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ECS K7S5A
by root 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hello everyone! I would like to get my ECS K7S5A working with linuxbios! I noticed that this board in not in the list of supported mainboards, so is there any way I can help you guys to support it without destroying it? Anyways, this is what lspci says: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) 00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0) //-----the folling components are pci or agp devices:-----> 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 Ti] (rev a4) And, besides that, I got another question; is it possible to boot the kernel out of the eeprom (that chip where the bios is stored at) and mount the root filesystem over NFS? I'd Imagine it would be quite a lot of work to upgrade the kernel but that would be pretty neat.... thanks in advance! -Marek

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mail bounce fixed; question on NatSemi IRQ routing.
by Ronald G. Minnich 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

If you tried to send me mail and it bounced, try again. I've hit a snag with 2.4.19 and the natsemi chip on the geode cards. It looks like a bug in 2.4.19 to me. The scenario is this: PCM 5823-A2, using linuxbios and etherboot. I etherboot 2.4.17, and get this at PCI config Linux version 2.4.17-lanl.10customslave (root@localhost) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #9 Wed Jun 19 11:17:05 MDT 2002 . . . PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router NatSemi [1078/0100] at 00:12.0 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:13.0 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0 So the ethernet device (0:b.0) gets IRQ 9. On 2.4.19, same .config file, everything else the same: Linux version 2.4.19-geode-2 (rminnich@mini) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 . . . PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router NatSemi [1078/0100] at 00:12.0 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 IRQ routing conflict for 00:13.0, have irq 9, want irq 10 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0 Same board, same linuxbios, same etherboot, but the kernel gets the wrong IRQ information. Anybody else seen this or have an ideas? This is weird. I'm madly doing diff -U on the relevant places but see nothing yet. ron

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Maximum flash size with a vt8231
by Yves Godin 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the maximum flash size supported by the vt8231 ? Thnaks ! Yves

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bios savior for via eden
by Jody Belka 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, Does anyone know which model of the bios savior is needed for via eden motherboards? I would like to try out LinuxBIOS, but would like to have an easy way back if anything goes wrong. Jody

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m758lmr+
by James Alton 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

About that last email I sent regarding the IT8705F and the SiS950, someone should add a directory freebios/src/superio/ITE/it8705f with a README explaining that the chipset is supported by freebios/src/superio/sis/950 (They are an identical chip, the SiS950 is actually a IT8705F clone.) This would help future people from being confused. - James Alton - jalton(a)olsh.cx

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m758lmr+
by James Alton 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Whoops. Please disregard the last message I sent about the ITE IT8705F. I just realized the SiS950 is the same thing and it is right there in the CVS. - James Alton - jalton(a)olsh.cx

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RE: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.
by Phil Brooks 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Ron, Is this the Advanced Digital Logic MSMP3-S? I had been talking to Gary Karns at ADL about getting the Linuxbios running on our system. We are using the MSMP5 (PII/266) - Gary tells me they use the same board, only the processor and graphics chip are different - and I don't know how this will interact with linuxbios. We are looking to use linuxbios on our medical monitoring system, mainly for (boot) speed issues. I am happy to help out with development tasks, provided I am comfortable with level of effort needed. I will touch bases with Gary on this. Thanks Phil Phil Brooks - Software Engineer Olympic Medical 206-268-5119 philb(a)olymed.com -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:47 PM To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started. This is a PIII?750 in a PC/104 form factor. Fast! This one was a pain. Where it stands: - it is up, but I have to set IOBASE to 0x2000. There is hardware (ACPI) at 0x1000 that I can't get to turn off, it seems. This problem has never cropped up on piix4e before, so I'm not sure what happened here - etherboot still can't work the ethernet interface. But it can load from IDE, and Linux has no troubles at all, so we put a beoboot Phase 1 boot in CF and let etherboot load Linux, which then boots. Other than that it works fine. I'm working on a better solution to these problems. On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.
by Ronald G Minnich 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

This is a PIII?750 in a PC/104 form factor. Fast! This one was a pain. Where it stands: - it is up, but I have to set IOBASE to 0x2000. There is hardware (ACPI) at 0x1000 that I can't get to turn off, it seems. This problem has never cropped up on piix4e before, so I'm not sure what happened here - etherboot still can't work the ethernet interface. But it can load from IDE, and Linux has no troubles at all, so we put a beoboot Phase 1 boot in CF and let etherboot load Linux, which then boots. Other than that it works fine. I'm working on a better solution to these problems. On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. ron

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RE: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.
by "Hammond, Jean-François" 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Hi, I am porting the linux bios to the evaluation board SBC8240. This is almost the same processor has the MAC but a little bit smaller. This board looks like a PC without a box, keyboard and mouse. Have a nice day! Jean-François Hammond Software Designer Mindready Solutions inc. 2800, avenue Marie-Curie Saint-Laurent (Québec) Canada H4S 2C2 Tel. : (1) 514-339-1394 ext. 2121 Fax. : (1) 514-339-1376 mailto:jean-francois.hammond@mindready.com www.mindready.com -----Original Message----- From: ollie lho [mailto:ollie@sis.com.tw] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:01 PM To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:46, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. > Cool, are you working on an off the shelf MAC ?? Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Re: RE: More details on the Eden support
by Jody Belka 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

My eden motherboard has a PLCC socket, and the image of an eden motherboard on the via website (http://www.viavpsd.com/product/4/8/epia_mini_itx_H.jpg) shows a socket as well, so i'm assuming that all of the eden boards do. I'm also going to get a bios savior for it which will make hot-swapping as easy as pie. This only costs about £30, so is well worth getting. Jody ------- Original Message -------- From: steve(a)nexpath.com Subject: RE: More details on the Eden support Date: 30/10/02 10:10 A number of the Giga-byte boards seem to have the bios soldered, in particular the the GA-6VEML (the Walmart $199 computer). The Via Eden appears to also but I am just looking at the photo. For the EPIA, if you bongo the PLCC (socketed), you'll need another PLCC bios mobo to fix it and hot swapping a PLCC has got to require a deft touch. -Steve

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