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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Corey Osgood)
   2. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (yhlu)
   3. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Stefan Reinauer)
   4. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (Stefan Reinauer)
   5. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server ([e-mail])
   6. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (yhlu)
   7. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Adam Talbot)
   8. Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (Richard Wei)
   9. Re: Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (yhlu)
  10. Re: Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (Richard Wei)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:21:37 -0400
From: Corey Osgood 
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r
To: Stefan Reinauer 
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Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Corey Osgood  [070729 17:08]:
> > It's fixed and booting very happily now, thanks!
>
> is that on a C7?

Yes, c7, cn700, vt8237r. No video yet and USB is causing kernel
warnings, but I can log in and use the system through serial.

-Corey

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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:23:54 -0700
From: yhlu 
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server
To: "Stefan Reinauer" 
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On 7/29/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > I've lost cpu frequency control (no powernow-k8) so now both my
> > >
> > > CPUs are running flat out at 3000 MHz. Core temperatures are
> > > hovering just  below 70C (63C and 67C).
> >
> > I just had a look at arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c and
> > it currently depends on ACPI and the BIOS keeping a table of
> > parameters that it needs;
>
> ...
> > Once the table has been initialized in the driver ACPI is not used
> > at all - the real work is done using rdmsr() and wrmsr().
> >
> > I think it would be easy enough to change the initialization so that
> > ACPI is not required.
>
> And it means the kernel driver has to maintain alll the tables for all
> CPU revisions and options.
> > AMD: Are these tables board dependent? Why not put the tables,
> > arranged by cpuid, into the powernow driver and do without ACPI?
>
> I am not AMD, but I guess it is preferred to do the efford once instead
> of once per OS.
>
> Fixing things that we do wrong in Linux is a bad thing. It will only
> help us with Linux and lock out all others. Did we do this whole free
> bios thing to make it easier to lock others out? Ouch.

that is not the point. you need to do implenmentation in DSDT for
chipset in a clean room.
current nvidia chipset dsdt is belonging to IBV...instead of nvidia. or AMD.

YH

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:55:38 +0200
From: Stefan Reinauer 
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r
To: Corey Osgood 
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Corey Osgood wrote:
> Yes, c7, cn700, vt8237r. No video yet and USB is causing kernel
> warnings, but I can log in and use the system through serial.
>
> -Corey

you rock!