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Help on epia-m 10000 linuxbios VGA
by Santi Mirenna 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi to all, today i make EPIA-M 10000 rom image. i compile to have VGA and Filo, after apply patch of Dave Ashley and info from Takeshi about RAM ammount VGA now is found by the system but .... In attach you have the output log .... Can someone tell me where i wrong? Dave Ashley reply: You haven't applied all the patch, specifically the handler for the unsupported bios interrupts. This is the bug where it just gets into an endless loop of bios interrupts, so the program needs to exit the bios somehow. -Dave Hi , can some one tell me where to look .... i made the patch ....where to look Dave to know if the patch is ok ? Thanks. Santi Mirenna

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sc1200 with linuxbios possiblility?
by Deya 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi, I am a newbie to this list. I like to use linuxbios for my project. I have sc1200 chip. I would have the BIOS program, linux kernel and file system in the same Flash memory (32 Mbit). Is it possible to use linuxbios to boot the linux OS from Flash to sdram though BIOS program, linux kernel and file system all existe in the same flash memory? I dont have a seperate Bios chip. Any suggestions on this would help me to proceed further. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com

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Re: Fwd: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS - moderator approval (fwd)
by jarcher＠pobox.com 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I'll raise the question to the next level.... Has there been any discussion of putting any power management support into the LinuxBIOS. I've got a possible need for some basics, like suspend to RAM. Classic APM might be enough and simple to implement. ACPI would be a good choice, but I'm not sure about how much ROM foot print would be needed. Jordan At 07:42 AM 11/26/2003 -0700, ron minnich wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:18:53 -0800 (PST) >From: Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> >To: rminnich(a)lanl.gov >Subject: Fwd: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS - moderator approval > >Hello Ron, > >Sorry for this unsolicited mail, but I am tempted to >request you to get me this moderator approval so that >this mail (see forwarded note) makes it to the list. >This mail of mine has been sitting with the moderator >for many days. > >I am assuming that you are the moderator, if not >excuse me. > >Regards, >Bharata. > >--- Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:10:32 -0800 (PST) > > From: Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> > > Subject: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS > > To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > > > > Hello, > > > > I see from the archives that there was some talk > > about > > extracting ACPI tables from BIOS and implementing > > ACPI > > support in LinuxBIOS. > > > > I would like to know, if there have been any > > attempts > > in this regard from anyone ? > > > > Do you feel that this idea is still feasible ? Or > > should I assume that this is a dead idea as I see no > > mention about ACPI power management here since last > > year ? > > > > Kindly CC your replies. Thanks for your time. > > > > Regards, > > Bharata. > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears > > http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard >http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > >_______________________________________________ >Linuxbios mailing list >Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org >http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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(fwd) peer busses
by Stefan Reinauer 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

Is this the same issue we were having with Linux not being able to see bus 1? Stefan ----- Forwarded message from Matthew Wilcox <willy(a)debian.org> ----- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:09:38 +0000 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: sym53c8xx is broken on HP LH 4 after Linux 2.2 On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:51:36AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > I can tell you what's going on here. This is a 450NX based > motherboard. The 450NX chipset from Intel was the first chipset to > have peer PCI busses. For backwards compatibility, some machine > makers hacked their PCI BIOS to have a fake bridge device on PCI bus 0 > that points to the same bus number as the peer bus. This way if the > OS didn't know about the peer bus registers it would still find the > devices by scanning behind the bridge. [..] > In this case we are scanning behind this fake bridge and then also > scanning based upon the peer bus registers in the chipset, and as a > result we are finding the device twice. In order to fix this problem > you need to change the peer bus quirk code for the 450NX chipset to > scan the list of bus 0 devices looking for a bridge that has the same > config as the peer bus registers and if so delete the bridge from the > list. That will avoid double scanning and will avoid having the PCI > code try and configure sub busses via a fake bridge when it should do > all configurations via the 450NX peer bus registers. Index: arch/i386/pci/fixup.c =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/arch/i386/pci/fixup.c,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -p -r1.2 fixup.c --- arch/i386/pci/fixup.c 12 Aug 2003 19:10:49 -0000 1.2 +++ arch/i386/pci/fixup.c 9 Nov 2003 23:07:17 -0000 @@ -6,27 +6,52 @@ #include <linux/init.h> #include "pci.h" +static void __devinit i450nx_scan_bus(struct pci_bus *parent, u8 busnr) +{ + struct list_head *tmp; + + pci_scan_bus(busnr, &pci_root_ops, NULL); + + list_for_each(tmp, &parent->children) { + u8 childnr; + struct pci_dev *dev = pci_dev_b(tmp); + + if (dev->hdr_type != PCI_HEADER_TYPE_BRIDGE) + continue; + pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_PRIMARY_BUS, &childnr); + if (childnr != busnr) + continue; + + printk(KERN_WARNING "PCI: Removing fake PCI bridge %s\n", + pci_name(dev)); + pci_remove_bus_device(dev); + break; + } +} static void __devinit pci_fixup_i450nx(struct pci_dev *d) { /* * i450NX -- Find and scan all secondary buses on all PXB's. + * Some manufacturers added fake PCI-PCI bridges that also point + * to the peer busses. Look for them and delete them. */ int pxb, reg; u8 busno, suba, subb; - printk(KERN_WARNING "PCI: Searching for i450NX host bridges on %s\n", pci_name(d)); + printk(KERN_NOTICE "PCI: Searching for i450NX host bridges on %s\n", pci_name(d)); reg = 0xd0; - for(pxb=0; pxb<2; pxb++) { + for (pxb = 0; pxb < 2; pxb++) { pci_read_config_byte(d, reg++, &busno); pci_read_config_byte(d, reg++, &suba); pci_read_config_byte(d, reg++, &subb); DBG("i450NX PXB %d: %02x/%02x/%02x\n", pxb, busno, suba, subb); if (busno) - pci_scan_bus(busno, &pci_root_ops, NULL); /* Bus A */ + i450nx_scan_bus(d->bus, busno); /* Bus A */ if (suba < subb) - pci_scan_bus(suba+1, &pci_root_ops, NULL); /* Bus B */ + i450nx_scan_bus(d->bus, suba+1); /* Bus B */ } + pcibios_last_bus = -1; } ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG Teamleader Architecture Development

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Re: send me your message directly: Dokumentation for creating LinuxBIOS for DL smartModule P5-266 (fwd)
by ron minnich 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:28:31 +0100 From: Benjamin Mertke <b.mertke(a)bfad.de> To: ron minnich <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> Subject: Re: send me your message directly: Dokumentation for creating LinuxBIOS for DL smartModule P5-266 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ron minnich" <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> To: <b.mertke(a)bfad.de> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: send me your message directly OK, I will do it ;-) Thank you. ------------------------------ Hi everybody, first of all I´m new to the list and I´m trying to get LinuxBIOS into Digital Logic´s smartModule. Second, is there any documentaition how to build BIOS for Digital Logic´s smartModule P5-266? I´ve started to read the HOWTO/EPIA and HOWTO/L440GX and then to do according to the discriptions in this two different ways. But well, ... you guess, I wouldn´t write to the list if I would success. EPIA-HowTo uses etherboot and L440GX-HowTo boots without any ethernet connection just from the local disk. That´s what I would preffer also. As I saw there is a patch file in src/kernel_patches/ \ linux-2.4.17-smartcore-p5. So it seems to be the way of L440GX-HowTo. Is this correct, that I have to use this way to build the BIOS? How it was done by you? I´ve also tried to compile etherboot-5.2.2 and I got in src/bin-directory many of files compiled. As I know, on smartModule there is Intel 82559ER Ethernet controller and normaly we use the eepro100.o kernel module for communication. So I think if I would use etherboot I should use for "payload"-entry of the config-file eepro100.ebi. But ... in the mean time there were changes in etherboot and this compiled files are maned eepro100.o, eepro100.img and eepro100.zimg. Which of them should be used in config.etherboot file? Are there any prerared romimages for smatrModules around? I would like just to flash it into the EEPRM and to see the behaviour. Btw, I´m using the development kit of DL with two EEPROMs on it. One for core BIOS and second for VGA-BIOS. It is also possible to set the jumper either to boot from smartModule or from development kit. In this case it is a perfect tool to flash BIOSes (with phlash utility). Thank you for reading and answering my email. Benjamin

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Re: Fwd: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS - moderator approval (fwd)
by jarcher＠pobox.com 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I may be making that stab in January. Jordan At 08:59 AM 11/26/2003 -0700, ron minnich wrote: >it's on the list, waiting for somebody to take a stab at it. > >ron

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Fwd: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS - moderator approval (fwd)
by ron minnich 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> To: rminnich(a)lanl.gov Subject: Fwd: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS - moderator approval Hello Ron, Sorry for this unsolicited mail, but I am tempted to request you to get me this moderator approval so that this mail (see forwarded note) makes it to the list. This mail of mine has been sitting with the moderator for many days. I am assuming that you are the moderator, if not excuse me. Regards, Bharata. --- Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:10:32 -0800 (PST) > From: Bharata B Rao <bharata_rao(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: ACPI support in LinuxBIOS > To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > > Hello, > > I see from the archives that there was some talk > about > extracting ACPI tables from BIOS and implementing > ACPI > support in LinuxBIOS. > > I would like to know, if there have been any > attempts > in this regard from anyone ? > > Do you feel that this idea is still feasible ? Or > should I assume that this is a dead idea as I see no > mention about ACPI power management here since last > year ? > > Kindly CC your replies. Thanks for your time. > > Regards, > Bharata. > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears > http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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Re: Re: Re: migrate VIA vt5426 to PCChip M787CL(not M787CL+)
by riskin＠esinosoft.com 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Sorry for my bad mail! Thank you,Andrew! Riskin

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Re: DDR Bank1 is ont working on VT8623 northbrodge
by Dave Ashley 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

>I use the code of VT8623 to active DDR RAM, but only BANK 0 is working epia-m doesn't configure the ddr automatically yet. Doubtful whether version 1 will ever have it. Version 2 one day will... I hacked freebios version 1 to configure 2 banks by adding a loop. You can probably adapt this code to your needs. http://www.xdr.com/dash/linuxbios -Dave

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Re: Re: migrate VIA vt5426 to PCChip M787CL(not M787CL+)
by riskin＠esinosoft.com 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

>> After doing test,I find that if linux kernel scans devfn above 0xA0, >> the chipset locks up. >> Could somebody please give me advice to fix the bug? >You can just skip it. It is how I solved it. -Andrew

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