Re: [LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881

[Lu, Yinghai]

Ron,
Are you using flash_rom or flashrom?

Stepan put sth in flashrom to check the 
  LinuxBIOS image size=262144
  MANUFACTURER: Tyan
  MAINBOARD ID: s2881

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:05 PM
To: Ronald G Minnich
Cc: LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:25:48PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> we use the v2 flashrom all the time on s2881 here.
>
> Also, Ward led me to believe he was getting serial output. Did I miss 
> something?

Ah, sorry about the confusion, I get serial output when NOT running
linuxbios. That was just me making sure that was set up correctly. I
haven't
yet managed to boot linuxbios. I'm obviously doing something stupid
building
the image - my images are not even being recognized by flashrom as being
Linuxbios images.

Yhlu sent me an image to test, but I can't burn that as it is being seen
as
not the correct size by flashrom.

Real size: 524288 bytes

flashrom:
  root@chimera:~/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# ./flashrom -v -w
  ../../../s2881_linuxbios.rom
  Calibrating delay loop... ok
  No LinuxBIOS table found.
  Enabling flash write on AMD8111...OK
  Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000
  Flash part is Pm49FL004
  LinuxBIOS image size=262144
  MANUFACTURER: Tyan
  MAINBOARD ID: s2881
  ERROR: This firmware image does not fit to this machine
  Override with -m ifyou know exactly what you are doing.

Not sure what's going on here.

Thanks,
Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Lu, Yinghai  [051213 03:21]:
> Ron,
> Are you using flash_rom or flashrom?
>
> Stepan put sth in flashrom to check the 
>   LinuxBIOS image size=262144
>   MANUFACTURER: Tyan
>   MAINBOARD ID: s2881

Which works fine as long as you flash on a linuxbios system or specify 
-m Tyan:s2881

I could change the check to be case insensitive?

Also, it probably should not check at all if no lbtable is found. and no
-m is given.

Stefan

[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Which works fine as long as you flash on a linuxbios system or specify 
> -m Tyan:s2881
>
> I could change the check to be case insensitive?

please do.
> Also, it probably should not check at all if no lbtable is found. and no
> -m is given.

yeah.

ron

[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881

[Richard Smith]

> > Also, it probably should not check at all if no lbtable is found. and no
> > -m is given.
>
> yeah.

Automagically doing the wrong thing is probally not good.  I would say
that the current behavior is good just not verbose enough.

If it does not find an lbtable then it should say so and exit with a
example of the right option(s) to use for -m or -f to disable checks.

Something like:

"Your flash image does not appear to correct for the mainboard I have
detected."  If you are sure this is a correct image for this mainboard
then you can override this check with:

-m mfg:model
or -f to disable this check completely.

And then fill in mfg and model with the autodetected values.