[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS not working

[sanjay tiwary]

Hi Ron/All members of the LinuxBIOS group,

I am new to the linuxBIOS technology.And wanetd to use the linuxBIOS stuff.But after creating the rom image and burning the chip,
i was not able to see anything on either on display or on serial console.Can any one help me getting out of the problem.

I am giving all the details so that you people can make out where am missing?
Board Details:
The contain chips from Via
Northbridge: VT 8606(with AGP VGA Controller S3 Savage- twister)
South Bridge: VIA VT82C686A
BIOS Chip: 1MB
ocessor
Processor: PentiumIII or Celeron300MHz, 100 MHz Bus
One SO-DIMM socket, 512 MByte max. PC100/ PC133
Two enhanced IDE ports
SoundBlaster™ compatible AC97

I used the configuration available for VIA/EPIA and Image was successfully created.Initially i tried to use the support avialble for VT8601.But i think, iam not getting the northbridge chip intialised.

If anyone have the support avialble for VT8606, then let me know.
Just help me out so that i can get something on the serial console.After that debugging will become a little bit easier.

Thanks & regards
Sanjay

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[ron minnich]

Sanjay, it is good to hear from you, and thanks for your report --
even if it is negative :-)

I am not up to date with the 8606 -- maybe someone else is. Do you
have a data sheet?

You should, in the config file, set
DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9
MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9

and see if you get any output.

thanks

ron

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:35:12PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Sanjay, it is good to hear from you, and thanks for your report --
> even if it is negative :-)
>
> I am not up to date with the 8606 -- maybe someone else is. Do you
> have a data sheet?

As far as I can see, only the VT8601 (not VT8606) is supported in svn(?)
Not sure how similar they are. The VIA datasheets aren't usually
available publically as far as I know, so you'd have to contact VIA and
try to get some datasheet, I guess...

Uwe.