[LinuxBIOS] How to start with a new mainboard (commel lv-671)

[Dieter Bloms]

Hi Stefan,

On Sun, May 27, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * Dieter Bloms <dieter at bloms.de> [070527 21:54]:
> > I found out, that the existing mainboard adl855pc from digitallogic
> > seems to have the same north and south bridge.
>  
> i855 is currently not supported. The adl855pc never worked.
> 
> > Shall I copy all the files from this mainboard to start, or should I
> > start from scratch ?I searched for a howto start from beginning, but I
> > haven't found one.

I've tried to compile a bios for adl855pc, but it fails with:

--snip--
gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o
/usr/bin/ld: section .id [00000000fffdffce -> 00000000fffdffef] overlaps section .rom [00000000fffd663a -> 00000000fffe208f]
/usr/bin/ld: linuxbios: section .id lma 0xfffdffce overlaps previous sections
/usr/bin/ld: linuxbios: section .reset lma 0xfffdfff0 overlaps previous sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [linuxbios] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/digitallogic/adl855pc/adl855pc/normal'
make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Fehler 1
video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/digitallogic/adl855pc/adl855pc#                                                      
--snip--

so do I have a change to get linuxbios to work for my board ?
Today I added the bios savior and now I can do some testing, but don't
have any skills for programming :(

@leo: You sad you have some patches. Are you willing to send them to me,
so I can add them to give them i try.


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  Dieter

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