Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:09, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I would love it if you could do that port. You need to get data from via on how the chips work. That is your first step. Argh!!. That would take forever if at all.Isnt there another way? Like simulator or gdb or reading up stuff from the kernel since that already works with the motherboard. rgds jtd ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:09, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I would love it if you could do that port. You need to get data from via on how the chips work. That is your first step. Argh!!. That would take forever if at all.Isnt there another way? Like simulator or gdb or reading up stuff from the kernel since that already works with the motherboard. it's hardware and there is no other way. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
Argh!!. That would take forever if at all.Isnt there another way? Like simulator or gdb or reading up stuff from the kernel since that already works with the motherboard. As a first step, yes. But you want dynamic detection of dram and other things. By looking at a picture you can't see which line was painted first and why. well if you are determined and/or have funding there might be two other ways. 1) I recall Ron describing rom-as-ram trick to get the emu86 running and get the memory setting this way. Slow as molasses I'm told. 2) get a pci debugger card. around $5k i think. can watch the pci traffic on it to see what it writes as ram config. It does not always work but when works it is pretty good. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
AMD Opteron D0 support
Any one got D0 Opteron? It seems that AMD put the D0 releated info in their BIOS porting guide (PUBLIC Version). But didn't release new revision guide about that. YH ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Any update on linuxbios for laptops
Any laptop with athlon 64 or Opteron cpu? And how about chipset on that? I'd like to get one to play LinuxBIOS with it at home. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting nVidia's Crush chip - I seem to be having smbus trouble.
yhlu wrote: Which MB you are using? I'm using nVidia's CK8-04 CRB. -- I'm having trouble with the smbus and reading the SIMMs SPD. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting nVidia's Crush chip - I seem to be having smbus trouble.
I guess you need to create ck804_early_smbus.c to read spd rom. You can refer some driver from Kernel or Lmsensors...and nvidia chipset documentation. I change that from amd_early_smbus.c or create one fake_spd_rom function (dump from Linux with other MB) for a test. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:20:03 -0600, Ken Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yhlu wrote: Which MB you are using? I'm using nVidia's CK8-04 CRB. -- I'm having trouble with the smbus and reading the SIMMs SPD. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Any update on linuxbios for laptops
Any one is using New! Asus Z80K Athlon 64 Notebook- 15inch SXGA+ w/ATI Radeon 9700 128MB/CDRW+DVD/Reader/Wi-Fi B+G YH On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:12:03 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any laptop with athlon 64 or Opteron cpu? And how about chipset on that? I'd like to get one to play LinuxBIOS with it at home. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting nVidia's Crush chip - I seem to be having smbus trouble.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote: I'm porting LinuxBIOS to nVidia's CK8-04 (nForce4) chip. Currently, the serial port is working and I believe the soft reset is working OK. ron wrote: sure wish we could get a release. Are you doing reverse engineering or ... I'm following what little documentation I'm able to locate. Documentation on CK8-04 exists, but not what I need as far as I can tell. I could try seeing how the PhoenixBIOS does this, but I'd prefer good documentation on the CK8-04. Is anyone aware of any CK8-04 documentation useful for porting LinuxBIOS to the CK8-04 that isn't covered by an NDA? Thanks! Sincerely, Ken Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting nVidia's Crush chip - I seem to be having smbus trouble.
I could try seeing how the PhoenixBIOS does this, but I'd prefer good documentation on the CK8-04. Is anyone aware of any CK8-04 documentation useful for porting LinuxBIOS to the CK8-04 that isn't covered by an NDA? NDA should be enough. Besides that there is one Internel text file. But they will not give that to you. Till last Sep. I make all works except SATA and NIC. YH ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:32, Stefan Reinauer wrote: As a first step, yes. But you want dynamic detection of dram and Detection of size and speed?. Suppose we freeze on a particular ram type only for starters. other things. By looking at a picture you can't see which line was painted first and why. I was hoping that by comparing some other similiar via chipset bios with this one I could probably make a guess (with plenty of hand holding from you guys) of important events. Then use that as a template to get things going. I am presuming that the current crop of devices wont be wildly different. rgds jtd ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 23:37, Adam Sulmicki wrote: well if you are determined and/or have funding there might be two other ways. 1) I recall Ron describing rom-as-ram trick to get the emu86 running and get the memory setting this way. Slow as molasses I'm told. Any pointers? my mail archive does not throw up aything. 2) get a pci debugger card. around $5k i think. can watch the pci traffic on it to see what it writes as ram config. It does not always work but when works it is pretty good. Jeez. That is a whole lot of money. Perhaps a HP LA might do the job. I might be able to get hold of one. Or rig up a couple of PALs to snoop on the bus - presuming that the load dont screw up the timing. rgds jtd ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Build error on the EPIA-M
build_dir=via/epia-m/epia-m Trying to find one of TARGET on line 4: loadoptions ^ List of nearby tokens: === ERROR: Could not parse file via/epia-m/Config.lb:0 Any ideas? -Adam ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
