work linuxbios with openbios

2005-01-10 Thread zhu shi song
How to use linuxbios together with openbios? Is there any clear howto doc? What's the main purpose of openbios? What's the main difference between openbios and filo? Now I'm using filo to boot my linux kernel. tks zhu __ Do you Yahoo!? The all

RE: Linux kernel in Rom

2005-01-10 Thread Gin
>Here is my config file for a kernel version of linuxbios. >opteron_phase1_p4_noapic is a kernel that I ran mkelfImage on. Ok. I will test on this config file. I am trying to make my linux kernel image smaller as I want to embed it with the ROM. Is there anyway you suggest to do this instead of u

RE: Linux kernel in Rom

2005-01-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
did you look at: http://tinylinux.sourceforge.net/ ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

LinuxBIOS on the Intel 9IGLM motherboard

2005-01-10 Thread Csányi Pál
Hi! I have the motherboard 9IGLM with Intel 845GL chipset. I know that this motherboard is not supported by LinuxBIOS (am I right?) but I ask you: what would be happen, if I would update the flash EPROM with LinuxBIOS? I run on my PC the MS Win2000 and Debian GNU/Linux Woody. And I have one more qu

Re: LinuxBIOS on the Intel 9IGLM motherboard

2005-01-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, CsÃnyi PÃl wrote: > I know that this motherboard is not supported by LinuxBIOS (am I right?) > but I ask you: what would be happen, if I would update the flash EPROM with > LinuxBIOS? you would own a paperweight. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: work linuxbios with openbios

2005-01-10 Thread Greg Watson
This is a work-in-progress, so there is no documentation. The major issue that needs to be addressed is that there is currently no mechanism for passing the linuxbios discovered device information to openbios. This is on my todo list. Openbios is an implementation of the IEEE-1275 standard for

Re: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:35, YhLu wrote: > Stefan, > > Please check out the code from the CVS code. > > After LinuxBIOS keeps the bsp to still use apicid 0. Kernel (2.6.10) x86-64 > can work well. > > Andi suggest that. But I wonder why the normal BIOS (kernel with acpi > enabled) can lift that

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread YhLu
Please refer s4882 to change the MB that you support. nodeid = lapicid() & 0xf; orm with initial apic id nodeid = (cpuid_ebx(1) >> 24) & 0xf; YH -Original Message- From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:24 PM To: YhLu Cc: Stefan

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:18, YhLu wrote: > Please refer s4882 to change the MB that you support. > > nodeid = lapicid() & 0xf; > > orm with initial apic id > nodeid = (cpuid_ebx(1) >> 24) & 0xf; > What is this thing all about ? Ollie ___

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread YhLu
For dual core and lifting apic id, you can not just use apic id as node id. And you have to use Lapicid() & 0xf Or cupid to get it. Regards YH -Original Message- From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:14 PM To: YhLu Cc: Stefan Reinauer; Ronald G. Min

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:18, YhLu wrote: > Please refer s4882 to change the MB that you support. > > nodeid = lapicid() & 0xf; > > orm with initial apic id > nodeid = (cpuid_ebx(1) >> 24) & 0xf; > > Can you do that to the s2885 for me? I am busy working on the VGABIOS support

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread YhLu
OK. -Original Message- From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:16 PM To: YhLu Cc: Stefan Reinauer; Ronald G. Minnich; LinuxBIOS; Andi Kleen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matt Domsch Subject: RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 ap

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread YhLu
I changed that for all tyan, amd, and arima MB. YH -Original Message- From: YhLu Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:28 PM To: Li-Ta Lo Cc: Stefan Reinauer; Ronald G. Minnich; LinuxBIOS; Andi Kleen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matt Domsch Subject: RE: Enable api

RE: Enable apic ext id to use 256 apic id for AMD64

2005-01-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:40, YhLu wrote: > I changed that for all tyan, amd, and arima MB. > Thanks a lot. Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

PCI Expansion ROM POST committed

2005-01-10 Thread Li-Ta Lo
Hello, I just committed the VGABIOS support. It works for some ATI and Nvidia card. Currently it will try to POST any PCI card it can find with PCI expansion ROM. I will add the #ifdef PCI_EXPANSION_ROM or if (class == vga_class) later. Ollie ___ Linu

Re: linuxbios on geode gx1 with sst-39SF020A and CompactFlash [PMX:#]

2005-01-10 Thread ramesh bios
Hi Ron, Just wanted to report that your suggestion was excellent. I'm now getting serial output saying "Jumping to LinuxBIOS". It took only a few minutes to get this working so I was pleasantly surprised. :-) Thanks! Ok, I'm now going to read a bit more about x86 booting and figure out what's ne

855gme chip set support

2005-01-10 Thread Adam Talbot
Just pulled down freebios2 and found that there is now 855pm and i855pm chips in the northbridge. Is the 855gme supported by any of those chips?? Working on getting a Pentium M board running with linuxbios. Can any one give me a quick status report on the 855gme chipset. -Adam __