Trouble calling hardwaremain
Hieu T. Tran
htran at viosoft.com
Fri Oct 11 15:49:00 CEST 2002
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> For even more fun I have had a hardware glitch that caused the the
> memory size to be set to 0 after initializing it, properly. The copy
> succeeded when I had no ram at all. Of course I couldn't execute the
> LinuxBIOS code.
>
> Have you enabled the serial port?
I have enabled the serial port, but no console message so far. Perhaps,
my bigger challenge is to get access to documentation for this board.
It's manufactured by Portwell (NAD-2050), but there is very data that is
available on their site or from the live techsupport contact.
> There is a file ramtest.inc that you can included that will do a basic
> sanity check on the ram to see if is working. Usually that is a help
> when brining up a new port.
I haved tried including ramtest.inc, but without serial port output, it's
difficult to tell. BTW: I'm attaching my lspci output and config file
for reference. I'm going to do more due-dilligence on SDRAM initialization
before I have more progress to report.
-- HT
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: portwell.pci
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 7081 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/attachments/20021011/bc340b0c/attachment.obj>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: portwell.config
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 480 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/attachments/20021011/bc340b0c/attachment-0001.obj>
More information about the coreboot
mailing list