On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:18:09PM +0800, Andrew Ip wrote:
I'm just testing your latest code here with LinuxBIOS + ADLO. It is able to start VGA and grub sometimes, but not all the time. FYI, I'm running EPIA with IDE to CF adapter. It maybe related to memory again.
Could you send me a lspci -xxx -s0:0.0 of Award BIOS and serial output of LinuxBIOS? If I found something interesting there, maybe I can help.
Otherwise, it's difficult for me to cope with it since the only one EPIA board I have access to is working quite happily with current code.
I think you don't have to be asked to do basic things to track it down (like memtest86, replacing DIMMs, disabling framebuffer/VGABIOS, etc.)
Only possible solution comes to mind is to introduce more "Aword compatible" register values. I tried many of them, then dropped most of them once it began to work, to keep it minimum. I didn't like to have things I can't explain.
-- Takeshi