Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

[Li Haiqiang]

I write the 'ls -xxx' results  to the  PCI  config registers.
Can it work?

----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Smith 
To: Li Haiqiang 
Cc: LinuxBIOS mailinglist 
Sent: Monday, November 6, 2006 12:25:38 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd:  Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

Li Haiqiang wrote:
> What does debug code 0xf9 mean?
> It stopped here.

Li,

The 440bx is NOT COMPLETE.  It will NOT function.  It is BROKEN. The
port is not finished.  Its does not enable RAM.

Hopefully, one of those translates correctly.  Do you understand?

To make it work you need to add a lot of code.  My earlier email talks
about the necessary steps to get 440bx into a working shape.

[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Li Haiqiang  [061106 05:45]:
> I write the 'ls -xxx' results  to the  PCI  config registers.
> Can it work?

As a first step this is worth a try, yes.

But you need to find out which are relevant, and the order plays a big
role. Grab yourself a datasheet for the 440BX northbridge... Otherwise
it will break as soon as you put in another DIMM module.

[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

[Richard Smith]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Li Haiqiang  [061106 05:45]:
> > I write the 'ls -xxx' results  to the  PCI  config registers.
> > Can it work?
>
> As a first step this is worth a try, yes.
>
> But you need to find out which are relevant, and the order plays a big
> role. Grab yourself a datasheet for the 440BX northbridge... Otherwise
> it will break as soon as you put in another DIMM module.

I think there is slightly more than zero chance this will work.  The ram
init routines in that code are for VIA.  None of the ram commands are
correct.

[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Richard Smith  [061106 11:53]:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > Li Haiqiang  [061106 05:45]:
> > > I write the 'ls -xxx' results  to the  PCI  config registers.
> > > Can it work?
> >
> > As a first step this is worth a try, yes.
> >
> > But you need to find out which are relevant, and the order plays a big
> > role. Grab yourself a datasheet for the 440BX northbridge... Otherwise
> > it will break as soon as you put in another DIMM module.
>
> I think there is slightly more than zero chance this will work.  The ram
> init routines in that code are for VIA.  None of the ram commands are
> correct.

Ah, I understood he wants to omit the ram init code and just poke the
lspci -xxx values into the northbridge. This might work for a start,
right? At least thats how we started working on the k8 port