Cool, but SiS630 is not on the list. There is SiS635 and pcchips
m758lmr+, both without any status report. I assume that pcchips m758lmr+
is somehow similar to the pcchips m758LT v7.0, which is listed on the
pcchips site, but anyway the status for m758lmr+ is empty. :(
Does that mean that
Ron:
I sent some diffs to you the other day for vga etc. that don't seem to be in
the repository yet. Should I send them to you again?
The changes expanded the vga splash screen file formats and also added
STATUS files to the two motherboards I support.
-Steve
Maybe we could set a #define STAGE2 at the top of c_start.S,
and ifdef in
intel.h on STAGE2. The serial posts are useful to me since I
am a holdout
on getting a PCI post board.
And I have one but have never actually used it.
intel_chip_post cannot be modified to output to the serial
On 12 Feb 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Part of the problem was is that someone was using 1st stage defines
in the 2nd stage, which is quiet unexpected. intel_chip_post is
possibly the one define that is safe to use both places.
no argument that it was a mistake in what the person
Yes. The kernel version is 2.2.14.
I can't help you then. 2.2 just won't do the right things for IRQs.
We're going to have to get linuxbios to set this stuff up.
I made a first stab but ran out of time, will have to try again later.
ron
I was able to get 2.2 IRQs to work with the
In c_start.S and the constructed crt0.S there is a symbol
called _start.
Same name. There are also, in these files, a set of symbols that on some
builds are needed for that build. So we need the .o from both files in
some builds. But the conflicting _start symbols are causing trouble.
more summary: the problem is limited to those cases where someone
wants to
use SERIAL_POST.
Seems pretty fixable.
Any more ideas on this? I chased it around a bit but there sure
seems to be
a symbol conflict on _start.
Okay I see the point, these are separate pieces of code.
I'm not sure, however, about the correctness of the options there in the
config file. Where can I read the actual documentation of the various
options?
as
The documentation on config options is pretty sparce, mostly in the code
itself. Look at the other config files (in
Yes. I agree it is complex. We have given it fairly a bit of though and if
you want to support legacy applications then it is pretty much about the
only way to do this.
Sure we could go LinuxBIOS version of grub, but unless you add legacy
application support it won't help you with booting
findit='find
. | xargs grep 2/dev/null').
isn't it the same grep -r XXX .?!
Yup, this is the same (actually better). I wasn't aware of the grep -r
switch; it is not on all unices (eg, SunOS, Unixware). I'm kind of an old
Unix person and only learn the newer ways when someone points it
are there particular restrictions on the image properties? width/height,
bit depth...?
bye
thank you
as
The logo file is a pcx file, indexed color (256 colors) 640 x400, depth
8bits. I created it with gimp, but I need to try and remember
how. The one
thing I remember is that
Well, u could put grub or lilo on flash, either of them works with
linuxbios. The space may be big tight though.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how
you do this.
Grub and lilo require a legacy BIOS.
LinuxBIOS + ADLO + BOCHS BIOS + ( LILO | GRUB )
Adam
are there particular restrictions on the image properties? width/height,
bit depth...?
bye
thank you
as
The logo file is a pcx file, indexed color (256 colors) 640 x400, depth
8bits. I created it with gimp, but I need to try and remember how. The one
thing I remember is that only the
Well, u could put grub or lilo on flash, either of them works with
linuxbios. The space may be big tight though.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how you do this.
Grub and lilo require a legacy BIOS.
-Steve
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Doh - I was not being clear. This was just an idea, to add a kernel
parameter to allow skipping known bad PCI config space addresses.
It does
not currently exist until someone adds it.
It's not a bad idea, though, the xbox-linux folks have a similar problem
AFAIK. We ought to combine
I've seen this problem, but ONLY on VIA north bridges derived from the
8601. Hence I still blame the chipset.
So we can build a working EPIA at this point?
Basically yes. If you have the above problem, you probably need
to change the
kernel to skip the pci probe.
-Andrew
The EPIA
is the 2.4.18 using DIRECT, ANY, or PCIBIOS for PCI configuration? try
wiring to direct.
ron
Not sure, I am not familiar with this setting; it is offline at the moment.
Is this the pci= command line parameter? But it was just default debian
woody, whatever it defaulted to. It's at the
is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:08 PM
To: Steve M. Gehlbach
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [COMMIT] EPIA irq fixed, thanks to Kevin Hester
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
so you won't see the bug, as you use the pcibios.
ron
Thanks, I get the point now.
-Steve
I would like to know if someone is working on the STPC port. I am woking
with a STPC Elite custom board (I have a development board too), and I
would like to test the linuxbios on it.
Regards,
Juan Antonio García
The STPC is not currently integrated into the linuxbios code base. I
In working with the sis630, I noticed the linuxbios code as it stands does
not normally enable the ram in the hole at 0xf when booting from flash.
So I turned it on and discovered that Linux needs the gdt, which gets
covered by the ram when it is turned on. So I wrote code to shadow the gdt
I have been using as a guide the sis540 chipset
and stuff like that to get my configuration files together and as
examples, but well since the code for stuff is spread accross trees,
what happens when I make one of these projects? Does it take the
mainboard.c file first, then the raminit? I'm
I have successfully built LinuxBIOS to load a kernel from my IDE drive
and boot using a serial console. Now I would like to test the VGA
funtionality of my board. Has anyone had any experience getting the VGA
to turn on and work within LinuxBIOS and/or Linux?
John
From my previos posts of
I am working on getting the sis 530 working which on my Arbor PIA-671
board has a 630 3D AGP card I would mainly like to use for my project.
So if you can send me the code to enable the VGA stuff that would be
great. I do have the datasheet for the board and its video controller
so I may be
Anybody: What's the recommended approach/reference/magic to getting video
going for LinuxBIOS. I'd like to get the on-chip video going on
the VIA Epia
board - Hints appreciated.
Thanks.
Andy
Do you mean a linuxbios vga text console?
I have the code to set the legacy registers to start
I've heard of some code that already works with the vt8601 that I'm
looking to use.
Andy
There should be a way to put the 8601a specific stuff in
northbridge/via/8601a, and try and keep vga generic (legacy) register code
in a central place (eg, pc80/). This worked well for stpc and sis630;
If it is really a HW limitation, how does this long term thing
going to happen ?? Unless you can redesign the HW in some way.
for every motherboard and chipset I have seen to date, it is possible to
make the f area RAM. Ollie, are there systems for which this is not
possible?
ron
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It also seems to be
easier to load the kernel from the hard drive, instead of loading a
kernel from the flash, then having that kernel load the kernel from the
hard drive. If I can load the kernel from the hard drive, then how do I
get the kernel to the hard drive. Does it need its own
After this you can run
$ flash_rom romimage
Aren't the bios chips soldered down on some of these boards? I was wondering
what alternatives you have, short of unsoldering the chip and finding a
programmer, if something goes wrong in the flashing process or the linuxbios
code has a bug.
-Steve
gcc 2.96 is not a real release, more of a redhat branch off the
3.0 dev tree
that gnu disavows. There are notes somewhere about this but I couldn't
quickly find the link.
Which is understandable from their point of view, keeping the user base
at a certain level to gain reliable input.
The file would look something like this:
# These are keyword-value pairs.
# a : separates the keyword from the value
# the value is arbitrary text delimited by newline.
# continuation, if needed, will be via the \ at the end of a line
# comments are indicated by a '#' as the first
Was the question ever solved as to what chipset is used in the $199 model
from walmart.com?
It is a Giga-byte mobo, the GA-6VEML:
http://tw.giga-byte.com/products/products.htm. They list it as the VIA
VT8602 (PLE133T) and VIA VT82C686B chipsets.
-Steve
I have Linuxbios boot from DOC successfuly. But I can not get my
2-channel-video-monitor-card up.
When I load the driver, it shows
PCI: No IRQ Known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please
try using pci=biosirq
The driver can not get IRQ, and it can not work.
If I boot from BIOS
So DoC _IS_ faster than IDE? If this is the case, why should it be
that mounting it with /dev/hda1 as root would make for a faster boot?
By my logic, I would think that having /boot and /root on a DoC would
make it faster.
DoC _IS_NOT_ faster than IDE. IDE HD has the problem it need to
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Steve? How so? How did you physically connect the CF card to your
IDE bus? I
know a number of adapters exist to enable that feature, and I
know that the
2.4 series contains the MTD (Memory Technology Drivers) functions
directly,
but after that, I'm lost.
CF is
The San Jose Mercury News had an announcement of the Linux NetworX/ LLNL
deal on the front page of the business section today:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4169843.htm
-Steve
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Surely they printed the MAC address on a sticky label on one or more of:
a) the motherboard
b) the ethernet controller / socket
c) the manual
d) the box the motherboard came in
e) a little piece of paper included in the packaging ?
I'm generally used to seeing two labels - one on the
My pcchips m787cl+ with the sis630e chipset started reporting a 00:00..00
mac address. It was working at first, but somewhere in the process of
debugging I started getting all zeros.
I looked thorough the linuxbios and the sis900.c driver, and I think
everything is being setup correctly. I
Just need to init to 80 x 25 color text. Load an 8x16 font and write
attribute/char data at 0xB8000 in the standard fashion. That's it.
I can get a register dump from the board with the mobo and
PC-BIOS, assuming
in alpha mode it has legacy CRTC, Sequencer, Attribute,
Graphics,
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