Re: Lex CV860A (was: The 'help me!' form on http://www.linuxbios.org/help/index.html is broken)

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Erik Smit wrote:
> LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0Fallback Fri Jun 4 00:34:01 CEST 2004 starting... 
>  87 is the comm register 
>  SMBus controller enabled 
>  vt8601 init starting 
>  00000000 is the north 
>                       1106 0601 
>  0120d4 is the computed timing 
>                               NOP 
>  PRECHARGE 
>  DUMMY READS 
>  CBR 
>  MRS 
>  NORMAL 
>  set ref. rate 
>  enable multi-page open 
>  Slot 00 is SDRAM 20000000 bytes  
>  0100 is the chip size 
>  000e is the MA type 
>  Slot 01smbus_error: 04 
>  Device Error 
>   is empty 
>  Slot 02smbus_error: 04 
>  Device Error 
>   is empty 
>  Slot 03smbus_error: 04 
>  Device Error 
>   is empty 
>  vt8601 done
>
> Then it starts to constantly repeat this:
>  00:06 11 01 06 06 00 90 22 05 00 00 06 00 00 00 00  
>  10:08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  20:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  30:00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  40:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  50:ac 08 80 00 00 00 40 40 4e 00 00 00 40 40 40 40  
>  60:3f 00 00 30 e4 e4 e4 00 42 ac 65 0d 08 7f 00 00  
>  70:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  80:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  90:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  a0:02 00 20 00 03 02 00 07 00 00 00 00 08 02 00 00  
>  b0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  c0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  d0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  e0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
>  f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

I've tried different payloads but the same stuff happens. Anything I can
> do about this?

it found the memory and I think is programming it incorrectly.

Sorry for the previous wrong comment.
> Also, I've checked out the freebios(1) source and build an EPIA rom from
> this and this does probably boot with the same filo payload and actually
> boots a linux kernel and works, yay!

ok, weird.
> Also2, the cvs checkout of today still give this error on building:
>
> /opt/linuxbios/freebios2/src/arch/i386/boot/pirq_routing.c: In function `check_pirq_routing_table':
> /opt/linuxbios/freebios2/src/arch/i386/boot/pirq_routing.c:21: error: assignment of read-only variable `intel_irq_routing_table'
> /opt/linuxbios/freebios2/src/arch/i386/boot/pirq_routing.c:42: error: assignment of read-only member `checksum'
> make[1]: *** [pirq_routing.o] Error 1

Ollie or Stepan or Greg or David or I need to fix this. Anyone?

ron