VIA chips

2005-03-01 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
Does anyone here happen to know if VIA works with smaller companies who want to create reference designs using thier processors and bridge chips? Or only larger motherboard manufacturers. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.

Re: linuxbios on geode gx1.....

2005-01-14 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
On a minimally related note. In the NSC framebuffer driver I saw mention to a Geode GX1 Pyramid chip which supposedly fixed an issue with pitch > 1k for 16bpp. I've haven't been able to get an answer from AMD about what this chip was, or if national ever made it. It was mentioned in the driver b

Re: LinuxBios in epia m-10000 (freebios2)

2003-11-04 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
Andrew, Is this board currently in production/released? The most recent board I have seen from VIA on the same epia-m reference design is the CL series with 2 Network connections. It doesn't mention a PC Card interface. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191

Re: SC1200 and framebuffer under 2.4.22 without having vga-bios or VSA-bios is up

2003-10-14 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
There is support for IDE DMA on the geode in 2.4.19+. National also has a patch for 2.4.17 which I believe I have tried on 2.4.17-2.4.21. Though with the national driver you cannot do DMA with the 66mhz bus speed. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 14

Re: The Great Cheap EPIA contest.

2003-10-03 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
is because they guarantee a relatively long lifespan for the board. Which saves having to qualify a new board every year or so. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Brian G. Rhodes wrote: > > > Check out unic

Re: The Great Cheap EPIA contest.

2003-10-03 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
Check out unicorn computer. They're cheap in quantity. Endat 3220 is basically an EPIA 800 (Ezra or Samuel 2 core) 70-80 US Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, grayrest wrote: > ron minnich wrote: > > > OK, I've found this place: ht

Re: Working with tsop flash

2003-09-27 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
There are quite a few places who will do it for you. BTW inc. comes to mind. Probably cost you 20 bucks. But if you have some soldering pliers, and aren't worried about losing a board if you really muck it up, it's worth a try. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: NS Geode GX1 + CS5530 +PC 97317 superio

2003-09-24 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
27;re the sigma designs of cpu makers. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine > Perhaps. But NSC's webpage insists that they have indeed sold the > entire line to AMD, and that presumably incl

Re: the EPIA universe

2003-09-23 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
nehemiah works with 586 compiled linux kernel. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Jake Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030923 20:42]: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: > > > > > n

Re: the EPIA universe

2003-09-23 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
nations if you want some more. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, ron minnich wrote: > name CPU Extension Speed RAM remarks > EPIAC3 3DNOW 800 Mhz SDRAM > EPIA C3

sc1200 (GX1)

2003-08-14 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
s, or big reads. It is most evident when using DMA with IDE. Any ideas? Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

gx1

2003-08-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
There was some talk about the geode GX1 line here, so I thought people might be interested in the fact that AMD has purchased national's GX1 line, so hopefully in the near future there will be some hardware fixes for the current problems programmers have to deal with. Brian G Rhodes [

Re: EPIA-ME6000

2003-07-29 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
That looks like an EPIA M-1 compatable board to me. btw, about flash parts, you might more easily find the sst29f040 parts. also macronix makes compatable parts. You're lucky it's not a vt82c686b south as linuxbios does not work very well with that chipset. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL

Re: EPIA-ME6000

2003-07-29 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
re setting up serial for the wrong superio. Have you figured out how to enable flash memory write? I have two 686 datasheets which seem to contradict one another on how it's done. one appears like the 8231 south, and another alike the sis630. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SC1200-BLDT (fwd)

2003-07-24 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
output device. I eagerly await not using their hardware anymore. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Kyuwan Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030724 14:05]: > > thanks for notice, Stefan. > > NS fram

Re: Can you help me? I'm working on VIA-EPIA

2003-07-23 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
try using the -w switch with the path to your rom Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, gimyung han wrote: > hi everyone !! > > I'm trying to burn romimage on the VIA-EPIA (VIA C3-800 Mhz, VT8231) > > I just succeeded in ma

Re: ADLO + EPIA-M + No hard disk, just etherboot/tftp?

2003-07-18 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
are you trying to use adlo specifically for VGA? ifso then you could just use linuxbios's vgabios support. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, David Ashley wrote: > I'm working with the VIA EPIA-M motherboard. > > I&#

Re: audio support?

2003-07-12 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
Use the OSS or ALSA drivers from national's website. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Devi Priya wrote: > Hello, > > It is said that audio support is not good in geode sc1200 using > linuxbios. Then to get audio sup

Re: Geode GX1 processor?

2003-07-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
://wwwd.national.com/National/developer.nsf/designs/System.htm Since they changed their site I haven't had to log in for the software anymore, and I haven't been able to find most of the resources I previously used. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003

Re: power connectors for mainboards

2003-06-20 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
stems. Their website is www.sparklepower.com. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > > I would advise against doing this. > > > I wouldn't know where to get an Y connector like that. > > > >

Re: EPIA PCI slot

2003-06-13 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
interrupts, I looked at the scope. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Brian G. Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The reason I was not getting interrupts on devices in the pci slot on

Re: EPIA PCI slot

2003-06-12 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
? Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: > > > > The reason I was not getting interrupts on devices in the pci slot on the > > > EPIA is because they were not set to

Re: EPIA PCI slot

2003-06-12 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 01 00 00 Is not correct. The first is award BIOS, the second is linuxbios. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Brian G. Rhodes wrote: > > &g

EPIA PCI slot

2003-06-12 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
to 4. I haven't looked to see if this is pervasive throughout linuxbios, or if for other boards this is handled specifically, but it is a bug. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-11 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
XT-PIC cascade 4: 8370 XT-PIC serial 5: 0 XT-PIC Harmony, Harmony, Harmony, Harmony 11:216 XT-PIC eth0 14:944 XT-PIC ide0 15: 15 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PR

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
), termcap, pthread. I think what I am going to do is just use linuxbios + etherboot to boot an elf image from the ide disk, and move the partitions down. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Brian G. Rho

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
would love to boot the kernel from flash, but it's not to be. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: > > > "--initrd" option to mkelfImage adds initrd to

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
er and a kernel+initrd image is a suitable fallback position, but something which is more of a drop in replacement on the eeprom is still a goal for me. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:31:4

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-09 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
I am using BOCHS because I need to be able to load an initrd, and it looked like the most straight forward way of doing so. Is there another way to accomplish that? Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > next question,

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-09 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
bochs from the had disk, but I really do not think that the step before bochs is the issue. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, ron minnich wrote: > tell me more. > > Are you always booting from power-on or just reset? Hard or soft

linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-09 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
esize 0x20400 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x7c00 size 0x20400 offset 0x100 filesize 0x20400 Loading Segment: addr: 0x077649d8 memsz: 0x00020400 filesz: 0x0 Jumping to boot code at 0x7c00 POST: 0xfe Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741