Hi! Linuxbios is working prety well now on my Epia mII 10k, but a few problems:
1. I can't get VGA to work. I've extracted it from a original-bios booted system with dd if=/proc/kcore of=video.bios.bin bs=1 count=65536 skip=790528 and then appended it to my filo payload like the HOWTO says I've to do, and modified the config file with all the options in EPIA howto, but nothing shows up on my monitor (tft screen, has it something to do with?)
2. If I boot up my mobo without the PCMCIA/CF module on, it boots properly but, if I put it on and try to boot, linux bios does somethings and then reboot, forever. any known bug about this?
thanks!
Here is the complete log of my bootup process, from bios to log-in... I can't understand so much of the bios part :(
LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Sun May 16 23:28:22 CEST 2004 starting... 80 08 07 0d 0a 02 40 00 04 60 70 00 82 08 00 01 0e ff 0c ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 30 ff ff 40 75 75 45 45 00 00 00 00 00 3c 48 30 2d 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 c1 49 4e 46 49 4e 45 4f 45 36 34 44 36 34 33 32 30 47 55 36 42 20 20 20 20 20 20 01 09 03 10 02 27 e6 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Sun May 16 23:28:22 CEST 2004 booting... Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 Scanning PCI bus...PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/3123] PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/b091] PCI: 00:10.0 [1106/3038] PCI: 00:10.1 [1106/3038] PCI: 00:10.2 [1106/3038] PCI: 00:10.3 [1106/3104] PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/3177] PCI: 00:11.1 [1106/0571] PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] PCI: 00:12.0 [1106/3065] PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 PCI: 01:00.0 [1106/3122] PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 done Allocating PCI resources... PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it PCI: 00:00.0 register 10(00000008), read-only ignoring it ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 0 PCI: 00:01.0 1c <- [0x00001000 - 0x00000fff] bus 1 io PCI: 00:01.0 24 <- [0xf8000000 - 0xfbffffff] bus 1 prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 20 <- [0xfc000000 - 0xfcffffff] bus 1 mem ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 1 PCI: 01:00.0 10 <- [0xf8000000 - 0xfbffffff] prefmem PCI: 01:00.0 14 <- [0xfc000000 - 0xfcffffff] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 1 PCI: 00:10.0 20 <- [0x00001800 - 0x0000181f] io PCI: 00:10.1 20 <- [0x00001820 - 0x0000183f] io PCI: 00:10.2 20 <- [0x00001840 - 0x0000185f] io PCI: 00:10.3 10 <- [0xfd000000 - 0xfd0000ff] mem PCI: 00:11.1 20 <- [0x00001860 - 0x0000186f] io PCI: 00:11.5 10 <- [0x00001000 - 0x000010ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 10 <- [0x00001400 - 0x000014ff] io PCI: 00:12.0 14 <- [0xfd001000 - 0xfd0010ff] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 0 Allocating VGA resource done. Enabling PCI resourcess...PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 06 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd <- 07 PCI: 00:10.0 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:10.1 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:10.2 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:10.3 cmd <- 02 PCI: 00:11.0 cmd <- 07 PCI: 00:11.1 cmd <- 07 PCI: 00:11.5 cmd <- 01 PCI: 00:12.0 cmd <- 83 PCI: 01:00.0 cmd <- 03 done. Initializing PCI devices... PCI devices initialized totalram: 96M Initializing CPU #0 Enabling cache... Setting fixed MTRRs(0-88) type: UC Setting fixed MTRRs(0-16) type: WB DONE fixed MTRRs Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 64MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 64MB, range: 32MB, type WB DONE variable MTRRs Clear out the extra MTRR's call intel_enable_fixed_mtrr() call intel_enable_var_mtrr() Leave setup_mtrrs done.
Max cpuid index : 1 Vendor ID : CentaurHauls Processor Type : 0x00 Processor Family : 0x06 Processor Model : 0x09 Processor Mask : 0x00 Processor Stepping : 0x05 Feature flags : 0x0380b13d
MTRR check Fixed MTRRs : Enabled Variable MTRRs: Enabled
Disabling local apic...done. CPU #0 Initialized Mainboard fixup Final mainboard fixup Southbridge fixup setting firewire setting usb Assigning IRQ 11 to 0:10.0 Readback = 11 Assigning IRQ 10 to 0:10.1 Readback = 10 Assigning IRQ 12 to 0:10.2 Readback = 12 Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:10.3 Readback = 5 setting vt8235 Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:11.1 Readback = 5 Assigning IRQ 12 to 0:11.5 Readback = 12 setting ethernet Assigning IRQ 11 to 0:12.0 Readback = 11 setting vga Assigning IRQ 11 to 1:0.0 Readback = 11 setting pci slot setting vt8235 slot Assigning IRQ 5 to 0:11.1 Readback = 5 Assigning IRQ 12 to 0:11.5 Readback = 12 INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 write_protect_vgabios 0x55 0xaa 0x70 0xe9 0xfc 0x7f 0x8b 0x1b 0x34 0xde 0xca 0x83 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 bus/ devfn = 0x100 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f00 ebx 0x100 ecx 0x100 edx 0xa1ff biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xff2 edi 0xe40c esi 0x12c04 biosint: ip 0x641c cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x1a, eax 0xb108 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x0 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfcc edi 0xf6 esi 0x1c01b biosint: ip 0x40f0 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 0xb108: bus 0 devfn 0x0 reg 0xf6 val 0x11 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f02 ebx 0x100 ecx 0x101 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfdc edi 0x44 esi 0x1c01b biosint: ip 0x6468 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x5 edx 0x112 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfa4 edi 0x44 esi 0x1aacd biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x5 edx 0x112 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfa4 edi 0x44 esi 0x1aacd biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x5 edx 0x112 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xf92 edi 0x44 esi 0x1aacd biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f02 ebx 0x300 ecx 0x1 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfb8 edi 0x44 esi 0x1c01b biosint: ip 0x6468 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f02 ebx 0x300 ecx 0x1 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfb8 edi 0x44 esi 0x1c01b biosint: ip 0x6468 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f02 ebx 0x300 ecx 0x1 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfb8 edi 0x44 esi 0x1c01b biosint: ip 0x6468 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f0f ebx 0x100 ecx 0x100 edx 0x3d5 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfee edi 0x44 esi 0x12c04 biosint: ip 0x651b cs 0xc000 flags 0x2 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f02 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x1 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x123a0 esp 0xfdc edi 0x44 esi 0x12c04 biosint: ip 0x6468 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x700 edx 0x112 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xf8e edi 0xac51 esi 0x1aacd biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 Checking IRQ routing tables... /usr/src/freebios/src/arch/i386/lib/pirq_routing.c: 30:check_pirq_routing_tab le() - irq_routing_table located at: 0x0000a400 done. Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done. Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf0000...failed Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000500 - 00000670 checksum e006
Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.2
37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfffd0000 zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff Found ELF candiate at offset 0 New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x20fb0 offset 0xa0 filesize 0x7000 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x20fb0 offset 0xa0 filesize 0x7000 New segment addr 0x120fc0 size 0x60 offset 0x70a0 filesize 0x60 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x120fc0 size 0x60 offset 0x70a0 filesize 0x60 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000100000 memsz: 0x0000000000020fb0 filesz: 0x00 00000000007000 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000107000 memsz: 0x0000000000019fb0 Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000120fc0 memsz: 0x0000000000000060 filesz: 0x00 00000000000060 Jumping to boot code at 0x104c1c FILO version 0.4 (root@AMBox) Sun May 16 11:57:40 CEST 2004 boot: hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 hda: LBA 78GB: ST380021A Mounted ext2fs Found Linux version 2.6.5 (root@AMBox) #5 Sun May 16 23:27:43 CEST 2004 bzImage. Loading kernel... ok Jumping to entry point... Linux version 2.6.5 (root@AMBox) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease )) #5 Sun May 16 23:27:43 CEST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 00000000000006d8 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006000000 (usable) 96MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 24576 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 20480 pages, LIFO batch:5 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI not present. ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes) Detected 999.655 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Memory: 94924k/98304k available (1201k kernel code, 2860k reserved, 470k data, 8 8k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 1974.27 BogoMIPS Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line) CPU: Centaur VIA Nehemiah stepping 05 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) udf: registering filesystem Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19-2.5 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0x1400, 00:40:63:d5:8b:8e, IRQ 11. eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 EXT2-fs warning (device hda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed INIT: version 2.84 booting Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz Activating swap. Adding 240964k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 Checking root file system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hda1: clean, 62343/1221600 files, 250294/2441872 blocks System time was Sun May 16 21:29:54 UTC 2004. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Sun May 16 21:29:54 UTC 2004. Checking all file systems... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Setting kernel variables. Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Mounting local filesystems... nothing was mounted Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link p artner capability of 45e1. done. Starting portmap daemon: portmap. R Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Sun May 16 23:29:57 CEST 2004
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. Initializing random number generator... done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting internet superserver: inetd. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr. Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 AMBox ttyS0
AMBox login:
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote:
biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8
b8? Anybody know what that one is?
ron
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 07:08 PM, ron minnich wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote:
biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8
b8? Anybody know what that one is?
It has something to do with VGA, I had similar problems (have been back to them so they are most likely still there). The Unsupported int number would change for me. If I powered down (hold power button down) the machine it would start up properly the next time. It wasn't something that ALWAYS happened, but fairly often it would.
* Nathanael Noblet nathanael@gnat.ca [040517 17:18]:
biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8
b8? Anybody know what that one is?
It has something to do with VGA, I had similar problems (have been back to them so they are most likely still there). The Unsupported int number would change for me. If I powered down (hold power button down) the machine it would start up properly the next time. It wasn't something that ALWAYS happened, but fairly often it would.
Ralph Brown's Interrupt List is not very helpful either: http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-b8.htm
Looks rather like a bug elsewhere..
Stefan
* Ignacio Verona nacho@estudio-verona.com [040516 22:07]:
biosint: # 0x15, eax 0x5f01 ebx 0xc01 ecx 0x700 edx 0x112 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xf8e edi 0xac51 esi 0x1aacd biosint: ip 0x6448 cs 0xc000 flags 0x46 biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8
Hm. The problem happens earlier. int 0x15 is something that the VGA BIOS would probably install, but this does not seem to work. Thus there's a hardcoded response handled in src/mainboard/via/epia-m/mainboard.c (v1) function handleint21()
Looking at above code, int0x15 gets called with eax=0x5f01 (besides lots of other values) - a case that is not handled in handleint21() at all.
There needs to be some way to call into interrupts set up by the executed option rom, or otherwise functions like handleint21() will have to be added and changed for every minor release of a vga bios update.
Stefan
* Stefan Reinauer stepan@openbios.org [040517 17:51]:
There needs to be some way to call into interrupts set up by the executed option rom, or otherwise functions like handleint21() will have to be added and changed for every minor release of a vga bios update.
There's a potential hint in src/arch/i386/lib/idt.c:biosint():
// cases in a good compiler are just as good as your own tables. switch (intnumber) { case 0 ... 15: [..] #ifdef CONFIG_PCIBIOS case PCIBIOS: [..] #endif case MEMSIZE: [..] #ifdef CONFIG_INT21HANDLER case 0x15: [..] #endif default: [..] }
It looks like this case construct was done for readability, but in fact some kind of interrupt lookup table is needed to handle things correctly.
Stefan
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
There's a potential hint in src/arch/i386/lib/idt.c:biosint():
// cases in a good compiler are just as good as your own tables. switch (intnumber) { case 0 ... 15: [..]#ifdef CONFIG_PCIBIOS case PCIBIOS: [..] #endif case MEMSIZE: [..] #ifdef CONFIG_INT21HANDLER case 0x15: [..] #endif default: [..] }
It looks like this case construct was done for readability, but in fact some kind of interrupt lookup table is needed to handle things correctly.
guilty as charged. I tried to make it readable but had no idea that we would need a table. Ignorance on my part.
ron
* ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [040517 22:57]:
guilty as charged. I tried to make it readable but had no idea that we would need a table. Ignorance on my part.
Not in this case as David explained. I actually assumed there was some problem with 16<-->32bit jumping if an option rom is allowed to set up it's own int-handler or something. This question will come back when we want to have raid controllers or scsi adapters installing their own int 13 for booting from attached disks though.
Stefan
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote:
- I can't get VGA to work. I've extracted it from a original-bios booted
system with dd if=/proc/kcore of=video.bios.bin bs=1 count=65536 skip=790528 and then appended it to my filo payload like the HOWTO says I've to do, and modified the config file with all the options in EPIA howto, but nothing shows up on my monitor (tft screen, has it something to do with?)
^^^ uh oh. Send me serial output.
- If I boot up my mobo without the PCMCIA/CF module on, it boots properly
but, if I put it on and try to boot, linux bios does somethings and then reboot, forever. any known bug about this?
sounds like you just found one :-)
need serial output.
ron
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