I just want to tell everyone
that my board now booted SMP/non-SMP kernel ok. The problem is the setting of
IOAPIC in ICH3. Thanks all for helping.
gin
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 09:45 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> I'm quite certain it is memory, this is always the scenario with this type
> of output. I may still be wrong, but I doubt it. Certain problems occur
> over and over again, and this looks to be one of them. Can you be sure
> that your
Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ok so by design you really only want a single firmware image.
> >
>
> Right.. I think Ron has me fixed up. I was unaware that there was an
> overall flag that enabled/disabled the fallback system.
In the generic code yes.
> > It should be straigh
> Ok so by design you really only want a single firmware image.
>
Right.. I think Ron has me fixed up. I was unaware that there was an
overall flag that enabled/disabled the fallback system.
> It should be straight forward to remove all of the tests etc for switching
> from a fallback to a norm
> > Starting as a complete V2 newbie, in less than 9 hours of work and on
> > the _very_ first successful compile, LinuxBIOS V2 produced serial code
> > output on our IMS board!
>
> well, you made our day. I'm happy it worked. Uh, FAQ? :-)
In progress. I'm documenting as I go. Thats why all the
> no, not at all. It's the target/bitworks/richard/Config.lb that determines
> normal/fallback or fallback-only configuration, and that in turn will
> drive how the thing gets built
Ok. I think I see now that I've looked a bit more closely.
So if I set the HAVE_FALLBACK to 0 then it will only b
>
> even simpler, it really is (unless I've gone nuts) just ones you want to
> put in the table. Note that is slightly different from your statements
> above.
Ok That narrows it down then. So if you want an IRQ routed to it
then it needs to be counted.
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Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > :)
> > Do you have any other non-volatile storage?
>
> Nope.
>
> > A serial eeprom might be another good choice, of a location for variables.
> > Anyway I understand the reasons for it and will happily work on
> > brainstorming
>
> By design if you
-Ron
I am hunting for just the board, I have not been looking very much at
case's. I was looking at a case a while ago, but was unable to find one I
liked for a price i was willing to pay..
Here is the cheapest case I was able to find.
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=CA-2699RB&c=pw
But if money w
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> Starting as a complete V2 newbie, in less than 9 hours of work and on
> the _very_ first successful compile, LinuxBIOS V2 produced serial code
> output on our IMS board!
well, you made our day. I'm happy it worked. Uh, FAQ? :-)
ron
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Adam Talbot wrote:
> What is the best price out there on the EPIA-MII 1.2GHz. Can you beat $189 +
> $9 shipping ($198)
> http://www.provantage.com/buy-7VIAT00F-via-cle266-ddr-motherboard-technologies-epiamii12000ccm01-shopping.htm
this is no case, right? What's your bes
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> My question was more along the lines of a device like the south bridge
> has many devices in that so does each device in there count or just ones
> that need a PIRQ?
even simpler, it really is (unless I've gone nuts) just ones you want to
put in the
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> What I meant is: There should be a library that people can use that
> parses s-expressions or whatever is used in the end and work on this
> information. So you can do foo=find-lbtable("memorymap");
excellent idea.
ron
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> Does IRQ_SLOT_COUNT have to match how many actual slots are on the MB
> or just the number of pci devices in total?
it only should need to match how many devices you want to define in the
$PIR table. That's all. It's done this way due to an intermitt
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> I was just wondering if it's possible to use linuxbios as a kind of
> virtualisation machine, meaning that I could use linuxbios to snoop
> windows drivers for register hunting (to get real 3D-gfx-support for
> instance)? This means that windows would
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> So if I just remove all the normal stuff? What about all the reset16
> and entry16 stuff? Looks to me like I pretty much have to re-write my
> MB config.lb
no, not at all. It's the target/bitworks/richard/Config.lb that determines
normal/fallback
>
> I know. But isn't one of linuxBIOS goal to have a stable, remote
> configurable bios for use in clusters?
> Wouldn't a vm (or hal if you will)
> be even more useful than a Basic Input Output System?
I don't do any clusters so I can't really speak much for thier needs
but I think the linux ker
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> So you mean some sort of HAL like the VM on a IBM370 does.
Yes.
> Possible but linuxBIOS is a _long_ way from that. And it's not really
> compatible with its overall goal which is to get the hardware up
> enough that a linux kernel can take over. Loa
--- Adam Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best price out there on the EPIA-MII 1.2GHz. Can
> you beat $189 + $9 shipping ($198)
>
http://www.provantage.com/buy-7VIAT00F-via-cle266-ddr-motherboard-technologies-epiamii12000ccm01-shopping.htm
> -Adam
I just bought one 2 days ago.
T
Starting as a complete V2 newbie, in less than 9 hours of work and on
the _very_ first successful compile, LinuxBIOS V2 produced serial code
output on our IMS board!
To all those that worked so hard on the framework. You rock. Looks
like it works quite nicely.
I've got other things to work on n
What is the best price out there on the EPIA-MII
1.2GHz. Can you beat $189 + $9 shipping ($198)
http://www.provantage.com/buy-7VIAT00F-via-cle266-ddr-motherboard-technologies-epiamii12000ccm01-shopping.htm
-Adam
> You should have one per pci slot, as well.. but those should only be
> there if something is in the pci slot.. We really need dynamic table
> creation for that.
>
> But all in all, 1 per device in lspci is about right
I only have one slot (and only if its loaded) I have many devices
soldered o
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Ronald G. Minnich [050118 20:05]:
> > > I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of
> > > C
> > > functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself
> to
>
> > > the payload? I guess it wouldn'
> :)
> Do you have any other non-volatile storage?
Nope.
> A serial eeprom might be another good choice, of a location for variables.
> Anyway I understand the reasons for it and will happily work on brainstorming
By design if you want to change the boot firmware of our device (in
production) yo
Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Hmmm
> A typo in the header file include name. It should
> be microcode_MU16830c.h I just committed the fix.
ok. Thanks I'll update and retry.
> Which is roughly cpufamily, cpumodel, stepping as reported by /proc/cpuinfo.
> With various bits ignored as seems appropriate.
Ah. Good. That makes
* Ronald G. Minnich [050118 20:05]:
> > I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of C
> > functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself
> > to
> > the payload? I guess it wouldn't solve the binary/ascii problem, but it
> > would
> > sure
"Gin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it mandatory to report Reserved Memory region to the OS? For example,
> the IOAPICs memory-mapped addresses?
Reserving the address of any IO devices is a BUG BUG BUG.
Your kernel will not boot if it doing things properly.
> Would that be a problem if Linux
> > Does IRQ_SLOT_COUNT have to match how many actual slots are on the MB
> > or just the number of pci devices in total?
>
> Basically one for each device and one for bus1. Otherwise Linux won't
> see the APIC of the 8111.
So the number of devices as counted by lspci?
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Well, I have a problem.
The PPC code, which was working in November, is now no longer working.
I rebuilt the Sandpoint image using the same configuration file, but
now I just get garbage on the screen. To help me track this down, can
anyone who has made changes that are likely to have cause this
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 17:19]:
> > What about fs_stream?
>
> What's fs_stream?
If you set CONFIG_FS_STREAM 1 you can load a payload from an IDE disk
with a filesystem on it. It's basically filo directly integrated.
Stefan
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* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 19:27]:
> Does IRQ_SLOT_COUNT have to match how many actual slots are on the MB
> or just the number of pci devices in total?
Basically one for each device and one for bus1. Otherwise Linux won't
see the APIC of the 8111.
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On Jan 20, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
well, I am supposed to put my filo in there RSN, should I do that? My
mistake ...
What about fs_stream?
What's fs_stream?
It enables an embedded version of FILO, rather than using FILO as a
payload.
Greg
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> cpu model_6xx will not build.
>
> microcode_MU16930c.h: No such file or directory.
A typo in the header file include name. It should
be microcode_MU16830c.h I just committed the fix.
The code was mostly written by converting old freebios1 code,
and
> fullfilled (hardware setup & loading of os). A virtualisation machine much
> like vmware or bochs, except that this machine would let the operating run
> on the hardware instead of emulating the hardware (am I making sense?).
>
So you mean some sort of HAL like the VM on a IBM370 does.
Possibl
* Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050120 18:05]:
> > Currently, it's always enabled, but if you build a fallback-only payload,
> > then 'normal' won't get run. This is hokey, I know.
>
> So if I just remove all the normal stuff? What about all the reset16
> and entry16 stuff? Looks to me lik
Looks like you have to have a pci_domain just adding a northbridge
didn't fix it.
So now I'm at
chip northbridge/intel/440bx
device pci_domain 0 on
end
chip cpu/intel/socket_PGA370
end
end
I noticed that I also have 4 irq slots specified. So pci slots with
no pci_domain. Perhaps
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> Not really. LinuxBIOS is pretty much for booting live hardware. What
> I think you wan't is the bochs project, VMware or Win4lin.
Well, if snooping is going to work the windows drivers has to talk to the
hardware, which vmware & bochs doesn't support.
cpu model_6xx will not build.
microcode_MU16930c.h: No such file or directory.
I'll play with some others.
Also if you forget to provide enough arguments to romcc you get an
'Invalid tolken' error. A nice enhancement would be to count
arguments and if they don't match then give a incorrect nu
> I was just wondering if it's possible to use linuxbios as a kind of
> virtualisation machine, meaning that I could use linuxbios to snoop
> windows drivers for register hunting (to get real 3D-gfx-support for
> instance)? This means that windows would run as a virtual os.
Not really. LinuxBIOS
Hi!
I was just wondering if it's possible to use linuxbios as a kind of
virtualisation machine, meaning that I could use linuxbios to snoop
windows drivers for register hunting (to get real 3D-gfx-support for
instance)? This means that windows would run as a virtual os.
Best regards
Peter K
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> > I have a PIII celeron. Where do I go loook to find what model that is
> > so I know what to add into my config?
>
> That was a PGA370, right? I am guessing it is not in there, looking at the
> tree.
Right. I created it. And really all it needs is the right
cpu/intel/model_xxx in the config
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Al Hooton wrote:
> What was it in the debug output that told you my memory is
> configured incorrectly? I never even thought about this, because the
> board boots fine with the OEM bios, using the current memory. I'm
> keeping track of what it takes to get this going
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:44 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> your ram is configured incorrectly. Try doing a memtest before jumping to
> linuxbios (i.e. in auto.c)
Thanks, I'll pursue this.
What was it in the debug output that told you my memory is configured
incorrectly? I nev
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> chip cpu/intel/socket_PGA370
> end
my mistake.
ron
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
>
> I have a PIII celeron. Where do I go loook to find what model that is
> so I know what to add into my config?
That was a PGA370, right? I am guessing it is not in there, looking at the
tree.
> Well I was hoping for a bit more detail. *grin*
> > well, I am supposed to put my filo in there RSN, should I do that? My
> > mistake ...
>
> What about fs_stream?
What's fs_stream?
> some questions and compiles. But then again, packing a good
> documentation might help further.
That's why I'm asking all these questions. I'm documenting as
> > I'll try adding in a northbridge framework and see what happens.
>
> you need to have at least one 'chip'
I do.
chip cpu/intel/socket_PGA370
end
So you must have to have more than that.
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> > 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.
>
> At this point I believe the marketing names are going away as they are not
> specific enough, so you have to use the full nam
* Ronald G. Minnich [050120 16:41]:
> > Why are all the payloads out of tree? Be nice if there was a payloads
> > directory with some known good payloads.
>
> well, I am supposed to put my filo in there RSN, should I do that? My
> mistake ...
What about fs_stream?
> I would still prefer to g
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> I'll try adding in a northbridge framework and see what happens.
you need to have at least one 'chip'
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> How is this handled on non-x86? Most of those dont have any cmos either.
actually a lot of the boards have the same lovely Dallas chip you see on
PCs. But, true, if you have no simple NVRAM then the fallback architecture
is harder to use.
ron
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:38:39 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich
wrote:
> well, we never hit this before. I think it is barfing because you have no
> devices.
>
> I would go ahead and try to get a 440 northbridge sketched in and then
> build.
I've got a CPU. That's not considered a device?
I'll t
> > Guess this means that I'll never come out of fallback? Of course I'm
> > stll a long ways off from that now
>
> you can't really use fallback, I guess, unless you stash those bits
> somewhere else.
Unless I wrote them to the flash there's nothing on my board that is
persistent between bo
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> Guess this means that I'll never come out of fallback? Of course I'm
> stll a long ways off from that now
you can't really use fallback, I guess, unless you stash those bits
somewhere else.
ron
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your ram is configured incorrectly. Try doing a memtest before jumping to
linuxbios (i.e. in auto.c)
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
> 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.
At this point I believe the marketing names are going away as they are not
specific enoug
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Al Hooton wrote:
> 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 ha
well, we never hit this before. I think it is barfing because you have no
devices.
I would go ahead and try to get a 440 northbridge sketched in and then
build.
ron
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Is it mandatory to report Reserved
Memory region to the OS? For example, the IOAPICs
memory-mapped addresses? Would that be a problem if Linux kernel didn’t
see it be claimed as RESERVED?
It seems Linuxbios doesn’t
claim any memory regions as RESERVED.
gin
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