On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:11:19AM +0200, echelon@free.fr wrote:
Finaly a little victory with the SPI version of the GA-M57SLI-S4 board.. It works!!!
Great to hear. Glad you can confirm they didn't do too much to change it.
But some issues remain: -1) no support in flashrom for spi chips. I used a home made spi programmer (with a Altera FPGA) to flash the rom image. I "socketised" also the flash chip and the mainboard.
Can you confirm or reject the theory for adding a switch?
How did you do the socket?
No VGA display at all!
Did you include the VGA BIOS in your LB image and enable VGA in Config.lb?
-3) I tried to install a network card too (PCI also). When booting with the factory bios image (Award) it works well, lspci shows both the graphics adapter and the ethernet one. But when booting with LB, these 2 items don't appear anymore into the lspci scan..
Does LB find them? Can you show us lspci from factory BIOS and full serial output from the LB boot?
It looks to me that the PCI bridge is not correctly initialized into the SB : am I wrong or not on this issue?
That could be it. Maybe they changed enough to make the board's Config.lb invalid.
Now I will try to add support for SPI flash and ITE8716 superio in flashrom (I have never done that before, it will be hard for me!..). Btw, is someone else working with this board at this moment or am I alone?.. I would like to avoid to do unusefull work..
Carl-Daniel was going to have a look at it when he got back online unless someone else did it first.
flashrom has no support at all for the SPI way of flashing so I would just do a massive hack for the first round of SPI support.
Finaly another finding I made:
- the board comes with a 512 KiB flash chip. I tried to use a 1
MiB flash chip and it works! But I had to duplicate the linuxbios.rom, image (cat lb.rom lb.rom > lb2.rom) to generate a bigger image suitable for this bigger flash.
Yep - I would expect that to work. Cool.
//Peter