Re: coherent hypertransport enumeration on opteron

2003-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Do you plan use CONFIG_SMP to substitute SMP? Yes. One of the details that has been problematic is that our CONFIG defines are not explicitly marked as such. So in the freebios2 tree I am trying to get things a little more uniform. Eric

romcc ramblings...

2003-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Romcc is coming along quite nicely. I keep fixing a corner case here and there but it quite usable and getting more so. One area where it falls short is in it's handling of lots of small variables. The classic question is: If I declare my small variables to be chars will romcc be able to

Re: freebios2: pcibios_read_config_*

2003-06-25 Thread ron minnich
On 25 Jun 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: All of those uses are dead code. The arima/1 has never really gotten used. And as the model number of the board is hdama that directory number needs to change. I changed that now; it became clear that use of that name was acceptable. 1 is going to

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread tyson
A command line is a key part of how we use our (now very old) version of linuxbios. Though what we are using is from the dark ages, based on what I've seen linxbios become, I think that making a command line utility be a payload is the right solution. Ty ron minnich wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun

K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD

2003-06-25 Thread ron minnich
The above combination works pretty well until I try to program the part, at which point the kernel takes an oops and dies. I'm wondering if anyone else has either: - seen this work - seen this fail thanks ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL

Re: K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD

2003-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The above combination works pretty well until I try to program the part, at which point the kernel takes an oops and dies. I'm wondering if anyone else has either: - seen this work - seen this fail That is what I have working right now. I

Re: K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD

2003-06-25 Thread ron minnich
On 25 Jun 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: That is what I have working right now. just checking, you're running the 64-bit kernel? I guess I'll yank down the newest MTD cvs and try again. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD

2003-06-25 Thread YhLu
Ron, Did you use SMP support or not? I use NON-SMP support in Tyan S2880 and it die in the Kernel too. Regards Yinghai Lu -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2003625 8:13 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD The above

re: K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040 + MTD

2003-06-25 Thread YhLu
Ron, I use 16M ramdisk that will downloaded into Node with Kernel at the same time. So didn't use MTD etc. Regards Yinghai Lu -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2003625 9:08 : Eric W. Biederman : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Re: K8 + 2.4.21 + SuSE 64-bit mode + Arima HDAMA + 49LF040

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Frank wrote: u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree and it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86 platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's money. yeah but why

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread Frank
Very good idea... --- ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Frank wrote: u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree and it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86 platforms,

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: u-boot's weakness is that it primarily supports arm and ppc processors. There is only one x86 board in the source tree and it won't even compile! If u-boot had more support for x86 platforms, it would give linuxbios a serious run for it's money. There is also

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread Frank
No, I beg to differ. I have ported u-boot to more then one ppc based platform. Thye do have SPD support. I ported over to the ppc750fx (with a Marvel 64360 system controller) and the 440gp based platforms --- Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: u-boot's

Re: LinuxBios PPC-support.. U-Boot project

2003-06-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I beg to differ. I have ported u-boot to more then one ppc based platform. Thye do have SPD support. I ported over to the ppc750fx (with a Marvel 64360 system controller) and the 440gp based platforms Oh interesting. I still think LinuxBIOS runs on more

freebios2 + k8 users

2003-06-25 Thread ron minnich
Just to make sure I'm in sync, I'm assuming you all are building fallback images only? Or are you building normal images? I'm building fallback but ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]