On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:30 AM, bari bari@onelabs.com wrote:
The Epia-CN (C7+cn700+vt8237r) is having the exact same issue even though it is using a more recent VIA chipset. Epia-M9000 (C3 + CLE266 + vt8235). This lack of Console VGA issue was next on the list after I clear up some IRQ issues with the CN.
What are we missing for VIA chipsets with integrated video to bring up Console VGA?
I have no problem to bring up vga console, I remembered your last mail mentioned once you load vgabios and bochs bios you'll get vga work but have problem with usb, I admit that's a problem that the vga card's irq get misassigned.
Config.lb in targets/via/epia-cn has:
cat vgabios bochsbios coreboot.rom > coreboot.rom.final option ROM_SIZE=512*1024 - 64*1024 - 64*1024
Yet I get the same results with VGA if BOCHS is not included. BOCHS does not seem to have an effect on X sever and VGA.
If you do not include bochs, vgabios should bail out ;-)
cat vgabios coreboot.rom > coreboot.rom.final option ROM_SIZE=512*1024 - 64*1024
-Bari
I think epia-m is kind of different, I remember when I first learned linuxbios, I'm trying to boot the epia-m then and I have exactly the same problem. Th solution seems to be first set CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=0 and CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=0 in Option.lb and build, then change the values to be 1 and rebuild without deleting the target directory. I cannot find the original post that presented this solution in the mailing list now, sorry.
-Aaron