I'll pass this along to the list. Maybe someone will help you.
Greg Chandler wrote:
I was working on this board to get the Linuxbios going so I can use the PCMCIA bridge/CF working for boot, but have run into some snags with the document you wrote: http://www.coreboot.org/VIA_Epia-M%2C_MII_Build_Tutorial
Here's a list of what I have found, and I'm wondering if you can help set me straight?
{Note I am a fairly advanced hardware guy, have EEPROM programer in case I mess up, etc...}
- {not a big deal}
The doc claims that there are 2 firmware chips, yet on inspection of the board there is only one. It is 256k and the flashrom util {once built} does read and verify it.
What the other chip is, I have no idea, since neither the util nor I can actually find it.
- {also not a big deal}
Filo config section doesn't have a list of the options, or caveats upfront about the cs_ide stuff. There is a section later, but having to go back and rebuild is annoying. Also listing USB_DISK=1 as an option would be helpfull since that is a supported method, and some of the users may be doing that to jumpstart the first board of many ;)
- {big problem}
The build when downloading the latest corev2 snapshot doesn't work. The Makefile is also no longer the same.
The example listed, no longer exists for pre-pending the video bios, I've figured out what it should be now, but the tutorial is out of date. The code also has hard paths coded to ~/svn/payload.elf in both the "fallbackMakefile" and "normal/Makefile" files.
I'm not the expert I used to be, but that's pretty retarded for an assumption of where the files are going to be at build time...