2009/10/21 Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:34:16PM +0200, Paweł Stawicki wrote:
Acked-by: Paweł Stawicki stawel@gmail.com the patch is working correct.
Thanks, r4820.
My linux distribution boots very fast :) the only problem is that the vga bios is not booting. I'm trying investigate.
As this is onboard VGA (not a PCI plugin-card) I assume, you need to add the VGA BIOS image to coreboot.rom.
This can be done by adding a line like this to targets/.../Config.lb:
pci_rom /tmp/vga.bin vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x27a2
yes i added this line and it seems that i need also add: uses CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN default CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN = 1 to the Options.lb file, without this it doesn't work. I needed also this patch: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-July/050497.html
The console is turning on when the linux is starting (not at the FILO start)
(in kconfig it's a bit simpler, but I'm not sure if your board works fine with kconfig already)
You need to adapt the vga.bin path/filename, and the PCI vendor/device ID (you can do a test-boot and coreboot will tell you which ID it tries to find on the serial console).
You can get vga.bin (filename may differ) using the phnxdeco, amideco, awardeco, or bios_extract utilities.
For PCI graphics cards it's simpler, they should usually work out of the box, but let us know if that's not the case.
the e-Vectra has no additional slots on board , therefor it has only an onboard vga card.
I'll make a superiotool patch for your Super I/O so we can dump the register contents and fix the Super I/O setup a bit.
sounds great.
Can you tell us how big the ROM chip is in the board (so we can fix the default Kconfig file)b?
the bios size is 512KB - really :-) the vga bios size is 32KB it has also an ethernet bios inside the bios (size 58880B)
Also, if you have some time to test all available hardware components with coreboot let us know the results. It would be nice if we could make a wiki status page for your board, such as this one for example:
ok, I will try to make the tests tomorrow.
Uwe.
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Thanks a lot. Paweł