[LinuxBIOS] EPIA-MII 12000, almost there. ( newbie )

Per Mellander per at mellander.org
Mon Jun 19 13:13:41 CEST 2006


On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:23:53 -0500, Richard Smith wrote
> On 6/18/06, Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > system does not handle this correctly.  It expects there to be falback
> > > and normal images.
> > > So you have to trick it to make it work right.
> >
> > The trick is to set FALLBACK_SIZE=ROM_SIZE
> >
> 
> Looks like you need to comment out the following lines in the config as well
> or I think the addresses of the various entry points will be wrong.
> 
>         option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
>         option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x30000
> 

Don't know if I missed something, but this Config.lb
gives the same reboots after kernel has been loaded :(

/Per


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# Sample config file for EPIA-M
# This will make a target directory of ./epia-m

target epia-m

mainboard via/epia-m

option  MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option  DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option  CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1

option ROM_SIZE=256*1024
option HAVE_OPTION_TABLE=1
option CONFIG_ROM_STREAM=1
option HAVE_FALLBACK_BOOT=1

###
### Compute the location and size of where this firmware image
### (linuxBIOS plus bootloader) will live in the boot rom chip.
###
option FALLBACK_SIZE=0x30000

## LinuxBIOS C code runs at this location in RAM
option _RAMBASE=0x00004000

#
###
### Compute the start location and size size of
### The linuxBIOS bootloader.
###

#
# EPIA-M
#
#romimage "normal"
#       option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0
#       option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0xc000
#       option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
#       option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x18000
#       option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffd0000
#       option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Normal"
#       payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#       payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#       payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
#       payload /filo.elf
#end

romimage "fallback"
        option FALLBACK_SIZE=ROM_SIZE
        option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=1
        option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000
#       option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
#       option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x30000
#       option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffe0000
        option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Fallback"
#       payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#       payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#       payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
        payload /filo.elf
#       payload /memtest
end

buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE  "fallback"

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