On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:11:19AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finaly a little victory with the SPI version of the GA-M57SLI-S4 > board.. > It works!!!
Great to hear. Glad you can confirm they didn't do too much to change it. > But some issues remain: > -1) no support in flashrom for spi chips. I used a home made spi > programmer (with a Altera FPGA) to flash the rom image. I > "socketised" also the flash chip and the mainboard. Can you confirm or reject the theory for adding a switch? How did you do the socket? > No VGA display at all! Did you include the VGA BIOS in your LB image and enable VGA in Config.lb? > -3) I tried to install a network card too (PCI also). When > booting with the factory bios image (Award) it works well, lspci > shows both the graphics adapter and the ethernet one. But when > booting with LB, these 2 items don't appear anymore into the lspci > scan.. Does LB find them? Can you show us lspci from factory BIOS and full serial output from the LB boot? > It looks to me that the PCI bridge is not correctly initialized > into the SB : am I wrong or not on this issue? That could be it. Maybe they changed enough to make the board's Config.lb invalid. > Now I will try to add support for SPI flash and ITE8716 superio in > flashrom (I have never done that before, it will be hard for > me!..). Btw, is someone else working with this board at this moment > or am I alone?.. I would like to avoid to do unusefull work.. Carl-Daniel was going to have a look at it when he got back online unless someone else did it first. flashrom has no support at all for the SPI way of flashing so I would just do a massive hack for the first round of SPI support. > Finaly another finding I made: > - the board comes with a 512 KiB flash chip. I tried to use a 1 > MiB flash chip and it works! But I had to duplicate the > linuxbios.rom, image (cat lb.rom lb.rom > lb2.rom) to generate a > bigger image suitable for this bigger flash. Yep - I would expect that to work. Cool. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios