[LinuxBIOS] N2200 LinuxBios

veneraldo.apelo at sagex-net.com veneraldo.apelo at sagex-net.com
Fri Mar 2 04:03:37 CET 2007


 Hi All,

I've been seen many requests in the archives for a LinuxBios on N2200 (aka 8363) and apparently when I contacted them, none of them were able to successsfully installed the linuxbios.
Before attempting to do the same, I would like to confirm with the experts like Ron for the possibilty.
Herewith is some information regarding the N2200 (Geode GX1, CX5530 companion chip).

 # cat pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master (rev 0).
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 2).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc0ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44801000 [0x44801fff].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Legacy [Kahlua] (rev 0).
  Bus  0, device  18, function  1:
    Bridge: Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua] (rev 0).
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40012000 [0x400120ff].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  2:
    IDE interface: Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua] (rev 0).
      I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc0f].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  3:
    Multimedia audio controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua] (rev 0).
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40011000 [0x4001107f].
  Bus  0, device  18, function  4:
    VGA compatible controller: Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua] (rev 0).
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40800000 [0x40ffffff].
  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
    USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 6).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x44800000 [0x44800fff].

# cat cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CyrixInstead
cpu family      : 5
model           : 7
model name      : Cyrix MediaGXtm MMXtm Enhanced
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 233.864
cache size      : 16 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx cxmmx
bogomips        : 466.94


# cat ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
03c0-03df : vesafb
03f6-03f6 : ide0
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
c000-c0ff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
  c000-c0ff : sis900
fc00-fc0f : Cyrix Corporation 5530 IDE [Kahlua]

 # cat iomem
00000000-0009efff : System RAM
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-05ceffff : System RAM
  00100000-0024be5b : Kernel code
  0024be5c-002d6663 : Kernel data
40011000-4001107f : Cyrix Corporation 5530 Audio [Kahlua]
40012000-400120ff : Cyrix Corporation 5530 SMI [Kahlua]
40800000-40ffffff : Cyrix Corporation 5530 Video [Kahlua]
  40800000-40895fff : vesafb
44800000-44800fff : Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB
  44800000-44800fff : usb-ohci
44801000-44801fff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
  44801000-44801fff : sis900

# cat fb
0 VESA VGA


# cat devices
0000 10780001 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00000000    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000
0070 10390900 a 0000c001 44801000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00000100    00001000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00020000 sis900
0090 10780100 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00000000    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000
0091 10780101 0 40012000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00000100    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000
0092 10780102 0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000fc01 00000000 00000000  00000000    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000010 00000000   00000000
0093 10780103 0 40011000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00000080    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000
0094 10780104 0 40800000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00800000    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000
0098 0e11a0f8 b 44800000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  00001000    00000000 00000000   00000000 00000000 00000000   00000000 usb-ohci

# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.27 (root at debian) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Mon Jan 15 02:42:39 PHT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e801: 0000000000100000 - 0000000005cf0000 (usable)
92MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 23792
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 19696 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda1 V=640x480 D=16 ip=192.168.1.8:0.0.0.0:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.0:localhost:eth0 load_ramdisk=1 n1=0.0.0.0 n2=0.0.0.0 pf=2 vga=4
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.
Detected 233.864 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 91392k/95168k available (1327k kernel code, 3388k reserved, 554k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Working around Cyrix MediaGX virtual DMA bugs.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 00808131 00818131 00000000 00000001
CPU:             Common caps: 00808131 00818131 00000000 00000001
CPU: Cyrix MediaGXtm MMXtm Enhanced stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Fixup for MediaGX/Geode Slave Disconnect Boundary (0x41=0x9c)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x40800000, mapped to 0xc680d000, size 600k
vesafb: mode is 640x480x8, linelength=640, pages=11
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
PCI: Enabling device 00:0e.0 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0e.0 to 64
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xc000, IRQ 10, 00:06:29:23:e9:b5.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 57M
agpgart: no supported devices found.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hdb: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hda: SanDisk SDCFB-64, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 125440 sectors (64 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=980/4/32
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:13.0 to 64
host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc68a6000, IRQ 11
host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:13.0, Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
pegasus.c: v0.4.32 (2003/06/06):Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
usb.c: registered new driver pegasus
rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.4.3 (2002/12/31)
usb.c: registered new driver rtl8150
catc.c: v2.8 CATC EL1210A NetMate USB Ethernet driver
usb.c: registered new driver catc
kaweth.c: Driver loading
usb.c: registered new driver kaweth
CDCEther.c: CDCEther.c: 0.98.6 7 Jan 2002 Brad Hards and another
usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther
usb.c: registered new driver usbnet
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan PDA
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan PDA - (prerenumeration)
keyspan_pda.c: USB Keyspan PDA Converter driver v1.1
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Belkin / Peracom / GoHubs USB Serial Adapter
belkin_sa.c: USB Belkin Serial converter driver v1.2
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
eth0: Media Link Off
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.8, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
     host=localhost, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=255.255.255.255, rootpath=
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex



Thanks and best regards,
Veneraldo






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