[coreboot] SGABIOS checksum [ke...@koconnor.net: Re: SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub]

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi Nathan, there was some discussion on the coreboot mailing list, and it seems that the SGABIOS binary doesn't have a checksum calculated for it, which means that some BIOSes refuse to initialize it. The SeaBIOS project maintained by Kevin has a utility for calculating checksums, available at:

Re: [coreboot] SGABIOS checksum [ke...@koconnor.net: Re: SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub]

2009-05-14 Thread Jason Wang
Hi Peter, There is an tools[1] which can calculate the checksum. I am not sure if it can help, really hope it can help [1]http://vps.dorilex.net/pub/scm/usbrom.git On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > there was some discussion on the coreboot mailing list, and

Re: [coreboot] SGABIOS checksum [ke...@koconnor.net: Re: SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub]

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:38:33PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > there was some discussion on the coreboot mailing list, and it seems > that the SGABIOS binary doesn't have a checksum calculated for it, > which means that some BIOSes refuse to initialize it. > > The SeaBIOS project m

Re: [coreboot] SGABIOS checksum [ke...@koconnor.net: Re: SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub]

2009-05-15 Thread Nathan Laredo
I already have a fix for this not yet committed -- including calculation of the rom size byte in the linker script as well as doing the 2KB alignment of the end of the rom. I will try to get the new code checked in within the month. Please poke me again if you haven't seen updates before the end