[LinuxBIOS] AMD JTAG Debug Port
by Richard Smith
OOps. Forgot to reply to all
> Actually, the JTAG debugger (for GX2) is not made by AMD. It is made by
> a company called FS2. I don't remember who made the JTAG debugger for
> K8.
>
Yeah supposedly this is TCL code that works with the FS2 and will do
things like read and write MSR's and some other stuff.
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12 years, 11 months
[LinuxBIOS] Netvista N2200 8363 (Request)
by Brendan Grieve
Hi All,
I've been playing around on and off for the last few years with these
8363 thin clients made by IBM. They are really brilliant machines and
are powerful enough to use either diskless (running local apps via NFS),
as thin clients, or as standalone devices (CF).
They are also x86 (Cyrix chipset) with a Geode VGA. They have VGA out,
sound out, mic in, 2 USB and a NIC. It also has a built in CF card that
is seen as hda when used.
More info can be found here:
http://www.bluetrait.com/archive/2005/08/07/installing-linux-2200-onto-th...
However an issue with them is that the bios that is supplied with them
is annoying to say the least. It does not support any boot loaders
(lilo/grup etc...) but instead loads up an elf uncompressed kernel. For
reasons I'm not yet sure, the kernel (2.4) needs to be compiled by gcc
2.95, and requires various patches to get it to work. I've never got 2.6
working, and never got even 2.4 working with a compiler other than gcc 2.95.
However, with the old kernel, I've gotten a pile of these going and they
are fantastic. They can play mp3's, play video, and as I test I setup 20
of them with distcc and used them to assist in compiles. Also they are
extremely low voltage and could possibly run in a car from the cigarette
lighter.
I believe that this device is a perfect candidate for LinuxBios. You can
pick them up dirt cheap (~$10) from ebay, and in fact there are LOTS of
these just floating around, and a decent bios that will allow one the
flexibility of loading a newer kernel would be great. You can run them
diskless as I mentioned before or can install to CF, with the CF seen as
a drive.
The bios is a 32ping socketed PLCC AM29F040B.
I was wondering if anyone has tried LinuxBios on this and what the
results were? Would anyone be willing to get it going? I would be happy
to package one of these up, with a working linux distro on its internal
CF and mail it (to keep) if it would help. Ideally it would be great if
it was possible to be able to boot via NFS (PXE would be brilliant) and
also have the option of direct from the internal CF.
Cheers,
Brendan
12 years, 11 months
Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom support to VIA VT8235
by Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Ronald,
On 7/24/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> wrote:
> good news! write enable is working!
>
bad news! flash write enable is not working! :-(
In the datasheet said pins TBL# (pin 8) and WP# (7) need go to high to
enable flash erasing/writing, but enable_flash_write() on vt8235 is
not activating it (I verifyied these pins using oscilloscope).
Then enable_flash_write from vt8235 is not working on vt8237!
> Your problem is that your flash chip driver needs some work. You need to
> look at the spec sheet for the flash part, look at your code, and see
> what's not working.
>
Sure, but I think the problem is because enable_flash_write() is not
unprotecting flash (at hardware) to erase.
Another idea to solve it?
> But you are on the way!
>
Thank you,
> ron
>
Alan
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12 years, 12 months
[LinuxBIOS] [QUESTION] VSA2 for OLPC
by Indrek Kruusa
Hi!
The VSA2 bios for OLPC seems to be quite minimal: 64 KB.
I would be glad to know:
- is there only vsainit and sysmgr inside vsa for olpc?
- does audio, ohci/ehci and video handled by kernel drivers?
- does OLPC target booting without major problems?
It seems to be true but it is better to know for sure ;)
Indrek
12 years, 12 months
[LinuxBIOS] Mainboard
by Martin Mayr
Hello!
I read a thread about getting linuxbios work on the PC-Chips M810LR
Mainboard
from Antony Stone:
http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php?title=The_PC_CHIPS_M810LR&redirect=no
My question is, if there are any newer boards from pc-chips which are
supported
by linuxbios.
Or are there any other boards like these ones (the opteron boards of tyan
are too large for me, i would prefer micro atx), because I only find
relative
old boards, or the huge ones of tyan.
In another thread I read about the win-ent mb06047/48/49. These boards would
be definitely too expensive for me.
Many thanks in advance,
greetings,
Martin
12 years, 12 months
Re: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS K8N
by Lu, Yinghai
It is using NVIDIA nForce3 250.
You'd better to find one with Nvidia Nforce 4 or Ck804.
YH
-----Original Message-----
From: linuxbios-bounces(a)linuxbios.org
[mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Marco Costa
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:39 AM
To: linuxbios(a)openbios.org
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS K8N
Hi,
I run a search on the mailing list, but found no mention of it: does
anybody know if the ASUS K8N (without any qualifiers like Deluxe or so)
will work with linuxbios?
Thank you in advance.
Marco
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12 years, 12 months
[LinuxBIOS] Code flow of LinuxBIOS
by Anil B G
Hi,
I was just trying to understand the code flow of LinuxBIOS on x86
architecture. I understood that on a power on (cold boot), there is a wait
for power good.
Later there is a transition from real mode to protected mode (32 bit).
The file that makes the transition is entry32.inc of src/cpu/x86/32bit
directory.
After this point I was not able to make able to make much progress as to
which part of the code is executed.
Any help in this regard will be helpful.
I did check through the available documentation in documentation directory
of the source tree, but
would appreciate if there are any pointers at the code level.
Regards
Anil
12 years, 12 months
[LinuxBIOS] newbie: flashrom cannot find flash device
by Wolfgang Spraul
Hi there -
I'm trying to use LinuxBIOS to help me out with a problem I have with a
recently acquired Panasonic R5 notebook: Panasonic decided to disable
Intel Virtualization Support in the BIOS startup code (WRMSR instruction
to set the lock bit in the CPU's Feature Control MSR) without giving me
the option to override this in the BIOS menus or offering BIOS updates.
So my plan now is this: 'Download' my BIOS (PhoenixBIOS V1.00L13),
disassemble & modify the WRMSR instruction, re-flash it onto the board
(hopefully the BIOS instructions themselves are not compressed or
encrypted).
First of all the latest (svn) flashrom does not detect my flash device.
From prior posts on this mailing lists I deduced I may have an 'Intel
firmware hub'? No idea what that is...
flashrom -V output and lspci -V follow below.
My questions:
1) Is there a chance I can use flashrom to read/write my BIOS code. What
is missing? Can anybody point me in any direction from the flashrom -V
output below? Should I open the notebook to try to find any chip label?
2) Has anybody ever 'patched' an off-the-shelf PhoenixBIOS? Is that a
realistic proposition at all, or will it be impossible because the
binary is compressed/encrypted/signed/whatever?
Thanks for your help,
Wolfgang Spraul
--- flashrom -V output
Calibrating delay loop... Setting up microsecond timing loop
302M loops per second
ok
No LinuxBIOS table found.
Trying Am29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying Am29F016D, 2048 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0xaa, id2 0x55
Trying At29C040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying Mx29f002, 256 KB
probe_29f002: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying SST29EE020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying SST28SF040A, 512 KB
probe_28sf040: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying SST39SF020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying SST39VF020, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying SST49LF040B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying SST49LF040, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying SST49LF080A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xaa, id2 0x55
Trying SST49LF002A/B, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying SST49LF003A/B, 384 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x83, id2 0xd6
Trying SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying SST49LF008A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xaa, id2 0x55
Trying Pm49FL002, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying Pm49FL004, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying W29C011, 128 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x99, id2 0x8a
Trying W29C020C, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying W49F002U, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying W49V002A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying W49V002FA, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying W39V040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying M29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying M29F400BT, 512 KB
probe_m29f400bt: id1 0x4e, id2 0x50
Trying 82802ab, 512 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0x4e, id2 0x41
Trying 82802ac, 1024 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0xaa, id2 0x55
Trying F49B002UA, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xf8, id2 0x57
Trying LHF00L04, 1024 KB
probe_lhf00l04: id1 0xaa, id2 0x55
No EEPROM/flash device found.
--- lspci -v output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185
Memory at d0340000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable+
Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d00fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable+
Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217
Memory at d0544000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000030000000-0000000031f00000
Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000]
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at <unassigned>
I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32]
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1003
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number c1-29-2b-ff-ff-02-13-00
04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 225
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
04:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 185
Memory at d0101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=04, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30000000-31fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 32000000-33fff000
I/O window 0: 00002400-000024ff
I/O window 1: 00002800-000028ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
04:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 13)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at d0100400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
12 years, 12 months
