Alex Mauer wrote:
So I tried just pulling src/northbridge/via/vt8601/raminit.c in from each of those revisions.
None of them got past the jump to LinuxBIOS.
Alright, more info now. I worked with Richard Smith for awhile, and did the following using the latest BIOS available. (my #defines were set at reasonably conservative settings, and were fine for my board)
Enabled a call to ram_check.
Got the LB northbridge RAM configuration to be the same as it is for the factory BIOS, to the extent possible, based on the datasheet for the vt8601a and output of 'lspci -xxx'
Results from the ram_check seem to show that the ram is not being properly intialized and/or refreshed. I checked an area from 0x20000 through 0x21000. As the ram check progresses, it starts out reading values 0x0002ffcc, then gradually drops until it reads 0x00020000 and finally 0x00000000.
At this point I'm rather stuck.
Ron (or anyone else, really), do you have a chance to look at this and/or advise me on things I can do/try in order to get this working again? I can provide output from my test system, and am happy to test as needed.
Thanks much
-Alex Mauer "hawke"