RE: ADLO for EPIA

2003-03-17 Thread hcyun
Title: RE: ADLO for EPIA Thanks. It works and I can see something (just splash of colors) on my CRT. The screen, though it is not usable,  is brought up by original VGABIOS using ADLO. Heechul. > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, Ma

Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Spirit
Hello Steve, Monday, March 17, 2003, 4:56:02 AM, you wrote: SG> Spirit wrote: >> I've been reading the SIS630 datasheet and found out that the >> chipset has a watchdog timer (for some reason they call it >> 'software') similar to that of the i810. >> >> Does anybody here know if there i

Re: Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On 17 Mar 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > As it stands right now I am in inch from moving the decompresser > from code that runs from ROM to code that runs from RAM, to see if > that fixes the performance issue. didn't we make ROM cacheable yet? Rather than keep moving things to RAM, if we make

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Spirit wrote: That shouldn't be a problem unless it takes 5 seconds to get to the southbridge.c code. But of course, moving it to an earlier position is a good idea. It really takes 5 seconds? it did not used to. I liked having it in the southbridg

Re: Help needed to understand code

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Shubhangi Jadhav wrote: how does crt0.base move to c_start.S. I did not find any reference to c_start.S from crt0.base or any other .inc files included in crt0.base The bottom of crt0.base jumps to c_start.S using loader "magic". c_start.S runs in ram in the C code address space. crt0.base runs i

Re: Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:35, Spirit wrote: > > What I would really like to see somewhere in the LinuxBIOS code is the > options to disable SiS630 embedded modem and audio controllers. I > browser through the datasheet and didn't find how to disable them. I > probably should re-read it, but if any

Re: Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Mar 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > As it stands right now I am in inch from moving the decompresser > > from code that runs from ROM to code that runs from RAM, to see if > > that fixes the performance issue. > > didn't we make ROM ca

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ronald G. Minnich wrote: How about using XIP_ROM_SIZE and XIP_ROM_BASE; seems to setup WP caching on variable MTRR 0x203 (mem type=5). Or does this have other effects; maybe use a different option with same code? XIP is short

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > >>How about using XIP_ROM_SIZE and XIP_ROM_BASE; seems to setup WP caching on > >>variable MTRR 0x203 (mem type=5). Or does this have other effec

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Error. Communications failure. I meant this situation is exactly what it is designed for. Sorry. I misunderstood. I am also assuming the Via C3 has the variable MTRRs, that may not be a correct assumption. The Intel book says P6 family. Very good question what does

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Error. Communications failure. > > I meant this situation is exactly what it is designed for. > > Sorry. I misunderstood. > > > > >>I am also assuming the Via C3 has the variable MTRRs, that may not be a > correct >

Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Spirit wrote: > That shouldn't be a problem unless it takes 5 seconds to get to the > southbridge.c code. But of course, moving it to an earlier position is > a good idea. It really takes 5 seconds? it did not used to. I liked having it in the southbridge code for a simple r

Re: Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Spirit wrote: > > > That shouldn't be a problem unless it takes 5 seconds to get to the > > southbridge.c code. But of course, moving it to an earlier position is > > a good idea. > > It really takes 5 seconds? it did not use

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: > Maybe it is related to running at 0x instead of 0xf. Did we > cached that region? The mtrr code is there but I have not checked > through it to see what regions are cached. I am almost certain we do not cache that region. That might be

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Maybe it is related to running at 0x instead of 0xf. Did we cached that region? The mtrr code is there but I have not checked through it to see what regions are cached. I am almost certain we do not cache that r

Re: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: > > > >> Maybe it is related to running at 0x instead of 0xf. Did we > >> cached that region? The mtrr code is there but I have not checked through it > > >> to see w