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Re: LinuxBIOS....on desktop PCs?
by ron minnich 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 bjm_(a)bellsouth.net wrote: > Is it possible to have LinuxBIOS on desktop PCs? Was wondering...if so, > I'd like to use it :) I think it is, if only because we keep finding it does a bit better job of configuring the platform, which is only a 10% gain but what the heck ... ron

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LinuxBIOS....on desktop PCs?
by bjm_＠bellsouth.net 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Is it possible to have LinuxBIOS on desktop PCs? Was wondering...if so, I'd like to use it :)

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Re: EPIA-M HW graphics slow under linuxbios
by Dave Ashley 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

>I don't have etherboot. I use filo-0.4.1. Doh! I guess I'm not so great afterall... I don't really have any suggestions. The important thing I was trying to get working for you was the int21 bios calls. The VGA bios will do various callbacks to query how much video memory has been allocated, what the clock rates are, etc. My patch traps those and provides acceptable answers. After doing that I saw a performance improvement. If you could integrate those int handlers you'll get the same benefit. Another alternative is to debug the existing problem. You can't always get everything you want without effort :^). Really someone in the core linuxbios group needs to adopt my patch and integrate it into linuxbios, after "blessing" it and making sure everything is ok. I did all the really hard work, someone just has to make it so it is fit for mass consumption. I'll be around for answering questions. -Dave

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Upload to generic
by Carl Peto 06 Feb '04

06 Feb '04

I am new to LinuxBIOS but have years of Linux experience. I would like to upgrade my test PC to LinuxBIOS but do not want to replace the existing motherboard. Is it possible to "flash" LinuxBIOS into a standard motherboard, like mine. I have an ASUS motherboard K7A or something like that. Also if I do this and it goes wrong, can I undo it or do I have to go to the manufacturer and pretend that I don't know how it broke? :) Thanks, Carl Peto

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EPIA-M linuxbios reset button does not work
by "Dmitry Borisov=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi, I just realized that besides the performance problems of video subsystem on my EPIA-M I have another small one. When I use regular BIOS my linux can identify that reset or power button was pressed and do some actions accrodingly. In case of linuxbios it cannot. Does anyone have any suggestions what needs to be implemented in linuxbios to support these features ? Appreciate any pointers, references or so. Thanks, Dmitry/

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list of BIOSes supporting booting from USB flash disk
by Jing S. Tang 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi, I've written a linux HOWTO on how to create a Linux bootable flash disk: http://www.freewebs.com/tsj/bootingUSB_ldp_v0.1.htm I'd like to put a list of BIOSes which support booting from the USB flash disk (USB keydrives) in my document. Could some experts at linuxbios please provide this kind of list? Thanks in advance! Jing S. Tang _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 完全免费的雅虎电邮，马上注册获赠额外60兆网络存储空间 http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tag/?http://cn.mail.yahoo.com

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new linuxbios v1 mainboard added
by ron minnich 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

chaintech 7kjd. I didn't do it, and I just forgot the name of the guy who did, but I hope he will pop in and comment on it. This seems like a neat little board. ron

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Re: OpenFirmware and interrupt-map
by YhLu 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

SCSI card option rom may do several thing: 1. download FW from other address in the Option rom or BIOS into SCSI Controller, then start the controller. 2. Booting OS from SCSI disk. Some SCSI addon card has another EEPROM for FW, and the controller will work after power is on. For onboard SCSI, may spare that EEPROM and need option rom to download fw into it. The other thing for Option ROM is providing booting from SCSI disk or CDROM. If the System is boot from Network or other media, You may don't need this booting feature. Actually the FW download and controller starting can be done by Linux kernel driver. YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年2月4日 15:39 收件人: Eric W. Biederman 抄送: Stefan Reinauer; Tarl Neustaedter; LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: OpenFirmware and interrupt-map On 4 Feb 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Interesting. I do know that the RAID/SCSI x86 option roms in general > were not needed on the Alpha. Do you know of any RAID/SCSI cards that > actually need their option ROM to be run? > > Every one I have research it is a non issue. I forget which card it was, but we did have a problem here at one point with a card that really needed that scsi bios to be run. We junked the card. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Motherboard for LinuxBIOS & DOC
by Eric BENARD / Free 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hi, A few year ago I've been using a Matsonic MS7308E with a 8 MB Disc On Chip (DIP32) and LinuxBios. The Linux filesystem (jffs2) was embedded in the DOC and everything was booting in less than 1 or 2 seconds. I would like to setup the same configuration but the only thing I have is the DOC as the motherboard has burned :-( Which motherboard / chipset would you advise me to use with a DOC - an actual motherboard if possible ? Many thanks and best regards Eric

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Build problem - %rdx used with `l' suffix
by Tarl Neustaedter 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Back in september, there was a message about a fix to romcc for AMD64, which would cure the error: /tmp/ccLriZXb.s:243: Error: Incorrect register `%rdx' used with `l' suffix As it happens, I'm getting that error building arima/hdama from an Opteron (it was suggested as a good starting point for a working prom that I could branch off from). It looks like the code in romcc has changed enough that the fix doesn't directly apply, and there was some doubt as to whether that was the necessary fix. Is there something else I should be doing to avoid this error? For the record, my versions of gcc, as and linux: wgs94-112% gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20) wgs94-112% as -v GNU assembler version 2.14.90.0.4 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD version 2.14.90.0.4 20030523 wgs94-112% uname -a Linux wgs94-112 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:32:58 EDT 2003 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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