RE: ADLO for EPIA

Both keyboard and mouse are plugged and of cause I can boot linux with
LinuxBIOS. 
Is there any board depedent part other than shadow memory control? 
For now, I just want to see screen output from VGABIOS or BOCHS BIOS.

Thanks..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Sulmicki [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:29 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: RE: ADLO for EPIA
>
> it possibly may be bochs. Are both keyboard and mouse plugged in?
>
> does it work without ADLO/BOCHS BIOS? ie can you run linux 
> from LinuxBIOS
> stanalone?
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> > I tested ADLO on EPIA but it failed on the first try.
> >
> > I grapped vgabios using your Makefile target and  modified
>
> loader.s to
> > enable
> > shadow ram control registers of EPIA.
> > However,  it hang around post code 0x96 and nothing is
>
> shown on the CRT.
> > Do you have any idea what 0x96 post code means.
> > Is it a bochs post code or vgabios postcode?
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Adam Sulmicki [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:13 AM
> > > To: [e-mail]
> > > Cc: [e-mail]
> > > Subject: Re: ADLO for EPIA
> > > > I'm trying to bring up VGA on EPIA board.
> > > > > From the list, EPIA board is supported and I've tested
> > >
> > > with Angrew's image.
> > > > However, due to full support of VGA is necessary, I'm
> > >
> > > trying to figure out
> > > > ADLO to run binary only
> > > > VGABIOS rom image.
> > > > Can I acomplish this with ADLO?. If yes, how much extra
> > >
> > > work will be needed
> > > > you think?
> > >
> > > I'm not familar with EPIA. Wasn't that the motherboard that
> > > had all this
> > > video emulation code (whatever you would call it). what's
>
> the gfx card
> > > anyway?
> > >
> > > anyway. if you can separate out the vga bios from rest of the
> > > bios (and it
> > > can function standalone), then there's no reason why it would
> > > not work.
> > >
> > > as for "how much extra work" depends on what you want to use
> > > it for. for
> > > example IDE code in bochs-bios could use some more work
>
> (last time I
> > > looked at it).
>
> 32 bit registers
> > >