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

2005-01-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:47:38PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote: > I noticed you mentioned reading the nsc reference > drivers to get further understanding. Are these > available somewhere? NSC offered the BLDT, BootLoader Development Toolkit, without an agreement of exclusivity and without licensing

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . wilkinson
Quoting ebiederman@lnxi.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Bari, I have the plain old VIA EPIA (800/5000) working a good 80 % of the time. Not sure if my problems are buggy northbridge setup or buggy motherboard - it generates some spurious serial at power on, and sometimes hangs reading the smbus

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

2005-01-19 Thread Christer Weinigel
(Note the new mail address, I'm not sure if the hack.org address still reaches me). ramesh bios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christer, I'm having trouble with my gx1 board. The > ramtest fails and I see an explicit difference in what > the normal bios sets MC_BANK_CFG to and what the > raminit a

Re: linkb_to_host

2005-01-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050119 02:35]: > i wonder what the different between > offs = ( pci_read_config16(dev, pos + PCI_CAP_FLAGS) & (1<<10)) ? > PCI_HT_SLAVE1_OFFS : PCI_HT_SLAVE0_OFFS; > > and > > offs = ( (pci_read_config16(dev, pos + PCI_CAP_FLAGS) >> 10) & 1) ? > PCI_HT_SLAVE1_OFFS :

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
for our tuturoials we found the EPIAs with linuxbios to boot 100% of the time, and this was several dozen of them. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

ACPI and Linux

2005-01-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
*Sigh* When Linux has IOAPICs and Local Apics configured via an ACPI MADT it will not read the mptable at all. It will reference mptable information though and not find any bus. Only way out seems to add a DSDT als well. Or whatever table it wants for that. It is really broken. Stefan _

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . wilkinson
Quoting "Ronald G. Minnich" : for our tuturoials we found the EPIAs with linuxbios to boot 100% of the time, and this was several dozen of them. Hmmm, guess this means I have a problem here Was that V1 or V2 ? I don't remember having problems with V1 code. What version of gcc etc did you use/ar

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm, guess this means I have a problem here > Was that V1 or V2 ? I don't remember having problems with V1 code. Always V2. > What version of gcc etc did you use/are you using ? whatever is on suse 9.1 ... gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux) G

EPIA going immediately to fallback image?

2005-01-19 Thread Al Hooton
Mainboard: EPIA 800. Building LB appears to go well, using these steps (my Options.lb and Config.lb are listed at the end of this note): - cd /targets - ./buildtarget via/epia - cd via/epia/epia - make The build appears to go without a hitch. At that point I write target

Re: EPIA going immediately to fallback image?

2005-01-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbi

what cpu model is a PIII?

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
I'm trying to setup my /cpu/intel/socket_PGA370 directory. What cpu model should I use? -- Richard A. Smith ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

buildtarget error

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
Ok so slowly I'm trying to move to V2. Step 1 was to just try and get some serial action going. I added my CPU and superIO and setup my mainboard directory with a simple config file. I've got a traceback on buildtarget though. So aparently I'm not filling out everything that needs to be fille

V2 questions

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
I'm starting up the learning curve Whats the mapping between the various CPU models in the intel directory and marketing cpu names as I know them like Pentium III, P3 celeron, Pentuim 4, etc. I don't completely grok the fallback and normal stuff. I know the theory but not practice. I know

EPIA halting after vt8601 init? (was Re: EPIA going immediately to fallback image?)

2005-01-19 Thread Al Hooton
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:08 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util > (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum. Ron, thanks for that pointer, I had not found mention of cmos_util in the docs I co

Another V2 question

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Smith
> probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util > (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum. >the docs I could find. My cmos is now fixed up, and I'm getting in to >my normal image. H... Our board dosent have CMOS. Well dosen't have any r