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Intel Clearwater motherboard.
by Yaroslav Klyukin 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Hello everybody! I have just subscribed to this mailing list. I am new to linuxbios and this project seems to have good prospectives. I have just built romimage for Intel Clearwater motherboard and tried to flash it into the bios, but Intel flash utility (phlash) refused to do that. I failed to find any procedure or documentation for this motherboard on how to make this motherboard work with linuxbios. All i have right now is sources, which i have been examining during the past several days. They seem to compile ok, so i want to flash at this point. I know that common practice is to use disk on chip, but this motherboard has zif flash socket instead of dip one. Please, tell me how to flash romimage into flash. Thank you in advance. Yaroslav Klyukin, Linux Systems Administrator - slava(a)microway.com Microway Inc., High Performance Computing - http://www.microway.com/

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Re: are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question
by Antony Stone 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 9:37 pm, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > what about that disc on chip device: how much does it cost more or less? In the UK they cost about GBP20 - so I guess that's about EUR30 / USD30 in the rest of the world... > Why can't we use a normal FLASH memory like the ones used to store a > standard BIOS? Because they do not have a large enough capacity. Standard BIOS chips are 2megabits (= 32 kilobytes), which is not neough to hold a Linux kernel. > I can think those chips provide particular features, but > which ones exactly? The main thing which DoC does which you can't do with standard Flash Roms is to format them as a Silicon Disc, and put a file system into them. > Aren't common flash/eeprom chips much easier to find > and cheaper to buy? Yes, but they're too small. > An external programmer could be needed (like for the > eproms of etherboot) but most people could have access to such a device. You can program a Flash Rom chip on your motherboard - no external programmer needed - that's how you upgrade the BIOS even if you're not doing anything with LinuxBIOS. Antony. -- If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, get a garden.

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Via EPIA frame buffer stuff
by Amaury Jacquot 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

dunno if this would be useful in any way, but there is some available code here http://epiafb.sourceforge.net/ Sincerely Amaury

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current status of the Via EPIA
by Amaury Jacquot 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Hi, I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car. It currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/ I am wondering if linux bios would help me in accelerating the boot time Sincerely Amaury

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linuxbios binaries
by Alessio Sangalli 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Hi, I was wondering if there were avaiable prepackaged binaries for Linuxbios ROMs. I don't want rpm of course (!) but I think that a linuxbios image configured to boot from hda(1?) for a specific motherboard (the pcchips one seems to be quite popular) may be very useful; perhaps there are many configuration parameters, but I guess resoanable defaults can be set and one would recompile everything only if specific customizations are needed. bye, thank you as

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RE: Boot from etherboot - blocked by INT 10
by Lawrence LL. Dai 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Thanks a lot! I will try it! :) Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] Sent: 2003?1?10? 15:38 To: LinuxBIOS Cc: Lawrence LL. Dai Subject: Re: Boot from etherboot - blocked by INT 10 "Lawrence LL. Dai" <lawrence(a)tyanchina.com> writes: > Hi, Eric > > I suppose that mknbi and mkelf would also cause this problem.Because > they both tag a kernel, but the kernel must be the one like vmlinuz and vmlinux > needs BIOS functions such as INT 10. (I know vmlinux does not need INT X, but > vmlinux can not be tagged by mknbi and mkelf. Or I have missed something else?) The difference is mknbi/mkelf that come standard with etherboot when the process the linux kernel start the kernel in 16bit mode and run it's BIOS code, mkelfImage simulates the effect of the 16bit BIOS code by reading LinuxBIOS tables or making the needed BIOS calls itself, and then it enters Linux at it's unofficial 32bit entry point. mkelfImage can take either a bzImage or a vmlinux. Eric

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Re: Boot from etherboot - blocked by INT 10
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

"Lawrence LL. Dai" <lawrence(a)tyanchina.com> writes: > Hi, Eric > > I suppose that mknbi and mkelf would also cause this problem.Because > they both tag a kernel, but the kernel must be the one like vmlinuz and vmlinux > needs BIOS functions such as INT 10. (I know vmlinux does not need INT X, but > vmlinux can not be tagged by mknbi and mkelf. Or I have missed something else?) The difference is mknbi/mkelf that come standard with etherboot when the process the linux kernel start the kernel in 16bit mode and run it's BIOS code, mkelfImage simulates the effect of the 16bit BIOS code by reading LinuxBIOS tables or making the needed BIOS calls itself, and then it enters Linux at it's unofficial 32bit entry point. mkelfImage can take either a bzImage or a vmlinux. Eric

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WANTED: LinuxBIOS capable rack mount servers
by Jeremy Jackson 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Where can I buy 6 rackmount servers 1GHz+ with LinuxBIOS potential? They are for production website, so must be *stable*, if none available with LinuxBIOS then it's back to the old (BIOS) grind. It's just that I have the opportunity to build this from scratch, and I'd like to go LinuxBIOS if possible. 2 need 3 ethernet + DOC roof fs + no disk - router/apache load bal 2 need 2 ethernet + load kernel over net and do NFS root ) webservers 2 need at least 2 disks hotswap SCSI (small database) It would be wonderful to have all 6 the same chassis/motherboard, with the difference being cards/disk plugged in. Also nice would be ability to fall back to vendor bios in case of trouble in testing phase. Delivery must be in 2 weeks at most. Thanks, Jeremy

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RE: about E7501
by Terry B. Chen 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Sorry, I do not mean I have finished the porting, I just read the raminit.inc about E7500, now I am reading E7501 and E7500 Intel bios specification. I try to find the difference between two chipsets. But I am raw in ram initialization. The part is so complex. I want to get help from you. Best Regards Terry Chen -----Original Message----- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:26 PM To: Terry B. Chen Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: about E7501 "Terry B. Chen" <terryc(a)tyanchina.com> writes: > Is anyone interested in E7501? > What is the difference between FSB 533 and 400 in Northbridge? I have a thought > to port E7501 to E7500. Hey before you do that could you give me a copy of your E7501 port? Sorry I could not resist. I doubt the differences are especially large but I have not gone through the documents and looked closely yet. Eric

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PCI-X Board or Chipset recommendataions
by Jeremy Jackson 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Anything in the PCI-X category with LinuxBIOS potential? -- Jeremy Jackson <jerj(a)coplanar.net>

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