Re: epia and vga

2004-03-17 Thread Matt Jarvis
Yes, it's a standard epia. I'm running bios version 0207 - which is where the VGA bios is from. I'll give V2 a go today. On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 17:23, ron minnich wrote: is this epia or epia-m? If epia, you want V2. I think you have epia-m however, can you get me in sync on this? ron --

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Bari Ari
Frank wrote: I have an ADVANTECH board based on the SIS 552 chipset. Is there any support for this board and chip set. I looked at the status: http://www.linuxbios.org/status/index.html There is an entry for SIS but no notes. I am on a very tight schedule and any help will be greatly

test mail - just delete

2004-03-17 Thread linuxbios
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Re: making without a payload

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: I want to eventually use linuxbios to boot linux but for right now I just wnat to build it for my motherbord without a payload. How do i do this.. payload /dev/null ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: making without a payload

2004-03-17 Thread Hendricks David W.
Specify some bogus payload, like /etc/hosts. On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: I want to eventually use linuxbios to boot linux but for right now I just wnat to build it for my motherbord without a payload. How do i do this.. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

Re: making without a payload

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Thank you again... --- ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually for empty payloads I also do payload /etc/hosts. It's useful to have a known pattern in there. ron __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
The Vl webiste??? --- Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I have an ADVANTECH board based on the SIS 552 chipset. Is there any support for this board and chip set. I looked at the status: http://www.linuxbios.org/status/index.html There is an entry for SIS but no notes. I am

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Hendricks David W.
I think he means the freebios directory in the CVS tree ( http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freebios/freebios/ ) as opposed to freebios2. On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: The Vl webiste??? --- Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I have an ADVANTECH board based on the

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. What is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and LinuxBios. I thought they were one in the same.:-( --- Hendricks David W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means the freebios directory in the CVS tree (

ASUS P2B-DS and MD2202-D32

2004-03-17 Thread linuxbios
Hi all, want to use an ASUS P2B-DS dual P-III mainboard with a MD2202-D32 DoC device for LinuxBIOS. In the moment I test it with a 2.6.4 kernel. This board uses a 440bx chip set. I hot swapped the BIOS Flash chip and the DoC while the board was powered on and Linux was running. When I modprobe

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote: Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. What is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and LinuxBios. I thought they were one in the same.:-( freebios was started before linuxbios. LinuxBIOS took over freebios, but

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
OK, thanks... --- Nathanael Noblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote: Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. What is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and LinuxBios. I thought they were one in the same.:-(

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Nathanael Noblet wrote: freebios was started before linuxbios. LinuxBIOS took over freebios, but didn't change the cvs name. V1 of freebios/linuxbios is the CVS module freebios. Freebios2 is LinuxBIOS version 2. it's weirder than that. We built the first linuxbios using

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
This is very good information everyone and everyone is lot nicer then that other (ppc) boot loader group. Where can I get more information on RomCC and how do I incorporate that into my LinuxBios build. Does RomCC replace GCC... --- Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathanael Noblet wrote:

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Where can I get RomCC... --- Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathanael Noblet wrote: On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote: Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. What is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and LinuxBios. I thought

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Hendricks David W.
It's in the freebios2 tree: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freebios/freebios2/util/romcc/ On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: Where can I get RomCC... --- Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathanael Noblet wrote: On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote:

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Hendricks David W.
Might also want to check out this thread: http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2004-March/006892.html It answers many questions one might have about romcc. On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Bari Ari wrote: Frank wrote: This is very good information everyone and everyone is lot nicer then

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Bari Ari
Frank wrote: Where can I get RomCC... http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/freebios-cvsroot.tar.bz2 -Bari ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
I should also add that on v2 romcc is of course integrated into the build. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Cool... --- ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also add that on v2 romcc is of course integrated into the build. ron __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
You guys are great... --- Hendricks David W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might also want to check out this thread: http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2004-March/006892.html It answers many questions one might have about romcc. On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Bari Ari wrote: Frank

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote: I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded freebios2 (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see any support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Bari Ari
Frank wrote: I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded freebios2 (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see any support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a superset of freebios1 and would therefore

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Thanks for the response. So to the experts out there: I want to add the SIS 630 based board support from freebios to freebios2. Is there a HOWTO I can reference to do this... --- Nathanael Noblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote: I must be

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Then what is the structure. I have to know this before I port a board over. Is there a target I can use as a model. U-BOOT was quite easy to extend and add additional boards. I would just pick an exsisting board that was similar to mine and have a working port in about 3 days. I have a very bad

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: Thanks for the response. So to the experts out there: I want to add the SIS 630 based board support from freebios to freebios2. we are forever in your debt :-) Is there a HOWTO I can reference to do this... there is no real howto for v2 :-( ron

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
freebios2 is a clean sheet from scratch redo. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: Then what is the structure. I have to know this before I port a board over. Is there a target I can use as a model. U-BOOT was quite easy to extend and add additional boards. I would just pick an exsisting board that was similar to mine and have a working

flash_rom support for AMD64

2004-03-17 Thread Hendricks David W.
Has anyone else attempted to use flash_rom on an AMD64 platform? Ollie figured out that the BIOS offset was incorrectly set, but even after fixing that the flash_rom program still gives us a lot of errors in 64-bit SuSE 9 while working perfectly in 32-bit Gentoo.

: flash_rom support for AMD64

2004-03-17 Thread YhLu
Which MB or flash chip model? -- : Hendricks David W. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2004317 16:52 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : flash_rom support for AMD64 Has anyone else attempted to use flash_rom on an AMD64 platform? Ollie figured out that the BIOS offset was incorrectly set, but even after

changing the default paylolad

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
Sorry for what may appear to be a stupid question but the answer isn't really obvious since various config files are scattered all over the place. How do I specify which file I am going to use for the payload. I tried changing the make.base file and the Makefile but have been unsuccessful so far.

Re: changing the default paylolad

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
for version 2 look in the build/targets directory. I can't remember the exact file. but grep for payload On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 07:06 PM, Frank wrote: Sorry for what may appear to be a stupid question but the answer isn't really obvious since various config files are scattered all

Re: changing the default paylolad

2004-03-17 Thread Frank
I'm using V1 and found it in the *.config file. Thanks... --- Nathanael Noblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for version 2 look in the build/targets directory. I can't remember the exact file. but grep for payload On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 07:06 PM, Frank wrote: Sorry for what may