Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

[Joe Pub]

Part of my trouble is that when I enable VGA I don't get a boot log,
nothing happens, via serial or vga.  Config.lb for MB is below, and
config.lb for target follows.

------------------ MB config.lb --------------------------

##
## Compute the location and size of where this firmware image
## (linuxBIOS plus bootloader) will live in the boot rom chip.
##
if USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE
 default ROM_SECTION_SIZE   = FALLBACK_SIZE
 default ROM_SECTION_OFFSET = ( ROM_SIZE - FALLBACK_SIZE )
else
 default ROM_SECTION_SIZE   = ( ROM_SIZE - FALLBACK_SIZE )
 default ROM_SECTION_OFFSET = 0
end

##
## Compute the start location and size size of
## The linuxBIOS bootloader.
##
default CONFIG_ROM_PAYLOAD_START = (0xffffffff - ROM_SIZE +
ROM_SECTION_OFFSET + 1)
default PAYLOAD_SIZE            = ( ROM_SECTION_SIZE - ROM_IMAGE_SIZE )

##
## Compute where this copy of linuxBIOS will start in the boot rom
##
default _ROMBASE      = ( CONFIG_ROM_PAYLOAD_START + PAYLOAD_SIZE )

##
## Compute a range of ROM that can cached to speed up linuxBIOS,
## execution speed.
##
## XIP_ROM_SIZE must be a power of 2.
## XIP_ROM_BASE must be a multiple of XIP_ROM_SIZE
##
default XIP_ROM_SIZE=65536
default XIP_ROM_BASE = ( _ROMBASE + ROM_IMAGE_SIZE - XIP_ROM_SIZE )

##
## Set all of the defaults for an x86 architecture
##

arch i386 end

##
## Build the objects we have code for in this directory.
##

driver mainboard.o

if HAVE_PIRQ_TABLE object irq_tables.o end
#object reset.o

##
## Romcc output
##
makerule ./failover.E
 depends "$(MAINBOARD)/failover.c ./romcc"
 action "./romcc -E -O --label-prefix=failover -I$(TOP)/src -I. $(CPPFLAGS)
$(MAINBOARD)/failover.c -o $@"
end

makerule ./failover.inc
 depends "$(MAINBOARD)/failover.c ./romcc"
 action "./romcc    -O --label-prefix=failover -I$(TOP)/src -I. $(CPPFLAGS)
$(MAINBOARD)/failover.c -o $@"
end

makerule ./auto.E
 depends "$(MAINBOARD)/auto.c option_table.h ./romcc"
 action "./romcc -E -mcpu=i386 -O -I$(TOP)/src -I. $(CPPFLAGS)
$(MAINBOARD)/auto.c -o $@"
end
makerule ./auto.inc
 depends "$(MAINBOARD)/auto.c option_table.h ./romcc"
 action "./romcc    -mcpu=i386 -O -I$(TOP)/src -I. $(CPPFLAGS)
$(MAINBOARD)/auto.c -o $@"
end

##
## Build our 16 bit and 32 bit linuxBIOS entry code
##
mainboardinit cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc
mainboardinit cpu/x86/32bit/entry32.inc
ldscript /cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.lds
ldscript /cpu/x86/32bit/entry32.lds

##
## Build our reset vector (This is where linuxBIOS is entered)
##
if USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE
 mainboardinit cpu/x86/16bit/reset16.inc
 ldscript /cpu/x86/16bit/reset16.lds
else
 mainboardinit cpu/x86/32bit/reset32.inc
 ldscript /cpu/x86/32bit/reset32.lds
end

### Should this be in the northbridge code?
mainboardinit arch/i386/lib/cpu_reset.inc

##
## Include an id string (For safe flashing)
##
mainboardinit arch/i386/lib/id.inc
ldscript /arch/i386/lib/id.lds

###
### This is the early phase of linuxBIOS startup
### Things are delicate and we test to see if we should
### failover to another image.
###
if USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE
 ldscript /arch/i386/lib/failover.lds
 mainboardinit ./failover.inc
end

###
### O.k. We aren't just an intermediary anymore!
###

##
## Setup RAM
##
mainboardinit cpu/x86/fpu/enable_fpu.inc
mainboardinit cpu/x86/mmx/enable_mmx.inc
mainboardinit ./auto.inc
mainboardinit arch/i386/llshell/llshell.inc
mainboardinit cpu/x86/mmx/disable_mmx.inc

##
## Include the secondary Configuration files
##
dir /pc80
config chip.h

chip northbridge/intel/i440bx

device pci_domain 0 on
  device pci 0.0 on end     # host bridge
  device pci 1.0 on end     # PCI bridge
  device pci 10.0 on end     # SCSI storage controller
  device pci 11.0 on end     # Ethernet controller
  device pci 12.0 on end     # Audio controller

device pci f.0 on       # VGA controller
   chip drivers/pci/onboard
    device pci f.0 on end
    register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000"
   end
  end

device pci 7.0 on      # ISA bridge
  end
 end

chip cpu/intel/socket_PGA370 end

end

--------------------------------------------------

----------------- config.lb target ---------------

# Config file for asus wkst55 board
# This will make a target directory of ./wkst55

target wkst55
mainboard vmware/wkst55

option ROM_SIZE=(512*1024)-(32*1024)

romimage "normal"
 option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0
 option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000
 option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Normal"
# payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
 payload /etc/hosts
end

romimage "fallback"
 option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=1
 option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000
 option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Fallback"
# payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebia
 payload /etc/hosts
end

buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE "normal" "fallback"

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Regards,

Ceri

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*From:* Lu, Yinghai [mailto:[e-mail]]
*Sent:* 28 February 2007 17:27
*To:* Joe Pub; [e-mail]
*Subject:* RE: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

Boot log and your MB Config.lb?

YH

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*From:* [e-mail] [mailto:
[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *Joe Pub
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:07 AM
*To:* [e-mail]
*Subject:* [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and VMWare

Hi There,

Has anyone had any success with VMWare.  I have partially implemented the
PC87360 SIO chip which has give me serial and I can boot LinuxBIOS up to the
elf payload stage.  I'm trying to get the VMWare VGA to work at no avail.
Has anyone else has success with this.

I have added

default CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1
default CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=1

to the Optionslb file and adjusted the size of the ROM image by -32KB
(sizeof VGA BIOS for VMWare)
and also added

device pci f.0 on                         # VGA controller
            chip drivers/pci/onboard
                device pci f.0 on end
                register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000"
            end
        end

to the Config.lb http://config.lb/.

When I start VMWare with this image though it does nothing but sit there
with no VGA.  I have even enabled serial logging back on using
CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250 but still continue to use CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN but
nothing then even gets written to the serial port.

When does the VGA BIOS rom get called, at what stage?

Regards,
Joe

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