Hello Chung,
My config might be a little different
to most ... (I suspect). I have a DoC
eval board, which allows me to have a
DoC Millenium in memory (at 0xd0000 for
the moment) while running under a normal
BIOS ... so there's no need to hot-
swap the BIOS eprom.
So, for me the two tricks are;
- switch off high-address probes
- put in a specifc address (0xd0000),
to not let it autoprobe.
.. and, because we are playing in the
DoC Mill's "bios" space (the 512byte
XIP flash), you need to disable 0055 or
55ff (or whatever it is) auto detection.
If you are hot-swapping, then you should
be using the high-address probe (I
suspect), and should do the docprobe
insmod after the hot-swap. Ron has
some fairly good documentation on this
in the HowTo's ... and take a look at
the supplied scripts
(freebios/utils/mtd/*burn) ... as they
do all of these manual steps in order.
I am using kernel 2.4.17 ... I don't
believe there to be any problems with
the linux-mtd code (that comes with
that kernel) -- I have taken a CVS
snapshot of the MTD code ... but only
to build the utilities.
Ah ... for RedHat 7.1 ... you will also
need to run the MAKEDEV script that
comes with linux-mtd .. as none of the
/dev entries exist ... but I don't think
that'll affect your autodetection.
Anyway, have a play, and email back with
some more detail if you can't get it
going ...
(sorry for the short line wrap .. my
http-based email software doesn't seem
to get its style-sheets thru to Netscape
under linux ... ahh .. actually, its
prolly an X font problem .. yuk)
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chung Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ian"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: sanity
>Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:05:18 +0800
>
> Ian! how did you got DoC indentified?
I tried for days and it keeps saying
"Possible DoC found with chipID etc...."
and no info found at /proc/mtd either. I
am using DoC Millenium 8 MB and K7SEM
(SiS 730 chipset)
>
> I wonder if mtd has bugs, or my DoC
are died, or, I am missing something...
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002
6:57 PM
> Subject: sanity
>
>
> I'm not going insane :)
>
>
> Finally got my DoC identified and
> programmed (took me hours to recall
the
> whole procedure to get the DoC
running -
> things you don't use regularly slip
so
> quickly!) ... anyway, using the same
> code I cried over 6months ago;
>
>
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/faq/archive/1266.html
>
> ... I got the 0x69 out to my POST
board,
> so I'm feeling much better (hmmm no
more
> VIA :-))
>
> With a bit of luck, the ALi will
take a
> normal process to jump into 32bit
mode
> and I'll be off! yee-har!
>
>
>
>
