[LinuxBIOS] Random Bios Postcodes after 0x88 with 440BX

roger roger at eskimo.com
Fri Apr 27 09:09:02 CEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:35 -0700, roger wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 00:45 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:

> > Strange, the patch looks correct. Have you tried all variations in this
> > line (0x2e, 0x4e, 0x3f0, 0x3f8)?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure exactly which iobase ports I haven't tried.
> 
> But I just realized.  We're not assigning a iobase to the port yet..
> this is just needed for early_serial.c to get an initial console
> correct?
> 
> If so, my bag.  Although 0x3f8 should work, I should really try all of
> them then.

Just a quick note, from the success I've just experienced with the
LinuxBiosV2 on my Tyan S1832DL board just now, console_init seems not to
be taking place at all.  The DFI P2XBL post codes go in a regular
session "0x80 > 0x88 > 0xE7 (or whatever)" and takes a span of several
seconds.  Linuxbios boots in milliseconds.  I should be seeing tons of
stuff coming out on the serial port, but nothing.


Right now, I've got both my boxes setup with Bios Saviors and a plugin
PCI Siliconkit Postcard.

Pretty flexible with which one I tackle, or both.


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Fri Apr 27 00:08:26 PDT 2007





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