Re: Any UK DiskOnChip Retailers?

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 18:38, Lee wrote: > Hi, > My name is Lee and my machine has a ECS Elitegroup K7S5A > motherboard. It has an AMD AthlonXP 1800+ processor and (apparently) a > SiS735 chipset. It also has a 2Mb Flash EEPROM for the bios (AMIBIOS > right now). > One fundamental problem

Re: Trouble getting started.....

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 18:58, Antony Stone wrote: > Hi. > > Can somebody tell me what I'm missing here please ? I've just started with > LinuxBios after seeing it at the LBW workshop ten days ago, and I can't seem > to get even to stage 1 > LBW, is it the one that with mountain climbing

Re: Trouble getting started.....

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 20:13, Antony Stone wrote: > > Incidentally, I noticed that the SiS config file for the 2.4.17 kernel was > bigger than the config file for 2.4.19. So I looked at both, and found the > MTD options I needed were in the 2.4.17 config file, whereas the 2.4.19 one > which I

Re: Any UK DiskOnChip Retailers?

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 09:56, Lee wrote: > Dear all, > Thanks for the great advice, I really appreciate it. > Is it possible to fit an EEPROM with a greater capacity than the current > 2MB one? > For current architecture, 4M bits is the limit. I have no idea about how Firmware HUB do

Re: The DoC problem

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 10:24, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Anybody have a good idea in the long term about how to solve the DoC mess. > > I really like this sis730 mainboard with DoC. It's neat to come up in > busybox and have all the power of linux available even if the disk is not > yet loaded with

RE: The DoC problem

2002-09-09 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 18:03, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote: > I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if > people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a little board > which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a > little

Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-09 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L). > > Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under > LinuxBios, or can I boot it into a 'standard VGA' mode ? > > I tried changing HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1

RE: The DoC problem

2002-09-09 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 21:43, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On 9 Sep 2002, ollie lho wrote: > > > Actually this is very easy, The DoC requires only 8kB address window, if > > we use a 128KB flash EEPROM for LinuxBIOS, we still have the MSB address > > line free to acts as Chi

Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-10 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:56, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:14 am, ollie lho wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L). > &

RE: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-10 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:27, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > I am hoping to get standard alphanumeric vga setup into the linuxbios code > base, as part of the stpc initialization, in the very near future. Linux > assumes the vga registers are already initialized in vgacon.c (in > drivers/video), and c

Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-11 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:55, Antony Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 7:22 am, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > > > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA > > > > register set on most modern VGA cards. > > > > > > I am afraid your are wrong. For modern VG

Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-11 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 16:09, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:22:58PM -0700, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > > > Maybe someone knows if alphanumeric mode setup is via the standard VGA > > > > register set on most modern VGA cards. > > > > > > > > > > I am afraid your are wrong. For mod

Re: Framebuffer or standard VGA ?

2002-09-11 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 09:51, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What is AFAICS ?? > > As Far As I Can See > > > > The catch is, for most cases, you have to program those "non-standard" > > undoc

Re: Any UK DiskOnChip Retailers?

2002-09-16 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:19, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020916 07:46]: > > We have an internal version of Etherboot which contains some code from > > GRUB. The GRUB code let us put kernel image on a filesystem and the way > > to specify

Re: PCCHIPS M787CL+v3.0 support

2002-09-16 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 09:56, Andrew Ip wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a M787CL+ v3.0(http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787cl+v30.html) > which is as the same as m758lt+ with VIA C3 1GHZ. It works with m758lt+ config > without any problem, and it costs only US$15 more than m758lt+. I think it is >

RE: PCCHIPS M787CL+v3.0 support

2002-09-16 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:41, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > I just got a M787CL+ v3.0(http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787cl+v30.html) > > which is as the same as m758lt+ with VIA C3 1GHZ. It works with > > m758lt+ config > > without any problem, and it costs only US$15 more than m758lt+. > > I think it

RE: PCCHIPS M787CL+v3.0 support

2002-09-16 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 13:39, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > > Do you know if it is possible to get the datasheet on the > > Sis630E chipset? > > > If I use this I need to setup the vga. I see there is a Linux > > driver, but I > > > don't know if I it has enough setup without a PC-BIOS init first.

Re: Any UK DiskOnChip Retailers?

2002-09-16 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:24, Eric W Biederman wrote: > ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:19, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > * ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020916 07:46]: > > > > We have an internal version of Etherbo

Re: PCchips ES8m

2002-09-22 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 19:37, Justin Cormack wrote: > Does anyone know anything about this? > > http://www.pcchips.com.tw/ES8m.html > > it appears to be SiS 5598 chipset, similar size to the VIA EPIA. > 5598 ?? I don't think it is actively supported anymore. > No idea what type of perform

Re: sis630 mac address

2002-09-22 Thread ollie lho
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 14:35, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > 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

Re: Sis 530

2002-09-23 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 23:45, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > Hello, > I've seen a lot of support about the Sis 630 chipset. I'm wondering > how much support exists for 530 based boards? Is there documentation on > how one would proceed to support a particular chipset? I think SiS 530 is End of

Re: reboot fails-- 630e or C3?

2002-09-23 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 06:19, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > I have an interesting problem with the pcchips m787cl+ motherboard: it won't > do a reboot. If you use the three finger salute or issue an init 6, it > hangs at the "Restarting system" message at the bottom of the shutdown > cycle. > > I tr

Re: OK, I can finally talk about it

2002-09-23 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 00:47, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > We're building a 1024-node linuxbios cluster with Dual-P4 systems and > Myrinet. No disks on the nodes. Single System Image via bproc. Monitoring > with Supermon. Plus lots of other stuff we hope to be showing in the next > year. LNXI is the v

RE: reboot fails-- 630e or C3?

2002-09-23 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 11:19, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > > > The ACPI watch dog code is in the SiS LinuxBIOS patch avaliable on CVS. > > > > Ollie > > > > Thanks Ollie, that's a lot of great code. I did not realize this was there. > > I'm curious, though, do you think the watchdog timer reset

Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 01:44, Bari Ari wrote: > Has anyone else here worked with BLOB? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob > > Blob is a boot loader for SA11x0 (StrongARM) platforms and is just > starting to support PXA and Xscale processors. Blob is able to boot a > Linux kernel stored in

Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB"

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:51, Bari Ari wrote: > ollie lho wrote: > > >Did you tried the ARMboot and PPCboot ?? These bootloaders have network > >boot built-in now. I also think they have better source directory > >structures. > > > > > ARMboot http:

Re: OmniBoot

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:13, Bari Ari wrote: > > > ollie lho wrote: > > >We should start a project call OmniBoot (not OmniBook^TM) which can boot > >any architecture. > > > > > If the source could be shared it would certainly make sense, instead

Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS withBLOB"

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:13, Nicholas Mistry wrote: > Just for the record, i have worked extensively with blob. Especially > during the StrongARM port of linux. > > The IPAQ 36xx, 37xx, 38xx handhelds are based off the Intel > Assabet/Neponset Development platform. The assabet is a StrongARM 11

Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:30, Bari Ari wrote: > ollie lho wrote: > > >Do you know if Blob can load uClinux ?? I found that most of the ARM > >bootloaders only support ARM-Linux. (Am I wrong ??) > > > > > > > Blob is written to be OS independent, but I don

Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB

2002-09-25 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:43, Bari Ari wrote: > ollie lho wrote: > > > > >Bari, > > Do you know if there is any OSS bootloader for uClinux on ARM ?? > >Ollie > > > I haven't tried this but take a look at: > http://kabel.home.at:5880/cgi-bin/vie

Re: LinuxBIOS for ARM; or Merging LinuxBIOS with BLOB

2002-09-26 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 15:22, Bari Ari wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: "LinuxBIOS for ARM" or "Merging LinuxBIOS with > BLOB"] > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:04:41 -0400 > From: Thomas Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: lart <[

Re: OmniBoot

2002-09-26 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:13, Bari Ari wrote: > > > ollie lho wrote: > > >We should start a project call OmniBoot (not OmniBook^TM) which can boot > >any architecture. > > > > > If the source could be shared it would certainly make sense, instead of >

Re: Re[2]: DOC vs. IDE

2002-09-29 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 07:00, Christopher Bergeron wrote: > > Sunday, September 29, 2002, 5:26:37 PM, you wrote: > > RGM> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote: > > >> Can anyone give me advice on what will acheive the fastest boot time? > >> My options are the LinuxBIOS coupled with

RE: Re[2]: DOC vs. IDE

2002-09-29 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:50, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > 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 Techn

RE: No IRQ Known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please tryusing pci=biosirq

2002-09-30 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:35, David Xiong wrote: > The mainboard is K7SEM and irq_tables.c is already in the source tree. > I run the program getpir and get an irq_tables.c file which is the same > as the one in the source tree. The program util/getpir reports 6 slot found, > whether I plug in the

Re: Images and ZIF DIP

2002-10-02 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 07:52, Todd E. Johnson wrote: > > Hello, > > > I found a ZIF Socket (that works form me when I remove the WOL header) > at Digikey for $13.33. It is part number A443-ND (CONN IC SOCKET ZIF > 32POS TIN). Here are a few quick pics of it on a PCChips M758LMR+ with > the WOL

Re: Hmmm

2002-10-03 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 05:55, Todd E. Johnson wrote: > Did the following... > > `flash_on` > `modprobe docprobe doc_config_location=0xfffc8000` > > > Using configured DiskOnChip probe address 0xfffc8000 > DiskOnChip Millennium found at address 0xFFFC8000 > Flash chip found: Manufacturer ID: 98,

RE: Hmmm

2002-10-03 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 07:16, Todd E. Johnson wrote: > Well, > > It finally boots. My only problem now is hardly any of the devices can > be assigned an IRQ. Like USB for example... > why do you have another USB device on PCI bus 2 ?? Ollie ___ Li

Re: Walmart PC from MicroTel

2002-10-02 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:58, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > my very nice $600 non-Windows PC from Walmart is a deal. > > The chipset is SiS for P4 SDRAM Hey, Ollie, where is the > port? > send me lspci -vvv ;-) Ollie ___ Linuxbios mail

Re: Re[2]: Walmart PC from MicroTel

2002-10-03 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 22:45, Christopher Bergeron wrote: > Ollie, since I'm sure you get inundated with requests for all the different > mobo types out there, maybe we can set up a webpage/db that will allow > people to submit the lspci -vvv data along with the motherboard type > and possibly a li

Re: Low performance of the IDE on the SIS550

2002-10-06 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 05:36, Yves Godin wrote: > At 01:24 PM 10/3/02 -0500, you wrote: > >Yves Godin wrote: > > > >>Anyway, with the UDMA mode 2 I should have the performance that I need. I > >>look on header of the ide connector and the burst when writing seems to > >>be quick anough but betwee

Re: Low performance of the IDE on the SIS550

2002-10-07 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 20:37, Yves Godin wrote: > > >Can you contact our marketing/technical support ?? > > I certainly will, but first I need to know what performance > I can expected from the SIS550. I`m in a rush now, I need > to determine this week if the SIS550 will be able to sustain > 10

Re: ??,?: ipl.S of sis735 code compile fail

2002-10-10 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 21:28, David Xiong wrote: > Yes, I am using DoC2001. > But I do not need to use ddr , is there an ipl.S without ddr init code which can be >compiled? > > Thanks! > No. actually, the SDRAM init sequence will be almost as complex as DDR. You have identical register set to

Re: strange error on sis900 ethernet

2002-10-14 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 22:30, zhu shi song wrote: > I met one strange error on sis900 ethernet driver. > I'm using cvs freebios on 6 Oct, 2002 , kernel 2.4.17, > mainboard is winfast6300. After booting using > linuxbios stored in DOC, I boot > my host linux system using normal bios. the host > l

Re: LinuxBIOS for MIPS

2002-10-15 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:45, Bari Ari wrote: > > We looked at this a couple years ago for the getting Linux up on the > Mips VR41xx series, but Mips didn't win in the CPU for PDA wars. > Yea, and my Agenda VR3 is literally a brick now. Ollie ___ L

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [PS: Can I somehow tell mailman to accept my email from multiple > addresses?] > > hello > I'm trying to set "bios classic/dos" like state > on the winfast 6300max/sis630 motherboard. > > one of the issues I'm having

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:20, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > I don't quite understand your question, but LinuxBIOS does program > > the PIC to map IRQ 0-15 to INT 0x20-0x30. So the keyboard interrupt > > (IRQ 1) is routed to INT0x21. This is how Linux does for its interrupt > > handling. > > yes, but I'm

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:58, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > Is it possible that your BIOS reprogrammed the keyboard controller > > in the wrong way ?? > > it is possible, in fact it the only unchecked list on my To Check > List: > PIC not getting (re) programmed CHECK > PIC interrupt

Re: 810LMR LinuxBIOS setup

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:43, James Alton wrote: > Hello again, > > I had previously written about which BIOS chip to use, I am wondering > now if video and sound will work on the 810LR. I have examined the CVS > code and it seems that it doesn't really do anything but set up irq > tables for vid/s

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:58, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > Is it possible that your BIOS reprogrammed the keyboard controller > > in the wrong way ?? > > it is possible, in fact it the only unchecked list on my To Check > List: > PIC not getting (re) programmed CHECK > PIC interrupt

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:23, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > Some part of it comes form old sample code by our BIOS guy. Most of it > > from "The undocumented PC" by Van Gilluwe. > > sigh. I hoped for a datascheet. > > so there's no a definite reference then? > It is legacy device which remain unchang

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:53, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > should we put that better version of keyboard init into linuxbios? > > ron > The code was used to debug one of our customer's prototype which wired Keyboard and Mouse signal. I have no idea why I didn't commit it to freebios cvs at that time

Re: more gcc

2002-10-20 Thread ollie lho
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 01:55, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > gcc ... -o mptable.o > >/home/rminnich/src/linuxbios-p4dpr-1.0.0.8/freebios/src/mainboard/supermicro/p4dpe/mptable.c > >/home/rminnich/src/linuxbios-p4dpr-1.0.0.8/freebios/src/mainboard/supermicro/p4dpe/mptable.c:106:22: > warning: multi-line

Re: How to set irq_tables.c if a pci-to-pci bridge needed

2002-10-28 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, David Xiong wrote: > Hello, > The irq_tables.c dumped from normal BIOS only have information about the pci bus 0. > I have a multimedia card which has a pci-to-pci bridge on itself. There are 2 pci >devices > on that card. So the two devices locate at bus 2. The slot_n

Re: 答复: How to set irq_tables.c if apci-to-pci bridge needed

2002-10-28 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:14, David Xiong wrote: > >Did you recalculate the checksum ?? > Yes, the checksum has been recalculated. > > >Where did you get the idea to set the the table like this? > I do not know how the irqs routed. So I guess I can set the irq table. It is >intresting that th

Re: LTSP + LinuxBios

2002-10-29 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:23, Andrew Ip wrote: > > > So andrew I know you have lots of spare time but can you give me a hint of > > what you did for LTSP? etherboot? > I have got the some rom images in > ftp://pub/downloads/linuxbios-sdk/images/romimages > You also need an elf kernel with sis_lite

Re: LTSP + LinuxBios

2002-10-29 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:01, Andrew Ip wrote: > Ollie, > > > What kind of video problem ?? > messed up screen > http://www.cwlinux.com/~aip/pub > O.K. that one. Do you have any idea how does the problem magically disappear "in recent kernel" ?? Ollie __

Re: smartcore PIII is up; G2 & G4 efforts started.

2002-10-30 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:46, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > On another note, we have several folks starting G2 and G4 work. Just FYI. > Cool, are you working on an off the shelf MAC ?? Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cl

Re: m758lmr+ motherboard

2002-11-03 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 17:14, James Alton wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the pcchips m758lmr+ motherboard. I have browsed through the > CVS code, and I see that it loads up support for the SiS630s chipset. > Also, on the board though, there is a IT8705F (from ITE) which acts as a > superio and therm

Re: can't identify celeron 850

2002-11-03 Thread ollie lho
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:52, zhu shi song wrote: > Hi, > I'm using freebios-cvs , linux-kernel 2.4.18, > mainboard winfast6300, When I use celeron 766, linux > booted by linuxbios can identify it correctly, but > when > I change cpu to celeron 850, linux can't identify it, > dmsg info show t

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-04 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 02:28, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On 4 Nov 2002, James Alton wrote: > > > It seems that your 850mhz celeron chip should be running at a 100Mhz bus > > (8.5x clock multiplier. 8.5*100mhz = 850Mhz) instead, you are feeding it > > 66Mhz. (8.5*66 = 560Mhz) You can fix this by tal

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 13:33, zhu shi song wrote: > I got setclock from old mailing lists. Can you give > more comments on the program? If I'll use it to boot > 850Mhz celeron, what should i do ? >zhu You can't use the program to boot to 850Mhz, you have to boot to linux, run the program with

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 21:01, zhu shi song wrote: > Do you have quick and clear solution of the problem? I > hope I can use my celeron 850 asap. > I don't know what parameter I should pass to setclock > , and I can't find clock gen info from leadtek or sis > website. Can you give me direct clues?

Re: linux bios kernel for m758lmr+

2002-11-06 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:41, James Alton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get *any* linux kernel to compile for the m758lmr+ > motherboard and disk on chip millenium. I tried 2.4.7, 2.4.17, and > 2.4.19, but none of them compiled. I even tried messing with the code > and fixing it up, but still am u

Re: kernel image size

2002-11-07 Thread ollie lho
--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:49, Tyson D Sawyer wrote: > I'm not sure that uC-Linux can't get that small. You loose some > features bu it might be worth checking. > > http://www.uclinux.org/ > > I don't know the details or how current this info is but from the "What > is p

Re: P6STMT

2002-11-12 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 19:37, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > does anyone here runs P6STMT mbo by EliteGroup? > > Here are some sample urls to the MBO: > > http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/p6stmt.htm > > http://www.amptron.com/html/P6STMT.html > > http://www.icuepc

Re: [COMMIT] pirq_routing.c

2002-11-14 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:11, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > I get this now. So in other words, it is not getting copied, but the > kernel is finding the table in FLASH since it is uncompressed. Now I > wonder why linuxbios would try to copy to f, since that is a FLASH > area. I think it is because

Re: [COMMIT] pirq_routing.c

2002-11-14 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:13, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Andrew Ip wrote: > > > These problem doesn't happen to winfast 6300. > > Hmm, the copy to 0xf succeeds on the winfast? > > I wish I had all of the motherboards we support in a lab for regression > tests. Oh well.

Re: Reversing the default value of CONFIG_COMPRESS from 1 to 0

2002-11-18 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:50, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Kevin Hester wrote: > > > Anyone have a problem with me moving statically generated PIRQ tables from > > the compressed section to the uncompressed session? > > I've thought about this, but in the long term we don't wan

Re: Reversing the default value of CONFIG_COMPRESS from 1 to 0

2002-11-18 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 05:25, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Eric, how much heartburn is there if we set the default value of > > CONFIG_COMPRESS to 0? > > > > I've just hit another platform where it is trouble. At this point I > > believe there

Re: booting elf from ROM

2002-11-19 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 12:56, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > I've managed to get all the way to jmp_to_elf_entry(), but I have run in to a > snag in the assembly code which copies LinuxBIOS in to high memory and then > attempts to continue execution up there. > > At line 130 of arch/i386/boot/boot.c t

Re: Reversing the default value of CONFIG_COMPRESS from 1 to 0

2002-11-19 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:01, ollie lho wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 05:25, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > "Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Eric, how much heartburn is there if we set the default value of > > > CONFIG_C

Re: ADLO committed

2002-11-24 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:08, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > These are the sources from Adam Agnew and Adam Sulmicki that let you boot > OpenBSD, Windows, etc. > Is there any HOWTO on this ?? Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: Question regarding instructions...

2002-11-28 Thread ollie lho
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 14:41, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > > > That is the device. It says on it: > AWARD > copy 1998 > PCI/PNP 586 > 230085332 > You should remove the label on the chip and you can see the real part number of it. It has nothing with any keywords like "AWARD". > I really don't thin

Re: Order of Execution

2002-12-12 Thread ollie lho
hbridge.c and southbridge.c are low priority and used mainly use to fix up some bug/configuration problem. Generally, the mainborad.c is empty and trivial unless your mainboard has some other bugs to fix. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linu

RE: Order of Execution

2002-12-15 Thread ollie lho
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 15:45, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > > The very first instructions are in ipl.S for SiS chipsets. These codes > > are used to initialize the DRAM and some other (highly) critical > > registers in north/south bridge. > > > >ollie lho

Re: inicialization sequence for SIS 630 VGA graphics

2003-01-08 Thread ollie lho
kernel_patch directory. The real init sequence is a little bit complicated and you generally need some NDA document to get the whole picture. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.or

Re: DDR SDRAM Initialization.

2003-01-12 Thread ollie lho
SDR and 635/ipl.S which support DDR. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Wow! A hole in linuxbios PCI mastery setup?

2003-01-13 Thread ollie lho
way for the bus master devices behind it to work properly. Those devices does not have both "pio" and "dma" modes generally. > Does anyone have a copy of the $$$ PCI architecture spec so they can check > this? My PCI System Architecture book is vague on the topic. > Th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mkelfImage 2.0

2003-01-13 Thread ollie lho
ly the C implementation is > much easier than the perl. Plus C is fast :) Eric, Something off topic, the elfImage made by mkelfImage 1.1x can not be recognized by 'objdump' but can be dumped by 'readelf'. Is there any re

Re: Re:Re:Re:Re: rtl8139 NIC IRQ is 0 on m758lmr+ mainboard

2003-02-11 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi,ron, > > >oh, wait, is this 2.2 kernel? I forget now. > > Yes. The kernel version is 2.2.14. > > Thanks. > I don't think the 2.2.x kernel can set up IRQs correctly. Can you try 2.4.x kernel first ?

Re: Re:Re: rtl8139 NIC IRQ is 0 on m758lmr+ mainboard

2003-02-12 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does your mainboad support APIC? > > I think that if The SMP kernel is ok,the mainboard must support APIC. > If the mainboad doesn't support APIC,maybe the kernel need support IRQ route table. > But the 2.2.x kernel doesn't support parsi

Re: ecs k7som + other supported chipsets

2003-02-12 Thread ollie lho
io ?? SiS 740 has AC97 controller similar to i810's. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Re:Re: Re:Re:Re:Re: rtl8139 NIC IRQ is 0 on m758lmr+ mainboard

2003-02-12 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I don't think the 2.2.x kernel can set up IRQs correctly. Can you try > >2.4.x kernel first ? > >ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have tried 2.4.17 kernel,solt1 and solt2 can work normally. >

Re: parallel port and joyport

2003-02-14 Thread ollie lho
os. You have to program it by yourself. Try download datasheet of ITE 8705 first. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: FW: Re:Re: Re:Re:Re:Re: rtl8139 NIC IRQ is 0 on m758lmr+mainboard

2003-02-13 Thread ollie lho
they rewired things. > > > >I don't use these chipsets right now so I am not much help, sorry. > > > >ron > > Could you tell me the difference between sis630 and sis630e chipset? > No difference in the

Re: via epia, pchips 787cl+

2003-02-18 Thread ollie lho
gt; that chipset. That's confusing. Is sis630e supported, or is it not? > SiS 630e is exactly the same as SiS 630 from SW point of view. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: How to initialize USB controller in LinuxBios?

2003-02-20 Thread ollie lho
B controller does not require IP address space, it uses MMIO address space which is called non-prefetchable memory in PCI spec. The controller does not need any special init stuff. I don't think USB is supported by 2.2.x kernel neither. Why do you insist using 2.2.x kernel ? -- ollie lho <

Re: Re:Re: How to initialize USB controller in LinuxBios?

2003-02-20 Thread ollie lho
other boxes(not sis630e chipset),instead of non-prefetchable memory? > Either the BIOS or the HW is buggy. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

2003-02-19 Thread ollie lho
am sorry for that. We don't have any 730 or 730 boards around so I can not do regression test on that. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: SiS630 flash_rom & various flash parts

2003-02-23 Thread ollie lho
7;d like to use that > part if possible. I hope it is electrically compatible with the > SST29EE020 and EON EN29F002NT? > I am sorry that I can't do it for the moment. Programming EEPROM needs a little bit of trial and error. You

Re: Getting a small cluster running - PC-Chips 810

2003-02-24 Thread ollie lho
c.html which has ddr, but I > don't think it is supported at the moment. Ollie, do you have any info about > this board which is using 730D chipset. > I don't think there is officially a thing called 730D. Judge for the web page, I guess it is a 'remarked', '

Re: SMA_SIZE and IDE_BOOT_DRIVE on pcchips810

2003-03-13 Thread ollie lho
> Interesting. But, I was asking to myself... how much time does the > hard-disk need to spin-up? I've made few tests and it seems quite fast, > only few seconds. How much time is it possible to gain with a CF ide > device? I have a small CF card, I should buy the C

Re: Re[2]: SiS630 Software Watchdog Timer

2003-03-17 Thread ollie lho
d re-read it, but if anyone knows the way already, I'd > appreciate showing it to me. > Search the keyword DISABLE_INTERNAL_DEVICE or something in the source. Try writing different value (bit patterns) to the register 0x7c (not so sure ??) in southbridge. It is undocumented.

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software WatchdogTimer)

2003-03-18 Thread ollie lho
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:07, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > can we get a second sis 630 person to test this? Just for double check. > > I don't have sis 630 any more :-( > I don't have any more neither :~(. Adrew, can you test it ? -- ollie

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software WatchdogTimer)

2003-03-19 Thread ollie lho
would like to have the LinuxBIOS > code that uses the CMOS written in C, however. How late in the boot > process can you enable/disable this hardware and have it work correctly? > Before PCI enumeration. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software WatchdogTimer)

2003-03-19 Thread ollie lho
/MB too ??). I think we should come up with our own standard. -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Why cann't I read SPD for SiS 745 chipset?

2003-03-27 Thread ollie lho
me to fix the problem ? do you have the register spec for 745 ? What program do you use to read the SPD ? -- ollie lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: AMD SC520

2003-06-16 Thread ollie lho
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:06, ron minnich wrote: > I'm starting a port. Anyone with info on this part that could be helpful > let me know. > > I'm doing this on my own time to help support: http://psas.pdx.edu. > Are they building their own private rockets ? -- ol

RE: DIP / PLCC

2003-07-06 Thread ollie lho
hat these chips have capacities of 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 40, 72 MByte!!! > AKIAK, DoC doesn't come with PLCC package. This is the main reason we don't like a mb with PLCC socket. I may be wrong but doesn't epia-m come with 2 sockets one for Flash the other for

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