Re: [LinuxBIOS] mcp55 flashrom problem

2007-03-01 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Ward Vandewege wrote: So, you've verified that the image that flashrom reads matches what you can download from the manufacturers website (extracted)? There will often be small differences between those, too. ie. in the DMI area. Flashrom doesn't crash or anything here, and it might just

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel 440bx

2007-03-01 Thread Sven Rebhan
Corey Osgood wrote: So, I commented all the do_ram_commands out (since I can't see the problem with it) and did ram init using pci_write_config16, setting what I know the values should be, and then NOP would not report as being set (and ram still failed). So, I set up a for loop to set NOP

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 28.02.2007 21:53, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote: Other problem is the space, the 2MB BIOS flash is completely full, I removed almost everything from kernel, including printk support. I will apply the LZMA patch in kernel, maybe I will get more space. LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support

Re: [LinuxBIOS] mcp55 flashrom problem

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:15:33AM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: That's odd. flashrom works fine on my DFI LANParty board, with the patch I submitted that adds PCI ID 0x360. Maybe shadowing is enabled only on certain vendors' BIOSes. So, you've verified that the image that flashrom reads

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Developer Docs

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:48:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to make a suggestion. I am a newbie to the LinuxBios world. I love what I have seen so far. I am ok at C, know a little assembly, and would love to contribute to the LinuxBios community. But I am not

Re: [LinuxBIOS] mcp55 flashrom problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:02:55PM -0800, yhlu wrote: what is your Mem conf? 4G or 2G? 2 gigabytes of RAM in this machine. Kernel version? It's the default Gnewsense kernel, which is a slightly modified Ubuntu Dapper 2.6.15 kernel. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free

Re: [LinuxBIOS] mcp55 flashrom problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:40:28AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: Ward Vandewege wrote: So, you've verified that the image that flashrom reads matches what you can download from the manufacturers website (extracted)? There will often be small differences between those, too. ie. in the DMI

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O

2007-03-01 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Lu, Yinghai wrote: In the V2 you need to everyone happy 1. ROMCC: print 2. CAR: a. print b. printk c. print when ram is enabled already d. printk when ram is enabled already c/d are introduced for USBDebug direct, because dbg_info will be in RAM instead of cache..

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Developer Docs

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Casselman
The best way to help might be to help write up documentation. Most people who do far out programming don't like to do documentation. Lack of documentation slows down second wavers like you and me. If you really want to know linuxbios I would suggest you help write some good documentation. You

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Questions about gx2/cs5535/vsa

2007-03-01 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev 01 märts 2007 8:27 am) kirjutas Hao Li: Hi all, I am porting olpc/rev_c which is gx2/cs5536 to gx2/cs5535. I have already had VSA image loaded. But I still get the output below: Finding PCI configuration type. PCI: Sanity check failed pci_check_direct

[LinuxBIOS] VGA on gx2/cs5535??

2007-03-01 Thread lihao
Hi all, My platform is gx2 plus cs5535. I have loaded VSA image. It can boot to payload if I don't add VGA support. Now I want to add VGA, do I need to make a VGA image from Linux myself? cause I notice that if I use VSA, graphics_init() just contains a vrWrite routine which just call VSA code,

[LinuxBIOS] Linux kernel for LinuxBIOS?

2007-03-01 Thread lihao
Hi all, I know if i want to use linux kernel as payload to LinuxBIOS, I must edit the source of Linux source code. I want some more detailed information, such as: 1) what version of Linux? 2.4 or 2.6 2) how to make it tiny? less that 512KB? less than 256KB? 3) what to edit? Is there useable

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O

2007-03-01 Thread Lu, Yinghai
In the copy_and_run you may need some debug print out. And copy_and_run is after stack switching. YH -Original Message- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:33 AM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Stefan Reinauer; Carl-Daniel Hailfinger;

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O

2007-03-01 Thread Lu, Yinghai
But you share codes between ROMCC version and CAR version. YH -Original Message- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:31 AM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Stefan Reinauer; Carl-Daniel Hailfinger; linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4

2007-03-01 Thread Brandon W. Howard
--- James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brandon W. Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This

[LinuxBIOS] CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN effects

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Pub
Hi There, What other effects does the CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN have, I know that it runs a PCI device's expansion rom during pci_dev_init but does it have any other effects. I have enabled it an attempt to get started on supporting VGA on VMWare. I have left serial console on and kept vga and btext

[LinuxBIOS] thoughts on: gigabyte m57sli-s4 support

2007-03-01 Thread Ryan Moszynski
yeah, i'd imagine there are a lot of people watching/waiting for this board to be supported. I would like to run linux-bios on my next machine, but i'd rather not pay extra for server/board features that i will never use. so my wishlist for a linuxbios: 1:consumer desktop board, running

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Split the console code into multiple files

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.02.2007 22:35, ron minnich wrote: And this has passed abuild testing? Yes. Please apply. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Split the console code into multiple files

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:09:07PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Copyright headers will be added later. Right now we benefit from keeping the diff as small as possible. Please include the correct license headers, we want to reduce the number of files which don't have an explicit

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Split the console code into multiple files

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 01.03.2007 21:09, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:09:07PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Copyright headers will be added later. Right now we benefit from keeping the diff as small as possible. Please include the correct license headers, we want to reduce the number of

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Carl, 2007/3/1, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support which saves you ~30-50kb over the LZMA kernel patch. Simply lzma the right vmlinux file. sure, really this is a better idea, I will test it. Regards, Carl-Daniel Best regards, Alan --

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?

2007-03-01 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all, I am wondering if it would be possible to run LinuxBios on a braille device. Regarded from a Linux point of view, such a device is very similar to a PC or a laptop, as you will certainly notice according to the datas provided below. If the device is supported, the idea would be to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?

2007-03-01 Thread ron minnich
It is a great idea. Is that machine you are showing us kind of old? It seems old, I am not sure about the northbridge. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom

2007-03-01 Thread David Hendricks
A trivial patch that has served me well for this particular flash chip. It functions identically to some already supported Winbond chips so basically all that was needed was an additional device ID for recognition. I've tested read, erase, and write functionality. As an interesting side note,

[LinuxBIOS] Linker failures due to __divdi3

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, all of the following mainboards fail to link for me on my openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 system with the following message: gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios_ram -T /storage/LinuxBIOSv2/src/config/linuxbios_ram.ld linuxbios_ram.o linuxbios_ram.o: In function `div_long':

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:01:19PM -0800, David Hendricks wrote: A trivial patch that has served me well for this particular flash chip. It functions identically to some already supported Winbond chips so basically all that was needed was an additional device ID for recognition. I've

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?

2007-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, ron minnich, le Thu 01 Mar 2007 14:41:21 -0700, a écrit : It is a great idea. Is that machine you are showing us kind of old? It seems old, I am not sure about the northbridge. It's a quite recent device, but it has oldy chips inside indeed... Samuel -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom

2007-03-01 Thread David Hendricks
Oops! Thanks for the advice, I've been out of the loop for the past few years but hope to get back into the swing of things here with school out of the way grin. I've re-attached my patch and have posted it here for those with strict mail filters since it's small. Signed-off-by: David Hendricks

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Linux kernel for LinuxBIOS?

2007-03-01 Thread bxshi
I know Erik Andersen's buildrom maybe help, but when i type make all I cannot compile the code successfully. what error have you met ? if you can get olpc-payload.elf and olpc-payload.elf.lzma in the deploy directory i think that is enough. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O

2007-03-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.02.2007 19:12, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Where will be ram_enabled? Cache or Ram? If we want to call it from CAR, we must place it in cache. Is cache content lost after switching off CAR? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Developer Docs

2007-03-01 Thread joe
Ok, My SuperIO chip is a SMSC LPC47M192. Looks like I will be able to use one of the other SMSC LPC47*** configs for a template. Once I get it setup how do I test it without everything else (nothbridge, southbridge, etc)?? Thanks - Joe Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for Winbond W83627EHG Super I/O

2007-03-01 Thread Lu, Yinghai
The Global variables area is copied from the cache to RAM, but position is changed. YH -Original Message- From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:17 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS]

[LinuxBIOS] r2565 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2007-03-01 Thread svn
Author: uwe Date: 2007-03-02 03:25:36 +0100 (Fri, 02 Mar 2007) New Revision: 2565 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/README trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/flash.h trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/flashchips.c Log: Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom. Signed-off-by: David

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:43:35PM -0800, David Hendricks wrote: Signed-off-by: David Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Committed in r2565, thanks. I fixed a small copy+paste error in a comment and added the new chip to the list of supported chips in the README. Cheers, Uwe. --

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Developer Docs

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:23:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, My SuperIO chip is a SMSC LPC47M192. Looks like I will be able to use one of the other SMSC LPC47*** configs for a template. Yep. Please use the lpc47b272 as a basis, that one already has proper license headers. Once I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS P4R8L

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:42:47PM +0100, Erwan Velu wrote: Uwe Hermann wrote: You need to write code for RAM initialization (northbridge) at the very minimum. This is usually the hardest and most complex part. Ok, Do you have the respective ATI datasheets for the chipset? Are they

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add missing it8716f_early_init.c

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:30:17PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Index: src/superio/ite/it8716f/it8716f_early_init.c === --- src/superio/ite/it8716f/it8716f_early_init.c(Revision 0) +++

[LinuxBIOS] N2200 LinuxBios

2007-03-01 Thread veneraldo . apelo
Hi All, I've been seen many requests in the archives for a LinuxBios on N2200 (aka 8363) and apparently when I contacted them, none of them were able to successsfully installed the linuxbios. Before attempting to do the same, I would like to confirm with the experts like Ron for the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will LinuxBIOS support my Gigabyte GA-7VTXE soon?

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:13:20PM +0100, Ian Walker wrote: Northbridge: Via KT266A(VT8366A) Southbridge: Via VT8233 They're not supported yet, sorry. I haven't checked whether there are public datasheets. Do you want to work on support for this chipset? Probing for `ITE 8705F Super IO

[LinuxBIOS] r2565 build service

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS information
Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer uwe checked in revision 2565 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: Add Winbond W39V080A support to Flashrom. Signed-off-by: David Hendricks [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #47: Screenshots and videos on the website

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#47: Screenshots and videos on the website -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: major

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #70: fix util/getpir so that the output will compile

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#70: fix util/getpir so that the output will compile --+- Reporter: Jon Dufresne [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: somebody Type: defect |Status: new

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #36: Make the mailing list archive searchable

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#36: Make the mailing list archive searchable --+- Reporter: rsmith | Owner: somebody Type: defect |Status: closed Priority: major |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #35: Make it possible to boot Windows using LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#35: Make it possible to boot Windows using LinuxBIOS +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: critical |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #14: Rename stream to payload

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#14: Rename stream to payload +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #45: Enforce consistent coding style

2007-03-01 Thread LinuxBIOS
#45: Enforce consistent coding style +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Cosmetic

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will LinuxBIOS support my Gigabyte GA-7VTXE soon?

2007-03-01 Thread Ian Walker
They're not supported yet, sorry. I haven't checked whether there are public datasheets. Do you want to work on support for this chipset? I'm not sure what I could do to help on this. I've no idea when it comes to this sort of stuff. I could give it a go, if I knew what it was I needed to