Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:41:06PM +0200, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
thanks for all suggestions so far. I can now boot the board (and my CPU, a "Brisbane") with the following modifications:
Index: src/cpu/amd/model_fxx/model_fxx_init.c
--- src/cpu/amd/model_fxx/model_fxx_init.c (revision 2699) +++ src/cpu/amd/model_fxx/model_fxx_init.c (working copy) @@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x40f82 }, /* S1g1:Turion64 x2 */ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x40ff2 }, /* DH-F2 Socket AM2: Athlon64 */ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x50ff2 }, /* DH-F2 Socket AM2: Athlon64 */
{ X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x60fb1 }, /* DH-F2??? Socket AM2: Athlon64 Brisbane*/ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x40fc2 }, /* S1g1:Turion64 */ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x40f13 }, /* JH-F3 Socket F (1207): Opteron Dual Core */ { X86_VENDOR_AMD, 0x40f33 }, /* AM2 : Opteron Dual Core/Athlon64 x2/ Athlon64 FX Dual Core */
Very interesting. What CPU do you have?
I do not know if this is enough or if some other parameters should be adapted. Some issues remain:
-powernow does not work, and the cpu freq. is at 2.5 GHz (proprietary BIOS: max cpu freq. 2.6 GHz)
Yeah, this is probably due to the lack of acpi.
-having booted with linuxbios, flashroom fails to erase (and therefore flash) any other BIOS
Confirmed. I have the same problem here, but have not been able to find out why yet. Flashrom will *sometimes* work, but most of the time it won't. You can tell during the flash if it is going to work or not; the speed of writing will be too slow or too fast, or it will vary greatly. The writing speed for a successful flash is uniform and moderately fast.
-some problems with X: with the proprietary BIOS the machine freezes using the free nv driver (02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS]). It works with linuxbios, but I have to log in twice with no cursor the first time. The nvidia driver does not work with linuxbios.
Did you add the i2c workaround in xorg.conf? I have not tried the proprietary nvidia driver. The nv driver works for me.
-I had to use the delay in filo.c (cmp. http://www.linuxbios.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial)
Yes.
-it takes quite long to load vmlinuz and the initrd.img. Probably due to: IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY = 1 (?)
Yes. Peter Stuge was working on a patch to speedup FILO. We should revisit that.
-still the "Fallback" bios is booted, although I could not find any difference in the configuration of standard and fallback BIOS. The same file.elf was used.
You can fix that with the lxbios tool; the fallback is just the default.
Thanks, Ward.