V2 VIA EPIA

[Andrew Ip]

Hi Ron,

Are you able to use etherboot as payload?

> ZKERNEL_START is not really needed any more. I don't think. Am I wrong?
Is it changed to CONFIG_ROM_STREAM_START?

> send me the tweaks, although they should not have been needed.
It is just the size.  I can commit it now.  We can say LinuxBIOS is
a 24x7 project.  :)


-Andrew

Here is the part of the log.
============================================================================
Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done.
Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf0000...failed
Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000500 - 00000aec  checksum 7d48
                                                                                
Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
January 2002, Eric Biederman.
Version 1.3
                                                                                
    23:stream_init() - rom_stream: 0xfffe0000 - 0xfffeffff
Found ELF candiate at offset 0
header_offset is 0
Try to load at offset 0x0
malloc Enter, size 32, free_mem_ptr 0001432c
malloc 0x0001432c
New segment addr 0x400000 size 0xaec0 offset 0x60 filesize 0x6fa1
(cleaned up) New segment addr 0x400000 size 0xaec0 offset 0x60 filesize 0x6fa1
lb: [0x0000000000004000, 0x0000000000017b4c)
Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000400000 memsz: 0x000000000000aec0 filesz:
0x01[ 0x0000000000400000, 0000000000406fa1, 0x000000000040aec0) <-
0000000000000060
Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000406fa1 memsz: 0x0000000000003f1f
Loaded segments
verified segments
closed down stream
Jumping to boot code at 0x400000
entry    = 0x00400000
lb_start = 0x00004000
lb_size  = 0x00013b4c
adjust   = 0x03fe84b4
buffer   = 0x03fd8968
     elf_boot_notes = 0x0000d400
adjusted_boot_notes = 0x03ff58b4
ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x0000
Etherboot 5.0.6 (GPL) ELF for [VIA 86C100]
Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? clocks_per_tick = 504240
N
I am now initializing the ide system

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:36:25PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Andrew Ip wrote:
> 
> > I'm able to build and run LinuxBIOS on EPIA with some treaking on Config.lb.
> 
> 
> 
> > However, it fails to jump to payload(etherboot).  I suspect LinuxBIOS is
> > jumping to a wrong location.  Is it possible to set ZKERNEL_START in v2?
> 
> ZKERNEL_START is not really needed any more. I don't think. Am I wrong?
> 
> > BTW, ROM_SIZE for default setup should be 262144 instead of 512k, since
> > most EPIA doesn't come with 512k flash.
> 
> OK, I will try to commit that tomorrow.
> 
> please send me output.
> 
> ron
> 
> 

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