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[COMMIT] fixes for linuxbios_c.ld,vt8601,vt8231,serial post and epia
by Andrew Ip 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

Thanks to Kevin Hester for the patch arch/i386/include/arch/intel.h lib/subr.c - fixed postcode to serial console northbridge/via/vt8601/raminit.inc - used value from Kevin Hester's reference board to stabilize sdram init config/linuxbios_c.ld - There was a serious problem in the ldsetup scripts. If the BIOS contained an odd length rodata, LD would make a bad stripped file. The objcopy tool deals poorly with sections that are not longword aligned. This resulted in the BIOS almost working, but it would be referencing the wrong offsets for some key data. superio/via/vt8231/setup_ethernet.inc mainboard/via/epia/Config - enable ethernet before spci enum in order to get mem and io space assigned mainboard/via/epia/mainboard.c - added pci_routing_fixup superio/via/vt8231/superio.c - updated to pci direct interface -Andrew -- Andrew Ip Email: aip(a)cwlinux.com Tel: (852) 2542 2046 Fax: (852) 2542 2036 Mobile: (852) 9201 9866 Cwlinux Limited Unit 202B 2/F Lai Cheong Factory Building, 479-479A Castle Peak Road, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: (852)2542 2046 Fax: (852)2542 2036 For public pgp key, please obtain it from http://www.keyserver.net/en.

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has anyone tries this bios on SC2200 from National Semiconductor?
by Yogesh Desai 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

Dear All, Has anyone tries this bios on SC2200 from National Semiconductor? We plan to use Leneo embeddix on SC2200 we plan to use expressloader from national and customise for linux.Will it work? yogesh

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Help: Building LinuxBIOS for VIA EPIA
by Andy Mercier 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

I have a CVS snapshot that I've decompressed. It has the latest changes from Andrew Ip but I don't see any changes in it from Kevin Hester who, on 10/29, said he had some patches. I've been lurking in the email list for some time and see that Andrew Ip and Kevin Hester have made progress with the VIA EPIA. This would be my first build with what they have; so, I'm a newbie to CVS and LinuxBIOS. I'm fairly knowledgable about Linux and some revision control systems that run on other operating systems (PVCS, RCS). Although CVS is recommended for getting the files, I would hope that the snapshot can be workable but I don't know how. Currently, I don't have a CVS client running so, if possible, I'd like to have a way to use the snapshot. I'm trying to get this built but there are no instructions for the VIA EPIA board. So, I decided to look at the HOWTO for K7SEM. It says that the kernel is supposed to be patched. I don't see a VIA EPIA patch for the kernel, is there supposed to be one? I'm looking to use either kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 but to match other progress with VIA EPIA I'll use what ever kernel I'm supposed to. I want to just get caught up to Andrew Ip's last issue - IRQ table.. Is there some LinuxBIOS file I need to read that I haven't yet? The CVS snapshot decompressed has resulted files with ",v" and suspect there's some other step that I may have missed to get these files with the correct filenames for make? Thanks in advance. Andy

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RE: EPIA DOC - Via wont give out info..
by David Barr 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

FWIW: EMJ America Inc. ( http://www.emjembedded.com ) has told me that they will have the new M-Systems MD-2802-D08 DiskOnChip "Millenium Module", 8MB available in mid-November for $23 USD / ea. It's supposed to be the "same" as the M-Systems MD-2800-D08 DiskOnChip "Millenium", 8MB. Whether or not that is an accurate statement remains to be seen. I can't order a 2800 anywhere, to compare. -dBarr. >All my efforts to find out anything from via about the DOC option on >their >EPIA Motherboards has gone in veign. They say that the DOC option is >discontinued, and that they will not release any info. > >BOO! > >I guess the next thing to do is break out the logic analyzer and see what >the pad does on startup. Either that or buy a DOC chip and see if it >works.. > >Anyone have any other suggestions? > >-N

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Help: Building LinuxBIOS for VIA EPIA
by Andy 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

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RFC IDE write
by steven james 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

Greetings, I'm in some final testing for the first cut of the baremetal toolkit for LinuxBIOS, and have come to a decision point. In one of my applications, I need to write to the IDE drive from firmware. It was easy enough to add that to the polling driver in LinuxBIOS. The toolkit uses the same source as LinuxBIOS itself whenever possible. The question: Is it desirable to have write capability in LinuxBIOS. Since being able to write introduces new danger, should it be turned on only by setting an option? As for the toolkit itself, it is about ready to commit. It is a self contained small directory tree with it's own makefile. Any preferences on where it goes in the LinuxBIOS tree? util/baremetal? G'day, sjames -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 701 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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EPIA DOC - Via wont give out info..
by Nicholas Mistry 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

All my efforts to find out anything from via about the DOC option on their EPIA Motherboards has gone in veign. They say that the DOC option is discontinued, and that they will not release any info. BOO! I guess the next thing to do is break out the logic analyzer and see what the pad does on startup. Either that or buy a DOC chip and see if it works.. Anyone have any other suggestions? -N

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[ANNOUNCE] mkelfImage-1.18
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

Available at: ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/src/mkelfImage/mkelfImage-1.18.tar.gz rpm -tb mkelfImage-1.18.tar.gz to build an rpm. binutils continues to give mkelfImage a hard time. And this fixes the latest batch of problems. Appearently 2.13 has a larger set of symbols in different sections that it will not subtract so I have moved a litte more the math into the linker script. Eric

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[ANNOUNCE] Second paper on BIOS Interrupts as used by Windows XP.
by Adam Sulmicki 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

Hello, I am pleased to announce release of the second paper which study interrupts usage by Windows XP. It should help us in our efforts to add support for legacy applications, such as Windows XP, under LinuxBIOS. You can find the paper here: http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/winint/index2.html Some of the people from the list should find their names in the Acknowledgments section. If you don't see your name there (and you contributed to the paper) drop me an email. We have fairly advanced prototype system running house and we exepect release fairly soon. Adam Sulmicki -- Adam http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers

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who can solve 100MHz FSB problem of winfast6300
by zhu shi song 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

linuxbios now can't support 100MHz FSB of winfast6300. Who can solve the problem or give clear clues to solve it? So linuxbios can support 850MHz celeron. thanks zhu __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2

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