[LinuxBIOS] MSI MS-6337 (i815 based)

[Jouni Mettälä]

I tried to flash. MS-6337 with recently added MS-6178. It was needed to put
WP# and TBL# pins to high but since another chip is in use it is ok.

With filo as payload, post card gave 10 ... pause... 80,  f8, fe ..short
pause and ff. (+ some other codes between them)

So at least ram is ok I think.

With very small kernel as payload post card gave just ff.

I didn't do any modifications to MS6178. Probably some is needed.

Any suggestions?

[Corey Osgood]

Jouni Mettälä wrote:
> I tried to flash. MS-6337 with recently added MS-6178. It was needed
> to put WP# and TBL# pins to high but since another chip is in use it
> is ok.
>
> With filo as payload, post card gave 10 ... pause... 80,  f8, fe
> ..short pause and ff. (+ some other codes between them)
>
> So at least ram is ok I think.
>
> With very small kernel as payload post card gave just ff.
>
> I didn't do any modifications to MS6178. Probably some is needed.
>
> Any suggestions?

Do you have a second computer and a null modem serial cable? If so,
please hook it up and see what's coming out of the serial port (I hope
you have the same super io). VGA is not currently working on the i810.
Also, I hope you have the original BIOS on another chip, some registers
are different on the i815 and it won't work out of the box.

-Corey

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:31:29PM +0300, Jouni Mettälä wrote:
> I tried to flash. MS-6337 with recently added MS-6178. It was needed to put
> WP# and TBL# pins to high but since another chip is in use it is ok.
>
> With filo as payload, post card gave 10 ... pause... 80,  f8, fe ..short
> pause and ff. (+ some other codes between them)
>
> So at least ram is ok I think.
>
> With very small kernel as payload post card gave just ff.

Did you get it _that_ small? I'm using a 512KB chip, you cannot stick a
kernel into that. Did you use a bigger chip?
> I didn't do any modifications to MS6178. Probably some is needed.

Yes, definately.

Please try Corey's suggestions and send some more info on the system
(lspci -nn, lspnp -v, etc).

Uwe.