Re: [LinuxBIOS] Is my hardware supported?

2007-03-19 Thread Corey Osgood
Eki Fa-Clang Shabazz wrote: Start with this: http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices and http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards. If you've still got questions, respond with the output of lspci. -Corey Okay, I don't see mine. Sorry for the amount of stuff I'm sending, but:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] northbridge docs

2007-03-19 Thread joe
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am working on the code for my northbridge (Intel 82830). Particularly the raminit.c file. By looking at the sources from the other northbridges and my datasheets, I am getting a little lost. My datasheet (Intel) lists all the registers and their defaults

Re: [LinuxBIOS] northbridge docs

2007-03-19 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am working on the code for my northbridge (Intel 82830). Particularly the raminit.c file. By looking at the sources from the other northbridges and my datasheets, I am getting a little lost. My datasheet (Intel) lists all the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] biossavior RD1-PMC4 not compatible with gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:45:18AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:05:08PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: For the record, the Biossavior RD1-PMC4 is not compatible with the Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 Strange, it should work. Do you have any other LPC (not FWH) flash chips to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits

2007-03-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.03.2007 19:34, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:31:59AM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote: Is there a patch with the remaining bits of Yinghai's MCP55 patch? I'm bringing up an MCP55 board and this would be a good opportunity to try to get the code working. Same here - I'd like

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits

2007-03-19 Thread Ed Swierk
On 3/19/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here - I'd like to start working from the mainline tree. Uwe or Stefan, any thoughts on what's still missing? I know it's the USB debug stuff, but there seem to be some other problems too - I just tried disabling the USB debug

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi Ed, Awesome - that works just fine for the M57SLI-S4. Still a lot of warnings, but the code builds, and it boots the system just fine! Thanks, Ward. On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:01:53PM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote: Here's a patch with most of the remaining changes from the Yinghai monster patch,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
For MAC address: 1. make the flashrom util to take MAC address and GUUID as command parameter. 2. use flashrom with excluding range to keep MAC address in the flash. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits

2007-03-19 Thread Ed Swierk
On 3/19/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Awesome - that works just fine for the M57SLI-S4. Still a lot of warnings, but the code builds, and it boots the system just fine! That's good enough for me! Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Ed -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:04]: For MAC address: 1. make the flashrom util to take MAC address and GUUID as command parameter. 2. use flashrom with excluding range to keep MAC address in the flash. where is it stored? Which area must stay untouched? I can add a .layout file

[LinuxBIOS] slow X startup on m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi all, My test machine has an Nvidia plugin card that I'm using with the free software nv driver. I've attached a diff between the Xorg.0.log file booted into the proprietary BIOS, and into LinuxBIOS (Xorg.diff). These are the most interesting bits (lines starting with + are LinuxBIOS):

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
I'm not sure on Legacy bios, ward could check that for you. But for LinuxBIOS, I put them at last 16x3 bytes. 0xffd0 YH -Original Message- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:51 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Ward Vandewege; yhlu;

Re: [LinuxBIOS] slow X startup on m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
:00:01.3 0b40: 10de:036b (rev a2) Is some IPMI processor, We could disable it but it doesn't hurt. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:57]: I'm not sure on Legacy bios, ward could check that for you. But for LinuxBIOS, I put them at last 16x3 bytes. 0xffd0 that would be 32 bytes, no? if it is 48 bytes, any changes to the reset vector are not found. How big is the actual

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
16 bytes. -Original Message- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:08 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Ward Vandewege; yhlu; linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4 * Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:57]:

[LinuxBIOS] New in the list. Motherboard question.

2007-03-19 Thread Guillaume Dualé
Hi everybody, I'm new in the list ! I would like to know if I can install Linux Bios in my mother board ? I take a look at: http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards and my motherboard is not in. My motherboard is P5T30-B4 TEKRAM: http://www.otasc.org/motherboard.log So, here:

[LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
I've put up a build tutorial for the m57sli-s4 at http://linuxbios.org/M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial It's still based off of YH's big patch, but if Ed's patch from today gets merged, I will update the tutorial to use the v2 tree. Remaining issues are ACPI support, and the mac address changes (but

Re: [LinuxBIOS] SPAM-LOW: Re: Abit kn9 ultra

2007-03-19 Thread Karl Erik Asbjørnsen
After successfully flashing the savior with the original bios using awdflash, I got the same problem trying to flash the original chip with flashrom. Karl Erik Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Karl Erik Asbjørnsen wrote: Verifying flash address: 0x -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:03]: I've put up a build tutorial for the m57sli-s4 at http://linuxbios.org/M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial It's still based off of YH's big patch, but if Ed's patch from today gets merged, I will update the tutorial to use the v2 tree. Remaining

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Abit kn9 ultra

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:32]: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Karl Erik Asbjørnsen wrote: Verifying flash address: 0x - FAILED Flashing the original bios to the bios savior did not work, so I used awdflash instead. That worked fine. awdflash could

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:30:19PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:51]: flashrom -w -s 0x3ffd0 -e 0x3ffdf image.rom This is only for the case that a linuxbios image was previously flashed. Here image.rom is the factory BIOS, correct?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:59]: it just ignores the 16 bytes at ffd0 Ok, sorry if I'm daft, but how does the MAC address end up in the LinuxBIOS rom file? Or, aha, did you mean This is only for the case that a factory image was previously flashed. instead of the other

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:58:09PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Determine that it's a transition from awardbios to linuxbios (safely) * read the mac address (will it always be the same position for all award bios updates in the future?) Of course there is a bit more information that can

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. Or it can be easily determined with ifconfig. Yes, that's a great idea. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. Either that, or add a Config.lb option for the MAC since it will always be the same for each board. Plus it only makes sense for some

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
You will build rom for each MB if you have 10 or 100 same MB? YH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:28 PM To: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial On Mon, Mar

[LinuxBIOS] Userspace boot manager stored in ROM

2007-03-19 Thread Vlad
Hi, I noticed that there is a proposed Google Summer of Code project (http://linuxbios.org/GSoC) to fork IDE drivers from the Linux kernel and port them to Linux-independent boot managers like GRUB2. I don’t think this is a good design choice or a sustainable solution. There are many different

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Getting Friendly with Flashrom

2007-03-19 Thread David H. Barr
On 3/18/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:54:29PM -0500, David H. Barr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/msi_orig$ sudo flashrom -vV -c Pm49FL004 A7260NMS.300 Try -w Well -MY- face is red; I forced the chip detection but failed explicitly to invoke the write.

[LinuxBIOS] PCI_ADDR

2007-03-19 Thread joe
Does anyone know where (waht file) PCI_ADDR is defined? Thanks - Joe -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] PCI_ADDR

2007-03-19 Thread bxshi
Does anyone know where (waht file) PCI_ADDR is defined? /src/arch/i386/include/arch/romcc_io.h bxshi -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:10:25AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:25:30PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: maybe it makes sense to port the openbios ide driver (ie clean out the device tree hooks)? Sounds good. Is the code structure a lot different? Turns out it wasn't

Re: [LinuxBIOS] usage of pci_write_config32()?

2007-03-19 Thread ron minnich
On 3/19/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With pci_write_config32 (or pci_write_config16), do you send the value to the first or the last register in the set? In other words, if it's a range of 0x50-0x53, where should it be sent to? And if you were looking to set it like this: 0x50 -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Userspace boot manager stored in ROM

2007-03-19 Thread ron minnich
On 3/19/07, Vlad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what do you guys think about a userspace boot manager stored in the ROM? I think it is inevitable. I think that the best boot loader is Linux. We already showed how to do it on OLPC, but the size of the boot rom (1 Mbyte) was too small. I think

Re: [LinuxBIOS] usage of pci_write_config32()?

2007-03-19 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: On 3/19/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With pci_write_config32 (or pci_write_config16), do you send the value to the first or the last register in the set? In other words, if it's a range of 0x50-0x53, where should it be sent to? And if you were looking to set it