Re: [LinuxBIOS] BIOS Saver RD1
by Ken Fuchs
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:59:20AM +0900, Jun OKAJIMA wrote:
> > Probably, most guys here use BIOS Saver.
> > And it works well?
> > In mine, RD1 for PLCC gets not being writable suddenly.
> > I mean, it seems writable but # flash_rom -v fails.
> > I solved this problem by a quick hack.
> >
> > How about yours? You can write RD1 or W49F002U well?
> > Any problem happen?
Johnathan McDowell wrote:
> Even after that it's sometimes a bit flakey and I have to erase, then
> write it. I've put the board's original BIOS in the RD1 and am writing
> to the SST 39SF020A instead, which works without problems.
I've read posts about the RD1 that suggest its integrated flash device
is low quality and it may take 10 or more flash attempts to get a good
flash update to the RD1 flash device.
As a result, many RD1 BIOS Savior users will flash the commercial
BIOS image (or other known good BIOS image) into the RD1 integrated
flash device as many times as needed to get an image that boots.
Then use the original BIOS device to flash test BIOS image (usually
LinuxBIOS images among this group), since the original BIOS device
usually flashes OK on the first attempt.
I've used the RD1 in the above fashion with great success on the
Tyan S2885 mainboard.
The same RD1 would not work on the nVidia CK8-04 CRB mainboard.
I think the CK8-04 CRB requires a flash device that the RD1 does
not support. However, the RD1 worked well as an "do nothing" adapter
which allowed swapping the BIOS flash device between my flash burner
and the mainboard without any wear to the mainboard's BIOS socket.
BTW, my flash burner is an older Enhanced Willem Universal Programmer.
I got mine for only $60 US over a year ago. I've seen it for less
than $40 on eBay a few weeks ago. The newest model is going for about
$50 US. It does a LinuxBIOS flash in about 5 minutes; not bad for a
$60 burner. However, it does require changing DIP switches to match
an image for each device it can program. Great for the amateur or
professional with a small budget.
> > BTW, a cable of your RD1 is not broken?
> > I needed soldering to fix it.
> Mine was fine out of the box.
Mine cable and switch worked fine out of the box as well.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs <kfuchs(a)winternet.com> ami-mac-sun
12 years, 1 month
[LinuxBIOS] ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (K8, CK804, IT8712)
by David M Barr
Hi,
Attached are dmidecode and lspci -t/n/v output for my system, which has the
same MB as Adrian's.
Since he has the tools, can anyone provide tips on how to get started?
Regards,
David M. Barr
On 19/03/2007 12:06:43 am, Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for the info! I did find out that all chipsets are supported. I
bought myself a Bios saviour and I have all the other hardware one
needs. I just had little time playing around with it the last two weeks
but I want to start looking into it again, that's why I wanted to ask if
you had made some progress.
I am not quite sure where to start but I found a motherboard [1] that is
quite "similar" to ours: Sun Ultra40. It has the same North- and
Southbridge; SuperIO is different though. Would you know where to go
from here?
Cheers,
Adrian
12 years, 1 month
[LinuxBIOS] #40: Decide on common header #ifndef names or standards for usage
by LinuxBIOS
#40: Decide on common header #ifndef names or standards for usage
-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: Cosmetic fixes
Component: code | Version: v2
Keywords: | Due_close: MM/DD/YYYY
Include_gantt: 0 | Dependencies:
Due_assign: MM/DD/YYYY | Patchstatus: there is no patch
-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
We have lots of variations for "include guards" in the code:
{{{
_FOO
_FOO_H
__FOO_H
__FOO_H__
_FOO_H_
__FOO_DEFINED
...
}}}
Is there a special convention or agreement on when to use which? If yes,
it should be documented. If no, we should standardize on one format and
use it consistently.
--
Ticket URL: <http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/ticket/40>
LinuxBIOS <http://www.linuxbios.org/>
12 years, 2 months
[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?
by Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all,
I am wondering if it would be possible to run LinuxBios on a braille
device. Regarded from a Linux point of view, such a device is very
similar to a PC or a laptop, as you will certainly notice according to
the datas provided below.
If the device is supported, the idea would be to install a screen-reader
(like brltty) in the BIOS, which would help when there is a problem
while booting the operating system's kernel.
So below are the outputs of lspci -n, lspci -v and lspci -t run on
the terminal. Could someone please tell me whether there is a possibility
or not to install LinuxBios on such a machine ?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help,
Sébastien.
# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 1078:0001
00:02.0 0200: 1282:9102 (rev 40)
00:12.0 0601: 1078:0100 (rev 30)
00:12.1 0680: 1078:0101
00:12.2 0101: 1078:0102
00:12.3 0401: 1078:0103
00:12.4 0300: 1078:0104
00:13.0 0c03: 0e11:a0f8 (rev 06)
# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 40)
Subsystem: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Unknown device 8212
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 165, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at fedfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
00:12.0 ISA bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Legacy [Kahlua] (rev 30)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
00:12.1 Bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua]
Flags: medium devsel
Memory at 40012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
00:12.2 IDE interface: Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua] (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at 1400 [size=16]
00:12.3 Multimedia audio controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at 40011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
00:12.4 VGA compatible controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Cyrix Corporation Unknown device 0001
Flags: medium devsel
Memory at 40800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
00:13.0 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 06) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at 000e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
# lspci -t
-[0000:00]-+-00.0
+-02.0
+-12.0
+-12.1
+-12.2
+-12.3
+-12.4
\-13.0
12 years, 2 months
Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2550 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi!
svn(a)openbios.org wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Adam Kaufman <adam.kaufman(a)pinnacle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan(a)coresystems.de>
> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan(a)coresystems.de>
> Acked-by: Adam Kaufman <adam.kaufman(a)pinnacle.com>
It seems there is still some confusion about Signed-off-by
and Acked-by. The meaning of Acked-by is a real subset of
Signed-off-by. So acking a patch you already signed off
for is totally meaningless and should be avoided. The
Linux kernel guys never ack and sign off the same patch.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
12 years, 2 months
Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch?
by Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:37:07PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Peter Stuge <peter(a)stuge.se> [070309 05:20]:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:19:08PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > > Stefan said you wrote a patch at the last symposium to make filo
> > > read several blocks at once from an ide device, and that that sped
> > > reading from IDE up by about 70%.
> > >
> > > Do you happen to have that code lying around somewhere? I'd like
> > > to see it integrated in FILO.
> >
> > Hmm.
> >
> > I'm not sure that it ever happened.
> >
> > I don't remember writing it.. And it's not in my filo source dir..
> >
> > I remember us talking about it, but don't remember any code...
>
> Ah, sorry, I thought you made something on the Symposium last year.
> I do remember you looked at the problem though. What was your
> suggestion? Reading multiple blocks at once or something?
It was someone else's suggestion (Ron maybe?) but I'm afraid I don't
remember looking into it. Looking at the FILO code now it's not very
familiar, but my memory may also have been drowned in malt beverage.
:)
ide_read_sector_* only reads one sector at a time and could instead
read up to 256. fs/blockdev.c:devread() always memcpy():s every
sector as well . Lots of room for improvement here. :)
> > I do have two patches for the EPIA LB code though, one for
> > HARD_RESET and one for using rdtsc to calibrate the timer.
> >
> > I should get them into the tree. Will try to do that next week.
>
> please! whenever you find the time.
>
> Lots of people still use FILO. (Even though I try to talk it down
> while trying to find someone to look into the Grub2 port)
Find attached a patch for timer2 and hard reset. I'm looking at FILO
right now.
//Peter
12 years, 3 months
[LinuxBIOS] New with a GA-M57SLI-S4
by Beth
Hi all !!
This is my first post to the mailing list and my first question too
:). First of all I want to say that I am pleased to talk to everyone
around here.
Well, the problem is called M57SLI-S4 and its socketed bios. A
problem, not a problem, who knows.
I am thinking on flashing the bios without desoldering it, one mistake
and ... bye bye. Maybe I will have access to a desoldering station,
but I have no experience with plcc chips, and maybe the person who
works with it would have the same as I.
Has anyone found anything about the "second" plcc socket?
One friend of mine had a very "no no no, it don't likes me" idea, he
says that one way of removing the plcc bios could be cutting the chip
pins, but despite the "very intrusive" way, I will lose the chip, its
information, I must to buy at least another chip (I am looking for
it), and worst, I must to reprogram it (If I damage the current bios
for putting a socket, the system will get bricked without bios, and I
will not have the swap option ...).
Despite this, I wish to know one thing, it is common to get the board
bricked?, I say that because if someone can help me verifying the
steps, parameters, and so on, I think that I will try the "Russian
Roulette" with this board. In this case what information I must give
to you (some charitable soul ;) )
Well thats all, thanks, and best regards from Spain.
12 years, 3 months
