 <- [0x00000024c0 - 0x00000024df] io PCI: 00:10.3 20 <- [0x00000024e0 - 0x00000024ff] io PCI: 00:10.4 10 <- [0x00f0005000 - 0x00f00050ff] mem PCI: 00:11.5 10 <- [0x0000001400 - 0x00000014ff] io PCI: 00:11.6 10 <- [0x0000001800 - 0x00000018ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 10 <- [0x0000001c00 - 0x0000001cff] io PCI: 00:12.0 14 <- [0x00f0006000 - 0x00f00060ff] mem PCI: 00:14.0 10 <- [0x0000002000 - 0x00000020ff] io PCI: 00:14.0 14 <- [0x00f0007000 - 0x00f00070ff] mem PCI: 00:14.0 30 <- [0x00f0000000 - 0x00f0003fff] romem Done setting resources. Done allocating resources. Enabling resourcess... PCI: 00:00.0 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:00.1 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:00.1 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:00.2 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:00.3 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:00.4 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:00.7 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:01.0 bridge ctrl <- 0003 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 147 PCI: 00:0d.0 cmd <- 1c3 PCI: 00:0f.0 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:0f.1 cmd <- 1c1 PCI: 00:10.0 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.1 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.2 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.3 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.4 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:11.0 cmd <- 1c7 PCI: 00:11.5 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:11.6 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:12.0 cmd <- 1c3 PCI: 00:14.0 cmd <- 143 done. Initializing devices... Root Device init PCI: 00:00.0 init PCI: 00:00.1 init PCI: 00:00.2 init PCI: 00:00.3 init PCI: 00:00.4 init PCI: 00:00.7 init PCI: 00:0d.0 init PCI: 00:0f.0 init PCI: 00:0f.1 init Enabling VIA IDE. enables in reg 0x40 0x38 enables in reg 0x40 read back as 0x3b enables in reg 0x9 0x8a enables in reg 0x9 read back as 0x8f command in reg 0x4 0x81 command in reg 0x4 reads back as 0x7 PCI: 00:10.0 init Configuring VIA USB 1.1 PCI: 00:10.1 init Configuring VIA USB 1.1 PCI: 00:10.2 init Configuring VIA USB 1.1 PCI: 00:10.3 init Configuring VIA USB 1.1 PCI: 00:10.4 init PCI: 00:11.0 init vt8237 init pci_routing_fixup: dev is 000161b8 setting firewire Assigning IRQ 11 to 0:d.0 Readback = 11 setting usb setting vt8237 setting ethernet Assigning IRQ 10 to 0:12.0 Readback = 10 setting vga setting pci slot Assigning IRQ 11 to 0:14.0 Readback = 11 setting cardbus slot setting riser slot PCI: 00:11.5 init PCI: 00:11.6 init PCI: 00:12.0 init Configuring VIA Rhine LAN PCI: 00:14.0 init Devices initialized Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done. Verifing copy of IRQ routing tables at 0xf0000...done Checking IRQ routing table consistency... Inconsistent IRQ routing table size (0x70/0xa0) check_pirq_routing_table() - irq_routing_table located at: 0x000f0000 /code/bootfiles/LinuxBIOSv2/src/arch/i386/boot/pirq_routing.c: 36:check_pirq_routin4 done. Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000500 - 00000b3c checksum 9389 Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.3 23:stream_init() - rom_stream: 0xfff80000 - 0xfffcffff Found ELF candiate at offset 0 New segment addr 0x94000 size 0x7088 offset 0x80 filesize 0x3580 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x94000 size 0x7088 offset 0x80 filesize 0x3580 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000094000 memsz: 0x0000000000007088 filesz: 0x000000000 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000097580 memsz: 0x0000000000003b08 Jumping to boot code at 0x94000 ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x9400 Etherboot 5.0.10 (GPL) ELF for [VIA 86C100] Probing...[VIA 86C100]Found VIA 6102 ROM address 0x0000 rhine.c v1.0.0 2000-01-07 Enabling Sticky Bit Workaround for Chip_id: 0x0000 IO address 1C00 Ethernet Address: 00:40:63:DE:5A:01 Analyzing Media type,this will take several seconds........CPU 1391 Mhz OK Linespeed=100Mbs Fullduplex The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command 0143->0147. pci_bus 00 pci_device_fn 90 Searching for server (BOOTP)... .Me: 172.30.6.88, Server: 172.30.6.100, Gateway 172.30.6.254 Loading 172.30.6.100:bootfile_cn400_dave ...(ELF)... .................................e rhine disable Unknown bootloader class! type=00096f3a data=00000060 Firmware type: LinuxBIOS Linux version 2.4.26 (root@linuxcm) (gcc version 3.2.2) #22 Thu Sep 15 15:14:56 PDT 205 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000000ba4 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000ba4 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 00000000000f0400 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001b34000 (usable) 27MB LOWMEM available. hm, page 00000000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 6964 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 2868 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1333.468 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2637.82 BogoMIPS Memory: 24676k/27856k available (1350k kernel code, 2792k reserved, 296k data, 276k in) Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: Centaur VIA Nehemiah stepping 08 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch(a)atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3227] at 00:11.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32768K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html via-rhine: Reset succeeded. eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0x1c00, 00:40:63:de:5a:01, IRQ 10. eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:14.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0d.0 eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc2800000, 00:03:70:00:41:3e, IRQ 11 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:15:02 Sep 15 2005 host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech(a)suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096) ip_conntrack version 2.1 (217 buckets, 1736 max) - 288 bytes per conntrack ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb(a)candelatech.com> All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem(a)redhat.com> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 346k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed nxtvinit:ifconfieth0: Reset succeeded. g eth0 0.0.0.0 eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1. 06 11 27 32 c7 00 10 02 00 00 01 06 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 54 7f f0 00 00 00 00 00 0c 20 08 00 04 00 00 08 ff fd 09 00 00 a0 cb 00 03 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 20 84 55 00 f2 30 00 00 01 04 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 01 40 88 b0 c0 0f 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 nxtvinit:ash BusyBox v0.60.3 (2005.09.15-18:50+0000) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off # eth0: Something Wicked happened! 00000040.

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image
by Clay Jones Sept. 17, 2005

Sept. 17, 2005

Look at Config.kernelimage.lb in targets/arima/hdama. Clay Jones senior software engineer | c.jones(a)f5.com | www.f5.com <http://www.f5.com/> P. 509 343 3500 | F. 509 343 3501 | D. 509 343 3519 F5 Networks | 1322 North Whitman Lane | Liberty Lake, Washington 99019 The Leader in Application Traffic Management Ensuring secure and optimized application delivery for global enterprises ________________________________ From: linuxbios-bounces(a)openbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@openbios.org] On Behalf Of Lu, Yinghai Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:10 AM To: San Mehat; Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image That is 128k. In the MB Option.lb there ROM_SIZE You can change that to ROM_SIZE=524288 So Fallback will use 128k, and Nomal will use 384k. YH ________________________________ From: linuxbios-bounces(a)openbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@openbios.org] On Behalf Of San Mehat Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:45 AM To: Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image hmm.. so i commented out the 'normal' section of my target Config.lb and changed the buildrom line to only build the fallback image, but the generated rom file is now 131072 bytes instead of the expected 512k. Any ideas? danke ;) -san On 9/16/05, San Mehat <san(a)google.com> wrote: Thank you all, I shall try this out... -San On 9/16/05, Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com <Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com > wrote: You could also look at Steven Magnani 's post: http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-August/012263.html <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa %3DD%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.linuxbios.org%252Fpipermail%252Flinuxb ios%252F2005-August%252F012263.html> He suggests some mainboard Config file changes, which look good. I haven't tried it.

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[LinuxBIOS] EPIA-SP standup progress!!!!
by Dave Ashley Sept. 17, 2005

Sept. 17, 2005

All, We've managed to get into linux on epia-sp using our modified V2 linuxbios source. Next week we'll be cleaning up the code for release back to the project. There were a lot of real puzzlers we had to figure out. Missing pieces include: 1) DDR init not using SPD values, controller settings taken from stock bios and are specific to our particular DDR module 2) Size isn't detected correctly 3) VGA BIOS doesn't exist, however it might not be needed 4) Cache init code taken from V1 epia-m tree, so it's lots of inline ASM which is probably against the ideals (romcc) >From my point of view the worst thing about linuxbios is the crippling lack of documentation. Document this thing better and you'll see more developers jumping on board, I think. -Dave

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] eth1: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
by Dave Ashley Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

Li-Ta Lo wrote: >Are you sure your DRAM is inited correctly? We had similar problem on >EPIA. The kernel boots but it has problem to DMA received packets. Just a couple hours ago we figured this out, it was related to incorrect settings of the VLINK control registers. We copied values from award and now it's stable. Thanks-- Dave

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[LinuxBIOS] eth1: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001.
by Dave Ashley Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

We've got epia-sp almost into linux fully, but RTL8139 (eth1) or the VIA 3065 (eth0) don't work properly. Interrupts are occuring as expected on ethernet packets. We're trying to work with the RTL8139 for now which is a card plugged into the epia-sp. It's able to act as a pci bus master. I suspect something about the PCI isn't working, like the card isn't able to dma into host memory or something similiar. Inside linux drivers/net/8139too.c inside function rtl8139_rx_interrupt if ((rx_size > (MAX_ETH_FRAME_SIZE+4)) || (rx_size < 8) || (!(rx_status & RxStatusOK))) { rtl8139_rx_err (rx_status, dev, tp, ioaddr); printk("here2 rx_size = %d\n", rx_size); // (DA) return; } The interrupt service routine is exiting because rx_size is always 0. This is the size of the received packet I think. A similiar problem is occuring in the 3065 ethernet. We're failing to do something within linuxbios that's preventing pci devices from functioning properly. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm hoping these symptoms are familiar. Thanks-- Dave

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[LinuxBIOS] A question about compiling linuxBIOS
by Frank Samuel Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

I am pretty new to LinuxBIOS. I tried building Iwill's dk8s2 motherboard by buildtarget Iwill/dk8s2 cd Iwill/dk8s2 && make Tried on four platforms but met different problems. I feel surprised and would like to ask some questions here. And hope someone can anwer. 1. Do I need to compile it on a machine with IWILL DK8S2 motherboard? 2. Do I need to use a specific kernel version, gcc version? Thanks a lot. Xuehua __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image
by Lu, Yinghai Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

That is 128k. In the MB Option.lb there ROM_SIZE You can change that to ROM_SIZE=524288 So Fallback will use 128k, and Nomal will use 384k. YH ________________________________ From: linuxbios-bounces(a)openbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@openbios.org] On Behalf Of San Mehat Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 9:45 AM To: Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image hmm.. so i commented out the 'normal' section of my target Config.lb and changed the buildrom line to only build the fallback image, but the generated rom file is now 131072 bytes instead of the expected 512k. Any ideas? danke ;) -san On 9/16/05, San Mehat <san(a)google.com> wrote: Thank you all, I shall try this out... -San On 9/16/05, Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com <Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com > wrote: You could also look at Steven Magnani 's post: http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-August/012263.html <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa %3DD%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.linuxbios.org%252Fpipermail%252Flinuxb ios%252F2005-August%252F012263.html> He suggests some mainboard Config file changes, which look good. I haven't tried it.

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Building a viable rom *without* the fallback image
by Stephen.Kimball＠bench.com Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

You could also look at Steven Magnani 's post: http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-August/012263.html He suggests some mainboard Config file changes, which look good. I haven't tried it.

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