[LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

[Marc Karasek]

I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.

I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.

It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not 
find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was 
failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I put 
it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is failing.

It took me a lot work to get to this point as I have been having proxy 
server problems.  The machine I am building/testing with is in a lab and 
is behind the proxy.

I am pretty close to getting this compiled.  I already have a system 
setup with SimNOW (NDA version).  Any help would be appreciated...

[Myles Watson]

On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
>
> I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
>
> It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not
> find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I put
> it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is failing.

Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply.  When you
check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*

If that doesn't help, I don't have enough information to help you.
Are you building for fam10 or the original Serengeti_cheetah?  Which
payload are you using?  What patch is failing?  What's the error
message?

I just built LAB payloads for both versions of Serengeti Cheetah, and
they worked for me.

Myles
> It took me a lot work to get to this point as I have been having proxy
> server problems.  The machine I am building/testing with is in a lab and
> is behind the proxy.
>
> I am pretty close to getting this compiled.  I already have a system
> setup with SimNOW (NDA version).  Any help would be appreciated...

[Jordan Crouse]

On 08/01/08 13:23 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
> >
> > I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
> >
> > It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not
> > find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> > failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I put
> > it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is failing.
>
> Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
> directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply.  When you
> check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*

Thats probably right - it would be interesting to figure out why SVN isn't
working for you - this is the first time we've had a general SVN failure
like this.

Maybe we need to start using qa.linuxbios.org to as a backup for SVN 
failures.

Jordan

[Marc Karasek]

I t has to do with the proxy server here at Sun.  I have setup to use it 
by editing the ~/.subversion/servers file,  but it still will not 
properly do the proxy when I have to do a svn co svn://xxx/yyy.  It 
seems to work ok for http and https checkouts.

I really hate proxy servers...

/*********************
Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
*********************/

Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 08/01/08 13:23 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > > I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
> > >
> > > I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
> > >
> > > It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not
> > > find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> > > failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I put
> > > it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is failing.
> >
> > Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
> > directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply.  When you
> > check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*
>
> Thats probably right - it would be interesting to figure out why SVN isn't
> working for you - this is the first time we've had a general SVN failure
> like this.
>
> Maybe we need to start using qa.linuxbios.org to as a backup for SVN 
> failures.
>
> Jordan

[Marc Karasek]

You are right.  I saw that it needed the files under svn/.  So I moved 
the files into this directory under sources.  This was from the svn co I 
did for version 2950.    Could I use the tip of the tree for this or is 
it better to use version 2950?

Now it needs the patch for the compile problems, ld, etc..  for Fedora 8.

Progress no matter how slow is progress,  I guess...................... :-)

/*********************
Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
*********************/

Myles Watson wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
> >
> > I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
> >
> > It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not
> > find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> > failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I put
> > it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is failing.
>
> Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
> directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply.  When you
> check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*
>
> If that doesn't help, I don't have enough information to help you.
> Are you building for fam10 or the original Serengeti_cheetah?  Which
> payload are you using?  What patch is failing?  What's the error
> message?
>
> I just built LAB payloads for both versions of Serengeti Cheetah, and
> they worked for me.
>
> Myles
> > It took me a lot work to get to this point as I have been having proxy
> > server problems.  The machine I am building/testing with is in a lab and
> > is behind the proxy.
> >
> > I am pretty close to getting this compiled.  I already have a system
> > setup with SimNOW (NDA version).  Any help would be appreciated...

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: LinuxBIOS
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question
>
> You are right.  I saw that it needed the files under svn/.  So I moved
> the files into this directory under sources.  This was from the svn co I
> did for version 2950.    Could I use the tip of the tree for this or is
> it better to use version 2950?
>
> Now it needs the patch for the compile problems, ld, etc..  for Fedora 8.
>
> Progress no matter how slow is progress,  I guess...................... :-
> )

You can use the head of the tree.  Buildrom is supposed to be a stable
version, so a working version is always specified for v2.

Good luck,
Myles
> /*********************
> Marc Karasek
> MTS
> Sun Microsystems
> mailto:[e-mail]
> ph:770.360.6415
> *********************/
>
> Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > > I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
> > >
> > > I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
> > >
> > > It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios.  Originally it could not
> > > find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> > > failing.  I then got this revision via svn and created this file.  I
>
> put
> > > it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is
>
> failing.
> > >
> >
> > Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
> > directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply.  When you
> > check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*
> >
> > If that doesn't help, I don't have enough information to help you.
> > Are you building for fam10 or the original Serengeti_cheetah?  Which
> > payload are you using?  What patch is failing?  What's the error
> > message?
> >
> > I just built LAB payloads for both versions of Serengeti Cheetah, and
> > they worked for me.
> >
> > Myles
> > > It took me a lot work to get to this point as I have been having proxy
> > > server problems.  The machine I am building/testing with is in a lab
>
> and
> > > is behind the proxy.
> > >
> > > I am pretty close to getting this compiled.  I already have a system
> > > setup with SimNOW (NDA version).  Any help would be appreciated...

[Jordan Crouse]

On 08/01/08 15:10 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:02 PM
> > To: Myles Watson
> > Cc: LinuxBIOS
> > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question
> >
> > You are right.  I saw that it needed the files under svn/.  So I moved
> > the files into this directory under sources.  This was from the svn co I
> > did for version 2950.    Could I use the tip of the tree for this or is
> > it better to use version 2950?
> >
> > Now it needs the patch for the compile problems, ld, etc..  for Fedora 8.
> >
> > Progress no matter how slow is progress,  I guess...................... :-
> > )
>
> You can use the head of the tree.  Buildrom is supposed to be a stable
> version, so a working version is always specified for v2.

Yes - you can move up.

Jordan

[Marc Karasek]

I have found the main problem with svn.  It looks like if you use svn co 
http://  it will use the proxy settings under servers.  If you do a svn 
co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails behind a proxy server 
:-(.  I have not been able to find any info on setting svn up to use a 
proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.

/*********************
Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
*********************/

Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 08/01/08 15:10 -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:02 PM
> > > To: Myles Watson
> > > Cc: LinuxBIOS
> > > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question
> > >
> > > You are right.  I saw that it needed the files under svn/.  So I moved
> > > the files into this directory under sources.  This was from the svn co I
> > > did for version 2950.    Could I use the tip of the tree for this or is
> > > it better to use version 2950?
> > >
> > > Now it needs the patch for the compile problems, ld, etc..  for Fedora 8.
> > >
> > > Progress no matter how slow is progress,  I guess...................... :-
> > > )
> >
> > You can use the head of the tree.  Buildrom is supposed to be a stable
> > version, so a working version is always specified for v2.
>
> Yes - you can move up.
>
> Jordan

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
> If you do a svn co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails
> behind a proxy server :-(.  I have not been able to find any info
> on setting svn up to use a proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.

svn:// is a plain TCP connection. Is it a SOCKS proxy? An HTTP proxy
of course may not be able to help.

//Peter

[David H. Barr]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:53 PM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
> > If you do a svn co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails
> > behind a proxy server :-(.  I have not been able to find any info
> > on setting svn up to use a proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.
>
> svn:// is a plain TCP connection. Is it a SOCKS proxy? An HTTP proxy
> of course may not be able to help.

svn co svn://80.190.231.112/... ?  It's an ugly hack, but will it work?

-dhbarr.

[ron minnich]

On Jan 8, 2008 2:38 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> I have found the main problem with svn.  It looks like if you use svn co
> http://  it will use the proxy settings under servers.  If you do a svn
> co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails behind a proxy server
> :-(.  I have not been able to find any info on setting svn up to use a
> proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.

There is a way to do it, maybe: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy

ron

[Marc Karasek]

I have managed to cobble together a build structure that tries to build.

It gets to the point of building the linuxbios image and it chokes 
because the image is to large for the romsize.

Can someone shed some light on what Config.lb should be set to to get 
this to compile.

The payload buildrom is generating is 790,000+ bytes big.

/*********************
Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
mailto:[e-mail]
ph:770.360.6415
*********************/

ron minnich wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 2:38 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > I have found the main problem with svn.  It looks like if you use svn co
> > http://  it will use the proxy settings under servers.  If you do a svn
> > co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails behind a proxy server
> > :-(.  I have not been able to find any info on setting svn up to use a
> > proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.
>
> There is a way to do it, maybe: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy
>
> ron

[ron minnich]

In the TARGET file, you can put something like this:

option ROM_SIZE=1024*1024

that gets you 1M

ron

[Myles Watson]

Here are my Config.lb files for Serengeti Cheetah and fam 10.

Good luck,
Myles

On Jan 11, 2008 12:17 PM, ron minnich  wrote:
> In the TARGET file, you can put something like this:
>
> option ROM_SIZE=1024*1024
>
> that gets you 1M
>
> ron