Re: EPIA VGA and keyboard fail when booting from V2 linuxbios
(1)kernel: linux-2.4.26 (2)freebios2: latest(08/23)cvs freebios2 (3)there is no any vga handle of via epia under freebios2 zhu --- ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what version kernel? 2.6. now has a nice feature, early serial console output, useful for debug. ron ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. I'll post all the lspci stuff tomorrow, just wondering if those post codes ring a bell for anyone. I can't find those in the code anywhere. Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)897-1516 http://www.coplanar.net ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
* Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040824 08:51]: Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. I'll post all the lspci stuff tomorrow, just wondering if those post codes ring a bell for anyone. I can't find those in the code anywhere. Any serial console output? It seems there is neither post code C1 nor C6 in all of LinuxBIOS. What's the reason for having both post_code() and intel_chip_post_macro()? I'd suggest renaming the later to post_macro() or post_code() as well.. Stefan ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
vgainit.inc halt epia
Q1: (1)freebios v1 (2)MB: epia (3)Kernel: 2.4.26 (4)I try to turn vga on following the steps in EPIA howto. But MB halt on executing vgainit.inc. Q2: (1)freebios V2 (2)MB: epia (3)kernel: 2.4.26 (4)I can boot filo from IDE CF, when jump to linux, I can't see any messages from vga or serial. (5)keyboard and vga are all off. It's hard for me to see how the kernel worked. zhu ___ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: EPIA VGA and keyboard fail when booting from V2 linuxbios
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, zhu shi song wrote: (3)there is no any vga handle of via epia under freebios2 You'll need to go back in this list, this type of work has been done but it gets complicated. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. 10 is an early post. C1 I will have to look up. Anyone who wants to make up a post code table is welcome ... you should try to hook up serial. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
I already have serial... but the problem was an incomplete flashing. I'm guessing the NIC I was using seems to be only wired for the 1st 64k, and the previous contents in the upper half of the 128k part (old bios from other mobo) were writing the c1..c6 post codes Uniflash to the rescue! Haven't gotten around to porting devbios to MTD yet...sigh. I have to say, wow that was easy! Linuxbios really is modular. Change the superio, flash size, and off you go. Kudos! Any ideas about the etherboot no heap found? Cheers, Jeremy LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Aug 24 10:17:36 EDT 2004 starting... Ram1 Ram2 Ram3 Ram Enable 1 Ram Enable 2 Ram Enable 3 Ram Enable 4 Ram Enable 5 Ram4 Ram5 Ram6 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Aug 24 10:17:36 EDT 2004 booting... Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 Scanning PCI bus...PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [8086/7190] PCI: 00:01.0 [8086/7191] PCI: 00:07.0 [8086/7110] PCI: 00:07.1 [8086/7111] PCI: 00:07.2 [8086/7112] PCI: 00:07.3 [8086/7113] PCI: 00:0f.0 [8086/1229] PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 PCI: 01:00.0 [1023/9750] PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 done Allocating PCI resources... ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 10 - [0xe000 - 0xefff] prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 1c - [0x1000 - 0x0fff] bus 1 io PCI: 00:01.0 24 - [0xf0a0 - 0xf09f] bus 1 prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 20 - [0xf000 - 0xf08f] bus 1 mem ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 1 PCI: 01:00.0 10 - [0xf000 - 0xf03f] mem PCI: 01:00.0 14 - [0xf080 - 0xf081] mem PCI: 01:00.0 18 - [0xf040 - 0xf07f] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 1 PCI: 00:07.1 20 - [0x1040 - 0x104f] io PCI: 00:07.2 20 - [0x1000 - 0x101f] io PCI: 00:0f.0 10 - [0xf0a0 - 0xf0a00fff] prefmem PCI: 00:0f.0 14 - [0x1020 - 0x103f] io PCI: 00:0f.0 18 - [0xf090 - 0xf09f] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 0 Allocating VGA resource done. Enabling PCI resourcess...PCI: 00:00.0 cmd - 06 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd - 07 PCI: 00:07.0 cmd - 07 PCI: 00:07.1 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:07.2 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:07.3 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:0f.0 cmd - 03 PCI: 01:00.0 cmd - 03 done. Initializing PCI devices... PCI devices initialized totalram: 16M Initializing CPU #0 Enabling cache... Setting fixed MTRRs(0-88) type: UC Setting fixed MTRRs(0-16) type: WB DONE fixed MTRRs Setting variable MTRR 0, base:0MB, range: 16MB, type WB DONE variable MTRRs Clear out the extra MTRR's call intel_enable_var_mtrr() Leave setup_mtrrs done. Max cpuid index: 2 Vendor ID : GenuineIntel Processor Type : 0x00 Processor Family : 0x06 Processor Model: 0x05 Processor Mask : 0x00 Processor Stepping : 0x01 Feature flags : 0x0183fbff Cache/TLB descriptor values: 1 reads required Desc 0x01 : Instr TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 32 entries Desc 0x02 : Instr TLB: 4MB pages, fully assoc, 2 entries Desc 0x03 : Data TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 64 entries Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x40 : No L2 cache Desc 0x08 : Inst cache: 16K bytes, 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size Desc 0x04 : Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 8 entries Gesc 0x0c : Data cache: 16K bytes, 2-way or 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size .TRR check .ixed MTRRs : Enabled Variable MTRRs: Enabled . ../ ... . O/. . . . /Disabling local apic...done. CPU #0 Initialized intel_mainboard_fixup() Testing SMI SMI disabled Enabling IDE...0x40 = 0x8000 0x42 = 0x8000 Enabled IDE for channels 1 and 2 Enabling Legacy IDE Word at 4 is now 0x0001 enabling smbus enable pm functions Setting up RTC RTC Init Invalid CMOS LB checksum done. Enabling extended BIOS access Enabling Full ISA Mode Enabling IRQ8 Enabling Mouse IRQ12 on piix4e done. Checking IRQ routing tables... /data/build/linuxbios/freebios/src/arch/i386/lib/pirq_routing.c: 30:check_pi done. Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf...done. Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf...failed Wrote linuxbios table at: 0500 - 0688 checksum db75 Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.2 37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfffc zkernel_mask:0x007f Found ELF candiate at offset 0 Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.5 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment New segment addr 0x2 size 0xe740 offset 0xb0 filesize 0x63dc (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x2 size 0xe740 offset 0xb0 filesize 0x63dc cLoading Segment: addr: 0x00f80f68 memsz: 0xe740 filesz: 0x0 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x00f87344 memsz: 0x8364 Jumping to boot code at 0x2 ROM segment 0x0f0f length 0x161e reloc 0x0002 CPU 360 Mhz Etherboot 5.2.5 (GPL) http://etherboot.org Tagged ELF for [EEPRO100] init_heap: No heap found. ron minnich wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6,
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
Jeremy Jackson wrote: Any ideas about the etherboot no heap found? Seems 16M isn't enough. swapping for a 256M DIMM fixes it. Son of a gun it boots fast! I can't stop giggling. -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)897-1516 http://www.coplanar.net ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I already have serial... but the problem was an incomplete flashing. I'm guessing the NIC I was using seems to be only wired for the 1st 64k, and the previous contents in the upper half of the 128k part (old bios from other mobo) were writing the c1..c6 post codes yes, that makes sense, C1 ... C6 are common post codes from standard bios. no idea on etherboot error ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
cool, tell us more about this mobo, and send me patches for it. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
ron minnich wrote: cool, tell us more about this mobo, and send me patches for it. Superio is it8671f, which is different from digitallogic/smartcore-p3 Well, I can netboot Linux or memetest86 using etherboot. Intel e100. Linux can mount root from an IDE CD-ROM, but the network card(s) don't work, so no NFS root. Manual ifconfig doesn't help. The cards can send, but don't seem to recieve. I suspect they're not getting interrupts. (none):~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 65294 XT-PIC timer 1: 0 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4:869 XT-PIC serial 5: 0 XT-PIC eth0 14: 2271 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 65255 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Included is linuxbios, Linux output, and lspci -v and -vv for NIC. -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)897-1516 http://www.coplanar.net LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Aug 24 10:17:36 EDT 2004 starting... Ram1 Ram2 Ram3 Ram Enable 1 Ram Enable 2 Ram Enable 3 Ram Enable 4 Ram Enable 5 Ram4 Ram5 Ram6 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Tue Aug 24 10:17:36 EDT 2004 booting... Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Using configuration type 1 Scanning PCI bus...PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [8086/7190] PCI: 00:01.0 [8086/7191] PCI: 00:07.0 [8086/7110] PCI: 00:07.1 [8086/7111] PCI: 00:07.2 [8086/7112] PCI: 00:07.3 [8086/7113] PCI: 00:10.0 [8086/1229] PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 1 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=01 done Allocating PCI resources... ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 10 - [0xe000 - 0xefff] prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 1c - [0x1000 - 0x0fff] bus 1 io PCI: 00:01.0 24 - [0xf010 - 0xf00f] bus 1 prefmem PCI: 00:01.0 20 - [0xf010 - 0xf00f] bus 1 mem PCI: 00:07.1 20 - [0x1040 - 0x104f] io PCI: 00:07.2 20 - [0x1000 - 0x101f] io PCI: 00:10.0 10 - [0xf010 - 0xf0100fff] prefmem PCI: 00:10.0 14 - [0x1020 - 0x103f] io PCI: 00:10.0 18 - [0xf000 - 0xf00f] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 0 done. Enabling PCI resourcess...PCI: 00:00.0 cmd - 06 PCI: 00:01.0 cmd - 07 PCI: 00:07.0 cmd - 07 PCI: 00:07.1 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:07.2 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:07.3 cmd - 01 PCI: 00:10.0 cmd - 03 done. Initializing PCI devices... PCI devices initialized totalram: 64M Initializing CPU #0 Enabling cache... Setting fixed MTRRs(0-88) type: UC Setting fixed MTRRs(0-16) type: WB DONE fixed MTRRs Setting variable MTRR 0, base:0MB, range: 64MB, type WB DONE variable MTRRs Clear out the extra MTRR's call intel_enable_fixed_mtrr() call intel_enable_var_mtrr() Leave setup_mtrrs done. Max cpuid index: 2 Vendor ID : GenuineIntel Processor Type : 0x00 Processor Family : 0x06 Processor Model: 0x05 Processor Mask : 0x00 Processor Stepping : 0x01 Feature flags : 0x0183fbff Cache/TLB descriptor values: 1 reads required Desc 0x01 : Instr TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 32 entries Desc 0x02 : Instr TLB: 4MB pages, fully assoc, 2 entries Desc 0x03 : Data TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 64 entries Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x00 : null Desc 0x40 : No L2 cache Desc 0x08 : Inst cache: 16K bytes, 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size Desc 0x04 : Data TLB: 4MB pages, 4-way set assoc, 8 entries Desc 0x0c : Data cache: 16K bytes, 2-way or 4-way set assoc, 32 byte line size MTRR check Fixed MTRRs : Enabled Variable MTRRs: Enabled Disabling local apic...done. CPU #0 Initialized intel_mainboard_fixup() Testing SMI SMI disabled Enabling IDE...0x40 = 0x8000 0x42 = 0x8000 Enabled IDE for channels 1 and 2 Enabling Legacy IDE Word at 4 is now 0x0001 enabling smbus enable pm functions Setting up RTC RTC Init Invalid CMOS LB checksum done. Enabling extended BIOS access Enabling Full ISA Mode Enabling IRQ8 Enabling Mouse IRQ12 on piix4e done. Checking IRQ routing tables... /data/build/linuxbios/freebios/src/arch/i386/lib/pirq_routing.c: 30:check_pirq_routing_table() - irq_routing_table located at: 0x99e0 done. Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf...done. Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf...failed Wrote linuxbios table at: 0500 - 0688 checksum c12f Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.2 37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfffc zkernel_mask:0x007f Found ELF candiate at offset 0 Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.5 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment New segment addr 0x2 size 0xe740 offset 0xb0 filesize 0x63dc (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x2 size 0xe740 offset 0xb0 filesize 0x63dc Loading Segment: addr: 0x03f80f68 memsz: 0xe740 filesz: 0x63dc Clearing Segment: addr: 0x03f87344 memsz: 0x8364 Jumping to boot code at 0x2 ROM segment 0xe2c1 length 0x1604 reloc 0x0002 CPU 360 Mhz Etherboot
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Well, I can netboot Linux or memetest86 using etherboot. Intel e100. Linux can mount root from an IDE CD-ROM, but the network card(s) don't work, so no NFS root. Manual ifconfig doesn't help. The cards can send, but don't seem to recieve. I suspect they're not getting interrupts. what's getpir say? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:58, Jeremy Jackson wrote: ron minnich wrote: what's getpir say? Running on Linuxbios? In that case: No, we need it under factory bios. Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
Li-Ta Lo wrote:
No, we need it under factory bios.
the one generated by vendor BIOS:
$ cd util/getpir
$ make test
Validating checksum, file: irq_tables.c that was in ./ at compile time...
(no other tests are done)
BAD CHECKSUM for IRQ Routing table
If you want to make it valid, change the checksum to: 0x73
I will try what it suggests.
Where is this information used? By Linuxbios or Linux?
What messages would indicate that either of those has detected the table
correctly or incorrectly?
Regards,
Jeremy
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/* This file was generated by getpir.c, do not modify!
(but if you do, please run checkpir on it to verify)
Contains the IRQ Routing Table dumped directly from your memory , wich BIOS sets up
Documentation at : http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/PCIIRQ.HTM
*/
#include arch/pirq_routing.h
const struct irq_routing_table intel_irq_routing_table = {
PIRQ_SIGNATURE, /* u32 signature */
PIRQ_VERSION,/* u16 version */
32+16*7, /* there can be total 7 devices on the bus */
0x00, /* Where the interrupt router lies (bus) */
(0x073)|0x0, /* Where the interrupt router lies (dev) */
0x1c00, /* IRQs devoted exclusively to PCI usage */
0x8086, /* Vendor */
0x7000, /* Device */
0, /* Crap (miniport) */
{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }, /* u8 rfu[11] */
0x8c, /* u8 checksum , this hase to set to some value that would give 0 after the sum of all bytes for this structure (including checksum) */
{
/* bus, dev|fn, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, {link, bitmap}, slot, rfu */
{0x00,(0x103)|0x0, {{0x61, 0xdeb8}, {0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0xdeb8}, {0x60, 0x0deb8}}, 0x2, 0x0},
{0x00,(0x113)|0x0, {{0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0xdeb8}, {0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0x0deb8}}, 0x3, 0x0},
{0x00,(0x123)|0x0, {{0x63, 0xdeb8}, {0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0xdeb8}, {0x62, 0x0deb8}}, 0x4, 0x0},
{0x00,(0x133)|0x0, {{0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0xdeb8}, {0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0x0deb8}}, 0x5, 0x0},
{0x00,(0x073)|0x1, {{0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0xdeb8}, {0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0x0deb8}}, 0x0, 0x0},
{0x00,(0x013)|0x0, {{0x60, 0xdeb8}, {0x61, 0xdeb8}, {0x62, 0xdeb8}, {0x63, 0x0deb8}}, 0x0, 0x0},
{0x70,(0x003)|0x0, {{0x00, 0x}, {0x00, 0x}, {0x00, 0x}, {0x00, 0x0}}, 0x0, 0x0},
}
};
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
you want to use that irq_tables.c for your mainboard irq_tables.c that might fix it. I assume you ran this one NOT under linuxbios, if you did run it under linuxbios, then reboot with fuctory bios and run it again. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I will try what it suggests. Where is this information used? By Linuxbios or Linux? it is compiled into linuxbios. What messages would indicate that either of those has detected the table correctly or incorrectly? just run getpir under fuctory bios and you should be ok, try that and let us know. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
ron minnich wrote: just run getpir under fuctory bios and you should be ok, try that and let us know. It's ALIVE! Interrupts working now. Sorry if I bugged everyone for info in the manual, it's just so darn exciting! The only problem I had that wasn't something stupid, was that I had to correct the checksum in irq_tables.c that getpir generated. Shouldn't the generated file have the right checksum? Or maybe it doesn't matter. I can't believe it's this easy! From newb to 1st mobo up in 24 hours. Thanks for your help guys. Cheers, Jeremy -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)897-1516 http://www.coplanar.net ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I can't believe it's this easy! From newb to 1st mobo up in 24 hours. now you have to write up your experiences for the web page. That title above will do :-) thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
asus p2b
I remeber reading that asus does non-standard things with SPD. I'm trying to get a P2B up and it dosen't do ram right. Anything I can try that worked on other asus motherboards? ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
