[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Fix Asus p2b and bitworks ims targets

[Corey Osgood]

This patch uses auto.c from Uwe's tyan s1846 for both boards, with some
minor changes, to bring them up to par. It also should remove (but might
just clean out) the irq_tables.c from both boards, because they were
just copied from Via Epia to begin with, and weren't usable. As far as I
can tell, these are the only changes needed to the targets for now,
aside from fixups to reset.c when the time comes. Both have been build
tested, but not checked on hardware since I don't have it. I have left
Uwe as the copyright holder since the only changes I've made are trivial.

Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:03:53PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> This patch uses auto.c from Uwe's tyan s1846 for both boards, with some
> minor changes, to bring them up to par. It also should remove (but might
> just clean out) the irq_tables.c from both boards, because they were
> just copied from Via Epia to begin with, and weren't usable. As far as I
> can tell, these are the only changes needed to the targets for now,
> aside from fixups to reset.c when the time comes. Both have been build
> tested, but not checked on hardware since I don't have it. I have left
> Uwe as the copyright holder since the only changes I've made are trivial.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood

Thanks, I'll check the patch tomorrow. I'm not sure what to do with the
IMS, as far as I know Richard Smith is the only person with such a board
on this whole planet? ;-) None of us can test this board.

I have a P2B here, so I'll look into that.

Uwe.

[Corey Osgood]

Uwe Hermann wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:03:53PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> > This patch uses auto.c from Uwe's tyan s1846 for both boards, with some
> > minor changes, to bring them up to par. It also should remove (but might
> > just clean out) the irq_tables.c from both boards, because they were
> > just copied from Via Epia to begin with, and weren't usable. As far as I
> > can tell, these are the only changes needed to the targets for now,
> > aside from fixups to reset.c when the time comes. Both have been build
> > tested, but not checked on hardware since I don't have it. I have left
> > Uwe as the copyright holder since the only changes I've made are trivial.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood
>
> Thanks, I'll check the patch tomorrow. I'm not sure what to do with the
> IMS, as far as I know Richard Smith is the only person with such a board
> on this whole planet? ;-) None of us can test this board.

Very true, but might as well fix it anyways, since its been driving me
nuts. The current code is just wrong. Might as well have working code,
in case anyone uses it for anything in the future. Either that or we
should remove it entirely, but I'm not about to make that call (for all
I know, there could be a billion of these in a thin client somewhere).
Maybe Richard can clear up if these were ever mass produced/sold, google
turns up nothing of interest.
> I have a P2B here, so I'll look into that.

Thanks. From what I can tell, my p2-99 is a p2b with the 440zx chipset
(which is 90% identical), I just can't get to it right now. No matter
what though, these targets shouldn't be any more broken than they were
before ;)

-Corey

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:47:37PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Maybe Richard can clear up if these were ever mass produced/sold,
> google turns up nothing of interest.

I seem to recall that the IMS boards went into a robot that was sent
on a space trip?

//Peter

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
I indeed recall the same thing. However... I can not properly remember where
the robot was sent to, or what it was programmed to find, or what.

Richard, it's your call. Do you remember what they did?
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> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:47:37PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> > Maybe Richard can clear up if these were ever mass produced/sold,
> > google turns up nothing of interest.
>
> I seem to recall that the IMS boards went into a robot that was sent
> on a space trip?
>
> //Peter

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:03PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > I seem to recall that the IMS boards went into a robot that was
> > sent on a space trip?
>
> I indeed recall the same thing. However... I can not properly
> remember where the robot was sent to, or what it was programmed to
> find, or what.

I may have confused it with the iRobot PackBot. (v1 440bx)

http://osdir.com/ml/linux.bios/2002-07/msg00385.html

//Peter

[Corey Osgood]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:03PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > > I seem to recall that the IMS boards went into a robot that was
> > > sent on a space trip?
> >
> > I indeed recall the same thing. However... I can not properly
> > remember where the robot was sent to, or what it was programmed to
> > find, or what.
>
> I may have confused it with the iRobot PackBot. (v1 440bx)
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.bios/2002-07/msg00385.html
>
> //Peter

Well, from what I can gather this is the IMS, which I think was produced
for Lockheed Martin, so it may have gone into space:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041020025059/www.bitworks.com/bitworks/html/pro...
See the attached email that google dug up. It essentially states the IMS
code isn't really useful, especially since he's left out the video init
stuff, it's just mainly for reference. So I think it's safe to remove,
as we now have the tyan and asus boards to work from.

-Corey

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:47:37PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Very true, but might as well fix it anyways, since its been driving me
> nuts. The current code is just wrong. Might as well have working code,
> in case anyone uses it for anything in the future. Either that or we
> should remove it entirely, but I'm not about to make that call (for all
> I know, there could be a billion of these in a thin client somewhere).
> Maybe Richard can clear up if these were ever mass produced/sold, google
> turns up nothing of interest.
> > I have a P2B here, so I'll look into that.
>
> Thanks. From what I can tell, my p2-99 is a p2b with the 440zx chipset
> (which is 90% identical), I just can't get to it right now. No matter
> what though, these targets shouldn't be any more broken than they were
> before ;)

True. Committed in r2642, I'll test on my P2B later this day...

Uwe.

[roger]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:03 -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> This patch uses auto.c from Uwe's tyan s1846 for both boards, with some
> minor changes, to bring them up to par. It also should remove (but might
> just clean out) the irq_tables.c from both boards, because they were
> just copied from Via Epia to begin with, and weren't usable. As far as I
> can tell, these are the only changes needed to the targets for now,
> aside from fixups to reset.c when the time comes. Both have been build
> tested, but not checked on hardware since I don't have it. I have left
> Uwe as the copyright holder since the only changes I've made are trivial.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood

patched ok here.

can i ack too?

(Working tyan/s1846 all day & with asus/p2b tonight trying to get this
stupid DFI P2BXL 440bx output something on serial. :-/ )

Tue May 8 23:02:08 PDT 2007

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:03:42PM -0700, roger wrote:
> patched ok here.
>
> can i ack too?

Sure!

//Peter