[LinuxBIOS] Linuxbios on Inspiron 8500 DELL Laptop - coreboot

20 Jun 2006


      Hello,
I would like to install Linuxbios on my Inspiron 8500 Dell Laptop.
Can someone tell me if it is possible without breaking everything ?
Can you tell me the probability of a success ?
Do you need other informations ?
Tanks to all
Stephane
Here are the results of system commands on my sarge debian
lspci
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP
Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB
2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller
(rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA
Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28
[GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T
(rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394
Controller
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dmesg
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Linux version 2.6.16.16 (root@debian) (version gcc 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-13)) #1 PREEMPT Sat May 20 11:04:54 CEST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffae000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003ffae000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 262062
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
  DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 32686 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                  ) @ 0x000fdf00
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d5061e ASL  0x00000061) @
0x3fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d5061e ASL  0x00000061) @
0x3fff0400
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @
0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:beda0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro lapic
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 2193.924 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1032808k/1048248k available (1543k kernel code, 14712k reserved,
547k data, 160k init, 130744k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4395.06 BogoMIPS
(lpj=8790124)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400
00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz stepping 07
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers);
looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3180k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc96e, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) may be hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02)
(try 'pci=assign-busses')
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0,
disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a
report
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x800-0x805 could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x808-0x80f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x806-0x807 has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x810-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x860-0x87f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x880-0x8bf has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x8c0-0x8df has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x900-0x97f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: c000-cfff
  MEM window: fc000000-fdffffff
  PREFETCH window: f0000000-f3ffffff
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.0
  IO window: 0000d000-0000d0ff
  IO window: 0000d400-0000d4ff
  PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
  MEM window: f6000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: d000-efff
  MEM window: f6000000-fbffffff
  PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:0b: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices: 
 LID PBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 MODM PCIE 
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3180KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
\|/-\|/-\|/-done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HTS726060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 979956k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979956k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3] C4[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (41 C)
input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
b44.c:v0.97 (Nov 30, 2005)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:db:18:7d:8b
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf80
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf40
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf20
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: Combo Mouse Combo Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Combo Mouse Combo Mouse] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, io mem 0xf4fffc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Combo Mouse Combo Mouse as /class/input/input4
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Combo Mouse Combo Mouse] on
usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low)
-> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54889 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11]
MMIO=[faffd800-faffdfff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[484fc00034585410]
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
NET: Registered protocol family 17
b44: eth0: Link is up at 10 Mbps, half duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level,
low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8756  Wed Mar 29
14:26:26 PST 2006
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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/proc/cpuinfo
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processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2193.924
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
xtpr
bogomips        : 4395.06
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/proc/bus/input/devices
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I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=mouse0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=6337
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse1
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b4 Product=aefa Version=0001
N: Name="Combo Mouse Combo Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
H: Handlers=mouse2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
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