Re: pirq checking

2004-06-03 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040603 17:23]: the current pirq code defines intel_irq_routing_table as const, thus making it potentially readonly. should be const due to execute-in-place issues. What's the benefit in this case? we have

Re: testbios and the system timer

2004-06-03 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Richard Smith wrote: Yes. I think it would. Got any ideas on the implementation? I'm ready to try an implement this. in the main loop for instruction decode there is a single instruction dispatch function. Create a global counter (emulate_counter?) and increment it

Re: testbios and the system timer

2004-06-03 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Richard Smith wrote: This will only skip the jump (and do the BX decrement) if ax is zero. For ax to be zero the result of the 2's complement subtraction must be zero or the when the 2 reads are the same number. But I just don't see how this would happen repeatably at

Re: ACPI DSDT

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: That Intel will be releasing code is new, although there have been some sympathies in that direction. I'm really not interested until they actually release something. Should probably also mention: there's lots of binary in this EFI/Tiano thing. Binary

Re: ACPI DSDT

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: The alpha port worked but it is not something I savor repeating, there were too many real limitations. yes, but by golly we sure got some use out of it! We appreciated your work :-) There are some things that I find strongly architecturally

Re: Magazine article on USB and Embedded systems

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
I think that these experiences only strengthen my feeling that we want linux in there as the bios. We're going to recreate all that work. Anybody ready to squeeze 2.6 in there? We all want it but nobody has had time yet. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing

Re: : Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Unless you spend days at it you cannot do a good memory check/test. I don't want to wait days while my system boots. A cursory check That verifies the memory doesn't totally suck is ok. But I don't want to see anything that conveys the impression that

Re: testbios info?

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Jay Miller wrote: Can someone post a quick rundown on testbios? I know that you get the vgabios from the card, and run that through testbios. But how do you get linuxbios to use the results? linuxbios does not use testbios yet. You run testbios under linux. Sorry, this

Re: LinuxBIOS available for Asus A7N8X

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
what's the chipset? send lspci. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [Fwd: Re: Linuxbios and Linspire laptop]

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: One thing that is generally good about ACPI (well in some sense) is that it is free of callbacks, which I often hear as a disadvantage of Open Firmware's interface. (While dropping callbacks in OF is just a matter of directly providing the FCode

Re: : : Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, YhLu wrote: So need to use memtest to test memory? don't test it at all. Just use it, the kernel will find the problems more effectively than memtest will. Besides many problems only occur after the system has been on for a while. ron

Re: LinuxBIOS available for Asus A7N8X

2004-06-02 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, backblue wrote: One of my boards are like that one, chipset it's nforce2. no luck. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Chipsets: status page?

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joshua Wise wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read the FAQ looking for information on chipsets supported in LinuxBIOS, and it pointed me towards the status page, however I can only find information about mainboards on that page. Am I looking in

Re: Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: There are a couple of short term hacks that I can do with relocating memory but on the Opteron the more memory I add the more problems I run into. And moving BARS above 4G looks like the right term fix. Any objections? How are we going to cover the

Re: Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
just FYI, making BARS live above the 32-bit limit will break every single linux cluster here at LANL, and will also disable Plan 9. With BARS under the 32-bit limit, you can boot anything. With BARS above that limit, you immediately limit what you can boot. I think what really ought to happen

Re: [Fwd: Re: Linuxbios and Linspire laptop]

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
word from someone who knows that acpi tables have many errors. Windows drivers work around the bugs in acpi tables. Linux follows the spec closely, hence the problems people see with linux+acpi. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Linuxbios and Linspire laptop]

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
lindows/linspire never got back to me re a laptop port. no interest at their end. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: ACPI DSDT

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
or you can translate the acpi tables to Something Else (e.g. e-expressions -- it works) and use that instead. acpi is a big problem, partly due to the binary nature and partly because it is so broken on so many platforms. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing

Re: MSI 694t pro supported?

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Ben Johnson wrote: :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) I don't believe we support this one. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large mmio resources and 4G+ of RAM...

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On 1 Jun 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just FYI, making BARS live above the 32-bit limit will break every single linux cluster here at LANL, and will also disable Plan 9. Only for the hardware where the BARs move. guess I missed something

Re: ACPI DSDT

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Speaking of ACPI and problems, which are commented on in this article, is this Intel announcement of open sourcing the BIOS something new? http://news.com.com/Intel+to+open+code+for+booting+up+PCs%2C+servers/2100-7337_3-5223860.html?tag=nefd.top

Re: ACPI DSDT

2004-06-01 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Bari Ari wrote: Here's the official Intel statement: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20040601corp_a.htm gee, no mention of linuxbios :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-28 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: indeed true. But for x86 hardware, putting all of the x86 emulator in rom is less elegant than vm86 stuff, even though I have no clue about the later. yes but recall that the emulator lets you support systems like power pc. ron

Re: Testbios works for ATI too !!!

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Richard Smith wrote: I don't suppose there is a way to use testbios with a system having 2 video cards is there? the spec says that you can call a card bios with a devfn and it should all work. Not all cards work however as their bios is brain-dead. ron

Re: : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
now we need usb output. The HP node we got has no serial port! ouch! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: It seems that the resource allocation for option rom is not implemented in LinuxBIOS, is it ? Is there one have any idea how to add this ? When I borrowed that code originally from linux I believe it always disabled option roms. You should be able to

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040527 22:49]: Also, the graphics card option roms are usually hardcoded to 0xc Do you mean the expansion rom BAR is hard coded to 0xc ? The how does the bios copy the bios in ROM at 0xc to memory

Re: : : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, YhLu wrote: Usb to serial ??? yes, it's now needed :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On 27 May 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Be very careful here. The PCI spec allows the option rom BAR to be mutually exclusive with the other BARS so in general they both can not be enabled. should not matter if you are running an emulator. ron

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: This procedure should be a part of testbios rather than LinuxBIOS' PCI code, but reserving some space for it early might be the way to go indeed. just remember you're in an emulator. If you can get option rom contents copied out then the emulator

Re: Resource Allocation for Option Rom

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Do you mean the expansion rom BAR is hard coded to 0xc ? it's not. It can be anywhere. For dumping vgabios I would actually set it by setpci to an unused place, mmap /dev/mem, and dump it out. It can go anywhere. ron

Re: Lbcc tool

2004-05-24 Thread ron minnich
I will try this tool and if it looks good perhaps we can put it into freebios2/util/lbcc ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: : AGP VGA support committed

2004-05-24 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 24 May 2004, YhLu wrote: Does the emulator works with ATI vgabios? not yet, this is due to the long-standing INT 10 problem That fix is on our to-do list. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 256MB or 512MB on EPIA-M

2004-05-20 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 20 May 2004, M. Renee Hopkins wrote: Does anyone have ideas about modifications to support higher DDR RAM than 128MB? V2. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Config.lb language

2004-05-18 Thread ron minnich
On 18 May 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: I'am looking for a while to set a new options in Config.lb to test my V2 VGABIOS code : i need VGABIOS_START options and ZKERNEL START also, theses are deprecated in V2. Is the config python script openned to user's new entries ? you don't need these

Content violation (fwd)

2004-05-18 Thread ron minnich
Don't let your stupid virus scanner do this :-) if you can imagine ... the word free in the subject is lo longer allowed at some sites. ron -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:18:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Content violation

RE: Content violation (fwd)

2004-05-18 Thread ron minnich
even better. I get this bounce all the time. And no, the whitelist registration did not work at all :-) ron -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:00:23 +02120 (MEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Content violation (fwd) Absender/Sender:

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working ...

2004-05-17 Thread ron minnich
On 17 May 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122 write_protect_vgabios 0x55 0xaa 0x70 0xe9 0xfc 0x7f 0x8b 0x1b 0x34 0xde 0xca 0x83 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 bus/ that means it is ok. ___

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: There's a potential hint in src/arch/i386/lib/idt.c:biosint(): // cases in a good compiler are just as good as your own tables. switch (intnumber) { case 0 ... 15: [..] #ifdef CONFIG_PCIBIOS case

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: 1. I can't get VGA to work. I've extracted it from a original-bios booted system with dd if=/proc/kcore of=video.bios.bin bs=1 count=65536 skip=790528 and then appended it to my filo payload like the HOWTO says I've to do, and modified the

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-16 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 b8? Anybody know what that one is? ron

Re: Hibernation?

2004-05-14 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 14 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any work been done toward the goal of Hibernation? It would sure be nice if you would do it ... you would be very popular! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hibernation?

2004-05-14 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 14 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, would something like this be contained in a payload? you could save the entire state of the physical memeory as an elf ... but what about swap? Should be ok ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Hibernation?

2004-05-14 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 14 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more question. To do this effectively we'll need a hook into running a BIOS process from inside the OS (trigger to save state and shutdown.) How difficult is this to do? don't assume anything. To do this effectively you need a hook into

Re: About EPIA-M Frambuffer + VGA on V2 status

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On 13 May 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: hum i see ... but didn't we got native LinuxBIOS VGA up on EPIA-M ? on V1 not V2. It works fine on V1. But ram detection on V1 is not working. You only get one size ram. I should drawback to do it vga bios way ... need to push 1x LB base start

Re: Making payloads

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: Oops, I forgot to mention Stefan's patch for FILO to make IDE work on the S2885. I think this is the one: http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2003-October/005753.html can we get this put back into filo? ron

Fix for multiple superios of same type

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
I just committed the fix Richard Smith needed. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: About EPIA-M Frambuffer + VGA on V2 status

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
I'm not going to get too look at -M for another 10 days. But we'd like to get that up under V2 with graphics. Also I have no docs from VIA yet. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RE: S2885 Uni-processor image

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Jay Miller wrote: Also, once I get fully up to speed let me know if I can help in anyway. I believe in giving back, so if I can write a newbie HOWTO or something, let me know. we always love these ... :-) ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: flash_rom with exclude range

2004-05-13 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: PS. Don't forget that you can commit on Sourceforge now :) yeah but we should have a few more eyes on it BEFORE commit. thanks ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: S2885 Uni-processor image

2004-05-12 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Jay Miller wrote: My S2885 board is only uni-processor, so I modified the follow options: option CONFIG_MAX_CPUS=1 option CONFIG_LOGICAL_CPUS=0 option CONFIG_MAX_PHYSICAL_CPUS=1 But the static.c that is generated still enumerates two CPUs. What else do I need to do

Re: Using DATA I/O to burn flash

2004-05-11 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Jay Miller wrote: What format is this image? it's a raw set of bytes. It's an image. Has anyone used this type of burner to flash their BIOS chips? yes, it works fine. I used to do it all the time. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: LinuxBIOS for HDAMA not building

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Craig C Forney wrote: Is the current source tree in an unstable state? Or is my build environment screwed up? I guess somebody busted something, let me try it ... well, can't get to it just now. Hold on and let me get back to you. ron

Re: Pleased experienced on EPIA : Linuxbios runs,but smbus errors, no normal rom starting, payload making difficulties

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
you're still not setting up your elfimage correctly somehow, but I can't tell how. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Where to find freebios2 info?

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
no real kernel patches needed any more. We use FILO and it brings up the IDE just fine, etherboot works well too. Go to freebios.sourceforge.net to find the source tree. To check it out: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/freebios login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL

OOPS ...

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
Ollie, you busted the tree, I think. can you fix? /rminnich/src/bios/freebios2/src/mainboard/arima/hdama' -DMAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER='HDAMA' -DMAINBOARD_VENDOR='ARIMA' -DCONFIG_SMP='1' -DCONFIG_MAX_CPUS='2' -DCONFIG_MAX_PHYSICAL_CPUS='2' -DCONFIG_LOGICAL_CPUS='0' -DCONFIG_IDE_STREAM='0'

RE: Where to find freebios2 info?

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jay Miller wrote: /home/jmiller/freebios2/src/southbridge/amd/amd8111/amd8111_lpc.c: In function `lpc_init': /home/jmiller/freebios2/src/southbridge/amd/amd8111/amd8111_lpc.c:153: warning: implicit declaration of function `isa_dma_init'

people at amcc.com

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
your spam filter needs fixin'. it will reject any email on subject such as freebios, freebsd, etc. see below. It figures it's a symantec filter. ron -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:27:49 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Content

Re: TS-5300 Support

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jacob Alifrangis (LISTS) wrote: Is there any support in the tree for a Technologic Systems TS-5x00 board. This looks like an SC 520 board?. Is it? If so I'm VERY interested, but only if flash is removable. Can you find out? Which one of these are you using. If it does

Re: Hardware compatibility lists

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jacob Alifrangis (LISTS) wrote: I would like to help cleanup the 'supported systems' list on the website and update it. that's actually not the problem. The problem is automating unit testing. The supported systems is driven by a script already. People don't always

Re: TS-5300 Support

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bari Ari wrote: They all look like AMD Elan based boards. I don't think anyone ever tried to get them up, but all the specs to do so are at: http://www.amd.com/epd/processors/4.32bitcont/14.lan5xxfam/24.lansc520/ I have an sc520 board, but the flash part is

RE: TS-5300 Support

2004-05-10 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jacob Alifrangis (LISTS) wrote: The uboot project has amd elan support already. yep. We can use some of that code too. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: V1 2 superio chips of the same type

2004-05-07 Thread ron minnich
I will try to fix v1 config tool today. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-07 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Flavio Tobias wrote: How can I boot and run Linux from a PenDrive or CompactFlash or other kind of flash memory device? sure. How can I do that? you'll have to hope somebody here can show you. There is some documentation about this? our docs are terrible. There

Re: Diskless Windows??

2004-05-06 Thread ron minnich
the way I would want to do diskless windows is under vmware, I would never trust it otherwise. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: V1 2 superio chips of the same type

2004-05-06 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Richard Smith wrote: How do I specify 2 superios in V1 that are the same chip only different pnp bases using nsuperio? here's how it should work (example, two same part at 0x370 and 0x3f0): nsuperio SMC/fdc37b72x com1={1} port=0x370 nsuperio SMC/fdc37b72x com1={1}

Re: V1 2 superio chips of the same type

2004-05-06 Thread ron minnich
bug. I screwed up. I'll try to see how to fix this. It will take me a bit but I think it is easy, I did handle this in V2. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 4 May 2004, YhLu wrote: I'm going to add several lines in amd8111_enable of amd8111.c to disable USB2 in amd8111. /* disable usb2 in amd 8111 because it does not work awlays*/ byte = pci_read_config8(lpc_dev, 0x47); byte |= (17);

Re: Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 5 May 2004, ron minnich wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2004, YhLu wrote: I'm going to add several lines in amd8111_enable of amd8111.c to disable USB2 in amd8111. /* disable usb2 in amd 8111 because it does not work awlays*/ byte = pci_read_config8(lpc_dev, 0x47

Re: Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 23:26, YhLu wrote: Ron, I'm going to add several lines in amd8111_enable of amd8111.c to disable USB2 in amd8111. /* disable usb2 in amd 8111 because it does not work awlays*/ byte =

Re: : Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 5 May 2004, YhLu wrote: According to AMD, USB 2 in amd8111 will never work. well, that's certainly interesting. If AMD is certain about that, and no one else objects, I remove any concerns I have about this code. But please put in a more informative comment such as will never work

Re: : : Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 5 May 2004, YhLu wrote: I change my mind, disable that in Config.lb is better and less code. good! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: : : : Disable USB2 in AMD8111 and remove ide hardcode io addr

2004-05-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 5 May 2004, YhLu wrote: If I changed config.lb PCI 1:0.2 on -- PCI 1:0.2 off The PCI 1:0.0 and PCI 1:0.1 will be disabled together. According to AMD 8111 data sheet, LPC 0x48, only can be disabled the device in second bus by device num, and the three USB share one device number.

Re: LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-05-03 Thread ron minnich
we are working on putting the emulator into linuxbios as an optional component. Once this is done, I think the prognosis is good. We've gotten distracted by fixing other things needed to support the emulator. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Non-x86 Video

2004-05-03 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Bari Ari wrote: What will be needed to run video on non-x86? The oem videoBIOS plus an 8086 emulator for when videoBIOS calls are made? we don't plan to support videoBIOS calls, just plan to support enabling the hardware. ron video application -

Re: LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-05-03 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Richard Smith wrote: ron minnich wrote: we are working on putting the emulator into linuxbios as an optional component. Once this is done, I think the prognosis is good. We've gotten distracted by fixing other things needed to support the emulator. My tests

Re: Non-x86 Video

2004-05-03 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Bari Ari wrote: I know this is going beyond Ron's plan. Let's say there is source for an XFree86 driver for a graphics device with all the 3-D and Zoom port support. I haven't looked at the emulator yet. Using the 8086 emulator would this support fb driver only? or would

Re: LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-04-29 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Last time I check, the ATI vgabios wanted to install int 0x10 handler and call into itself via int 0x10. The emulator can't do this yet. Right, I had forgotten this problem. Silly VGA BIOS. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: SMBus and HW monitor

2004-04-28 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Li-Ta Lo wrote: You copied some smbus and hw monitor code from hdama to e325. Are they correct on this board ? Is the hardware the same across those k8 boards ? Should we move it to some shared directory ? I have no clue. Sorry. I just don't know what's on that damned

Re: : LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-04-28 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: I wonder if we can enable framebuffer for add on display card so we can get output from crt via btext console. it's going to happen. First we have to resolve issues with the k8 and linuxbios. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-04-28 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Langlois Evan wrote: What are the chances of this working on the Tyan S2875S ? Possible with an ATI Radeon card instead of GeForce (assuming the same tricks work on both). It should work fine since the approach we take is 8086 emulation to support the bios. And does

Re: LinuxBIOS Video?

2004-04-28 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: We haven't had any success with Radeon cards in LinuxBIOS in our lab, though Ollie Lho might have some more information on that for you. oops. I didn't realize we had trouble with them. oh well. ron

Re: EPIA-M startup times

2004-04-27 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Dmitry Borisov wrote: ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload. yikes! I think it is time to revive Ollie's serial post + tsc, which for some reason went away. That's nuts. 7 secs to go to splash. Which seems to be really high values. Does anyone can say what it

Re: : Etherboot 5.2.4 + btext console + filo patch

2004-04-27 Thread ron minnich
On 27 Apr 2004, Peter Lister wrote: My suggestion is to consider managing FILO as part of the Etherboot tree - Etherboot already has an IDE disk driver, which predates FILO, IIRC. The two projects are obvious complements. Also, I'd bet that an integrated set of net / disk / flash device

re: Etherboot 5.2.4 + btext console + filo patch

2004-04-27 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: To me filo is just like enhancement to Etherboot ide_disk.zelf. but it is more smart that it can understand file system and boot linux/initrd instead of elf. good point. Seems like pinging the etherboot guys is a good idea! ron

Re: ATI rage xl.init

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: Devices with bus master set are allowed to DMA into main memory whenever they feel like it so it is dangerous to enable that bit indiscriminately. -- If at all, it should be done with careful checking. Here is a possible scenario. You are in

Re: tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
I think with Stefan's last set of patches we're missing some cvs adds? Stefan? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: amd opteron dram controller

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
is this with linuxbios? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: If you need to use it, I send you pre-built image, because I can not publish the source code of lsi_scsi. LSI don¡¯t want to. grr. Is there a ROM BIOS for it? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
I just commented out the #dir ../ entry in mainboard/tyan/s2880/Config.lb and the buildtarget seems ok. I will commit. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: : : tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: When enabling lsi_scsi support, It need leave 48k in the BIOS ROM for lsi_scsi fw. So need to change normal mode ROM_SIZE to 512k-48k. OK, BTW you can do this: option ROM_SIZE = 512*1024 - 48*1024 which is not as readable as 512k-48k, but is pretty

Re: : tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: Don't forget 2. otherwise the final image will short some. What should it be? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: : : : tyan s2880 build broken?

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: When I using the new config to deal with it, the tool seems doesn¡¯t support expression. I will check that in current config tool. it supports the expression, it just gets it wrong. Sorry. Another bug! ron ___

Re: amd opteron dram controller

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On 26 Apr 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: It does not sound like it as we already handle these issues. just wanted to make sure :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: PVR with LinuxBIOS. What board is recommended? Some questions

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Peter Stuge wrote: My humble suggestion would be to try to find a suitable EPIA board and use LinuxBIOS with FILO as the payload, and use a CF+IDE-adapter for kernel and system storage. I haven't done any work to support the suggestion, but still it seems and feels like

Re: : Etherboot 5.2.4 + btext console + filo patch

2004-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, YhLu wrote: Do you need to create contrib or payload dir to put such kind of patch. I think this has come up. I hate like heck to think about putting a fork of Etherboot in the linuxbios tree. It just seems like a bad idea. I think we need to figure out what about it

Re: ATI rage xl.init

2004-04-25 Thread ron minnich
stefan, thanks very much. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RE: ATI rage xl.init

2004-04-25 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Yinghai Lu wrote: 8. Sometimes, if you not enable PCI master, the device can not work properly in Linux. But Eric/Ron didn't enable that in PCI main loop, because some devices don't need that. because it is a bad idea to do this. The Linux driver should do this,

Re: Open bios dev/bios bug report

2004-04-23 Thread ron minnich
On 23 Apr 2004, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: oh I know this quite well. I think I didn't made myself clear enough. Dev/bios opens or intents to open all the flash device of your hardware (that's explains read/write/? MANY bios) , but I wondering if it could opens a DOC, since it's a IDE

Re: : ATI rage xl.init

2004-04-23 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote: The only thing that didn't patch cleanly on my setup was a config file for a Tyan board. Was there anything else that didn't apply cleanly to a CVS tree, Ollie? It might be nice to get that ATi and btext stuff in there quickly since there are

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