[LinuxBIOS] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4

[Allix Davis]

Hello, i bought a GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard after hearing LinuxBios
works on it.
I have not yet installed it, at the moment i am using the proprietary Award
bios version F8 2007/03/20 .

I wanted to use AMD-V with kvm or xen, unfortunately the bios has disabled
it and there is no option in the bios to enable it.
I found on a thread that before G stepping support disabling amd-v was
difficult and therefore bios companies left it enabled.

On a xen forum somebody had a Gigabyte M61P-S3 and had the same problem ,
they downgraded to a bios that did not have G stepping support and amd-v was
enabled, of course they lost powernow and other features.

I am asking if anyone knows if the latest bios version F9 or some way to
enable amd-v on the bios, of course i am willing to use linuxBios , but i
would like to wait for a few releases so all bugs are cleared and acpi is
enabled.

I have amd64 x2 5200+ on the board...

kind regards

Allix Davis

[yhlu]

On 7/26/07, Allix Davis  wrote:
> I am asking if anyone knows if the latest bios version F9 or some way to
> enable amd-v on the bios, of course i am willing to use linuxBios , but i
> would like to wait for a few releases so all bugs are cleared and acpi is
> enabled.

i don't think the acpi could be enabled in LinuxBIOS because of chipset...

the DSDT in BIOS 's copyright is belonging to BIOS vendor.

Maybe could dump it and modify it in LinuxBIOS and use it by yourself.
but i don't think you could  release that.

YH

Sorry, maybe this is a dumb question, but can someone explain to me what
virtualization has to do with the chipset? I thought that it was only related to
the amd64 core, isn't it?
 BTW, how did you Alix to reflash your bios? Was it a spi flash?
 Best regards,
  FD

Quoting yhlu :
> On 7/26/07, Allix Davis  wrote:
> > I am asking if anyone knows if the latest bios version F9 or some way to
> > enable amd-v on the bios, of course i am willing to use linuxBios , but i
> > would like to wait for a few releases so all bugs are cleared and acpi is
> > enabled.
>
> i don't think the acpi could be enabled in LinuxBIOS because of chipset...
>
> the DSDT in BIOS 's copyright is belonging to BIOS vendor.
>
> Maybe could dump it and modify it in LinuxBIOS and use it by yourself.
> but i don't think you could  release that.
>
> YH

[john]

On 07/26/2007 07:46 PM, Allix Davis wrote:
> I am asking if anyone knows if the latest bios version F9 or some way 
> to enable amd-v on the bios, of course i am willing to use linuxBios , 
> but i would like to wait for a few releases so all bugs are cleared 
> and acpi is enabled.
>
> I have amd64 x2 5200+ on the board...
>
> kind regards
>
> Allix Davis

I've been using F9 since it was released a little while ago. It's no 
better than F8 - virtualization is disabled. That's why I'm attempting 
to get LinuxBIOS working on my PC. So far I can boot to text mode but 
having trouble getting X running.

John
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[LinuxBIOS] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 & Xen 3.1

[Quux]

F11beta legacy bios still has amd-v disbled, according to xenoppix, 
which boots, however  --Q

Allix Davis schrieb:
> I have not yet installed it, at the moment i am using the proprietary 
> Award bios version F8 2007/03/20 .
>
> I wanted to use AMD-V with kvm or xen, unfortunately the bios has 
> disabled it and there is no option in the bios to enable it.
> I found on a thread that before G stepping support disabling amd-v was 
> difficult and therefore bios companies left it enabled.

[LinuxBIOS] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 & Xen 3.1

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Quux  [070812 05:52]:
> F11beta legacy bios still has amd-v disbled, according to xenoppix, 
> which boots, however  --Q

Can't XEN just turn it on? AFAIK you can't lock the AMD-V bits forever,
while on Intel-V the BIOS sets a lock bit and only the BIOS can turn it
back on.

Usually, if virtualization is disabled, XEN will just try to enable it
and print a message if that worked or failed.

Stefan

[LinuxBIOS] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 & Xen 3.1

[Quux]

I assume that is what happens, but kernel messages are not fully logged. 
The screen just says that BIOS has AMD-V disabled, but all seems to work 
fine - albeit slow in a knoppix inside a knoppix (who are 2 DHCP 
clients) ...   --Q

Stefan Reinauer schrieb:
> Usually, if virtualization is disabled, XEN will just try to enable it
> and print a message if that worked or failed.