Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-09 Thread Gin
Linuxbios writes to the beginning of the Memory for MP tables. Shouldnt those addresses be interrupt vector table? It doesnt look it contains any pointers to an interrupt handler. Who is the table for? Will Linux kernel reference it? Linuxbios successfully loads the payload FILO which

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Gin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041209 10:20]: Linuxbios writes to the beginning of the Memory for MP tables. Shouldn't those addresses be interrupt vector table? It doesn't look it contains any pointers to an interrupt handler. Who is the table for? Will Linux kernel reference it? Linux uses the

keyboard jammed

2004-12-09 Thread Gin
Forget about the previous email. Actually I solved the problem of Calibrating delay loop. The problem is that I used the device list in static.c as my onboard devices and it was missing apic cluster. In the board specific config file(under src/.), I noticed there is a tree-like device

Re: AWWWW Crap!

2004-12-09 Thread Bari Ari
Adam Talbot wrote: I found a sst39sf020, its the same speed 70ns and took a flash and works great. By any chance do you no what spec's I need to keep in mind when replacing a bios chip?? I no better then to mix 5v and 3v chips, what else is there?? How much time do you have? Take a look at a few

How to port PcChips M825G,

2004-12-09 Thread Edmanuel Torres
Dear LinuxBios people, first at all, I am new in this staff and I am working in to port a PcChips M825G mainboard, I have found that the chip set vt8235 is already in the folder: /freebios/src/southbrige/via/vt8235 I have been looking for information about how to add the new mainboard and how

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Gin wrote: Linuxbios successfully loads the payload FILO which brings up Linux kernel. But the kernel hangs while waiting for a timer interrupt. See below. I guess the interrupt table is not correct. yes, it's a bad IRQ or MP table or both. We have tools to extract them

Re: keyboard jammed

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Gin wrote: Forget about the previous email. Actually I solved the problem of Calibrating delay loop. The problem is that I used the device list in static.c as my onboard devices and it was missing apic cluster. I hope you did not modify static.c? In the board specific

Re: How to port PcChips M825G, [PMX:#]

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
what northbridge is on that board? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: How to port PcChips M825G,

2004-12-09 Thread Edmanuel Torres
Dear Minnich, Tahnks for your help, the main information is below, I hope it is enough but if you need something more just ask me, I will be very pleased to sent it to you. Processor: AMD Athlon/Duron CPU on board, support 266/200MHz FSB Chipset northbridge: KM266 southbridge: 8235 Embedded

buildtarget creates bogus default

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Kimball
How can buildtarget say PAYLOAD_SIZE is 0x-2? === NOTE: Option FALLBACK_SIZE using default value 0x2 === NOTE: Option ROM_SECTION_SIZE using default value 0x2 === NOTE: Option ROM_SIZE using default value 0x10 === NOTE: Option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET using default value 0x0 === NOTE:

Re: How to port PcChips M825G,

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Edmanuel Torres wrote: northbridge: KM266 This is via, right? This will be trouble I am afraid. We do not support it now. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan I believe I have a better fix for the LinuxBIOS table bug then __attribute__((packed)). How does this look? I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently have any users there. I don't know what is the best long term strategy for

Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently have any users there. we do. I think I'd like to hear Greg Watson's take on this as he is working with the PPC 970 guys and this will impact

Re: How to port PcChips M825G,

2004-12-09 Thread Edmanuel Torres
I have found something about and I think is the same VT8375 = KM266 VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge any sugesstion, what I can do about??? Edmanuel On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Edmanuel Torres wrote: northbridge: KM266 This is via, right? This will be trouble I am afraid. We do not support

Re: How to port PcChips M825G,

2004-12-09 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Edmanuel Torres wrote: I have found something about and I think is the same VT8375 = KM266 VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge any sugesstion, what I can do about??? you're going to have to get those docs. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently have any users there. we do. I think I'd like to hear Greg Watson's take on this as he is

need a linux floppy

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Talbot
Any one no of a good Linux distro that fits onto a floppy. I have a old laptop thatIwould like to use as a dumb terminal. So all i need is minicom. Thx -Adam Talbot

Re: need a linux floppy

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Talbot
Hummm. Got both tomsrtbt and coyote Linux running. coyote Linux is very nice and I have other apps for it. But none of those had minicom on them. Any other ideas? -Adam - Original Message - From: David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December