April 2006 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing
by Lu, Yinghai April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

VGA init? Etherboot could use DIRECT_VGA... That's one of the reasons for merging filo into etherboot.... YH -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@coresystems.de] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:30 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Ronald G Minnich; Ward Vandewege; linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing * Lu, Yinghai <yinghai.lu(a)amd.com> [060425 00:26]: > 1. compatiable sata support > 2. usb OHCI/EHI storage support > 3. zelf format support is vga init support still in there as well? From the list above zelf seems the hardest to implement in Filo, as the etherboot implementation is kind of nasty... Stefan -- coresystems GmbH * Brahmsstr. 16 * D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 * Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: info(a)coresystems.de * http://www.coresystems.de/

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing
by Lu, Yinghai April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

1. compatiable sata support 2. usb OHCI/EHI storage support 3. zelf format support YH -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@coresystems.de] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:22 PM To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: Ward Vandewege; linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org; Lu, Yinghai Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing * Ronald G Minnich <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> [060425 00:02]: > this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago. Amazing. > > ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them too. > I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know > that we're coming into boot from power on reset. What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive? What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build compared to filo at least) Stefan -- coresystems GmbH * Brahmsstr. 16 * D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 * Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: info(a)coresystems.de * http://www.coresystems.de/

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing
by Lu, Yinghai April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

That should be most easy part, about one or two lines... YH -----Original Message----- From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:ward@gnu.org] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:25 PM To: Stefan Reinauer Cc: Ronald G Minnich; linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org; Lu, Yinghai Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:21:44AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ronald G Minnich <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> [060425 00:02]: > > this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago. Amazing. > > > > ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them too. > > I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know > > that we're coming into boot from power on reset. > > What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more > seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive? > > What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does > not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting > stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build > compared to filo at least) Can we have SATA support directly in filo? That would simplify things greatly! Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot/filo + sata startup timing
by Lu, Yinghai April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

I don't know if it is Silicon Image 3114 bug or sth..., or if there is any bit to check if the HDD scan is busy...for us to check... YH

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[LinuxBIOS] Strange code in src/northbridge/via/vt8623/raminit.c ?
by Eric Poulsen April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

While poking around trying to get VGA working, I did a grep for '3123', and I found this. Notice how the variable 'north' is assigned to the result of the 'pci_locate_device' call, then immediately re-assigned to zero ... and then used. Is this correct? static void ddr_ram_setup(const struct mem_controller *ctrl) { device_t north = (device_t) 0; uint8_t b, c, bank; uint16_t i,j; unsigned long bank_address; print_debug("vt8623 init starting\r\n"); north = pci_locate_device(PCI_ID(0x1106, 0x3123), 0); north = 0; pci_write_config8(north,0x75,0x08); ... }

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Extraction of vga bios from .BIN file?
by Borg No. One April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Hi. The VIA EPIA BIOS is an Award/Phoenix Award BIOS, so it contains lh5/lha compressed modules. With a hex editor and/or lha/lh5 unpacker you can extract the VGABIOS from the VIA EPIA BIOS file. Using "CBROM"/"CBROM32"/"Award BIOS Editor"/..., you can see that the BIOS file contains following BIOS modules: CBROM32 V1.45 [08/03/04 Release] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2004 ******** i0100113.bin BIOS component ******** No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name ========================================================================= 0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 12B3Fh(74.81K) i0100113.BIN 1. XGROUP CODE 0ACE0h(43.22K) 079D2h(30.46K) awardext.rom 2. ACPI table 030B9h(12.18K) 01408h(5.01K) ACPITBL.BIN 3. EPA LOGO 0168Ch(5.64K) 002AAh(0.67K) AwardBmp.bmp 4. GROUP ROM[ 0] 054D0h(21.20K) 025DEh(9.47K) _EN_CODE.BIN 5. YGROUP ROM 04AA0h(18.66K) 031DFh(12.47K) awardeyt.rom 6. LOGO BitMap 4B30Ch(300.76K) 02ECBh(11.70K) vpsd.bmp 7. VGA ROM[1] 0FA00h(62.50K) 0947Ah(37.12K) MVPSD_15.rom 8. PCI ROM[A] 0A000h(40.00K) 05FF2h(23.99K) pxe.lom Total compress code space = 35000h(212.00K) Total compressed code size = 336B7h(205.68K) Remain compress code space = 01949h(6.32K) ** Micro Code Information ** Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID ----------------+------------------+------------------+------------------ SLOT1 13 0630| If you should use "CBROM", then just use following command to extract the VGA BIOS: "CBROM i0100113.bin /VGA extract" PS: ... the VIA EPIA has a nice BIOS logo. ;) http://bnobtc.pix-art.com/images/bioslogo --> via_vpsd.png > I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should > solve my VGA issues. Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS > within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this? > > Bios file: > http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft f�r 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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[LinuxBIOS] clusters
by Clessio Leao April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Hi anyone, In this first moment I would like to say thanks for your attention. Mi name is Clessio and I'm a physics student at UFPE, Brazil. Today I have a serious doubt. I can't imagine how can I construct a cluster wuith differents kinds of PC´s (6 AMD Athlon 64 bits, motherboard - K8TNeo-V) and 2 Pentium IV 3.2Ghz. If anyone know something about it, please tell me as soon as possible. Thanks for everything, Clessio Leão UFPE

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[LinuxBIOS] Extraction of vga bios from .BIN file?
by Eric Poulsen April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should solve my VGA issues. Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this? Bios file: http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin

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[LinuxBIOS] Epia ML 5000 progress (sort of)
by Eric Poulsen April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

I finally got myself a serial cable, but there's a BIG gotcha. My whole plan was to have a data logging device that boots very quickly. Hence, my use of LinuxBIOS. Here's the gotcha: There's an EIGHT SECOND delay from power on (or reset switch) until the time LinuxBIOS sends anything to the serial port. Anyone have any ideas about this one? FWIW, the stock BIOS shows a logo within 3 seconds of power on. Here's the relevant section of the LinuxBIOS output regarding VGA, which is what I wanted to get working. I'm thinking "Oops, Exception 6" might be a problem, as well as the "Bailing out" message. I'm pretty sure my VGA Bios is okay: 1) The image file begins with AA55 (or 55AA, whatever it is) 2) X.org starts okay, which uses the BIOS, AFAIK; when I had a BAD Bios, X wouldn't start. 3) LinuxBIOS actually finds the AA55 sig, or else it wouldn't print what you see below. Anyone have any thoughts on the VGA? Thanks --Eric ------------------------------------------------------ found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 rom base, size: fffc0000 write_protect_vgabios bus/devfn = 0x100 biosint: INT# 0x6 biosint: eax 0x5f00 ebx 0x18538 ecx 0x17fa0 edx 0xa biosint: ebp 0x17f70 esp 0xfec edi 0xecf0 esi 0x18538 biosint: ip 0xf85e cs 0xf000 flags 0x86 biosint: Oops, exception 6 Stack contents: 0xf85e 0xf000 0x0086 0x6a1f 0xc000 0x0046 0x7fa0 0x89b5 0xb155 0x0000 biosint: Bailing out biosint: INT# 0x10 biosint: eax 0x4f14 ebx 0x18003 ecx 0x1 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x17fa0 esp 0xffa edi 0x0 esi 0x18538 biosint: ip 0xafd9 cs 0x0 flags 0x46 BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x10 ------------------------------------------------------ Full output of LinuxBIOS: 0 LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Fallback Thu Apr 20 17:57:10 PDT 2006 starting... Enabling mainboard devices Enabling shadow ram vt8623 init starting Detecting Memory Number of Banks 04 Number of Rows 0d Priamry DRAM width08 No Columns 0a MA type e0 Bank 0 (*16 Mb) 10 No Physical Banks 01 Total Memory (*16 Mb) 10 CAS Supported 2 2.5 3 Cycle time at CL X (nS)50 Cycle time at CL X-0.5 (nS)60 Cycle time at CL X-1 (nS)75 Starting at CAS 3 We can do CAS 2.5 We can do CAS 2 tRP 48 tRCD 48 tRAS 28 Low Bond 00 High Bondbc Setting DQS delay7dvt8623 done 00:06 11 23 31 06 00 30 22 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 10:08 00 00 d0 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 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40:00 18 88 80 82 44 00 00 18 99 88 80 82 44 00 00 50:c8 de cf 88 e0 07 00 00 e0 00 10 10 10 10 00 00 60:02 ff 00 30 d6 32 01 2a 42 2d 43 58 00 44 00 00 70:82 48 00 01 01 08 50 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 80:0f 65 00 00 80 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0:02 c0 20 00 07 02 00 1f 04 00 00 00 2f 02 04 00 b0:00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0:01 00 02 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 dd 00 00 00 00 01 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 12 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AGP Doing MTRR init. Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Fallback Thu Apr 20 17:58:10 PDT 2006 booting... clocks_per_usec: 838 Enumerating buses... Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI_DOMAIN: 0000 enabled APIC_CLUSTER: 0 enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/3123] enabled PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/b091] enabled Disabling static device: PCI: 00:0a.0 Disabling static device: PCI: 00:0a.1 In vt8235_enable 1106 3038. PCI: 00:10.0 [1106/3038] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 3038. PCI: 00:10.1 [1106/3038] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 3038. PCI: 00:10.2 [1106/3038] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 3104. PCI: 00:10.3 [1106/3104] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 3177. Initialising Devices PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/3177] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 0571. PCI: 00:11.1 [1106/0571] enabled In vt8235_enable 1106 3059. PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] enabled In vt8235_enable ffff ffff. In vt8235_enable 1106 3065. PCI: 00:12.0 [1106/3065] enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 PCI: 01:00.0 [1106/3122] enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 vt1211 enabling PNP devices. PNP: 002e.0 enabled vt1211 enabling PNP devices. PNP: 002e.1 enabled vt1211 enabling PNP devices. PNP: 002e.2 enabled vt1211 enabling PNP devices. PNP: 002e.3 enabled vt1211 enabling PNP devices. PNP: 002e.b enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 done Allocating resources... Reading resources... Done reading resources. Setting resources... I would set ram size to 0x40000 Kbytes PCI: 00:10.0 20 <- [0x0000001800 - 0x000000181f] io PCI: 00:10.1 20 <- [0x0000001820 - 0x000000183f] io PCI: 00:10.2 20 <- [0x0000001840 - 0x000000185f] io PCI: 00:10.3 10 <- [0x00febff000 - 0x00febff0ff] mem PNP: 002e.0 60 <- [0x00000003f0 - 0x00000003f7] io PNP: 002e.0 70 <- [0x0000000006 - 0x0000000006] irq PNP: 002e.0 74 <- [0x0000000002 - 0x0000000002] drq PNP: 002e.1 60 <- [0x0000000378 - 0x000000037f] io PNP: 002e.1 70 <- [0x0000000007 - 0x0000000007] irq PNP: 002e.1 74 <- [0x0000000003 - 0x0000000003] drq PNP: 002e.2 60 <- [0x00000003f8 - 0x00000003ff] io PNP: 002e.2 70 <- [0x0000000004 - 0x0000000004] irq PNP: 002e.3 60 <- [0x00000002f8 - 0x00000002ff] io PNP: 002e.3 70 <- [0x0000000003 - 0x0000000003] irq PNP: 002e.b 60 <- [0x000000ec00 - 0x000000ecff] io PCI: 00:11.1 20 <- [0x0000001860 - 0x000000186f] io PCI: 00:11.5 10 <- [0x0000001000 - 0x00000010ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 10 <- [0x0000001400 - 0x00000014ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 14 <- [0x00fec00000 - 0x00fec000ff] mem Done setting resources. Done allocating resources. Enabling resources... PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 146 PCI: 00:01.0 bridge ctrl <- 000f PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 147 PCI: 01:00.0 cmd <- 140 PCI: 00:10.0 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:10.0 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.1 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:10.1 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.2 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:10.2 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:10.3 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:10.3 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:11.0 cmd <- 147 PNP: 002e.0 - enabling PNP: 002e.1 - enabling PNP: 002e.2 - enabling PNP: 002e.3 - enabling PNP: 002e.b - enabling PCI: 00:11.1 cmd <- 147 PCI: 00:11.5 subsystem <- 00/00 PCI: 00:11.5 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:12.0 cmd <- 1c3 done. Initializing devices... Root Device init PCI: 00:10.0 init PCI: 00:10.1 init PCI: 00:10.2 init PCI: 00:10.3 init PCI: 00:11.0 init vt8235 init RTC Init Invalid CMOS LB checksum pci_routing_fixup: dev is 00010fa0 setting firewire setting usb Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:10.0 Readback = 5 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 Assigning IRQ 9 to 0:10.1 Readback = 9 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 Assigning IRQ 9 to 0:10.2 Readback = 9 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:10.3 Readback = 5 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 setting vt8235 Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:11.1 Readback = 5 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 Assigning IRQ 9 to 0:11.5 Readback = 9 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 setting ethernet Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:12.0 Readback = 5 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 setting vga Assigning IRQ 5 to 1:0.0 Readback = 5 pci_level_irq: lower order bits are wrong: want 0x0, got 0x20 setting pci slot setting cardbus slot setting riser slot PNP: 002e.0 init PNP: 002e.1 init PNP: 002e.2 init PNP: 002e.3 init PNP: 002e.b init PCI: 00:11.1 init Enabling VIA IDE. ide_init: enabling compatibility IDE addresses enables in reg 0x42 0x0 enables in reg 0x42 read back as 0x0 enables in reg 0x40 0x13 enables in reg 0x40 read back as 0x13 enables in reg 0x9 0x8a enables in reg 0x9 read back as 0x8a command in reg 0x4 0x7 command in reg 0x4 reads back as 0x7 PCI: 00:11.5 init PCI: 00:12.0 init Configuring VIA Rhine LAN APIC_CLUSTER: 0 init Initializing CPU #0 CPU: vendor Centaur device 673 Enabling cache Setting fixed MTRRs(0-88) type: UC Setting fixed MTRRs(0-16) Type: WB Setting fixed MTRRs(24-88) Type: WB DONE fixed MTRRs Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 128MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 128MB, range: 64MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 192MB, range: 32MB, type WB DONE variable MTRRs Clear out the extra MTRR's MTRR check Fixed MTRRs : Enabled Variable MTRRs: Enabled Disabling local apic...done. CPU #0 Initialized PCI: 00:00.0 init VT8623 random fixup ... Frame buffer at d0000000 PCI: 00:01.0 init VT8623 AGP random fixup ... PCI: 01:00.0 init VGA random fixup ... INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 rom base, size: fffc0000 write_protect_vgabios bus/devfn = 0x100 biosint: INT# 0x6 biosint: eax 0x5f00 ebx 0x18538 ecx 0x17fa0 edx 0xa biosint: ebp 0x17f70 esp 0xfec edi 0xecf0 esi 0x18538 biosint: ip 0xf85e cs 0xf000 flags 0x86 biosint: Oops, exception 6 Stack contents: 0xf85e 0xf000 0x0086 0x6a1f 0xc000 0x0046 0x7fa0 0x89b5 0xb155 0x0000 biosint: Bailing out biosint: INT# 0x10 biosint: eax 0x4f14 ebx 0x18003 ecx 0x1 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x17fa0 esp 0xffa edi 0x0 esi 0x18538 biosint: ip 0xafd9 cs 0x0 flags 0x46 BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x10 Devices initialized Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done. Verifing copy of IRQ routing tables at 0xf0000...done Checking IRQ routing table consistency... check_pirq_routing_table() - irq_routing_table located at: 0x000f0000 done. ACPI: Writing ACPI tables at f0400... ACPI: * FACS ACPI: * DSDT @ 000f049e Length 3f0 ACPI: * FADT ACPI: added table 1/5 Length now 40 ACPI: done. Moving GDT to 0x500...ok Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000530 - 00000b80 checksum d885 Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.3 33:stream_init() - rom_stream: 0xfffd0000 - 0xfffeffff Found ELF candiate at offset 0 New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x23760 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x96e8 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x23760 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x96e8 New segment addr 0x123760 size 0x48 offset 0x97c0 filesize 0x48 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x123760 size 0x48 offset 0x97c0 filesize 0x48 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000100000 memsz: 0x0000000000023760 filesz: 0x00000000000096e8 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x00000000001096e8 memsz: 0x000000000001a078 Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000123760 memsz: 0x0000000000000048 filesz: 0x0000000000000048 Jumping to boot code at 0x107860 FILO version 0.4.2 (root@embedded) Thu Apr 20 16:57:23 PDT 2006 boot: hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 hda: LBA 80GB: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0 Mounted ext2fs Found Linux version 2.6.12-10-386 (buildd@rothera) #1 Mon Jan 16 17:18:08 UTC 2006 bzImage. Loading kernel... ok Jumping to entry point... [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-10-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Mon Jan 16 17:18:08 UTC 2006 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000be0 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000e000000 (usable) [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [4294667.296000] 224MB LOWMEM available. [4294667.296000] DMI not present. [4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 [4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 0e000000 (gap: 0e000000:f2000000) [4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 [4294667.296000] No local APIC present or hardware disabled [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0 [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) [4294667.296000] Detected 533.331 MHz processor. [4294667.296000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource [4294667.296000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [4294667.508000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [4294667.518000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [4294667.579000] Memory: 224044k/229376k available (1416k kernel code, 4888k reserved, 762k data, 224k init, 0k highmem) [4294667.590000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [4294667.625000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [4294667.630000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [4294667.635000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [4294667.640000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line) [4294667.649000] CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line) [4294667.654000] CPU: Centaur VIA Samuel 2 stepping 03 [4294667.660000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [4294667.669000] Checking for popad bug... OK. [4294667.730000] not found! [4294667.735000] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0020 (from 0220) [4294667.742000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [4294667.748000] EISA bus registered [4294667.752000] ACPI: bus type pci registered [4294667.810000] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [4294667.815000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) [4294667.821000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729 [4294667.885000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [4294667.890000] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing [4294667.897000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *5 9 10) [4294667.904000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 *9 10) [4294667.911000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 *9 10) [4294667.918000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 9 10) [4294667.925000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [4294667.931000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [4294667.937000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0 [4294667.948000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [4294667.955000] pnp: PnP ACPI init [4294667.959000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 0 devices [4294667.964000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [4294667.969000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [4294667.974000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [4294667.986000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [4294667.993000] audit: initialized [4294667.997000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [4294668.002000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [4294668.010000] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch(a)atnf.csiro.au) [4294668.018000] devfs: boot_options: 0x0 [4294668.022000] Initializing Cryptographic API [4294668.028000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [4294668.387000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [4294668.483000] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [4294668.490000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [4294668.497000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [4294668.503000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [4294668.513000] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [4294668.519000] ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [4294668.533000] io scheduler noop registered [4294668.538000] io scheduler anticipatory registered [4294668.544000] io scheduler deadline registered [4294668.549000] io scheduler cfq registered [4294668.556000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [4294668.565000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [4294668.570000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [4294668.577000] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [4294668.581000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [4294668.596000] IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes [4294668.604000] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [4294668.613000] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [4294668.621000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) [4294668.629000] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [4294668.635000] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [4294668.640000] ACPI wakeup devices: [4294668.645000] [4294668.646000] ACPI: (supports S0 S5) [4294668.655000] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) [4294668.663000] Please append a correct "root=" boot option Don't worry about this part ... Kernel issues I can fix =) [4294668.669000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) [4294668.679000]

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[LinuxBIOS] GX2 status
by Ronald G Minnich April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

as of today I am booting linux on my AMD rumba! i am using busybox and getting to a /bin/ash prompt. Things all seem to work. I can insmod the rtl8139 driver, but I'm not sure yet how INTA hooks up to the SB. That's for today. Thanks to Steve Goodrich, who came down and got us off the ground, and all the great folks at AMD who have given us so much help. This week's work will be ethernet and graphics. We're getting there. Anyone else out there doing GX2 at this point? ron

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