Re: new config language.

[YhLu]

Ron,

I have tried the romimage in AMD solo 7 MB, and the LinuxBIOS can boot until
Etherboot. So the ROM image I built should be OK.

The Tyan s2880 has two CPUs and supported dual channel DDR. The Opteron CPU
is for Server/workstation and The cpu for AMD solo is for desktop
(Crawhammer).

Any advise.

Regards

Yinghai Lu

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发件人: ron minnich [mailto:[e-mail]] 
发送时间: 2003年6月9日 22:17
收件人: YhLu
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主题: Re: 答复: 答复: new config language.

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, YhLu wrote:
> Is there any MB can boot to execute into LinuxBIOS after copying it to
> RAM?

yes, many.
> The _RAMBASE WE use for E7501 is 0x8000, and the FreeBIOS2 default for K8

is
> 0x4000. How should I set the value to make the LinuxBIOS can boot into
> hardwaremain.c.
> It seems MB only execute the auto.c and crt0.base and can not jump to the
> right address.

I'm not sure what's wrong here. You may have to start checking the object 
code to see if it is correct.

For what it is worth the new config tool is almost working ... just trying 
to get the sizing of the romimage correct.

Hopefully I can start paying attention to linuxbios itself soon, now that 
I can bulid it.

ron

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new config language.

YhLu  writes:
> Ron,
>
> I have tried the romimage in AMD solo 7 MB, and the LinuxBIOS can boot until
> Etherboot. So the ROM image I built should be OK.

There are a lot of hard codes that need to removed, in that code.
It is only appropriate for developers wanting to improve it.  It
is not appropriate for general purpose use yet.
> The Tyan s2880 has two CPUs and supported dual channel DDR. The Opteron CPU
> is for Server/workstation and The cpu for AMD solo is for desktop
> (Crawhammer).
>
> Any advise.

Read the fine cpu documentation.

Beyond that if you get to the point where you are actively working
and contributing this I would be happy to synchronize with you.
Until that point all I can say is that the code is coming along,
but the code is quite a ways from being general purpose yet.

Eric