[coreboot] proposed patch, notsigned off, comments welcome.

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Mon May 12 17:30:20 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:24:09PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 12.05.2008 17:04, ron minnich wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tom Sylla <tsylla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> This tool is a bit useful already. Can you run it on the alix1c's
> >> tinybios (or whatever works best on the alix)? Do all ports of your
> >> USB card work on alix with that BIOS? At a minumum, you need to check
> >> and make sure that INTs A-D are *really* GPIOs 0, 7, 12, and 13. (and
> >> as Peter said, you need to verify how they are hooked up to the slot)
> >>     
> >
> > verified. One bit of verification is that eth0 on schematic matches up
> > with eth0 in the $PIR table.
> >
> > i'd like to run under tinybios and will try this once I trust the
> > tool. or someone can run it for me -- my FLASH on the LPC died.
> >   
> 
> In theory, the vendor BIOS can be loaded from the dongle.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I succesfully tried doing that when I was testing my
dongle cable.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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