On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:20:36AM -0700, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
[..FILO..]
> >Indeed, this is another option. But a new kernel is still neccessary
> >since the one in the ELF image (/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img) came
> >with neither ext3 nor IDE drivers.
>
> Not so, according to his first email,
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:46:51PM -0700, beneo wrote:
> Then my trouble starts, every time I get a Linux Kernel Panic
> during the boot. The message is like this.
>
> Loading ext3.o module
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> Creating block devices
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-m
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:51:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> If you ask me, you have two possible problems.
> 1) LinuxBIOS isn't setting up the IDE controller properly so that
> your kernel can't find it
I agree.
> or
> 2) Something in the moving the kernel and initrd to the tftp
> ser
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:58:31PM -0700, beneo wrote:
> Does filo support ext3 file system? the intruduction say it
> supports ext2, but didn't say anything about ext3. If it doesn't
> support ext3, does it mean I have to re-install Linux to ext2?
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:09:53PM -0600, Ronald
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks
> > like this:
>
> Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was
> invented.
> Sorry.
No need to apologize.
> Anyone who wants to put this
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:01:56PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
> Oooh, looks interesting. I did not actually know what
> subtractive decoding is. Now I do. After talking to
> the local PCI guy, it means that the cs5530 will only
> claim the transaction if it doesn't see anyone else
> assert devsel# f
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Dave Olsen wrote:
> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>
> >- flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP.
>
> It is definitely a QFP
Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks
like this:
PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Pack)
http://www.lsilogic.com/
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:08:20PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
> Yes, I was, or actually, am doubtful as well. I would
> have thought, for sure, you can turn off the cs5530a's
> claim of reads on that address block. But so far I
> can't find any way to do that, and it doesn't seem
> like anyone else
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) -> payload (etherboot,OpenBIOS,
> FILO etc.) (-> operating system)?
Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you
can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly.
> O
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:36:35AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> >There are probably more sections that would be useful too.
>
> Technical jargon? I'm still a bit confused about what payload is and
> there's probably
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:12:33AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jamie Rollins wrote:
>
> > I agree very strongly on this point. If linuxbios is going to move
> > forward, it's public face needs to be very well presented, which at
> > the moment, it is not. The linuxbios
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:40:44PM -0800, Adam Talbot wrote:
> Humm
> Ok, I will start talking it up with the sus people.
I would go for CF-IDE-adapter instead. SO much simpler.
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:49:51AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
[..]
> > Hope this helps.
>
> looks like a great FAQ entry to me
Feel free to post it anywhere you think appropriate!
//Peter
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:52:11PM -0800, Adam Talbot wrote:
> -Ron (Linuxbios team)
> Humm, had one of my strange ideas. Would it be possible to use the
> linuxbios kernel as the system kernel?? So instead of calling a
> new kernel through FILO or booting from etherboot, could I just
> have Linu
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:31:10PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
> I converted my bzImage using mkelfImage like so:
>
> --kernel=./bzImage.in --output=bzImage.elf
> --command-line="root=/dev/hdc2 console=tty0
> console=ttyS0,38400 ro init=/sbin/init"
Which version of mkelfImage are you using? There h
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:47:38PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
> I noticed you mentioned reading the nsc reference
> drivers to get further understanding. Are these
> available somewhere?
NSC offered the BLDT, BootLoader Development Toolkit, without an
agreement of exclusivity and without licensing
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:19:47AM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Anyone ever get the VSA ROM to work with LinuxBIOS?
I don't think so. I had a document describing how to set up VSA that
I acquired outside of NDA (download from NSC website) with which one
could have made a VSM loader for LinuxBIOS, but
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
>
> > What is BASIC Stamp and what is PIC ?
>
> very nice small devices that are a full CPU with I/Os, and in the
> case of basic stamp, a basic interpreter built in.
Specifically the PIC de
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:49:51PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Why even consider x86?
Didn't someone mention Windows?
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:39AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
>
> > of curiosity. How much do you guesstimate it would increase cost
> > of the PIC if they add added built-in ethernet to it? $0.50 ?
> > (not really sure if Geode cpu has build in eth
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is?
>
> No
>
> > Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were?
>
> every model I've
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:18:00PM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
> The only problem is how do we do a non-recursive broad first
> tree traversal?
If recursion is the only problem and RAM is up then plain iteration
and a "manual" stack could work.
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:54:59PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> I found the BIOS chip brand and version: Its a Winbond W290C020-90
> (84400M282325601VA). Any suppliers available somehere?
Farnell has an equivalent part in stock at the very fair price of
46,43 SEK (USD 7) for single quantities.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal
> > board? (dual voltage)
>
> you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:11:32PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I keep having problems with not having a 5V 32bit PCI slot or an
> ISA slot...
What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal
board? (dual voltage)
I will probably be designing one for a customer later this spri
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:38:57AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> Where can I purchase a replacement BIOS chip? Placed in a socket on
> the main board is a 2x16 pin DIL labeled: 686 AMI BIOS 1995 CS
> 9.
Please remove the shiny sticker and check how the actual package is
marked. You're looking
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:25:47PM -0500, Dave Aubin wrote:
> Nice read Peter, thank you for the info:)
No problem!
> Would be nice to use some voltage reference differencing
> Instead of using a Max 232, but the Max is probably a cleaner
> approach.
The MAX232 is pretty common for connecting b
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Dave Aubin wrote:
> Has no one else hit this? One idea I have being a PIC lover is
> To use some LED's on the mother board and make a serial protocol
> Over the LED's, much like a software UART for a PIC.
> Anyone have an input on this?
That will wo
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:49:25AM +0800, Gin wrote:
> I could build an image now. Thanks all.
> I am curious about how fallback image and normal image are used. It
> looks like in the normal image, it always jumps to the Protected_start.
> I don't think it should be the start when the system boot
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:59:10AM -0700, zhu shi song wrote:
> When p4 power up , what's the value and meaning of the
> registers such as ebx, edx etc?
> Who know the information, need help.
Hmm? eax, ebx, ecx and edx are the 32 bit standard registers that
have been around since the 386. I beli
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:48:38PM -0700, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all?
> >
> > no, sorry, will try this week :-)
> >
> > ron
>
> C'mon Ron,
> You just lazy. Jump on it !
> Dmitry/
Dmitry, I believe most readers on the list do understan
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That message is from the original freebios. I was thinking that
> shadowing is not corretly set up and that maybe the
> segment is write-protected. After setting up shadowing,
> the chipset my turn on write protection by default
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:55:42PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Has anyone run across a prototyping socket for a TSOP?
Yes.
Emulation Technology has test sockets for TSOP packages.
http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/
I got a quote for single pieces at $15 or
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:07:58PM +0100, Matt Jarvis wrote:
> A cursory google throws up loads of stuff about doing this :
>
> http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=313
>
> http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.html
>
> Personally I would use grub, but each to thei
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:01AM -0400, David Aubin wrote:
> Thank yo for the image, but oddly it fails exactly the
> same way
> Found initrd block 0
> crc error
>
> I'm using reiserfs, I'll try ext2. I'm really running out
> of ideas.
For the initrd? I believe only ext2, minix, cramfs and
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Frank wrote:
> I am not trying to flame or put down LB. I'm just trying to
> point out it's shortcomings.
Thanks! I think you'll be glad to see that a lot has changed since
your last visit, no thanks to me though. :)
Since you're familiar with the problem
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:06:41PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> > I hope this doesn't have to become a big problem, we should be able
> > to just talk about it and straighten any issues out. It has been
> > done online before.
>
> We'll all cool off over the weekend and work it out next week.
Soun
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:32:58PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:56:29AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> >
> >>timer. In numerious locations my Vbios is writing a 0x00 to IO 0x43 and
> >>then does 2 reads from
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:01:56PM +0200, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
> What I'am gaining with Linuxbios experience I'll try to give back in
> somehow i could, don't you feel this ?.
I agree! :) I think the lbcc script can be very useful!
> > We had hoped to hash these issues out at the linuxbios s
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:56:29AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> timer. In numerious locations my Vbios is writing a 0x00 to IO 0x43 and
> then does 2 reads from 0x40. So its latching the value of counter 0 and
> then reading it out.
Right, it also sets counter mode 0, zero detection interrupt
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:42:20PM -0700, YhLu wrote:
> OHCI usb boot ok now.
Agree with Eric, congratulations! :)
> But it is some slow, only 173KB/S,
>
> Full speed should be 12Mbps/8 = 1500KB/s
Actually not. 12Mbps is the speed on the USB wire and each of the
protocols in the stack and in
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:10:56PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > What format is this image?
>
> The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs
> to be burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.
Often called "binary" in the programming software I've seen.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:19:24PM -0700, manisha s wrote:
> Hi All,
> I m new to this mailing list.
>
> I want to boot my laptop from 128Mb Compact Flash(CF)
> Card.
> On laptop i have already RedHat 9 with kernel version
> 2.4.22.
This has little to do with LinuxBIOS I'm afraid.
> I downloade
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:13:51PM -0700, YhLu wrote:
> I talked to lsi again, and they will do sth.
Great news, even if we haven't seen the results. Thanks a lot! :)
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:02:23AM +0200, Jochen Roemling wrote:
> Brian Maly wrote:
>
> >you can do (1) kernel on DoC, use (2) FILO to boot a kernel off the HD,
> >or (3) etherboot to load the kernel from the network.
>
> Okay, this is still not quite understood:
Currently there are a number of
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:42:48PM +0200, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
> >
> > > I want to make /dev/bios work because LinuxBIOS flash utils just
> > > write whereas /dev/bios is IMO a elegant way to read/write/>? to
> > > many bios.
> >
> > If you're going to do that why not just use MTD?
> > If it
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:37:37PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Mathieu> I'd rather like to make a backup copy of my bios in another
> Mathieu> chip and then to cold plug this copy to work with Linuxbios.
>
> Mathieu> Has anyone felt this worry .
>
> Same here.
>
> I feel that the reliance
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:10:59PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> I've asked sourceforge about LANL paying them some amount per year for
> "premium" service, which would mean you guys would get instant
> turnaround on checkouts. They've never replied to me on this question.
> I think they're missing a
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> for my hardware. The crucial thing is whether the BIOS chip is socketed
> or not. We'll see, at least I know the size is 2Mbit, since the latest
> BIOS binary (A6120IMS.200) supported by MSI is 261144kbyte. Does anybody
> have experi
Hi!
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Tina Declerck wrote:
> - Does the Linux BIOS do discovery on PCI slots for the existance
> of cards?
Yes, LinuxBIOS enumerates PCI buses behind hosts and bridges.
> - Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address
> Register (BAR) t
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:10:44PM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I put the the dhcpcd in the initrd. After boot system with LinuxBIOS +
> Etherboot + elf ( with the initrd). I found the IP got by Etherboot and
> dhcpcd is different.
>
> I may only used fixed option in dhcpd.conf to make it get t
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
> More likely reflex; posting to the general list leaves your
> email address exposed on the web for spammers to find and add
> to their lists. The ~130 spams I receive every day have
> sharpened my reflexes into almost never sending
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:28:45AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > Do you know the LinuxBIOS status on it? Is it different from plain EPIA?
>
> it's the 6000 I think, a variant of the -M
Yes, EPIA-CL6000E is what I'm
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:10:55AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> there is a variant epia mobo which would make an ideal
> router/filter/whatever, it has two enet ports.
Do you know the LinuxBIOS status on it? Is it different from plain EPIA?
I'm going to use it (it's the EPIA-CL) for a project in
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:20:05AM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
> It is done. We have AGP 8x and HW 3D acceleration
> now. We can even run tuxracer ;-).
Great work!
Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +, Surjan Singh wrote:
> Just wanted to highlight a website I found that actually sells the same
> BIOS chips that are used in the bog standard EPIA board
I'd just order them from Memec, a global SST sales agent.
(I believe Unique Memec is the right place.)
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:27:55AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
[..]
> the 8111 is the pci connection. register 3e.b in 8111 is set to 0xf, which
> should pass vga i/o to the pci bus.
>
> the vga card, using Ollie's 'userio' program, does not respond to byte
> accesses to 0x3cc or 0x3d4. Under n
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:52:20PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> > I'm not quite sure about the status of the EPIA port in the version 2 CVS
> > tree, but it's there and there's been work put into it so it should probab
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:39:44PM -0800, Parit Wattanasin wrote:
> hi, I'm new for LinuxBIOS. I have problem about my
> mainboard(VIA-EPIA) Now I'm use LinuxBIOS but I want
> to customized it to chang payload from etherboot with
> my program about serial port(now this mainboard use
> serial conso
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:22:08PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > >
> > > I would think it would hurt since x86 lets you use those little
> > > sub-registers (puddle arithmetic), so using bigger registers reduces
> > > the number of registers available.
> >
> > Yes, being able to use this f
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:10:13AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I am migrating LinuxBIOS from vt5426 to PCChips M787CL( NB: VT8601 ,SB:
> > VT82C686B),and I want to use ISA slot.I think that LinuxBIOS doesn't
> > need to initialize ISA slot, the de
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:05:12AM -0800, Erdem Guven wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to run linuxbios on a sis645dx board. I think
> there is no support for this chipset.
> Can someone give me some advice about:
> - compatibility with sis630 or other supported
> chipsets
No idea about this one.
> - Is it
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Just heard that AMD is doing away with the VSA nonsense on all the
> Geodes and opening up all the register specs for what used to be only
> controlled via the VSA binaries.
Excellent!
Even if they're doing it only on new Geodes the in
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:55:56PM +0200, Evan Langlois wrote:
> The smart-card suggestion someone posed might be an idea.
I like the Schlumberger (now: Axalto) Cryptoflex[1] (NB not Cyberflex) cards
a lot. I have a few e-gate 32K[2] cards that I'm playing with here, I'm
using the USB token, but i
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:31:46AM -0500, Evan Langlois wrote:
> The boot image in this case would be a proprietary piece of software for
> real-time network filtering. The algorythm for which is patented
> technology. A user-input encryption key doesn't make sense as the box
> is stand-alone and
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:26:01PM +0200, Evan Langlois wrote:
>
> I don't know much about FILO.
I should have included the URL where it lives: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/
Sorry about that.
> Can anyone comment on its compatibility with the LILO graphical features
> (displaying graphical menus/spla
Hi everyone.
This has a lot of basic stuff probably already well known on the list, but I
figured it might help someone. Felt like documenting a little. :)
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:10:54PM +0100, Terry Blunt wrote:
> I *very* much like the idea of having as much of my system as possible
> open
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:18:48PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> >
> > XpressLOADER is another name for the BLDT, available from either
> > Insyde or NSC. (I believe it's still NSC.)
>
> Perhaps. But NSC's webpage insists that they have indeed sold the
> entire line
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> How do I extract the VGA BIOS from the Insyde ExpressROM??the same way as in
> case of the EPIA will work? ANd in that case ... how can we find out IF it
> uses some calls that are implemented in the underlying XpressR
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:19:56PM +0200, Bernd Mödeker wrote:
> > Anyway, can you check and see if there is a vga enable? there almost
> > always is in these chipsets.
> The vga device is enabled. If I use devmem I can read the vendor and device
> ID and the enabled VGA device. PCI function 4 for
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:04:37PM -0400, Thomas Fritz wrote:
> I have access to a few WBTs at a surplus place, and I've dug up the
> specs on them:
>
> Cyrix Pentium clone - 266MHz
> up to 128MB SDRAM
> ports: PS/2 keyb/mouse, 2 USB 1.1, 2 serial, 1 parallel, 10/100
> ethernet, and sound in/out
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:14:42PM +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> > you need to confirm that int #5 is a VSA interrupt of some sort.
>
> I don't know what VSA is, but int 6 is the Invalid Opcode Exception,
VSA is the name of a NSC system to allow for software implementations of
legacy hardware. VS
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:40:17PM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks Greg,
>
> I think, that is very good overview about the flow.
> It may be good idea to continue this flow on this thread or
> somewhere else.
> I think,One cannot expect Greg to do all the documentation as Peter
> said 8-1
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:50:03PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> Thanks Ron. The documentation would do a lot of good to
> many in the forum for the new comers (including
> me)
> Lot of queries should get resolved automatically.
>
> The cvs seems to have support of lot of motherboards now, but I
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:29:48PM +0100, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Steve Gehlbach wrote:
> >
> >I tried a 954MB (ls -lh) file on pcchips 787cl+ (sis900, via C3, 320Mb
> >ram), and it took 22:20 using scp, no compression. Since I have a
> >10baseT network, using ssh, and other traffic, this seem
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:25:18AM -0500, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Another idea on the subject:
>
> On some chipsets, the entire range of supported processors have MMX and
> maybe SSE/SSE2. MMX gives 8 extra 64 bit registers (nobody uses
> floating-point in LinuxBIOS, right?) that can be used as 3
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:10:25PM -0800, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how you do
> > > this.
> > > Grub and lilo require a legacy BIOS.
> >
> > LinuxBIOS + ADLO + BOCHS BIOS + ( LILO | GRUB )
>
> Seems like a lot of complexity, and I am k
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:19:19PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
> Thanks Peter, but... maybe i should have said:
>
> ...In relation to LinuxBIOS...
>
> We know what X and a vgabios are -- what I am asking about are
> references on this mailing list to writing X into a vgabios -- maybe
> VIA
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
>
> Hello -> confused newbie here !!
>
> The linuxbios chat, I can follow but I am very intrigued by the vgabios
> since it will help linux on the nanofront and advance my own thinman
> model ***
>
> I am writing a glossary ri
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
> I am writing a glossary right now and I need to know the difference
> between:
>
> vgabios, framebuffer and X
Wow, ok, not that this is the best place, but ok.
LinuxBIOS is currently mostly operational on what's commonly refe
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:29:52AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:48:06PM -0500, steven james wrote:
> > > biosbase 0x
> >
> > The BIOS image will begin at the biosbase address in the CPU's memory
> > space
>
> imagephys
Hi, I've been confused by these commands and options too. Below are some
suggested namechanges followed by some reasoning about documentation in
general.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:48:06PM -0500, steven james wrote:
> > biosbase 0x
>
> The BIOS image will begin at the biosbase address i
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:40:12AM -0500, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> > And once LinuxBIOS has VSA2, just plug the BLDT .rom-files into it and
> > you're done.
>
> umm isn't that like a step backward? from a binary-only bios back to
> binary only modules?
Well, at least the VSA2 implementation is open
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:43:30PM -0500, Adam Bezanson wrote:
> Anyone know what is typically used for debugging a Geode
> x200 based design? By this I mean a JTAG/BDM or ICE for
> debugging say, LinuxBIOS and the Linux Kernel/Linux device drivers.
> I think this would be needed to support audio
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:40:37PM -, James Finnie wrote:
> I currently use the /dev/bios work for flashing BIOS in a production
> evironment on a GX1+5530A platform. It works great. It may not work out of
> the box for SC2200/SC1200 (I have no experience on these platforms), but it
> would be
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:13:33PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021214 16:04]:
> > The kernel framebuffer driver from NatSemi will work just fine without
> > XpressGRAPHICS though - it's just legacy VGA emulation that doesn't w
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:19:12PM +0530, Yogesh Desai wrote:
> ** Proprietary **
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> I see no problem with putting vsa2 to rom. I just don't know how to use
> it :-)
E.g. via int 10h, or outb(0x220,..).. VSA (and 2) is used to provide the
old software interface to the new hardware that works in quite different
(
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:30:35PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> IIRC, the VSA2 BIOS requires a few INT 15H services to work, so with
> Bochs in LinuxBIOS it should be possible to just do as you say. The
> exact procedure is documented in some NatSemi document that I don't
> know if I have acc
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:45:45PM -0500, Adam Bezanson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an Eval card from National Semi that contains
> the SC1200. I'd like to try LinuxBios on it.
> I've downloaded both the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels to start with.
> What patches do I need to apply to the kernel?
> Is t
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > Just cut the appropriate bus line?
> nope. then you can't write control registers.
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:35:28PM +, Justin Cormack wrote:
> > Just cut the appropriate bus line?
> No, but you can buy CF with a write pro
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
> I am looking finding alternatives to having a physical harddrive in my
> machine, i was wondering if anyone here has experience w/ either of the
> following. My goal is to boot LinuxBIOS out of flash, and then Linux off
> a Solid S
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:12:28PM -0500, GNUOrder wrote:
> > The main point of my question, though, was if anyone was aware of another
> > way to program the flash short of unsoldering it. I wasn't aware of any,
> > and maybe it seemed like a silly question, but if the mobo mfrs would start
> > u
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:05:58PM -0500, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> you can find nice example how to use it in linux sources
> (some file in linux/arch/i386/boot, head.S IIRC)
Using it is the easy part, I had to implement it. Fortunately that project
got dropped before I tore all my hair off. :)
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:32:48AM -0400, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
>
> hello,
> can anyone point me to an documenation on bios's
> interrupt 15, ah=87. It is 'copy extended memory'.
This is such a bitch. I simply could not get this to work and I didn't have
proper tools to debug what was
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:17:47PM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Suposedly there are some IDE low level raw access IOCTLS that can
> send commands directly to the IDE controller but I've not
> investigated it yet.
Check out "IDE Taskfile Access" CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL in 2.4.19.
//Peter
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Monday 30 September 2002 1:08 pm, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
>
> > Is the linuxbios code GPL?
>
> Yes. It says so in the file COPYING distributed with the source code.
[..snip..]
> However, all that said, I'm not aware of any
Hi!
I found this on the sourceforge page about xbox-linux. It briefly discusses
the capabilities of a modern graphics processing unit, specifically the
nVidia model found in Xboxes. It also shows how to set up 80x25 text mode
on these chips. This should be useful information for the LinuxBIOS
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:55:21AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
>
> 1. there's a standard way for the motherboard Bios to initialise _any_
> graphics card, so it can initialise a new one it's never heard of before (and
> presumably LinuxBios could do the same), or:
This is the case. The way you
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:22:58PM -0700, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA
> > > register set on most modern VGA cards.
> > >
> >
> > I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VGA cards, there is actually no
> > alphanumeric mode. T
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