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Status report....
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

I am slowly putting together a working LinuxBIOS development tree. I have romcc up and working and initializing memory on my target hammer board. The memory configuration completely hard coded but it works. I am using gcc's C preprocessor because I need the ability to stringize a macro to print out the LinuxBIOS version string, and I don't feel like implementing macros with arguments and all of the little quirks right now. One of my first steps is making hardwaremain generic and in just starting that and looking at it's dependencies I have found a huge mess of code that needs to be cleaned up. Just a small taste. Why are the I/O primitives in cpu/p5/io.h and not directly in arch/io.h? And why to we have piles of code in that header that are ifdefed out. Most of the code left over from the earliest days of LinuxBIOS is similarly nasty. There is a list that goes on and on, and tomorrow I will get serious about cleaning it out. With a little luck I am maybe a week out from having my hammer code being self hosting. That is a week out from gluing the LinuxBIOS tree back together enough that I can load etherboot and have normal and fallback images. At which point I should have enough bandwidth to get the last of the little things I care about resolved in on the stable branch. I would worry about that more but my primary responsibility at this point is to get the Hammer port up and going. Eric

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the p4dpe-g2 build problem
by Ronald G. Minnich 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

get_option is defined for the moto clock chip. That is not included in the p4dpe-g2 build any more. I'll try to get something going however. ron

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Booting other OS from Linux
by Jose M. Rus 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

Hi, I'm working on a project that could be viewed as an extended boot loader. Lilo and Grub are fine boot loaders, but a Linux application can do a lot more things, like restoring image partitions for example. For this I need to shutdown Linux cleanly and start another OS (partition) instantly without the BIOS ever knowing it, but I'm not looking to replace the BIOS code like you do, I left to the user the choice of using her motherboard BIOS code of your own Linuxbios code before the first boot. "kexec" and "Two kernel Monte" can load another linux kernels, I need to boot Linux, windows and others OSes from Linux. Maybe you have already done what I'm looking for or you have worked on part of it, so I like to hear your advice. Regards, Jose M. Rus

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mainboard status on the web page
by ron minnich 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

I have updated it from the latest CVS. Will owners please take a look and tell me what's missing. I know I have to get some of you who don't do commits in there and I will get to that this week. I'm finally back on the job of keeping the web page up to date after we moved it so things should be better now. ron

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Error ...
by Denis Pilon 20 Apr '03

20 Apr '03

I've got linuxbios somewhat working with the SuperMicro X5DPE-G2, but I have discovered one problem. If I run lm_sensors and initialize the chips, the node will not reboot. It gives me a no memory error at boot. Has anyone seen this? How do I start debuggin ? Denis

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RE: Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards
by Schafer, Christopher L 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

Unfortunatally it is the only way to build raid arrays on the controllers. You can recover arrays from the os but not build them. I will contact 3ware and see what they think... Thanks -----Original Message----- From: steven james [mailto:pyro@linuxlabs.com] Sent: Wed 3/26/2003 3:20 PM To: Schafer, Christopher L Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards Greetings, The 7501 chipset is supported, but the setup will probably need some tweaking for the Supermicro. Currently, it's for Intel Clearwater (se7501sw2). The 2Ware BIOS tools will likely not work under LinuxBIOS. Are they actually necessary, or just a convieniance (I've not worked with it)? G'day, sjames On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote: > Linux BIOS Team, > > I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro > boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers > bios tools if one is using linux BIOS? > > Thanks, > > Chris Schafer > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 2701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Using LinuxBIOS to boot other kernels
by Gregg C Levine 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

Hello again from Gregg C Levine Regarding the OSkit kernels. Has anyone attempted to use an appropriate Linux BIOS image to boot an OSkit kernel? I know Eric looked into that kernel project a while ago, but has anyone else looked into it? ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )

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Via Epia 5000 research.
by Sean Dembrosky 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

(perhaps replies/forwards can be cc: to seandembrosky(a)hotmail.com ? thanks!) I have only recently begun researching Linux and BIOS modifications, and your group is doing exactly what I would love to be involved with and researching myself, but my interests are on the other end of the spectrum - flex/mini ATX formfactors for specific, small uses (router, DVD player, MP3 player, etc., all loading from a modded BIOS that loads the OS via TFTP/NFS, all diskless) I believe some flavor of your LinuxBIOS could be paired wonderfully with the via EPIA line of mainboards, specifically with the 5000 product... http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21 Do you have plans to research implementing your genius on this mainboard? If so, how can I help! If not, do you have any suggestions or ideas of where I should go in order to research my own experimentations? And good luck with this amazing idea, I feel quite confident that you will have tremendous success with this, and you deserve it for all the hard work it must have taken! _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Aaeon GENE-6310 support?
by Robert Feldbauer 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

Wondering if anyone has worked on support for Aaeon's GENE-6310? I tried using the form on the site, but got an error - "The requested URL /cgi-bin/linuxbios/help.cgi was not found on this server." lspci output for the GENE-6310: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [ProSavage PM133] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [PM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C380 [ProSavageDDR K4M266] (rev 02) Bob Feldbauer feldbauerr(a)daisydata.com

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help for LinuxBIOS!!!!!
by kewal karavinkoppa 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

hi friends, i am an undergraduate student, studing computer science, from INDIA. i along with my friends are doing a project on LinuxBIOS, so we need some help with this reguard... currently we are facing the problem to chose the motherboard to select.. so can u please help... Thank you....... _________________________________________________________________ Catch the Oscar fever. See winners & losers. http://server1.msn.co.in/MSNSpecials/oscar2003/index.asp Right here

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