I just built an s2892 rom image with LAB payload (32 bit)
using the
latest buildrom revision, without problems. I'm building
on 32-bit
Ubuntu Hardy. Toolchain issue?
Hmm.. I attempted the 32-bit LAB build with a (32-bit)
Intrepid Ibex
system that had just recently been upgraded from Hardy.. I
do have a
Hardy box to build on as well, and I'll try that when I get home.
OK. I'll see if I can find out what goes wrong on Intrepid.
Sure enough, I was able to successfully build a 32-bit LAB on my Hardy box.
In case this turns out to be a dead end, what does porting
a driver to
FILO involve?
LAB shouldn't be a dead end - I've got it in production
on several
Tyan systems (s2881, s2882).
Ok. This is encouraging.
And I've got it working on an s2891, but there I see the ck804 sata performance problem that I mentioned, so that box still runs under the proprietary bios :/
I hope we don't have SATA performance issues with the S2892.. that would probably prevent us from using coreboot.
[... ] If I understand correctly, leaving out the ~36k chunk will still allow me
to have all
the core functionality, just without VGA output..
Yes. Once you have the image, you just prepend your VGA
rom to the
image, and flash it. You can get the VGA rom from the
factory bios
by using the correct decode utility (see the s2881 tutorial, for example).
I did happen to see the link to the "amideco" utility on the S2881 tutorial, but the S2892 has a Phoenix BIOS. If there is a Phoenix version of that utility, could someone make it available on the coreboot site? The Russian domain is blocked by our Net Nanny..
I'm not sure that site is still what it used to be - the registration lapsed a while ago iirc. In any case, there is a phoenix utility as well, and they are all in debian and ubuntu universe (thanks to Uwe!). So you should be able to just
apt-get install phnxdeco
it.
Got it -- thanks! I never would have suspected such a tool would be available via the ubuntu repositories. Thank you Uwe indeed!
-Bijoy