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[LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881
by Ward Vandewege 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi there, It seems COM2 is disabled by default in the s2881/Config.lb file. Since the board has a COM2 connector, and it is what you would use with the IPMI daughter card, would it make sense to enable it by default? I've got IPMI console redirection working by letting FILO 0.5 (in grub mode) and the kernel talk to COM2 instead of COM1. COM2 is connected to the IPMI card. With the latest ipmitool snapshot (http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/snapshot/), that gives me have a serial console over the network without extra hardware (other than the IPMI card). Pretty brilliant! Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] MB1030 / 3036 VGA comes up :D
by Goodrich,Steven 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hmm... Let me back up a step. I'm apparently answering a question you're not asking. Your problem is that you want to disable the internal video (and PCI header) and use external, right? Is that it? -- Steve G. Steve Goodrich (Steven.Goodrich(a)amd.com) Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Smith [mailto:smithbone@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:11 PM To: Goodrich,Steven Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] MB1030 / 3036 VGA comes up :D On 4/27/06, Goodrich,Steven <steven.goodrich(a)amd.com> wrote: > We have an older board (from before I came to be with AMD) which was built with a GXm, CS5530, and NSC 97317 SIO. I can pull preferred register settings from a document if that would help. Yes those would probally help.. > Our preferred settings for this platform were: > > BC_XMAP_1 = 0x1300C060 > BC_XMAP_2 = 0x09999999 > BC_XMAP_3 = 0x99****99 (* = don't care) Or perhpaps just confuse things more. 9's in XMAP2 is PCI accessable, No Cache, No Write, Read. I'm not sure how you would load the shadow copy of the bios into this range with write disabled . Until we started setting the write bit for these ranges the emulator was getting all 0xFFs for its data. > Are you loading an SMM handler on this platform? Dosen't look like it. Is that a big problem? I know for the gx2 it's a big issue since it dosen't have PCI config space without it. But this part seems to have PCI config method #1 without SMM. -- Richard A. Smith

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[LinuxBIOS] Another Geode GX1: status & questions
by Jonathan Sturges 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hi, I'm new to LB, and after studying the list archives for the past week, I've started working on getting LB installed on yet another Geode GX1 board. This system is actually a MaxSpeed MaxTerm 230, an old thin client system that had been surplussed. The board inside was manufactured by DTRI (www.dtresearch.com), and is model WBTG v1.1. The WBTG has a 300Mhz GX1, 64MB of on-board DRAM, and 8MB of on-board flash. It uses the CS5530 southbridge, an NS PC97317 SuperIO, and an NS 83815 10/100 Ethernet. Since the CPU, southbridge, and SuperIO are the same as the Eaglelion 5bcm, I have started with that target. And my initial LB image, complete with FILO, basically works! At least, it passes the smoke test. Questions/issues thus far: 1) IRQ questions. I got the error about copying the IRQ table, and I know I can fix this by using an uncompressed image. But that leaves me with a few questions: a) Does using an uncompressed LB image preclude having a failsafe image, due to uncompressed image size? Not a problem for me, just curious. b) How can I create an IRQ map for this system, or do I not worry about it? This machine was built to only run WinCE, so I can't take the stock BIOS, boot Linux, and do any investigating. 2) When initializing the IDE on the CS5530, LB reports "missing enable_resources", even though a few lines prior, it looks like it assigns the proper I/O range for IDE. What does this mean? (See attached LB output.) 3) I have several uses in mind for these boards, if I can get more of them. Some uses would involve using the audio and VGA, both of which I know are problematic. I think the VGA part I can do, but what about audio? Is "VSA" required to initialize the audio? I guess what I'm wondering is, what's the minimum LB has to do before Linux can see (and use) the audio. FWIW, this board has an NS LM4548 audio chip, which I assume is a support chip for the XpressAudio? Or better, maybe DTRI decided to scrap XpressAudio and this chip is standalone... that would make me happy. :-) Thanks to everyone on the LB team, it's clear from the archives that you all are really dedicated. And thanks to Hamish for the GX1 work in LBv2. -Jonathan LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Fri Apr 21 04:23:44 EDT 2006 starting... Setting up default parameters for memory Sizing memory Probing for DIMM0 Probing for DIMM1 Found DIMM1 Page Size: 00001000 Component Banks: 4 Module Banks: 1 DIMM size: 04000000 MC_BANK_CFG = 14200070 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Fri Apr 21 04:23:44 EDT 2006 booting... clocks_per_usec: 449 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 [1078/0001] enabled PCI: 00:12.0 [1078/0100] enabled PCI: 00:12.1 [1078/0101] enabled PCI: 00:12.2 [1078/0102] enabled PCI: 00:12.3 [1078/0103] enabled PCI: 00:12.4 [1078/0104] enabled PCI: 00:13.0 [0e11/a0f8] enabled PCI: 00:15.0 [100b/0020] enabled PNP: 002e.0 enabled PNP: 002e.1 enabled PNP: 002e.2 enabled PNP: 002e.3 disabled PNP: 002e.4 enabled PNP: 002e.5 enabled PNP: 002e.6 enabled PNP: 002e.7 enabled PNP: 002e.8 enabled PCI: 00:12.1 disabled PCI: 00:12.2 enabled PCI: 00:12.3 disabled PCI: 00:12.4 disabled PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=00 done Allocating resources... Reading resources... Done reading resources. Setting resources... BC_DRAM_TOP = 0x03bfffff MC_GBASE_ADD = 0x00000078 I would set ram size to 60 Mbytes PCI: 00:12.1 10 <- [0x00febf3000 - 0x00febf30ff] mem PCI: 00:12.2 20 <- [0x0000001400 - 0x000000147f] io PCI: 00:12.3 10 <- [0x00febf4000 - 0x00febf407f] mem PCI: 00:12.4 10 <- [0x00febf0000 - 0x00febf0fff] mem PCI: 00:13.0 10 <- [0x00febf1000 - 0x00febf1fff] mem PCI: 00:15.0 10 <- [0x0000001000 - 0x00000010ff] io PCI: 00:15.0 14 <- [0x00febf2000 - 0x00febf2fff] mem PCI: 00:15.0 30 <- [0x00febe0000 - 0x00febeffff] romem Done setting resources. Done allocating resources. Enabling resources... PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 147 PCI: 00:12.0 cmd <- 14f PCI: 00:12.2 missing enable_resources PCI: 00:12.1 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:12.2 cmd <- 141 PCI: 00:12.3 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:12.4 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:13.0 cmd <- 142 PCI: 00:15.0 cmd <- 143 done. Initializing devices... Root Device init PCI: 00:00.0 init northbridge: northbridge_init() PCI: 00:12.0 init PNP: 002e.0 init PNP: 002e.1 init PNP: 002e.2 init PNP: 002e.4 init PNP: 002e.5 init PNP: 002e.6 init PNP: 002e.7 init PNP: 002e.8 init PCI: 00:12.1 init PCI: 00:12.2 init PCI: 00:12.3 init PCI: 00:12.4 init PCI: 00:13.0 init PCI: 00:15.0 init Devices initialized Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done. Verifing copy of IRQ routing tables at 0xf0000...failed Moving GDT to 0x500...ok Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000530 - 000006b0 checksum c9bc Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.3 33:stream_init() - rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffcffff Found ELF candiate at offset 0 New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x23600 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x9568 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x23600 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x9568 New segment addr 0x123600 size 0x48 offset 0x9640 filesize 0x48 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x123600 size 0x48 offset 0x9640 filesize 0x48 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000100000 memsz: 0x0000000000023600 filesz: 0x00 00000000009568 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000109568 memsz: 0x000000000001a098 Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000123600 memsz: 0x0000000000000048 filesz: 0x00 00000000000048 Jumping to boot code at 0x107684 FILO version 0.4.2 (root@fc4-dev) Fri Apr 21 04:11:43 EDT 2006 Press <Enter> for default boot, or <Esc> for boot prompt... timed out boot: hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 IDE time out No drive detected on IDE channel 0 boot: hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200

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[LinuxBIOS] Re: Asrock mobo with SiS chipset (Richard A. Smith ) (Bari Ari)
by paul.collomb1＠libertysurf.fr 13 May '06

13 May '06

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[LinuxBIOS] 9. Re: Asrock mobo with SiS chipset (Richard A. Smith ) (Bari Ari)
by paul.collomb1＠libertysurf.fr 13 May '06

13 May '06

Bari Ari wrote : >Datasheets for the chipset used on the motherboard. You'll need to know >what vales to place into the config registers and also when and in what >order to do so. Ok. I understand. I will take contact with VIA. Thanks -------------- ALICE HAUT DEBIT : TRIPLE PLAY A 29,95 EUR/MOIS -------------- Découvrez vite ALICEBOX : avec le modem WIFI, profitez de l'ADSL, de la TELEPHONIE et en exclusivité de la TELEVISION ! Bénéficiez aussi de la hotline gratuite 24h/24 ! Soumis à conditions. Pour en profiter cliquez ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr

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[LinuxBIOS] Mcumall.com Email activity?
by roger 13 May '06

13 May '06

I'm located within the US and am curious about www.mcumall.com email activity. Every email I have sent to mcumall.com domain has bounced back. There is no phone number for customer support to check for authenticity of this online shopping company. And payments are processed through Paypal. Can anybody comment on the authenticity of this company? I was curious about purchasing a "PRG-001 Enhanced Willem Universal EPROM Programmer". -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Fri May 12 19:09:44 PDT 2006

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[LinuxBIOS] Re: Asrock mobo with SiS chipset (Richard A. Smith )
by paul.collomb1＠libertysurf.fr 13 May '06

13 May '06

Richard A. Smith wrote: >The core question is do you have the datasheets? If you don't have >the datasheets then you have a really rough road ahead. >Notebooks are problematic since they are usually very custom. What are these datasheets ? I don't understand. ( do you mean datasheets for linuxbios ? ) Notebook ? It is not a notebook, it's just a good price mobo ( 45 Euros ) Thanks -------------- ALICE HAUT DEBIT : TRIPLE PLAY A 29,95 EUR/MOIS -------------- Découvrez vite ALICEBOX : avec le modem WIFI, profitez de l'ADSL, de la TELEPHONIE et en exclusivité de la TELEVISION ! Bénéficiez aussi de la hotline gratuite 24h/24 ! Soumis à conditions. Pour en profiter cliquez ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA (Tyan s2881)
by Lu, Yinghai 12 May '06

12 May '06

It should be 36k... YH -----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces(a)linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:19 PM To: linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org Subject: [LinuxBIOS] VGA (Tyan s2881) (forgot attachment, sorry) Hi all, I'm trying to get VGA working on the Tyan s2881. I've extracted a 32KB VGA rom image while running under the proprietary BIOS. It looks all right: it starts with 55 AA, has ATI strings in it, and it stops just before the next option rom starts with 55 AA. I've enabled #VGA Console default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1 default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1 in src/mainboard/tyan/s2881/Options.lb I've modified the ROM_SIZE in targets/tyan/s2881/Config.lb: option ROM_SIZE = 491520 I've appended the linuxbios rom to the vgabios, and burned that image. It boots fine, but no VGA output. I've verified the contents of the video memory after booting: dd if=/dev/mem of=vga.bios bs=1 count=32768 skip=786432 The memory area is identical to the vga bios image I extracted. I've attached the boot log. It sees the VGA device, and it says it copies the ROM image to 0xc0000, all 0x8000 bytes of it. I wonder about this halt_sys line: ... copying VGA ROM Image from 0xfff80000 to 0xc0000, 0x8000 bytes entering emulator halt_sys: file /personal/projects/gnu/chimera/linuxbios/lbv2/rev-latest/LinuxBIOSv2/src /devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387 PCI: 01:04.0 init ... I feel like I'm missing something pretty obvious here. Suggestions? I also wonder why it's _always_ booting the fallback image. I have the same payload for primary and fallback for now. Is this because there is 'dirty' CMOS data? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA (Tyan s2881)
by Lu, Yinghai 12 May '06

12 May '06

BIOS engineer give the option rom (36k) and I dd that to 48k. YH -----Original Message----- From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:ward@gnu.org] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:45 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: linuxbios(a)linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA (Tyan s2881) On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:36:41PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > It should be 36k... I saw that somewhere - the last 4k is the bios for the onboard sata controller though? Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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[LinuxBIOS] VGA (Tyan s2881)
by Ward Vandewege 12 May '06

12 May '06

(forgot attachment, sorry) Hi all, I'm trying to get VGA working on the Tyan s2881. I've extracted a 32KB VGA rom image while running under the proprietary BIOS. It looks all right: it starts with 55 AA, has ATI strings in it, and it stops just before the next option rom starts with 55 AA. I've enabled #VGA Console default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1 default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1 in src/mainboard/tyan/s2881/Options.lb I've modified the ROM_SIZE in targets/tyan/s2881/Config.lb: option ROM_SIZE = 491520 I've appended the linuxbios rom to the vgabios, and burned that image. It boots fine, but no VGA output. I've verified the contents of the video memory after booting: dd if=/dev/mem of=vga.bios bs=1 count=32768 skip=786432 The memory area is identical to the vga bios image I extracted. I've attached the boot log. It sees the VGA device, and it says it copies the ROM image to 0xc0000, all 0x8000 bytes of it. I wonder about this halt_sys line: ... copying VGA ROM Image from 0xfff80000 to 0xc0000, 0x8000 bytes entering emulator halt_sys: file /personal/projects/gnu/chimera/linuxbios/lbv2/rev-latest/LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c, line 4387 PCI: 01:04.0 init ... I feel like I'm missing something pretty obvious here. Suggestions? I also wonder why it's _always_ booting the fallback image. I have the same payload for primary and fallback for now. Is this because there is 'dirty' CMOS data? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <ward(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator

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