Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-18 Thread Alexander Amelkin
Hello ollie, This is the corrected version. The one I sent before contained an error in the raminit.inc patch and wasn't sent to the list.. However, even without my patch I was getting the following error when I set DISABLE_INTERNAL_DEVICES=1 and try to make: crt0.s:786: Error: Symbol write_lpc_

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-18 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
can we get a second sis 630 person to test this? Just for double check. I don't have sis 630 any more :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Andrew Ip
> Eric set up a nice infrastructure for CMOS, and we have not yet used it. > Sounds like we now have an application. I would like to have the LinuxBIOS > code that uses the CMOS written in C, however. How late in the boot > process can you enable/disable this hardware and have it work correctly

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Andrew Ip
> I don't have any more neither :~(. Adrew, can you test it ? I guess this is me :). I'll try it and send the result back to the list. However, we should also think about other way to enable/disable devices without rebuilding LinuxBIOS. Is it possible to do it with cmos like normal bios? -An

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: > I guess this is me :). I'll try it and send the result back to > the list. However, we should also think about other way to > enable/disable devices without rebuilding LinuxBIOS. Is it > possible to do it with cmos like normal bios? > There are actual

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew Ip
Alexander, It works!!! I have checked in. Thanks. -Andrew On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:00:43PM +0300, Alexander Amelkin wrote: > Hello ollie, > > This is the corrected version. The one I sent before contained an > error in the raminit.inc patch and wasn't sent to the list.. > > However

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Andrew Ip
> There are actually two cases. The first case is that you never want some > feature enable because of the motherboard design. The second is that you > want some features enabled/disabled. There are 3 pci slots on m758/m787. If I want to use all 3 slots, I need to disable audio/modem. However,

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: > There are 3 pci slots on m758/m787. If I want to use all 3 slots, I need > to disable audio/modem. However, some applications might not want to disable > audio. Even storing IRQ assignment is also very useful for debugging > purpose. Storing boot option

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: > For most cases, it probably needs to be done before PCI probing. Besides, > should we follow normal bios layout, or should we have our own. we should have our own, but follow the conventions established for, e.g., the supermicro boards. ron

Re[2]: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-18 Thread Spirit
Hello Ronald, Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 11:07:34 PM, you wrote: RGM> can we get a second sis 630 person to test this? Just for double check. I also created another two patches: 1. Adds an IDE_SPINUP_DELAY option (defaults to 2 seconds, just as it is now). Good for IDE DiskOnModule (flash) mach

Re[3]: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Spirit
Hello Ronald, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 2:18:54 AM, you wrote: RGM> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Spirit wrote: >> The patches are tested and work fine for me. >> Do you want me to send them in? RGM> yes. Ok. Find them attached. -- Best regards, Spiritmailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re[2]: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-22 Thread Alexander Amelkin
Hello Andrew, Thursday, March 20, 2003, 4:50:29 PM, you wrote: AI> Alexander, AI> It works!!! I have checked in. Thanks. I knew it! :) You're welcome. With best regards, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL