[LinuxBIOS] one last note
Ronald G Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Jan 20 00:07:33 CET 2006
if anyone out there has a copy of a version of the v2 repo that can
build a working via epia, hopefully recent, I'm willing to work with that.
Current problem, btw, is that the via epia samuel 2 cpu hangs up in the
mtrr init code. I suspect someone updated that, for -m or -m2, in such
a way that it broke older cpus.
if I comment out mtrr init, i.e.
Index: src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c
===================================================================
--- src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (revision 2158)
+++ src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (working copy)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
{
/* Turn on caching if we haven't already */
x86_enable_cache();
- x86_setup_mtrrs(36);
+// x86_setup_mtrrs(36);
x86_mtrr_check();
/* Enable the local cpu apics */
then it will come up -- with no working cache. And the enet problem then
occurs.
I could use some help and perspetive here. I know some of you have epias
-- could you take a look?
But I have other, newer things to do, and fixing an old CPU just can not
take priority. Sorry.
ron
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