Hi All,
I've been seen many requests in the archives for a LinuxBios on N2200 (aka 8363) and apparently when I contacted them, none of them were able to successsfully installed the linuxbios. Before attempting to do the same, I would like to confirm with the experts like Ron for the possibilty. Herewith is some information regarding the N2200 (Geode GX1, CX5530 companion chip).
# cat pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master (rev 0). Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 2). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44801000 [0x44801fff]. Bus 0, device 18, function 0: ISA bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Legacy [Kahlua] (rev 0). Bus 0, device 18, function 1: Bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua] (rev 0). Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40012000 [0x400120ff]. Bus 0, device 18, function 2: IDE interface: Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua] (rev 0). I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc0f]. Bus 0, device 18, function 3: Multimedia audio controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua] (rev 0). Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40011000 [0x4001107f]. Bus 0, device 18, function 4: VGA compatible controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua] (rev 0). Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40800000 [0x40ffffff]. Bus 0, device 19, function 0: USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 6). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44800000 [0x44800fff].
# cat cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 5 model : 7 model name : Cyrix MediaGXtm MMXtm Enhanced stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 233.864 cache size : 16 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx cxmmx bogomips : 466.94
# cat ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 03c0-03df : vesafb 03f6-03f6 : ide0 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 c000-c0ff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet c000-c0ff : sis900 fc00-fc0f : Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua]
# cat iomem 00000000-0009efff : System RAM 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-05ceffff : System RAM 00100000-0024be5b : Kernel code 0024be5c-002d6663 : Kernel data 40011000-4001107f : Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua] 40012000-400120ff : Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua] 40800000-40ffffff : Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua] 40800000-40895fff : vesafb 44800000-44800fff : Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB 44800000-44800fff : usb-ohci 44801000-44801fff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet 44801000-44801fff : sis900
# cat fb 0 VESA VGA
# cat devices 0000 10780001 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0070 10390900 a 0000c001 44801000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00020000 sis900 0090 10780100 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0091 10780101 0 40012000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0092 10780102 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000fc01 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000 00000000 0093 10780103 0 40011000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0094 10780104 0 40800000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00800000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0098 0e11a0f8 b 44800000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 usb-ohci
# dmesg Linux version 2.4.27 (root@debian) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Mon Jan 15 02:42:39 PHT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000005cf0000 (usable) 92MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 23792 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 19696 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. DMI not present. Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda1 V=640x480 D=16 ip=192.168.1.8:0.0.0.0:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.0:localhost:eth0 load_ramdisk=1 n1=0.0.0.0 n2=0.0.0.0 pf=2 vga=4 No local APIC present or hardware disabled Initializing CPU#0 Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs. Detected 233.864 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS Memory: 91392k/95168k available (1327k kernel code, 3388k reserved, 554k data, 108k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs. CPU: After generic, caps: 00808131 00818131 00000000 00000001 CPU: Common caps: 00808131 00818131 00000000 00000001 CPU: Cyrix MediaGXtm MMXtm Enhanced stepping 04 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: none PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Fixup for MediaGX/Geode Slave Disconnect Boundary (0x41=0x9c) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS not found. Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 vesafb: framebuffer at 0x40800000, mapped to 0xc680d000, size 600k vesafb: mode is 640x480x8, linelength=640, pages=11 vesafb: scrolling: redraw Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled loop: loaded (max 8 devices) sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003 PCI: Enabling device 00:0e.0 (0005 -> 0007) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0e.0 to 64 eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xc000, IRQ 10, 00:06:29:23:e9:b5. Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 57M agpgart: no supported devices found. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdb: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored hda: SanDisk SDCFB-64, CFA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 125440 sectors (64 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=980/4/32 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:13.0 to 64 host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc68a6000, IRQ 11 host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:13.0, Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik vojtech@suse.cz hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers pegasus.c: v0.4.32 (2003/06/06):Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver usb.c: registered new driver pegasus rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.4.3 (2002/12/31) usb.c: registered new driver rtl8150 catc.c: v2.8 CATC EL1210A NetMate USB Ethernet driver usb.c: registered new driver catc kaweth.c: Driver loading usb.c: registered new driver kaweth CDCEther.c: CDCEther.c: 0.98.6 7 Jan 2002 Brad Hards and another usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther usb.c: registered new driver usbnet usb.c: registered new driver serial usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan PDA usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan PDA - (prerenumeration) keyspan_pda.c: USB Keyspan PDA Converter driver v1.1 usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Belkin / Peracom / GoHubs USB Serial Adapter belkin_sa.c: USB Belkin Serial converter driver v1.2 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) eth0: Media Link Off IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.8, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=localhost, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=255.255.255.255, rootpath= NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Thanks and best regards, Veneraldo