Any ides on how to build a confing for the 82855GME northbridge? - coreboot

21 Nov 2004


      Any ides on how to build a confing for the 82855GME northbridge?
I am having no end of problems setting up linux bios on my LV-671
motherboard.
Been working on this board for a few weeks now.  I have two other system
running Linux BIOS with out any problems, but they are both 440bx systems.
This system is running a north bridge that is not supported (82855GME), yet.
First and for most, to get the system booting. As of yet I have been unable
to get the system to boot, console or vga output. So far I have built up a
custom config basted on the tyan tiger board already in the motherboard
folder, but had very little luck compiling and none booting.  The flash ROM
chip is 512KB in size; I am hoping to fit the whole Linux bios on that; just
enough to boot the main kernel off the disk.. I have a nice flash burner,
and have no issues with bad flash's, I can always reflash with the stock
bios.   I would like to stay away from having to buy a DOC for this system.
The motherboard has built on CF (compact flash) if I can't fit the whole
Linux bios on the flash ROM, then I am going to try to boot from the ROM and
switch to the CF, but this may be the same idea as booting from HDD. The
whole point of this is to get my system to boot faster.  I would like to
build this into my car as an embedded MP3 player. I have almost every thing
running correctly in Linux, MP3's, GPS, Hibernate(suspend to disk) but need
a faster boot time. Any ideas or help on getting a config running for this
board would be of great help.
-Adam Talbot
System specs:
Gentoo Linux
1.5GHz PM CPU
512MB ddr
60GB HDD
32MB CF card
Supre IO: w83627hf
Northbridge: 82855GME
Southbridge: 82801db
(The link to my board)
http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-671.HTM
carcomp # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to
I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics
Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev
02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
0000:01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)