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freebios2 support for via epia: help requested.
by ron minnich 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

I'm putting the pieces together but this will go lots faster with help. If somebody can look at freebios2/src/via/southbridge/vt8231/vt8231_early_smbus.c and send me fixes for the actual correct code, that will save a lot of time. If I can toss these kinds of tasks out and get help, we should be somewhere next week, which would be nice, and with true SPD support, not the mess we have now. Then we can attack the -M. ron

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why are we still doing this?
by ron minnich 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

in arima/hdama/Config.lb ## ## Clean up the motherboard id strings ## option MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="HDAMA" option MAINBOARD_VENDOR="ARIMA" OK, the config tool will create this by default: MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="hdama" MAINBOARD_VENDOR="arima" why do we need to put this type of thing in the mainboard config file? just wondering ron

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Re: why are we still doing this?
by YhLu 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Then where can the config tool got that info to produce >MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="hdama" >MAINBOARD_VENDOR="arima" YH -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Greg Watson [mailto:gwatson@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2003年9月25日 16:53 收件人: ron minnich; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: why are we still doing this? No need, since it's done automatically now. Greg At 11:26 AM -0600 25/9/03, ron minnich wrote: >in arima/hdama/Config.lb > >## >## Clean up the motherboard id strings >## >option MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="HDAMA" >option MAINBOARD_VENDOR="ARIMA" > > > >OK, the config tool will create this by default: >MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER="hdama" >MAINBOARD_VENDOR="arima" > >why do we need to put this type of thing in the mainboard config file? > >just wondering > >ron > >_______________________________________________ >Linuxbios mailing list >Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org >http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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memory epia-m 127M != 512M
by Niki Waibel 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

i use a 512MByte mem module in the epia-m 600mhz and linuxbios sayes: === totalram: 127M === i modified src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c === diff -u -N -r freebios-20030924.old/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c freebios-20030924/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/north bridg e.c --- freebios-20030924.old/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c 2003-06-29 18:23:58.000000000 +0200 +++ freebios-20030924/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c 2003-09-24 14:10:22.025680920 +0200 @@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ { unsigned long totalmem; unsigned char bank, mem, prevmem; +#if 0 // fix me later -- there are two more banks at 0x56 and 0x57 unsigned long firstbank = 0x5a, lastbank = 0x5d; +#endif + unsigned long banks[] = { 0x56, 0x57, 0x5a, 0x5b, 0x5c, 0x5d }; + const unsigned long nbanks = 6; + unsigned long i; u8 sma_status, sma_size, sma_size_bits; - u8 val; struct pci_dev *pcidev; @@ -28,8 +32,9 @@ else sma_size = 0x01 << sma_size_bits; - for(totalmem = mem = prevmem = 0, bank = firstbank; - bank <= lastbank; bank++) { + totalmem = mem = prevmem = 0; + for(i=0; i<nbanks; i++) { + bank = banks[i]; pci_read_config_byte(pcidev, bank, &mem); // sanity check. If the mem value is < prevmem, // that is an error, so skip this step. @@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ totalmem += (mem - prevmem) * 16; prevmem = mem; } - + totalmem -= sma_size; totalmem *= 1024; #if 0 === but that did not help. this is no urgent problem, because 128M is enough for the system i want to build. but it could be a problem for other people. niki

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arima mainboard config
by ron minnich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I find this in the arima mainboard config: ## ROM_SIZE is the size of boot ROM that this board will use. option ROM_SIZE = 524288 This is the wrong place. ROM_SIZE should always be in the target config file, not the mainboard config file. Recall that we no longer allow multiple settings of options, as a way of avoiding the "where did it get set last" syndrome. You only get to set them once. (we also disallow set-after-use, BTW). You can default them. I also note that in Options.lb, we are currently defaulting ROM_SIZE to 262144, also a mistake (mine). So what we need to do: in src/config/Options.lb, ROM_SIZE should have no default value. If you really want a default size for ROM_SIZE in the mainboard config, then default ROM_SIZE = 524288 in the mainboard file that way, for all my arimas on which I am using 1 MB parts, I can set option ROM_SIZE = 1024*1024 in my target config file. If no objections, I am going to remove the default setting in Options.lb, make the mainboard ROM_SIZE settings defaults, so I can continue to set them in the target config files. thanks ron

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adding epia
by ron minnich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I've added a few things for epia. epia folks please look in freebios2 at src/northbridge/via/vt8601 (not done yet) src/southbridge/via/vt8231 the big thing to look at in the southbridge is how it is set up. The previous code was really out of touch w.r.t. the way you're supposed to do these chips nowadays, so this modified version is worth reading. I'll try to get more done on the mainboard today/tomorrow. ron p.s. freebios2 learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get the hang of it, you will probably like it. It got complicated when the k8 went in.

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epia tree in V2
by ron minnich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I'm putting together an EPIA tree in V2. Give me a couple days. If this works it's definitely what we want to do. It should work. ron

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arima hdama and bus 1
by ron minnich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

What happens is that linuxbios properly scans and enables bus 1, but the linux that boots never scans bus 1 at all. So something is not quite set up right. More as I find it. ron

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A case for your epia
by Ronald G. Minnich 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Desktop/777spec.asp?Product.id=777&Cate.id=14&… $45. So we can get our EPIA with linuxbios from cwlinux.com, and then load them into this case. Might be a way to go. if only we could get 1 Mbyte flash parts for EPIA ... ron

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[FILO] prompt doesn't work...
by NEWBELL7＠magicn.com 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, long time no see. I did build a filo with default config. ( make & make ) serial debug message is like below. But I can't type any command. VGA Console prompt has also the same problem. My Board is likely to EPIA 5000. Does FILO use only PS/2 keyboard as Input Device Driver? FILO !!! Good Idea . Thanks ... from newbie. ======================================================================== == FILO version 0.2 ( newbell@VIPER <mailto:newbell@VIPER> ) Thu Sep 25 09:18:26 KST 2003 Press <Enter> for default boot, or <Esc> for boot prompt... timed out boot: hda1:/boot/kernel.elf Unknown filesystem type boot:

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