Re: [LinuxBIOS] Asus smbus mux

2007-04-07 Thread Jean Delvare
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:25:10 +0200, RusH wrote: Is this information public? We don't yet support I2C/SMBus multiplexing, but when we do, if we have the information, we can add support for these boards. Here it is, pseudocode: ulong temp, temp2; '3V4X' enable SPD temp

Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 05:34]: This is GRUB code reading menu.lst one byte at a time because it is looking for a newline. There's a simple but good enough sector cache in read_sector() that gets used here so this is not a problem. Can we enhance this and use it for loading

[LinuxBIOS] r2597 - in trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src: arch/i386/include/arch southbridge/ricoh/rl5c476

2007-04-07 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-04-07 11:17:00 +0200 (Sat, 07 Apr 2007) New Revision: 2597 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/arch/i386/include/arch/acpi.h trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/southbridge/ricoh/rl5c476/rl5c476.h Log: Fix epia-m build after u8/u16/u32 changes in Yh Lu's patch. Signed-off-by: Peter

Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:09:46AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 05:34]: There's a simple but good enough sector cache in read_sector() that gets used here so this is not a problem. Can we enhance this and use it for loading the kernel too

[LinuxBIOS] r2597 build service

2007-04-07 Thread LinuxBIOS information
Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer stepan checked in revision 2597 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: Fix epia-m build after u8/u16/u32 changes in Yh Lu's patch. Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Is the Cache as Ram for Gx2 processor?

2007-04-07 Thread Segher Boessenkool
As Hao is suspecting, AMD64 CAR won't work on Geode. There isn't anything in LB to do CAR (but it would be possible). Could you give a quick description how cache-as-RAM should be done on a Geode? Nothing detailed, just the outline. Segher -- linuxbios mailing list

[LinuxBIOS] freezing PC

2007-04-07 Thread Andon Tschauschev
Hello, Is it possible to modify LinuxBIOS so, that a running PC can be freezed (through e.g. RS-232) from the BIOS, to read some registries, and then to unfreeze it? With kind regards Andon - Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.--

[LinuxBIOS] recovery from the last fatal megapatch.

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi, YhLu's megapatch broke a couple of mainboards. Here is the status: General: * the patch exceeded romcc code complexity for AMD64 CPUs. Boards without cache as ram wont build anymore. Yinghai, please supply patches for this (or anyone else). * The new code is quite a lot bigger

[LinuxBIOS] r2598 build service

2007-04-07 Thread LinuxBIOS information
Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer stepan checked in revision 2598 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: increase image size for abuild (trivial) Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:04:39AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? No, that's the same behaviour I've seen. Afaik, filo can only boot from the 'first' device. In blockdev.c

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 16:42]: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:04:39AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? No, that's the same behaviour I've seen. Afaik, filo can

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 06:04]: In blockdev.c unsigned long is used for the sector, this will overflow when a kernel is beyond 2TB on a drive. The IDE driver users sector_t which is typedef:ed to uint64_t or unsigned long long. Maybe GRUB2 will be here before this becomes a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:44:00PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 06:04]: In blockdev.c unsigned long is used for the sector, this will overflow when a kernel is beyond 2TB on a drive. The IDE driver users sector_t which is typedef:ed to uint64_t or

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:41:31PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? No, that's the same behaviour I've seen. Afaik, filo can only boot from the 'first' device.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits (please comment!)

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070405 22:30]: Ping? What needs to happen to merge those final parts of the MCP55 patch? Ok, most of the code is in, and it is fatal, as usual with megapatches on old tree versions. I don't want to be Mr. Forefinger, but the delivery quality and interest in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] freezing PC

2007-04-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Andon Tschauschev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070407 15:55]: Hello, Is it possible to modify LinuxBIOS so, that a running PC can be freezed (through e.g. RS-232) from the BIOS, to read some registries, and then to unfreeze it? yes. In theory this is possible. See

Re: [LinuxBIOS] freezing PC

2007-04-07 Thread Andon Tschauschev
Thanks a lot for your response! Frohe Ostern! Andon Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andon Tschauschev [070407 15:55]: Hello, Is it possible to modify LinuxBIOS so, that a running PC can be freezed (through e.g. RS-232) from the BIOS, to read some registries, and then to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits (please comment!)

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:54:16PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070405 22:30]: Ping? What needs to happen to merge those final parts of the MCP55 patch? Ok, most of the code is in, and it is fatal, as usual with megapatches on old tree versions. I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-04-07 Thread ST
Happy Easter I just had some time to take a look at the pin connections i posted under the same subject a while ago. Looking at the jumpers it looks like the flash program itself can control which of the (physically partly non-existant) flash chips is to be programmed. Pin 13 of the PM49FL004

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-04-07 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:13:52AM +0200, ST wrote: Looking at the jumpers it looks like the flash program itself can control which of the (physically partly non-existant) flash chips is to be programmed. Pin 13 of the PM49FL004 is #Init. Init has to be high while while accessing the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? Any logs for the failure case? (The factory BIOS sees the device on primary slave.) FILO version

Re: [LinuxBIOS] recovery from the last fatal megapatch.

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:17:30PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * artecgroup dbe61 (.text+0x17bf): undefined reference to `pci_rom_probe' * technologic ts5300 (.text+0x635e): undefined reference to `pci_rom_probe' Working with the attached patch. The patch also includes some changes

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Tom Sylla
Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? To clarify, there are still 2 devices attached, device 0 and device 1, but you want to boot

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2587 build service

2007-04-07 Thread Roman Kononov
LinuxBIOS information wrote: The developer stepan checked in revision 2587 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: This patch makes sure that VGA is initialized before it is used. Without this fix, LinuxBIOS crashes if the CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL is high

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Remaining MCP55 bits (please comment!)

2007-04-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Peter Stuge wrote: I don't want to be Mr. Forefinger, but the delivery quality and interest in getting this officially supported was obviously below the standards that we usually require. Maybe we should agree on requiring rebasing of patches against old revisions before they have a chance

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Tom Sylla wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? To clarify, there are still

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

2007-04-07 Thread Tom Sylla
Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Tom Sylla wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: FILO trunk can't boot from hdb, with or without my patch. Has anyone ever been able to boot a kernel from a slave device? To clarify,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2587 build service

2007-04-07 Thread Roman Kononov
Roman Kononov wrote: LinuxBIOS information wrote: Compilation of artecgroup:dbe61 has been broken Compilation of technologic:ts5300 has been broken I tried to build the broken compilations using the default procedure buildtarget make -C directory and I am confused: I think I've figured it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Is the Cache as Ram for Gx2 processor?

2007-04-07 Thread Tom Sylla
Segher Boessenkool wrote: As Hao is suspecting, AMD64 CAR won't work on Geode. There isn't anything in LB to do CAR (but it would be possible). Could you give a quick description how cache-as-RAM should be done on a Geode? Nothing detailed, just the outline. Well, the outline is the same