Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: interesting. I am loading linux direct from flash and it works fine with the new config method. Now I'll have to try etherboot and see what's up. this is complicated as my tree is in an intermediate state, but I hope to work it out monday. Something

heads up with new config method.

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
I am going to make a very minor tweak in a few minutes that should not affect any of you. But we'll see. This tweak is aimed at letting us shrink the top-level Config.lb files to almost nothing. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VGA

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, YhLu wrote: How about VGA support status on LinuxBIOS? we're hung up on the 7505 chipset right now, we can't get it to work correctly with SPD. I also wonder if AGP addon card need init too. that is an ongoing project here, with expected completion in august. ron

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: If I was not using the stock hdama configuration I would not have a problem with that. It looks like Ron did not check in the fix or whatever. yup, things still break sometimes :-) I don't know yet which option it is having a problem with. yup,

IO ports assign

2003-08-04 Thread YhLu
Eric, I have tested s2880 with all addon cards, and found interesting problem. When I plug Adaptec 29320 PCI X scsi card into slot 3 and 4. That share BUS_A of 8131 with LSI SCSI. Linux bios got IO port allocation problem on bus 1. BUS 1: 1000-2fff LSI will use 3000 later... Regards Yinghai

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
fresh checkout: bash-2.05b$ python /tmp//freebios2/util/newconfig/config.py Config.lb /tmp///freebios2 Configuring TARGET hdama Creating directory hdama Will place Makefile, crt0.S, etc. in hdama Configuring ROMIMAGE fallback Configuring DIR /config/Config.lb Configuring DIR /lib/Config.lb

Re: IO ports assign

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, I have tested s2880 with all addon cards, and found interesting problem. When I plug Adaptec 29320 PCI X scsi card into slot 3 and 4. That share BUS_A of 8131 with LSI SCSI. Linux bios got IO port allocation problem on bus 1. BUS 1: 1000-2fff LSI

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fresh checkout: Python variability? Quite possible as I just confirmed the issue on a fresh checkout. Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) [GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2 This on RH 8.0 Python -V Python 2.1.3 This

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Previously when we had this conversation we tried for a minimum python of 1.5 and the old config tool manages that. We may need to bump the python requirement but we this needs investigation to see why the earlier versions of python have problems.

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Watson
At 2:56 PM -0600 4/8/03, ron minnich wrote: On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Previously when we had this conversation we tried for a minimum python of 1.5 and the old config tool manages that. We may need to bump the python requirement but we this needs investigation to see why the

Yh Lu's patches

2003-08-04 Thread ron minnich
Can Eric and Stefan and others interested please take a quick look at this, it is the non-tyan mods from Yh Lu. I am going to commit the tyan mods in a few minutes. thanks ron diff -uNr ./freebios2/src/cpu/k8/cpufixup.c ../freebios2/src/cpu/k8/cpufixup.c --- ./freebios2/src/cpu/k8/cpufixup.c

Re: Weird behaviour with new config method

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2:56 PM -0600 4/8/03, ron minnich wrote: On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Previously when we had this conversation we tried for a minimum python of 1.5 and the old config tool manages that. We may need to bump the python requirement

Re: Yh Lu's patches

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can Eric and Stefan and others interested please take a quick look at this, it is the non-tyan mods from Yh Lu. I am going to commit the tyan mods in a few minutes. thanks ron diff -uNr ./freebios2/src/cpu/k8/cpufixup.c

Re: Yh Lu's patches

2003-08-04 Thread YhLu
Eric, As for cpufixup.c, actually I grab the fragment from raminit.c's set_top_ram. I don't want to make my own, because I can not access the most update code because of 24 hours delay. Fill_last: Can someone raise the bug to LinuxKernel developer team? There are Config.lb and config.lb in the

Re: VGA

2003-08-04 Thread David Hendricks
I've been carefully stepping through the spd_82801.c code and testing it out on a E7500. Ron fixed a bug with pcibios.c, but it was only an incremental step toward solving this problem. On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, YhLu wrote: How about VGA support status on LinuxBIOS? we're hung up on the 7505

Re: heads up with new config method.

2003-08-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I now have a mysterious requirement to have a chip.h in the arima/hdama mainboard directory. my fault! I forgot to cvs add. Fixed and committed. FWIW this build is working well for me as of today for