Re: [LinuxBIOS] Steps for successsful ram init on i440bx boards

2007-05-14 Thread Yuning Feng
2007/5/14, roger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would it help any if I made a list of items needed for proper Intel northbridge (and possibly southbridge/smbus) initialization? This is helpful. I think 440bx might be a good mainboard to start learning linuxbios ? Datasheets of Intel mainboards are

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Steps for successsful ram init on i440bx boards

2007-05-14 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:07 +0800, Yuning Feng wrote: 2007/5/14, roger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would it help any if I made a list of items needed for proper Intel northbridge (and possibly southbridge/smbus) initialization? This is helpful. I think 440bx might be a good mainboard to start

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Willem EEPROM Programmer

2007-05-14 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 01:09 -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Too late, bought it about a month ago. Flashrom doesn't work on this particular board, and besides, a dedicated programmer *should* be faster than booting up, flashing, and then rebooting (unless you stripped a distro down to nothing just

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Willem EEPROM Programmer

2007-05-14 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:55 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: As for the hardware: * usb is at most only there as a powersupply. Which is not correct as the amps drawn should be negotiated between host and endpoint. There's no means to negotiate anything. Yes, people abuse usb like this a lot. *

[LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread shirish
Hi all, Are there routers which are using linuxbios? I looked at the products page as well as vendors lists went to the sites but failed to find anything. In case, there is an device like that would it be possible say to use such a device send diagnostic messages using telnet or something

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?

2007-05-14 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi, Peter Stuge : So, do you think that a socket could fit if a compact flash card reader does? The socket I have in mind is from Emulation Technology: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/ It's 5.33mm high which is more than the most slim CF sockets,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a braille display ?

2007-05-14 Thread Corey Osgood
Sébastien Hinderer wrote: Hi, Peter Stuge : So, do you think that a socket could fit if a compact flash card reader does? The socket I have in mind is from Emulation Technology: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/ It's 5.33mm high which is more than

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Adding IGEL-316 mainboard

2007-05-14 Thread Juergen Beisert
Luis, On Monday 14 May 2007 10:07, Luis Correia wrote: Maybe we are able to detect the SPD EEPROM on *some* boards. But never on all boards. There are too many individual incarnations how you can connect the I2C lines to your CPU (thanks to popconserve for the reference schematics!).

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Adding IGEL-316 mainboard

2007-05-14 Thread Juergen Beisert
Luis, Boot your mainboard with your factory BIOS and dump the so called BC_* registers and you are fine (a few registers at offset GX_BASE + 0x8400 up to Ups, my fault. The MC_* are the relevant registers for SDRAM timing, not the BC_* ones. Juergen -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 14.05.2007 11:16, Corey Osgood wrote: Yep, I know about uniflash, it's what I was using with this board before. The problem still is getting the rom from my floppy-less laptop to the other machine in a manner DOS can understand. I tried to get usb working on a dos boot disk, but none of

Re: [LinuxBIOS] More support fixes for the IEI NOVA4899 board

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070513 23:59]: What i'm seeking now is how to send these patches, one by one to the mailing list, or opening tracker issues for them? Both works fine. -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread joe
Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14.05.2007 11:16, Corey Osgood wrote: Yep, I know about uniflash, it's what I was using with this board before. The problem still is getting the rom from my floppy-less laptop to the other machine in a manner DOS can understand. I tried to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2664 - in trunk/LinuxBIOSv2: src/mainboard/amd/norwich targets/amd/norwich

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070514 13:34]: Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/amd/norwich/failover.c === --- trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/amd/norwich/failover.c2007-05-11 19:23:57 UTC (rev 2663) +++

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:16:06AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: It run in DOS and is written in Pascal. I used a FreeDOS livecd... matter of fact, even installed FreeDOS to a 2nd partition with Uniflash. Uniflash supports a vast number of flash parts. Yep, I know about uniflash, it's

[LinuxBIOS] r2664 build service

2007-05-14 Thread LinuxBIOS information
Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer uwe checked in revision 2664 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: AMD Norwich: minor cosmetic fixes and drop dead code (trivial). Signed-off-by: Uwe

[LinuxBIOS] Booting Windows 2K / XP on QEMU - Problems - GSoC -Current Startus

2007-05-14 Thread emanoel xavier
Hi everyone, I'm intersting in this job that Augusto is doing and I'm in touch to him to help with my efforts. Recently, I've tried to boot the windows 2k using these same steps he've done. The only diference is that I've used Lilo as bootloader instead of Grub. On my tests the Lilo seems to work

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:33:44PM +0530, shirish wrote: Are there routers which are using linuxbios? Not that we know of. D-Link 502-T its pretty similar to how linux is . Many consumer network appliances are embedded Linux systems. They usually run on an ARM CPU and there has not

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Ühel kenal päeval (esmaspäev 14 mai 2007 10:03 am) kirjutas shirish: Hi all, Are there routers which are using linuxbios? I looked at the products page as well as vendors lists went to the sites but failed to find anything. You may find something by googling routerboard+linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Adding IGEL-316 mainboard

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: It seems to find a generic way to configure the SDRAM in a Geode bases system is nearly impossible. I think it can be done. At last we need some information about - the physical behaviour of the mainboard (line load, line

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Steps for successsful ram init on i440bx boards

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:02:06AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: BTW, anyone have experience with using a Willem EEPROM programmer under linux? I haven't been able to get the darn thing to work through wine, nor will it work on Vista. WINE has not implemented anything USB. Vista uses a new USB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Steps for successsful ram init on i440bx boards

2007-05-14 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:02:14PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:02:06AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: BTW, anyone have experience with using a Willem EEPROM programmer under linux? I haven't been able to get the darn thing to work through wine, nor will it work on

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Adding IGEL-316 mainboard

2007-05-14 Thread Juergen Beisert
On Monday 14 May 2007 16:52, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: It seems to find a generic way to configure the SDRAM in a Geode bases system is nearly impossible. I think it can be done. At last we need some information about - the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] adm1027.c fan control

2007-05-14 Thread Marc Jones
Ward Vandewege wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:33:55PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070511 23:35]: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:25:08PM -0700, yhlu wrote: how about other MB not connect all of FAN etc.? or they will need other threshold for PWM? OK,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 2MB flash parts - chipset decoding anyone?

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
I'm having trouble with Tyan S2865 (K8 + CK804 Ultra), flashrom works for SST49LF080 but not SST49LF016C, and I really wish it would(tm) Thanks, Jeremy On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:17 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070511 23:29]: Ok, what about the AMD K8

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 14.05.2007 09:03, shirish wrote: Are there routers which are using linuxbios? I looked at the products page as well as vendors lists went to the sites but failed to find anything. Extreme Networks offers routers which run linux (MIPS64 architecture). I have no idea what sort of

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] adm1027.c fan control

2007-05-14 Thread yhlu
On 5/14/07, Marc Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ward Vandewege wrote: I'll work on moving the code to mainboard.c file. Does it make sense to have an API letting the mainboard specific code interface the component? Maybe even setting the FANs and threshold in the config.lb file? I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] adm1027.c fan control

2007-05-14 Thread ron minnich
I recomment we save such good ideas for V3. I am going to start on my first real V3 mainboard this week -- an LX board -- and we can start getting real-world experience now. thanks ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread ron minnich
I have been told that there are routers using linuxbios, but that's all I've ever been told. one interesting thing: the BIOS costs are one reason that x86 has had trouble getting acceptance in the embedded space, i am told (by embedded systems vendors). LinuxBIOS fixes this problem. Things like

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 2MB flash parts - chipset decoding anyone?

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:44:30AM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I'm having trouble with Tyan S2865 (K8 + CK804 Ultra), flashrom works for SST49LF080 but not SST49LF016C, and I really wish it would(tm) Perhaps you can help with more testing so the problem can be identified? For starters: * How

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread roger
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 05:16 -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: If anyone working on the 440 has time, can you check the output of your spd data and see if there's any non-00 or 0xff data in 0x7e and 0x7f (aka 126/127)? This is part of the Intel SDRAM SPD standard, but not officially part of JEDECs.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread shirish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Luis, On 5/14/07, Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On 5/14/07, shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Are there routers which are using linuxbios? I looked at the products page as well as vendors lists went to the sites

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread Corey Osgood
roger wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 05:16 -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: If anyone working on the 440 has time, can you check the output of your spd data and see if there's any non-00 or 0xff data in 0x7e and 0x7f (aka 126/127)? This is part of the Intel SDRAM SPD standard, but not officially

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:58:44AM +0530, shirish wrote: Are there routers which are using linuxbios? I looked at the products page as well as vendors lists went to the sites but failed to find anything. Since there are no x86 compatible routers, your question does not make

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread roger
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 02:58 +0530, shirish wrote: First of all thank you for answering to my query. I'm still slightly confused. As per Linuxbios wiki page says it is to be used also in embedded devices. I have been reading the wikipedia pages on the the Linksys WRT54G series

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [OT] Routers using linuxbios?

2007-05-14 Thread Ed Swierk
On Monday 14 May 2007 10:20:10 ron minnich wrote: one interesting thing: the BIOS costs are one reason that x86 has had trouble getting acceptance in the embedded space, i am told (by embedded systems vendors). Another problem is that there's no x86 hardware to be accepted, at least in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

2007-05-14 Thread roger
I've taken notes on the following aspects of the Northbridge and am reading the Intel published SPD pdf now. The following is only some clippings of what is said in the main pdf and the updates concerning DRAM config. I think I have yet to go through each DRAM register looking for notes

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

2007-05-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hello Yinghai, have you tested PCI slot functions on the GA-M57SLI? On 12.05.2007 21:50, ST wrote: -01:07.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) Disappeared device? Realtek 8139 nic -01:08.0 0280: 1244:0a00 (rev 02) Disappeared device? AVM A1 ISDN card -01:0a.0 0c00: 104c:8024 (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

2007-05-14 Thread yhlu
On 5/14/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Yinghai, have you tested PCI slot functions on the GA-M57SLI? I forgot whether PCI cards in PCI slots need a LB config change or should they work out of the box? it should work out of the BOX, but irq routting in mptable

[LinuxBIOS] Patch for improper formating of w83977tf/chip.h file?

2007-05-14 Thread roger
Is this right? Push #includes to the top of the file. -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Mon May 14 22:57:38 PDT 2007 Push includes to the top of the file. Signed-off-by: Roger Zauner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: