Ok after some playing around I have managed to get my EPIA board partly booting. I had commented out the fallback section in LinuxBIOSv2/targets/via/epia/Config.lb however the LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb had uses USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE
Anyway after booting I get the following
LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Fri Sep 1 22:07:37 BST 2006 starting... vt8601 init starting Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2 Slot 01 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2 Slot 02 is empty Slot 03 is empty vt8601 done
I have 2 x 128Mb DIMMS installed so I think they are being detected ok, however that is as far as things get.
What I am trying to do, without much success is to enable the debug output. I guess I am missing the obvious, but how do I do it ?
I assume I will need to modify LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb
Anyway any help would be much appreciated.
Ben
LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Fri Sep 1 22:07:37 BST 2006 starting... vt8601 init starting Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2 Slot 01 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2 Slot 02 is empty Slot 03 is empty vt8601 done
We really need to update the webpage. vt8601 is broken. Has been for awhile. RAM code does not work.
To fix, either:
1) Figure out from factory bios and data sheets what is wrong. Note: the data sheets _lie_ whats in them doesn't really work. Ron had this hardcoded but somewhere it broke.
or
2) Go through every version of V2 (and perhaps V1) that changes the raminit code on the vt8601 and find the Rev that breaks the vt8601 ram init. Then we can revert that change.
There are 3 of you now trying to get this to work so coordinate on the list and start going. Sorry I can't be more help.
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Ben Hewson -
Richard Smith