[LinuxBIOS] EPIA patch to fix non working IDE, with sigin off

[Ben Hewson]

Alex Mauer wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>
>   
>> Committed in 2633.
>>
>> Alex's message indicates to me, however, that DRAM is still not quite
>> right. Alex, you and Ben should talk to each other about the DRAM you
>> have and the settings you are using.
>>     
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> First off, Ben, I wanted to thank you for coming up with this fix --
> It's the first time I've had a successful boot from the LBv2 codebase.
>
> I have a single 256MB high-density (single-sided) DIMM which is PC133.
>
> LB is as far as I can tell configured to use PC100, CL=3.
>
> As far as I know those should be the more conservative settings, and so
> should work.
>
> I can't figure out how to get memtest going on this board (with both a
> normal and fallback rom, memtest doesn't fit, with only fallback it
> doesn't seem to boot properly, not sure why) suggestions are very welcome.
>
> Feel free to contact me via XMPP/jabber/gtalk.
>
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
>
>   
Hi Alex,

I am using 2 x 256Mb 100Mhz  DIMMS.  Apart from the occasional hang on boot
which really bugs me, I don think I have any problems. If my board gets
as far a FILO
it boots all the way.  At least I have no trouble SSH'ing into it once
it is up.

I also had the same problem with memtest. Still don't quite get the
normal/fallback options.
If I ever try to use just one, leaving more room in the flash I can't
get it to boot at all.
Perhaps I will have another go and maybe track down an older version of
memtest which will
hopefully be smaller.
I will also see if I can get hold of some 133Mhz ram. I think the whole
raminit could be tidied up
a little bit and it would be good to have the memory to test the board with.

Ben