Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > "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

Re: mptable

2004-12-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd suggest changing busses[20] to busses[200] on line 290. > My motherboard has a bus 128. It seems to run in 32-bit mode. if you would like to make other fixes send me a patch and I'll apply it. ron _

mptable

2004-12-10 Thread Stephen.Kimball
Ron, I'd suggest changing busses[20] to busses[200] on line 290. My motherboard has a bus 128. It seems to run in 32-bit mode. Steve -Original Message- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:19 AM To: Kimball, Stephen Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject:

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread YhLu
He has smsc superio. I made one for smsc for one tyan pci-e opteron MB, and I will put that into the tree in the public tree after I get approval from vendor. YH -Original Message- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:18 AM To: Li-Ta Lo Cc:

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > What is your southbridge (LPC) again ? I guess you > LPC bridge does not have scan_static_bus is its > device:scan_bus() method. The other possiblitiy > is you did not list those PNP devices as 'sub' devices > of the LPC bridge. Ollie, it is worse than tha

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 04:45, Gin wrote: > In file /devices/root_device.c, scan_static_bus supposes to walk through > the device tree and enable the PNP devices. I put a printk message. I > don't think the PNP devices ever get initialized. > > What is your southbridge (LPC) again ? I guess you LP

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > the mptable utility in freebios v1 has serious bugs. It does not > work in 64 bit mode. yes, it needs work, that's for sure. It may be better than nothing, but I'm not sure. I did use it for several boards so far, however. ron

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:19, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Steve Kimball wrote: > > > src/util/getpir builds the IRQ table from the $PIR in memory, > > but which util extracts the MP table? > > I've just added the mptable tool from freebios1 to freebios2. It is in > util. > >

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Steve Kimball wrote: > src/util/getpir builds the IRQ table from the $PIR in memory, > but which util extracts the MP table? I've just added the mptable tool from freebios1 to freebios2. It is in util. I am sending you a private copy in case you are 'cvs delay mode' ron

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Gin wrote: > I did. I did change the dev_root chip_op to 0 otherwise it won't execute > the default root op. you should never modify that file. Need to modify it indicates a configuraiton error. > I don't know if the error is related to my superio. The superio on board

Re: Linux kernel hangs

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Kimball
> 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 too

Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Watson
On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: "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

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread Gin
>I hope you did not modify static.c? I did. I did change the dev_root chip_op to 0 otherwise it won't execute the default root op. I don't know if the error is related to my superio. The superio on board is not winbond w83627hf, which is the code is based on. So the pnp devices are never enable

RE: keyboard controller jammed

2004-12-10 Thread Gin
>I hope you did not modify static.c? I did. I did change the dev_root chip_op to 0 otherwise it won't execute the default root op. I don't know if the error is related to my superio. The superio on board is not winbond w83627hf, which is the code is based on. So the pnp devices are never enable

Re: need a linux floppy

2004-12-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Adam Talbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? cat /dev/ttyS0 cat > /dev/ttyS0 Should just about do it. Or for something a litt