my use of LinuxBIOS. Here's the gotcha: There's an EIGHT SECOND delay from power on (or reset switch) until the time LinuxBIOS sends anything to the serial port. Anyone have any ideas about this one?
Yep. I do. I'm pretty sure its the scan for the firewire device. Heres the snip from a past thread on this.
===================== Ok, first I have commented out enable_smbus(), for that there are unreadable characters at the console and it takes the same time --> the false way
Then I recognized the lines above in auto.c, which disable the Firewire stuff, but The Epia-ML does not have Firewire, ok it is the same chipset and the firewire is integrated in the chip, but voila it works.
I have commented out line 119-123 and all works fine on high speed :D Is there a better way? ======================
Whats happening is that the PCI code does a complete PCI space lookup looking for the firewire bridge which is not there. Apparently thats about 8 seconds. So comment out the search for the firewire bridge in auto.c and retry.
I'm going to go a head and setup a new directory for the EPIA ML so we can fix this properly.
Dunno about your VGA issues. I seem to remember that there was only 1 version of the vbios that actually worked. Check the archives.
-- Richard A. Smith