21 Mar
2003
21 Mar
'03
3:51 p.m.
Hy, I am trying to port the Via Epia freebios files to my Jetway B860T,
which is almost equal.
I have also a Via Epia M/B to test if necessary.
About Why I am doing this port to my M/B, I am working 1 year for a
embedded system to the dentist area, and use the suck board from Jetway to
run my system, I use linux from basis and Xfree.
It not use keyboard, mouse, or other In device, only a nice Serial Infra
Red Sensor and Remote Control done by me... Therefore when the power loss
(ps), sometimes the bios checksum changes and corrupt, asking to press
the F1 on the next cold boot, and how I does not have In Devices Up at
this time, my embeed system changes to medical trash :(
I asked to many bios manufactures to change it, so we told which can do
nothing to me, and how I know a little bit of Assembly and C, I will
help the project with my bios development , so I need some information...
I done a simple test config file and a b860t.config for my M/B and did
run the NLBConfig.py to generate the build directory. (Files Attached)
I done also a minor bugfix on the south bridge source code (to correct
wrong include file paths)...
Now is the problem, I do not know what file I need to use to write on my
BIOS, the romfile have up to 900k, and my eeprom is 256k like many
others...
Some Useful Info:
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lspci from my Jetway/b860t
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601
[Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601
[Apollo ProMedia AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
[Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
[Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
(rev 6a)
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lspci from my Via/Epia
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia]
(rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge]
(rev 10)
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus
Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e)
00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] (rev 51)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
(rev 6a)
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Ivan Gustavo Munix dos Santos
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http://www.munix.com.br
mailto:ivan@munix.com.br
Skydental SJC.
Av. Heitor Vila lobos, 1565
Fone: 12-39232925 Ramal 215
Sao Jose Dos Campos - SP
21 Mar
21 Mar
5:54 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ivan Gustavo wrote:
Now is the problem, I do not know what file I need to
use to write on my
BIOS, the romfile have up to 900k, and my eeprom is 256k like many
others...
for that small part you can not use a linux kernel, you will have to use
etherboot. But etherboot works extremely well.
ron
22 Mar
22 Mar
2:48 p.m.
New subject: Re[2]: Config file/Rom image to Jetway B860t
Hello Ronald,
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 1:21:12 AM, you wrote:
RGM> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ivan Gustavo wrote:
> Now is the problem, I do not know what file I need
to use to write on my
> BIOS, the romfile have up to 900k, and my eeprom is 256k like many
> others...
RGM> for that small part you can not use a linux kernel, you will have to use
RGM> etherboot. But etherboot works extremely well.
Isn't it possible with EPIA to boot from a local IDE drive like with
m787cl+ ?
With best regards,
Alexander mailto:spirit@reactor.ru
23 Mar
23 Mar
1:23 p.m.
New subject: Re[2]: Config file/Rom image to Jetway B860t
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
Isn't it possible with EPIA to boot from a local
IDE drive like with
m787cl+ ?
yes, but no one has tested doing that so we can not claim it works until
someone has done it.
ron
26 Mar
26 Mar
6:28 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:13:24PM +0300, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
Hello Ronald,
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 1:21:12 AM, you wrote:
RGM> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ivan Gustavo wrote:
Yes, it is possible.
My EPIA successfully boots with BOOT_IDE.
Now I'm trying to enable all RAM (now it's hardcoded to 64M),
and get video.
The only problem so far is that verify_loaded_image (elfboot.c)
hangs up after loading kernel from IDE.
I have not yet investigated this one but commented out that call
and it's working ok.
--
Takeshi
> Now is the problem, I do not know what file I
need to use to write on my
> BIOS, the romfile have up to 900k, and my eeprom is 256k like many
> others...
RGM> for that small part you can not use a linux kernel, you will have to use
RGM> etherboot. But etherboot works extremely well.
Isn't it possible with EPIA to boot from a local IDE drive like with
m787cl+ ?
24 Mar
24 Mar
8:12 a.m.
SONE Takeshi wrote:
--
Ivan Gustavo Munix dos Santos
-----------------------------
http://www.munix.com.br
mailto:ivan@munix.com.br
Skydental SJC.
Av. Heitor Vila lobos, 1565
Fone: 12-39232925 Ramal 215
Sao Jose Dos Campos - SP
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:13:24PM +0300, Alexander
Amelkin wrote:
I am working on the development of the some other hardware support for
the B860T M/B which I guess is full usable for the Epia, I must do only
some bugfix for the RGB encoder V1621 to TV Out, and will test for us .
Hello Ronald,
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 1:21:12 AM, you wrote:
RGM> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ivan Gustavo wrote:
Yes, it is possible.
My EPIA successfully boots with BOOT_IDE.
Now I'm trying to enable all RAM (now it's hardcoded to 64M),
and get video.
The only problem so far is that verify_loaded_image (elfboot.c)
hangs up after loading kernel from IDE.
I have not yet investigated this one but commented out that call
and it's working ok.
--
Takeshi
>Now is the problem, I do not know what file I
need to use to write on my
>BIOS, the romfile have up to 900k, and my eeprom is 256k like many
>others...
>
>
RGM> for that small part you can not use a linux kernel, you will have to
use
RGM> etherboot. But etherboot works extremely well.
Isn't it possible with EPIA to boot from a local IDE drive like with
m787cl+ ?
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