"Richard A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:08:36 -0600 (MDT), Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > >What is the current problem? > > Dosen't seem to be making it to hardwaremain. So far I've just been > going through the code insureing that most things are set up the way > I expect them to be setup. Making sure it's not just some simple > mis-configuration.
The first place I would check is to see if you are reading the SPD EEPROMs correctly. This tends to be mainboard dependent. And it is the easiest place for the code to break. > >Richard, what we did in debugging the 430tx was to first figure out how > >the normal bios set things, bit for bit. Then, in the .inc for linuxbios, > > Well... our "Normal" bios is General Softwares Embedded BIOS and I'd > hardly call it normal. However, it does boot so I'll do a dump on > it and compare. When the docs don't quite explain things that is a good way to go. > >unimportant. Thanks are due once again to Eric Beiderman for this totally > >excellent way of doing .inc files. > > Yes... Most excellent. Very slick. Many kudos to Eric. Welcome. > >Dumping the northbridge this way allowed us to very quickly converge on a > >working configuration. > > Thanks for the info on ramtest and dumpnorth. That should help quite > a bit. I'll go play some more. I have a few other pressing issues > though so I might not get to mess with this until next week. Eric
