LTSP + LinuxBios

[Ricardo Strauch]

Hi:

Someone has experience working with LTSP and  Linuxbios?

Ltsp (www.ltsp.org) is a powerfull Thin Client solution, were the server makes the hard work.

LinuxBios looks like the perfetc tool to buil expensive cluster servers for LTSP solutions.

Regards

Ricardo Strauch

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[Andrew Ip]

Ricardo,
> Someone has experience working with LTSP and  Linuxbios?
> Ltsp (www.ltsp.org) is a powerfull Thin Client solution, were the server makes the hard work.
> LinuxBios looks like the perfetc tool to buil expensive cluster servers for LTSP solutions.

LinuxBIOS does work with LTSP.  I have tested it with m758 and m810 boards.

-Andrew

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 28 October 2002 3:55 pm, Ricardo Strauch wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Someone has experience working with LTSP and  Linuxbios?
>
> Ltsp (www.ltsp.org) is a powerfull Thin Client solution, were the server
> makes the hard work.
>
> LinuxBios looks like the perfetc tool to buil expensive cluster servers for
> LTSP solutions.

I think LinuxBios is probably the perfect tool for building inexpensive 
clients.

Whether you can cluster the server end of LTSP I have no idea.

Antony.

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andrew Ip wrote:
> LinuxBIOS does work with LTSP.  I have tested it with m758 and m810 boards.

what failed? I have been talking to the ltsp guys for a while about doing
this; what's missing?

ron

[Andrew Ip]

Ron,
> > LinuxBIOS does work with LTSP.  I have tested it with m758 and m810 boards.
>
> what failed? I have been talking to the ltsp guys for a while about doing
> this; what's missing?

It works!!!

-Andrew

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andrew Ip wrote:
> > > LinuxBIOS does work with LTSP.  I have tested it with m758 and m810 boards.

Ron can'g read!

So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint of
what you did for LTSP? etherboot?

thanks

ron

[Randall Craig]

I have been doing Ltsp for over 1 year in production. Using
linuxbios on ltsp clients has many advantages, especially the quick
boot time.

There should be no problem using linuxbios for ltsp since all ltsp
needs is etherboot.

Clustering for the servers would also be favorable.  The most
efficient way of clustering the ltsp servers is to use the 
xdmcp chooser protocol.  This allows the ltsp client user to choose
which server he/she wants to use base on the server load or
other criteria.  If the load gets too high then linuxbios could
quickly fireup another server.  Sounds pretty cool, I have not
done this.

-- Randall

* Antony Stone ([e-mail]) [021028 08:24]:
> On Monday 28 October 2002 3:55 pm, Ricardo Strauch wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Someone has experience working with LTSP and  Linuxbios?
> >
> > Ltsp (www.ltsp.org) is a powerfull Thin Client solution, were the server
> > makes the hard work.
> >
> > LinuxBios looks like the perfetc tool to buil expensive cluster servers for
> > LTSP solutions.
>
> I think LinuxBios is probably the perfect tool for building inexpensive 
> clients.
>
> Whether you can cluster the server end of LTSP I have no idea.
>
> Antony.
>
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[Andrew Ip]

> So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint of
> what you did for LTSP? etherboot?

I have got the some rom images in
ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages
You also need an elf kernel with sis_lite fb driver patch and follows the ltsp
installation guide.  Then, you are pretty much set.  With recent kernel, the
video problem doesn't appear when running X.  I think it is a very good news.
If I have time, I'll post the my ltsp distro and kernel for people who are 
interested.

-Andrew

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:23 pm, Andrew Ip wrote:
> > So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint
> > of what you did for LTSP? etherboot?
>
> I have got the some rom images in
> ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages

Which server is this on :-) ?

Antony.

[Andrew Ip]

> > I have got the some rom images in
> > ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages
>
> Which server is this on :-) ?

Oops.  My brain and my fingers just had parity error. :)
ftp://ftp.cwlinux.com/pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages

-Andrew

[Ricardo Strauch]

Andrew:
Thats a good news!!!!!
I'm interesting to make probes of LTSP + Linux Bios working together, please let me know when your LTSP distro is available.
Ricardo Strauch
 Andrew Ip  wrote:
> So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint of
> what you did for LTSP? etherboot?

I have got the some rom images in
ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages
You also need an elf kernel with sis_lite fb driver patch and follows the ltsp
installation guide. Then, you are pretty much set. With recent kernel, the
video problem doesn't appear when running X. I think it is a very good news.
If I have time, I'll post the my ltsp distro and kernel for people who are 
interested.

-Andrew

[Ronald G Minnich]

If somebody has the time and could write a nice HOWTO I think the ltsp
guys would be interested. I talk to them every once in a while and we all
think LTSP+linuxbios is a good idea.

ron

Want these patches?

[Kevin Hester]

Hi All,

I recently played around with getting Linuxbios running on a VIA Eden/8601 
northbridge/8231 southbridge.  Linuxbios is damn cool!

I'm happy to contribute the changes back to the project, who should I send 
the patches to?

My changes:
* Add instructions on building for a VIA mainboard

* Make a new mainboard type for the Eden board

* Fix a number of small mistakes in the vt8231 southbridge code

* Fix the vt8601 raminit code to setup DRAM correctly.  I presume this is a 
good thing?  The existing comments implied it wasn't yet working.  I've only 
fixed the non SMBus based version - i.e. this file has to be hand tuned for 
whatever RAM you are using.

* Change the vt8231 setup to optionally enable the built in ethernet.

The linux bios will now boot through to a shell prompt - IDE etc is happy.  I 
haven't completed testing on Ethernet.

Kevin

Want these patches?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Kevin, I think you may have fixed some of our problems with this board and
chipset. We've had our troubles but if you're booting to IDE you have
saved our neck.

Can you pull down the latest cvs and then coordinate with Andrew Ip on
your patches?

This is really great news!

ron

[ollie lho]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:23, Andrew Ip wrote:
> > So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint of
> > what you did for LTSP? etherboot?
>
> I have got the some rom images in
> ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages
> You also need an elf kernel with sis_lite fb driver patch and follows the ltsp
> installation guide.  Then, you are pretty much set.  With recent kernel, the
> video problem doesn't appear when running X.  I think it is a very good news.

What kind of video problem ??

Ollie

[Andrew Ip]

Ollie,
> What kind of video problem ??

messed up screen
http://www.cwlinux.com/~aip/pub

-Andrew

[ollie lho]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:01, Andrew Ip wrote:
> Ollie,
> > What kind of video problem ??
>
> messed up screen
> http://www.cwlinux.com/~aip/pub

O.K. that one. Do you have any idea how does
the problem magically disappear "in recent kernel" ??

Ollie