Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Jon, is your BK repository offline? Early this morning I needed to resynch my cloned posting with yours, following your excellent instructions, (CF. Also on March 26, 2005), and I received a "Connection timed out error" message.
However, the same thing happens with regards to the clone made following the instructions from the company, so I'm thinking its my ISP acting up.
When you get a chance can you create a tar file of your ROM posting app? If you want to send it to me as an FTP transfer, rather then as an attachment, I've got an FTP server running here, it can accept uploads. Write me off list with the details you'll need, and I'll do the same. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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On Behalf Of Jon Smirl Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:36 PM To: Jesse Barnes; Kendall Bennett; Benjamin Herrenschmidt; linuxbios@openbios.org Subject: [LinuxBIOS] New version of ROM posting app
I put two new posting apps, a vm86 version and emu86 version out on: bk://mesa3d.bkbits.net/rom
Get klibc from: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/
Install it somewhere and build it. You need to make a link to the kernel source in the top level klibc directory. In this directory
make
a link from the klibc-xxx directory to klibc.
Both projects will then build. v86bios uses vm86 to run the rom post uses emu86
Use an environment variable to pick the card to be acted on: export DEVPATH=/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0
vm86 is 20K non-debug emu86 is 40K non-debug
Currently they don't use Ben's VGA arbiter which isn't ready yet.
When
finished these app will automatically be triggered on driver load as part of the hotplug process.
The source to vm86 is from the linux BIOS project where is has been worked on to make it substantially smaller. I like to keep everyone
on
the same source code base if possible.
Once we get these cleaned up and working I'm hoping to get them
added
to the klibc project. Once in klibc, klibc is schedule to go into
the
kernel sooner or later.
They are both partially working but fail part way through the
posting
process. I've been playing with them a couple of days and I can't figure out why they are failing. They are both failing for different reasons. Can anyone help?
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com
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