Clearwater533

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Agnew
Could I trouble the list, and you three gentleman in particular, for a list of E7501 motherboards which have worked for you? It would really help me out so that I don't have to figure out what exactly is wrong with this SuperMicro X5DPL-iGM in a short amount of time, as any E7501 working would

gx1

2003-08-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
There was some talk about the geode GX1 line here, so I thought people might be interested in the fact that AMD has purchased national's GX1 line, so hopefully in the near future there will be some hardware fixes for the current problems programmers have to deal with. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL

: S2880

2003-08-10 Thread YhLu
Ron, I have verfied that if I disable the XIP... in old config tool, the image produced will make the option table not accessiable after reboot too. Regards Yinghai Lu -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 200386 15:51 : YhLu : '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Stefan Reinauer'; '[EMAIL

Re: Option ROM for Device.

2003-08-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030806 05:47]: There are a couple of sides of this. 1) Anyone who supports Linux on non-x86 generally has a reasonable Linux driver that does not need an option rom to set anything up. This includes most hardware raid vendors. Still, this is not

Questions to the experts

2003-08-10 Thread lisa stout
Hi all- I am trying to get myself up to speed on server management in a Linux environment and in my research I keep running across your e-mail list serve. I have been doing a lot of reading and many times the information I am reading is contradictory. I am looking for some definitive answers on

Re: help can't get it working on epia-m10000

2003-08-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* James Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030810 18:14]: I have included below the output from the console when attempting to boot linuxbios, it always seems to just hang at this point... any pointers... I am on an EPIA-M1 board. Initializing PCI devices... PCI devices initialized totalram: 127M

Re: OK, HDAMA is up as a cluster node

2003-08-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The PIRQ is indeed wrong. So I booted a bproc phase 2 configured with IO-APIC support and all is well, since the _MP_ is correct. Gee, this is nice. I guess what we should do is dynamically generate PIRQ from the _MP_ table? That's for later.

Re: Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...

2003-08-10 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote: is disconcerting to see that linux is starting to use BIOS calls in some places, like power management stuff (AFAIR). that's a big mistake ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preliminary doubts

2003-08-10 Thread SONE Takeshi
Although luck of documentation is the problem the project faces, the source and the list archive are always open to people. If you investigate them yourself first, then ask, you will get more helpful response. On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:33:48PM -0700, John Praveen wrote: What

Re: Supporting extension ROMs and beyond...

2003-08-10 Thread steven james
Greetings, I solved that for payloads built from the baremetal toolkit. They create a simple data structure at the top of RAM with a signature in it so that the first payload to run will know to set it up. Each payload is expected to take what it needs from the top of available memory and alter

Slowly merging the static and dynamic device trees.

2003-08-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
So at first glance the static device tree seems to be pretty usable so now I am investigating what needs to happen to merge the device trees. There is one large area of mismatch though that I don't know if I want to do something about or not. Currently the static device tree is by chip. And

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Agnew
David Barr wrote: I have access to a fairly largish supply of A22-M series, and as president of my local student ACM chapter (named Beta Iota Tau, nerdily enough) am desparately searching for more projects for the upcoming semester/year. Also take a look at the flash. If it's

Gigabyte BX2000

2003-08-10 Thread Michael Schuele
Hi, I've got a Gigabyte BX2000 mainboard with an Intel BX chipset. It has a so called dual bios which means that there is a backup bios from which you can recover your main bios if flashing failed or something other happend to it. Do you know if I can use LinuxBios on this board or should I try

Re: S2880

2003-08-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Under 4G RAM linusbios_tables occupy 0x500-0xae0, cmos_util can find option_table even after rebooting. Under 6G RAM linuxbios_tables occupy 0x500-0xaf4, cmos_util can find option_table after power on but can not find it after rebooting. The only

Backoirted oatch to 2.4.19 for kexec does not work

2003-08-10 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I don't know why, Andrew, but the patch your company supplied via the FTP site, for the 2.4.19 kernel, applied correctly, and I was able to build the kernel. But the expected event didn't work. When I issued a kexec kernel.elf, which was built using the latest version of