LinuxBios in epia m-10000 (freebios2)

[Xavier Pegenaute]

Hi,

now i know more things :-)

Yes was there some thing printed in serial line, but i was so nervious
and i did'nt see it, i'm sorry.

The line that is printed is: "Serial controller not found", if i search
for this line in the code i find it only in:

src/southbridge/via/vt8231/vt8231_early_serial.c, inside this code the
lines are:

static void enable_vt8231_serial(void) 
{
    unsigned long x;
    uint8_t c;
    device_t dev;
    outb(6, 0x80);
    dev = pci_locate_device(PCI_ID(0x1106,0x8231), 0);
    
    if (dev == PCI_DEV_INVALID) {
    	outb(7, 0x80);
    	die("Serial controller not found\r\n");
... etc.

if i'm not wrong, the first problem is the southbridge, the code for
epia is looking for vt8231, and i have vt8235 :-)

Ok. I saw in "freebios" that there is code for vt8235, then i think that
i'm going to try first with the old version, and once that i see how
LinuxBios is in live, if i have enough (i hope, at least for curiosity)
time i'll port it to the new one if nobody made it before.

By the other hand, the northbridge in the manual is CLE266, that axactly
i don't know how is named in the standard way (vt8633 may be ?), i don't
know if i'll have the same problem (probably i think).

------------------------------------------------------------------
My lspci, is this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3123
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. OHCI Compliant IEEE
1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3104 (rev
82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3177
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller
(rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown
device 3122 (rev 03)
------------------------------------------------------------------
And lspci -n, is this one:
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3123
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b091
00:0d.0 Class 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80)
00:10.0 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
00:10.1 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
00:10.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 80)
00:10.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 82)
00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3177
00:11.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
00:11.5 Class 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 50)
00:12.0 Class 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 74)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1106:3122 (rev 03)
------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot.
Xavi.
PD: Sorry by the long text.

[ron minnich]

the problem is you are building for the wrong kind of machine. I need to 
know more about this board and we can put a new tree for it in linuxbios.

Andrew or Takeshita, is the M-10000 different in some way important from 
the standard EPIA-M? Or should we just start a port for the epia-m and 
that will work for the 10000?

ron

[Takeshi Sone]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:35:22AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Andrew or Takeshita, is the M-10000 different in some way important from 
> the standard EPIA-M? Or should we just start a port for the epia-m and 
> that will work for the 10000?

As far as I know EPIA-M10000 is the EPIA-M board with 1GHz CPU on.

[Andrew Ip]

Hi,
> Andrew or Takeshita, is the M-10000 different in some way important from 
> the standard EPIA-M? Or should we just start a port for the epia-m and 
> that will work for the 10000?

It is the same.  10000 means 1GHz, 800 means 800MHz.  BTW, VIA has a new
board which is the same as epia-m but with 2 lan's and pcmcia slot for wireless.

-Andrew

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrew Ip wrote:
> Hi,
> > Andrew or Takeshita, is the M-10000 different in some way important from 
> > the standard EPIA-M? Or should we just start a port for the epia-m and 
> > that will work for the 10000?
>
> It is the same.  10000 means 1GHz, 800 means 800MHz.  BTW, VIA has a new
> board which is the same as epia-m but with 2 lan's and pcmcia slot for wireless.

ok, time to bring epia-m in to the linuxbios v2 world. I'll start on that 
soon, unless someone beats me to it (please, somebody, beat me to it :)

ron

[Takeshi Sone]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:10:42AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> ok, time to bring epia-m in to the linuxbios v2 world. I'll start on that 
> soon, unless someone beats me to it (please, somebody, beat me to it :)

Shouldn't we fix the RAM configuration of EPIA first?
As Dave said, this code should be easily ported from EPIA to EPIA-M.
But current code is not fully SPD (uses probing for MA mapping type)
and does not correctly handle the second bank and so on.

I thought you are doing this since we talked about how to do this.
Maybe I can do it if you are too busy.

[ron minnich]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Takeshi Sone wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:10:42AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > ok, time to bring epia-m in to the linuxbios v2 world. I'll start on that 
> > soon, unless someone beats me to it (please, somebody, beat me to it :)
>
> Shouldn't we fix the RAM configuration of EPIA first?

yes.
> As Dave said, this code should be easily ported from EPIA to EPIA-M.

maybe. DDR is different.
> But current code is not fully SPD (uses probing for MA mapping type)
> and does not correctly handle the second bank and so on.

OK.
> I thought you are doing this since we talked about how to do this.
> Maybe I can do it if you are too busy.

If you could that would help. I got pulled off to another emergency for a 
week or so.

ron

[Takeshi Sone]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:06:08AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > I thought you are doing this since we talked about how to do this.
> > Maybe I can do it if you are too busy.
>
> If you could that would help. I got pulled off to another emergency for a 
> week or so.

This is very rough but gets rid of the probing code.
It works with 64MB and 256MB DIMMs (single sided) at any slot, and
confirmed with memtest86 test#2.

romcc -O2 --> -O was needed because with -O2 romcc segfaults.

[Brian G. Rhodes]

Andrew,

Is this board currently in production/released?  The most recent board I
have seen from VIA on the same epia-m reference design is the CL series
with 2 Network connections.  It doesn't mention a PC Card interface.

Brian G Rhodes
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrew Ip wrote:
> Hi,
> > Andrew or Takeshita, is the M-10000 different in some way important from
> > the standard EPIA-M? Or should we just start a port for the epia-m and
> > that will work for the 10000?
>
> It is the same.  10000 means 1GHz, 800 means 800MHz.  BTW, VIA has a new
> board which is the same as epia-m but with 2 lan's and pcmcia slot for wireless.
>
> -Andrew
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