Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-14 Thread David Hendricks
Is there a way to save those images of the flash chips somewhere on openbios.org? The images are a great idea, but I'm not sure if hotlinking to other sites is a good idea. I suppose if someone bitches or they take the image down, the wiki can be changed easily as well. On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:24:0

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > Done. "How do I identify the BIOS chip on my mainboard?" ah, I love the wiki. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-11 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks > > like this: > > Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was > invented. > Sorry. No need to apologize. > Anyone who wants to put this

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks > like this: Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was invented. Sorry. Anyone who wants to put this in the FAQ, be my guest :-) ron

RE: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread YhLu
are you sure? It's using type I/II card instead of CF IDE connecter. YH > -Original Message- > From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:41 AM > To: Dave Olsen > Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org > Subject: Re: LinuxBi

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Dave Olsen wrote: > Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > >- flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP. > > It is definitely a QFP Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks like this: PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Pack) http://www.lsilogic.com/

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
Dave, this is *exactly* what I'm looking for. Thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Olsen
Ron, In a previous life I worked with soekris engineering boards which I think might meet your requirements. I don't have one anymore, but according to the picture on the web site is has a removable flash part. It is definitely a QFP and I have booted Linux on this board using there standard

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'd still like to find an elan board that: - has removable flash part - flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP. - has a working bios. This combination seems to be really hard to find! Any pointers? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clusterma

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Randhawa
Hi Stefan! On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:11 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > I attach the dram code I > started to this mail. Hey thanks! > It should go somewhere to northbridge/amd/sc520 > but there is quite some other code missing around it, and it is probably > not really correct. > I see. Well

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robin Randhawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 17:12]: > Hi Stefan. > Thanks for your prompt response. > That would be nice. > > Will look forward to checking out your code. Do let me know when you > would be able to hand it over, Hi Robin, Sorry for not coming back to you earlier. I attach the d

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-02-22 Thread Robin Randhawa
Hi Stefan. Thanks for your prompt response. That would be nice. Will look forward to checking out your code. Do let me know when you would be able to hand it over, Cheers and thanks, Robin On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:58 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >* Robin Randhawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 16:

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-02-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robin Randhawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050222 16:40]: > After a bit of digging around, I've narrowed down my choice of > bootloaders to telios' ALIOS and Linuxbios from you good people. Alios > seems to support only the ELAN SC400 and I am not sure of the existing > Linuxbios support for the ELAN SC