memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-24 Thread Niki Waibel
i use a 512MByte mem module in the epia-m 600mhz and linuxbios sayes: === totalram: 127M === i modified src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c === diff -u -N -r freebios-20030924.old/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/northbridge.c freebios-20030924/src/northbridge/via/vt8623/north bridg e.c --- freebi

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Niki, I was looking at this as well and I think there may be a couple of problems here. The first is that I think the comments in the code may be a bit misleading (apologies to the original author!) AIUI the registers at 0x56 and 0x57 (and 0x5E and 0x5F as well) should be set to the same v

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread Niki Waibel
hi ian, > The first is that I think the comments in the code may be a bit misleading > (apologies to the original author!) > > AIUI the registers at 0x56 and 0x57 (and 0x5E and 0x5F as well) should be > set to the same value as 0x5D i.e. the DRAM ending address for your highest > populated ban

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Smith
Niki Waibel wrote: hi ian, The first is that I think the comments in the code may be a bit misleading (apologies to the original author!) AIUI the registers at 0x56 and 0x57 (and 0x5E and 0x5F as well) should be set to the same value as 0x5D i.e. the DRAM ending address for your highest pop

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ian Smith wrote: > Blows a hole in my theory about the 128MB being detected sorry, but those registers you are mentioning have *zero* impact on size detection. That's not what's going on here. Size detect is via SPD. We wrote a lot of that code here 3 years ago, and it

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew Ip
Hi Ron, > The right thing to do here is cut to freebios2 ASAP and write all this in > C. It's just too hard in assembly. Is there any platform has been ported to freebios2 besides AMD64? Any porting guide for that? Is it as easy as running buildtarget to generate the build directory? -Andrew

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Andrew Ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030925 16:03]: > > The right thing to do here is cut to freebios2 ASAP and write all this in > > C. It's just too hard in assembly. > Is there any platform has been ported to freebios2 besides AMD64? Any Some PPC machines are supported as well. > porting guide

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread ron minnich
Let's just start. Andrew, I will try to populate a skeleton epia directory in freebios2, and we can start filling it in. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread SONE Takeshi
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:40:06AM -0600, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Blows a hole in my theory about the 128MB being detected > > sorry, but those registers you are mentioning have *zero* impact on size > detection. That's not what's going on here. Size

Re: memory epia-m 127M != 512M

2003-09-25 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: > EPIA and EPIA-M are two totally different boards (different chipsets, > etc). stupid ofme. I got mixed up because so many of the registers are the same. > So, please open a epia-m directory, instead of epia, in the freebios2 > tree. I'm going to do bot