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[LinuxBIOS] Tutorial about Bios
by Paulo da Silva 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Thank you for your answer Bari, and sorry me about my email to your pvt email, I did a mistake. /PSilva

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tutorial about Bios
by Bari Ari 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Paulo da Silva wrote: > Hi guys, > > I joined to this forum to learn about bios. > > I have a project with cpu x86 compatible, and the development kit I have > use redboot to start linux, and I want to put a bios,so I want > documentation about bios to understand how it works. > > Links to docs will be welcome. > > thanks in advance. > > Paulo Ask LinuxBIOS questions here: linuxbios(a)openbios.org LinuxBIOS doc's are found at: http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Documentation As far as documentation for a standard BIOS, try Google for sites like http://www.wimsbios.com/ -Bari

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[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Tyan s2891?
by Greg Johnson 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

YH, Any news? Thanks, Greg

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[LinuxBIOS] resizing a stock bios
by Adam Talbot 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

How do I resize a stock bios? The current rom is 512kb and so is the flash chip. I have a smaller flash chip that I would like to use to free up the big chip. This means i need to make a 512kb rom file fit on a 256kb rom :-). Is this even possible? -Adam

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[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte GA-8I848P-G support ?
by Simon Kellett 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi, I am interested in this project as a home user who does leave his computer running, and would like a fast startup time !! (And a nicer splash then the BIOS screen would be nice to !!). >From what I can see the project is mainly orientated to servers or embedded systems, but I wonder if my board may work ? The website is a little vague on supported boards (out of date ?) so I have answered the questions from one of the FAQ entries below. Thanks for any pointers, Simon ============ If the above sources don't help, please send the following to the Mailinglist: * Step 1: A very brief description of your system: CPU and mainboard and optionally other important details. Gigabyte GA-8I848P-G / ATX / Pentium 4 / Socket 478 * Step 2: Linux lspci output for your system, generated by booting Linux via the original BIOS and runnning lspci. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) 02:02.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH Fritz!Card DSL SL (rev 01) * Step 3: SuperIO chip on the mainboard (report the model numbers on the actual chip - doesn't appear in the lspci output) ITE 8712F * Step 4: Type of BIOS device (See the question "How do I identify the BIOS chip on my mainboard?" below.) * Step 5: URL to the mainboard specifications page (optional) http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-8I848P-G.htm * Step 6: Any other relevant information you can provide -- Simon Kellett, | Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany | Xemacs, Vm, Gnus

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[LinuxBIOS] I'm back
by Ronald G Minnich 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

I am going to start trying to catch up our svn info. Will those of you have a mobo working, please send me: the mobo name the xvn revision so I can fill out the table. ron

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[LinuxBIOS] what is the fastest speed of BIOS socket?
by Miernik 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

What is the transfer rate and latency of the interface between the CPU and the BIOS socket in motherboards like Via Epia or Tyan Opteron boards? What I am thinking to do is to put very fast SRAM there (it should work, shouldn't it?), battery backed up of course, and run the LinuxBIOS and kernel XiP eXecute in Place (without copying to RAM). Would that work? Imagine I could put 8 MB of fast SRAM there. Now, would that make sense, is the interface as fast as the FSB if I have a 200 MHz FSB for example? If I put some SRAM with random access time below 5 ns in there would it communicate with the CPU faster than DRAM in hte DIMM sockets is? Or at least as fast? With the intention of running it XiP. --

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS
by Lu, Yinghai 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Just got back. YH -----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces(a)linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:48 PM To: yhlu Cc: Greg Johnson; linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS Hi Yinghai, On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:04:08AM +0800, yhlu wrote: > I will revisit the s2891 support next week. Any progress yet? Thanks, Ward. > On 2/3/06, Ward Vandewege <ward(a)gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:46:18PM -0700, Greg Johnson wrote: > > > I am booting with Etherboot v5.4.1. > > > > OK, same here. > > > > > LinuxBIOS is from November > > > sometime. I think this version is from Yh Lu. He helped with getting > > > it to work. I just tried to build it from the current (r2169) svn, and > > > it doesn't boot: > > > > > > > > > LinuxBIOS-1.1.8_s2891_Normal Thu Feb 2 22:15:06 UTC 2006 starting... > > > (0,1) link=01 > > > (1,0) link=00 > > > 02 nodes initialized. > > > core0: --- { APICID = 12 NODEID = 01 COREID = 00} --- > > > SBLink=00 > > > NC node|link=00 > > > NC node|link=02 > > > busn=40 > > > ht reset - > > > > Yeah, that's what I'm seeing too - 10 to 30 seconds into the boot process. So > > I guess I'm not alone then. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS
by Greg Johnson 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

> I'm afraid I don't have answers for you, but I do have a couple of > questions :) Do you boot off SATA? If so, I assume you use Etherboot? > Which version? Which version of LB are you running? Ward, I am booting with Etherboot v5.4.1. LinuxBIOS is from November sometime. I think this version is from Yh Lu. He helped with getting it to work. I just tried to build it from the current (r2169) svn, and it doesn't boot: LinuxBIOS-1.1.8_s2891_Normal Thu Feb 2 22:15:06 UTC 2006 starting... (0,1) link=01 (1,0) link=00 02 nodes initialized. core0: --- { APICID = 12 NODEID = 01 COREID = 00} --- SBLink=00 NC node|link=00 NC node|link=02 busn=40 ht reset - Greg

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[LinuxBIOS] Fun easy question. 512Kb or 256Kb
by Adam Talbot 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Fun easy question. Messing about with my new board, and have an easy question. So I have both the SST 39SF020 and the 39SF040 flash chip. My payload is just filo; so I can fit Linuxbios on the 256Kb or the 512Kb flash chip. Is there any reason to use the 512Kb? Faster, slower, any thing else like that? -Adam

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