Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Smith
ron minnich wrote: no, that is our asus cua support. But, yes, ipl for a 440bx is going to REALLY be hard. If he needs to read the spd to get the DIMM settings I'd guess its not going to happen. There's 512 bytes of code just in all the necesary PCI_CONFIG_WRITE macros alone much less reading

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-11 Thread ron minnich
On 11 Jun 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > docipl /path/to/src/mainboard/asus/cua/ipl.S > > But note that is for a sis630 chipset. no, that is our asus cua support. But, yes, ipl for a 440bx is going to REALLY be hard. kron ___ Linuxbios mailing

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-11 Thread ron minnich
On 10 Jun 2003, roger wrote: > One additional question, if HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=0, there still is console > activity on the monitor right? (-i think i'm interpretting this > correctly-). depends on the type of mainboard. Mostly, no. ron ___ Linuxbios mai

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok. > > docipl /path/to/src/mainboard/asus/cua/ipl.S But note that is for a sis630 chipset. ipl.S must enable memory or there is no room to put LinuxBIOS, and enabling memory is 512 bytes is a very challenging problem. You can probably manage it if you are j

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-11 Thread roger
ok. docipl /path/to/src/mainboard/asus/cua/ipl.S and Python configure made the Makefiles, however dd fails with a negative number with "docipl" in the config file. So i'm doing this seperately and copying the created dociple to another folder and then re-running the configure/make without the "d

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-10 Thread roger
Just a quick follow-up. I noticed that I had to add the following line in the config file: docipl /pathto/ipl.S ok. now for ipl.S (for a 440BX chipset?) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

doc ipl image

2003-06-10 Thread roger
ok. wew. searched, read, reboots (did this in a loop for 10x's). i've gotten p5 images built and have been able to recognize and write to the DoC (many thanx to a kernel oops w/ devbios project and it's apperant incompatability with apm). After erasing the DoC, I'm realizing that I need an ipl i