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OT: Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM PCI on Linux Framebuffer w/o Option Rom?
by Lee 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Dear LinuxBiosers, I'm afraid this topic is a bit off topic, but I thought you guys would be the best to ask as LinuxBios doesn't load option roms. I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Dram PCI card which I have removed the option rom from (and placed in an antistatic foam eprom case.) I want to use it for dual monitor support, but had to remove the option rom as it wasn't designed for multi-card operation. I am wondering if this thing can be used with Linux's framebuffer support?? My other card is a Nvidia GeForce2 64MB AGP. I figure I may have to assign it some settings, I'm not sure. I haven't put it into the target machine yet, but I have tested it booting with a Cirrus Logic 5422 w/ Option Rom on a different machine and it is detected by 95, but not used. Thanking you in advance, Lee Edward Causier.

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PCI: No IRQ Known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq
by David Xiong 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

I have Linuxbios boot from DOC successfuly. But I can not get my 2-channel-video-monitor-card up. When I load the driver, it shows PCI: No IRQ Known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq The driver can not get IRQ, and it can not work. If I boot from BIOS with the same kernel , the card can work correctly. I noticed that BIOS set IRQ into the card but linuxbios does not do so. Can you tell me what shall I do? Thanks a lot. David Xiong

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PCChips M758LMR+
by Todd E. Johnson 29 Sep '02

29 Sep '02

Hello folks, I have the PCChips M758LMR+, and I am extremely interested in this excellent project! Does anyone have example LinuxBios boot times with this board? While grepping for additional information to get started, I came across: http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/config/index.html However, it does not contain this board, as well, I encounter a 404 when attempting to create a config for another board. Besides the FAQ, are there any other resources to help me get started with this system? Thanks in advance! Regards, Todd E. Johnson http://www.groomlakelabs/grandamp/ tejohnson(a)yahoo.com

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noob
by Trung Hoang 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

im quite a noob at linuxbios. i read about it in a cool magazine or somewhere =B i went to the website. and went to download. but it points me to sourceforge, where i can download FREEBIOS. is this an alias for lunixBios or something or what am i missing here? cheers

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ASUS A7M
by Ian Molton 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Hi. Can I use LinuxBIOS on an ASUS A7M ? how do you tweak settings like CAS latency / things like that when using LinuxBIOS ?

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UPX + linuxbios....
by Eric W Biederman 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Not long ago, I worked my way through the upx code, and figured out what I needed to do to use it in another project. And started using that as the decompressor for etherboot. Today I have gone through and replaced the copy from rom to ram in crt0.base with a decompression step. This allows me to compress all of the C code when it is stored in the rom chip, and only decompress it as it is copied to RAM. The upx decompressor is roughly 180 bytes. And I get a compression ratio of about 2:1 When I start compiling in a lot of debug messages, or the intel microcode updates this compressor gives me a lot more room to work with. I reduced my footprint on the E7500 port by 20KB :) This interacts badly with my implementation of the cache as ram trick but that code wasn't stable enough to really trust. :( And in theory since I am moving less data off of the rom chip things should go even faster. Eric

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One question about this project still remains to be answered
by Gregg C Levine 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

Hello again from Gregg C Levine Would someone correct me, if I am wrong? These clusters, they are part of the Beowulf project, that Donald Becker originally developed using commodity PCs, complete with their original headaches? I went over the front page at www.beowulf.org and it clarified the issues only part of the way. I have here a copy of his original CD, as based on Red Hat 6.2 and so far even it has failed to enlighten me. ------------------- 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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[Fwd: Re: Lab to sample Linux for weapons work]
by Bari Ari 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Lab to sample Linux for weapons work Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:06:56 -0400 From: Velocet <math(a)velocet.ca> To: beowulf(a)beowulf.org References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209261548330.8588-100000(a)hydrogen.leitl.org> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:49:39PM +0200, Eugen Leitl's all... > There's a major difference compared with Livermore system, though: The Los > Alamos machine has no hard drives. Instead, each computer fires up using > software pulled over the network with the assistance of software called > LinuxBIOS developed by LANL programmer Ron Minnich and others. LinuxBIOS > also dramatically speeds the startup process to about two seconds, said > Jason Lowry, Linux NetworX's product manager for cluster management tools. And what filesystem are they using for this? Surely its not NFS! Must be some sort of cluster filesystem no? Anyone know? Something open sourced? What decent clustre filesystems are out there? /kc > > Shunning hard drives cuts cost and power consumption, but more > importantly, it improves reliability, Roundy said. > > "If you think about what things are going to fail in a system, it's the > hard disk or fan or power supply or something with moving parts," Roundy > said. > > Linux NetworX could benefit greatly from convincing the Los Alamos and > Livermore labs that Linux clusters are worthwhile. The labs are funded by > the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which > has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to advance supercomputing using > machines made of comparatively inexpensive components. > > The DOE program has underwritten many of the world's fastest computers, > according to university researchers who monitor raw calculation speed at > the Top500 organization. The program has underwritten Nos. 2, 6, 7, 9, 11, > and 15 on the most recent ranking. > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf(a)beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Ken Chase, math(a)velocet.ca * Velocet Communications Inc. * Toronto, CANADA _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf(a)beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

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Linuxbios on a webpad ?
by Jest 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Hi, I'd like to know if you think it would be feasible without too much trouble to use linuxbios on Frontpath's Progear webpad. The whole thing is actually usable on linux, the input is the touchscreen or an usb device. No distro ( linux from scratch ). The CPU is a transmeta crusoeTM3200, and here s the /proc/pci : PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Transmeta Corporation Northbridge (rev 1). Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfc0fffff]. Bus 0, device 4, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio (rev 1). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24. I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc100000 [0xfc100fff]. Bus 0, device 5, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 1). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=168. Max Lat=5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10000000 [0x10000fff]. Bus 0, device 6, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM710 LynxEM (rev 163). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfdffffff]. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev 0). Bus 0, device 15, function 0: IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 195). Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4. I/O at 0x1f0 [0x1ff]. I/O at 0x3f6 [0x3f6]. I/O at 0x170 [0x177]. I/O at 0x376 [0x376]. I/O at 0x1400 [0x140f]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU (rev 0). Bus 0, device 20, function 0: USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 3). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc101000 [0xfc101fff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: Ethernet controller: PCI device 13d1:ab02 (rev 17). IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255. I/O at 0x4000 [0x40ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10800000 [0x108003ff]. (note : the ethernet controller is a pcmcia one, just forget it) -Thierry-

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[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB]]
by Bari Ari 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"] Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400 From: Thomas Chen <tchen(a)on-go.com> To: Bari Ari <bari(a)onelabs.com> CC: lart <lart(a)lart.tudelft.nl> References: <3D92A629.3010606(a)onelabs.com> that is not true.... i have armboot booting uclinux on atmel eb40, oki and a customed dev board.... quite nice... i looked at blob myself and thought armboot was much easier to work with Bari Ari wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB" > Date: 26 Sep 2002 14:01:56 +0800 > From: ollie lho > To: Nicholas Mistry > CC: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > References: <3D920BDB.6080508(a)onelabs.com> > <1826.63.214.79.152.1033017219.squirrel(a)65.85.27.130> > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:13, Nicholas Mistry wrote: > >> Just for the record, i have worked extensively with blob. Especially >> during the StrongARM port of linux. >> >> The IPAQ 36xx, 37xx, 38xx handhelds are based off the Intel >> Assabet/Neponset Development platform. The assabet is a StrongARM 1110 >> chip, and the neponset a 1111 chip. >> >> I currently own one of these, and i have to say its a nice setup. >> After i >> got my IPAQ 3870, i put the Assabet/Neponset hardware asside. >> >> BLOB is a great little bootloader. It has definitely come a long way in >> the past year. The one thing that i disliked about it was the mechanics >> for updating flash. But i am sure they have worked that out by now. >> > > Do you know if Blob can load uClinux ?? I found that most of the ARM > bootloaders only support ARM-Linux. (Am I wrong ??) > > Ollie > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lart" in > the body of a message to majordomo(a)lart.tudelft.nl > Please read the LART FAQ at http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/faq.php3

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