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[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2895 build question
by Young, Jeff S. 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Howdy folks, I have been trying to build the tyan s2895 board with gcc 3.3 on SuSE 10.0 It doesn't build. The loader tries to overlap some sections. I got around this by laying out my own ldscript.lb file (similarly to what Ron wants to do). After this, both the fallback and normal builds result in the following error: nm -n linuxbios_ram | sort > linuxbios_ram.map objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios_ram linuxbios_ram.bin ./nrv2b e linuxbios_ram.bin linuxbios_ram.nrv2b input/output = 164944/55295 = 2.983 cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o init.o nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip ./buildrom linuxbios.strip linuxbios.rom ../../../../payloads/forcedeth--filo_hda2_vga.zelf 0x20000 0x40000 ../../../../payloads/forcedeth--filo_hda2_vga.zelf: No such file or directory What does this mean? Also, is there a writeup on just what buildrom does? Thanks, Jeff Young PS: Can anyone actually build the S2895 without any errors today? If so, exactly how do you do it. (Note that I have tried several snapshots from 2007 -> 2163 without success.)

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[LinuxBIOS] Subtree? [Re: one last note for epia]
by Richard Smith 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

The cc: to the list got dropped. Here's the result of the discussion. ======================= > If you consider creating new subtree for epia-m then let it be, though I don't think > it should be done actually. Vanilla images (2161, 2163) seems to be working for my > box quite well. Of course, others should also report it's O'k with them too - I remember My bad. I had you confused with Christian Sühs. He is using the epia-ML. The ML is the board that needed the changes and needs a new mainboard directory. Sorry. Carry on and post that success report. ======================= -- Richard A. Smith

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[LinuxBIOS] Chipset docs for IT8712 SuperIO (found on ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe)
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi, chipset docs for the IT8712 SuperIO can be found at http://www.ite.com.tw/product_info/PC/Brief-IT8712_2.asp This SuperIO chip is used on the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board. Unfortunately, their webserver has some problems and I had to restart the download 30 times before I got the complete documents. If you have trouble downloading them, tell me and I'll send them via private mail. Ronald, would you be so kind and post these docs at linuxbios.org? Another question: How difficult would it be to get a mainboard with this SuperIO up and running? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/

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[LinuxBIOS] VIA/EPIA Question
by Samet, Matt 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi list, Longtime reader, first poster :-) I and many others appreciate everything you guys are doing here. I wanted to inquire about the status of the VIA VT8237 southbridge... I know some of you may be working on it and was just curious how far it's gotten. I'm interested in doing some work to support an EPIA board which has a CLE266 northbridge and VT8237 southbridge (and a VIA Eden CPU). Since the Epia(-M) platform exists already, approximately how hard would it be to make a target for Eden / CLE266 / VT8237? The board's name is Epia MS and the specification sheet can be found here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_ms/ It looks very similar to the Epia M. I suppose you guys would recommend I post the lspci -vvv output? :-) Thanks much, -=matt

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[LinuxBIOS] one last note
by Ronald G Minnich 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

if anyone out there has a copy of a version of the v2 repo that can build a working via epia, hopefully recent, I'm willing to work with that. Current problem, btw, is that the via epia samuel 2 cpu hangs up in the mtrr init code. I suspect someone updated that, for -m or -m2, in such a way that it broke older cpus. if I comment out mtrr init, i.e. Index: src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c =================================================================== --- src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (revision 2158) +++ src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (working copy) @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ { /* Turn on caching if we haven't already */ x86_enable_cache(); - x86_setup_mtrrs(36); +// x86_setup_mtrrs(36); x86_mtrr_check(); /* Enable the local cpu apics */ then it will come up -- with no working cache. And the enet problem then occurs. I could use some help and perspetive here. I know some of you have epias -- could you take a look? But I have other, newer things to do, and fixing an old CPU just can not take priority. Sorry. ron

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[LinuxBIOS] No console, yet... Ideas?
by Adam Talbot 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Console is working. Fully tested. Post card... There are no PCI/ISA slots on this board, all I have is 1 pc/104 slot and no jtag. The superIO is controled by a via vt1211. I think I have that part of my config correct. (see below) But I am not sure how to figure out the pnp address. -Adam chip superio/via/vt1211 device pnp 2e.2 on # Com1 io 0x60 = 0x3f8 irq 0x70 = 4 end Adam Talbot wrote: > -Ron > Well, I just got my code compiling. But I have nothing on the > console. What settings/files would you advise I check. Serial debug > is set at 9, but I am seeing nothing. Ideas? First step: boot fuctory bios and make sure minicom works for you. Check settings on the chips under fuctory bios. do you have a post card? Beep won't work, I think, since no VSA in there yet. do you have a POST card? ron

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[LinuxBIOS] Easy compile error
by Adam Talbot 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Humm, So I have the irq_table.c in src/mainboard/bcm/ebc3610 am I missing something, some where else? Where should I look. -Adam Talbot linuxbios_ram.o: In function `write_tables': : undefined reference to `write_pirq_routing_table' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [linuxbios_ram] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/adam/LinuxBIOSv2-2158/targets/bcm/ebc3610/ebc3610/normal' make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1

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[LinuxBIOS] ALi M1487/M1489
by kratchkov 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Hello everybody I have a board with a ALi M1487 and M1489 chipset. Is this chipset supported by LinuxBIOS? Greetings, Matthias

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[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881 - partial success
by Ward Vandewege 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

So, with some help from Yinghai today, I finally managed to make my own working LinuxBIOS image, and boot it on the s2881. Fantastic! It cut boot time roughly in half - and that's without doing any optimizing of the init startup sequence, which now takes up the bulk of the bootup time. Anyway. Once the system booted, I tested network access and a few other things, and everything seemed to work just fine. But 10 minutes later the machine was no longer pingable, and I didn't get any response on the serial console anymore either. I shut it down, and restarted with LinuxBIOS. At this point, it would not boot anymore - as you can see in the attached serial log, it just decides to restart its fallback image just after init starts, which then hangs the box. Any clues? This is the latest svn revision (2145), with Etherboot 5.4.1 + FILO to boot from the local SATA drive. I rebooted with the proprietary BIOS, which brought the box up just fine (after complaining that it had to reset the CMOS). It started re-syncing the software RAID array right after boot though, so maybe that is related to the linuxBIOS hang upon boot, which is right after the kernel starts the RAID devices? I won't be able to work more on the box for the next week or two (holidays...), but I thought I'd better signal this now. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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[LinuxBIOS] via/epia -- I'm out of time
by Ronald G Minnich 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I've just run out of time to screw with this. Somehow, the sum total of changes people made have broken it. I hope someone can take a look at it in its current state. ron

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