[LinuxBIOS] EPIA result

[Jun OKAJIMA]

Here is my result of current LinuxBIOS. And still does not work.
Do you have any advice? Especially, lx1 / epia would run with very little
effort, I suppose. What I have missed?

BTW, I even have not got EPIA-M with VIA fast boot util running.
Why? any advice? I used a single-bank 128 MB DDR-266 DDR RAM
which the doc assigns and tried both BIOS_R and BIOS_D,
but even debug messages from a serial port do not come.

--- Okajima, Jun.

Source:
  freebios--devel--2.0--patch-30.tar.bz2
  freebios--devel--1.0--base-0.tar.bz2
Payload:
  filo.elf with USB from Etherboot-5.4.0
M/B:
  EPIA C800 with 128M SDRAM on slot0 and 512M SDRAM on slot1.
  EPIA MII 12000 with 128M single bank DDR.
both are confirmed to work in Linux and Windows.
mems are checked with memtest86 and no problem.

result:
lx1 / epia   -> can not load a payload. maybe I missed something?
lx1 / epiam  -> can not recognize SDRAM.
lx2 / epia   -> stuck with MTTR stuff.
lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

[Jun OKAJIMA]

> lx1 / epia   -> can not load a payload. maybe I missed something?
> lx1 / epiam  -> can not recognize SDRAM.
> lx2 / epia   -> stuck with MTTR stuff.
> lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

it is reverse. missed. the right result is,

lx1 / epia   -> can not load a payload. maybe I missed something?
lx1 / epiam  -> stuck with MTTR stuff. and said 96MB mem but I put 128MB DDR.
lx2 / epia   -> can not recognize SDRAM.
lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

[Ronald G. Minnich]

Don't put any more time into LX1.

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Jun OKAJIMA wrote:
> lx2 / epia   -> can not recognize SDRAM.

hmm, it boots here, tell me more about sdram you are using.
> lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

yep, we need help.

ron

[Jun OKAJIMA]

> Don't put any more time into LX1.

Yeah, but lx1 for epia seems very near to run.
and I know any software development is difficult to meet deadline.
so I am afraid that I can run lx2 very soon, despite of your effort.
for lx1, probably just filo/payload problem is left.
hope give me some advices.
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Jun OKAJIMA wrote:
> > lx2 / epia   -> can not recognize SDRAM.
>
> hmm, it boots here, tell me more about sdram you are using.

128M -> single side PC100 CL2. 256Mbits chip * 4.
512M -> dual side PC133. CL is unknown. 256Mbit * 8 * dual side.
the 512M one is a little bit mysterious. it is recognized 256M single side
by the genie BIOS. But, this kind of problem ("memory picky problem?")
happens often on VIA epia M/B.
Anyway, I can use these two SDRAM for 384MB memory with the genie BIOS.
and confirmed memtest86 passed.

--- Okajima.
> > lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.
>
> yep, we need help.
>
> ron

[Jun OKAJIMA]

> lx1 / epia   -> can not load a payload. maybe I missed something?
> lx1 / epiam  -> can not recognize SDRAM.
> lx2 / epia   -> stuck with MTTR stuff.
> lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

sorry it is reverse. the right result is this.
anyway, can you give me any suggestion?

lx1 / epia   -> can not load a payload. maybe I missed something?
lx1 / epiam  -> stuck with MTTR stuff. and said 96MB mem but I put 128MB DDR.
lx2 / epia   -> can not recognize SDRAM.
lx2 / epiam  -> can not build.

[Ronald G. Minnich]

sorry, can you send the output to me directly, uncompressed, as your 
attachment got stripped.

ron