[LinuxBIOS] How to access the SVN server

2007-05-18 Thread Darmawan Salihun
Hi all, Sorry to ask such a basic question like this. However, I've read the development guidelines and other pages but cannot find info regarding what it the svn server used to host the LinuxBIOSv2 source code. I've tried svn.linuxbios.org, But, tortoiseSVN that I'm using cannot connect to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] How to access the SVN server

2007-05-18 Thread Dieter Bloms
Hi, On Fri, May 18, Darmawan Salihun wrote: Sorry to ask such a basic question like this. However, I've read the development guidelines and other pages but cannot find info regarding what it the svn server used to host the LinuxBIOSv2 source code. I've tried svn.linuxbios.org, But,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] How to access the SVN server

2007-05-18 Thread Darmawan Salihun
Dieter Bloms wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 18, Darmawan Salihun wrote: Sorry to ask such a basic question like this. However, I've read the development guidelines and other pages but cannot find info regarding what it the svn server used to host the LinuxBIOSv2 source code. I've tried

[LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Darmawan Salihun
Hi all, Right now, I start laying down the infrastructure for the Windows version of flashrom utility, i.e. the kernel mode driver and the very basic user mode application. Because this version of flashrom will be quite different in terms of code due to inherent differences between

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Darmawan May I request -- quite urgently -- that if at all possible you make this proposed Windows Flash Rom boot into MSDOS as well? XP, I know, doesn't support MSDOS; but if you do not also allow a boot into MSDOS, the XO will be,missing a truly enormous opportunity as an

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Darmawan Salihun
Hi Martin, It is quite complicated to incorporate DOS support this time around because we will need a DOS extender, such as DOS4GW or something else that can provide us access to the 4GB linear address space. I'm not experienced enough in that kind of thing. If you have seen Uniflash, it's

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hi Darmawan No problem, I'm thinking about making MSDOS-booting USB RAM-sticks and doing things that way round. Cheers, Martin Darmawan Salihun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Martin, It is quite complicated to incorporate DOS support this time around because we will need a DOS

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Darmawan Salihun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070518 13:33]: I'm still thinking about the way to incorporate the flash chip and motherboard support in as seamless way as possible so that every newer chip/motherboard support will be merged easily. I wonder whether we could create human readable

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:07:07PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: May I request -- quite urgently -- that if at all possible you make this proposed Windows Flash Rom boot into MSDOS as well? Miscommunication here I think. Winflashrom is a Windows version of the flashrom utility, which is used

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:33:42PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote: Because this version of flashrom will be quite different in terms of code due to inherent differences between Linux/other Unix and Windows, I think it's better to put it as a branch of the flashrom directory. Please don't make

[LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all Stefan wrote : Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? Stefan That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for MSDOS (not Windows) which

[LinuxBIOS] r318 - in LinuxBIOSv3: arch/x86 mainboard/emulation

2007-05-18 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-05-18 17:20:11 +0200 (Fri, 18 May 2007) New Revision: 318 Modified: LinuxBIOSv3/arch/x86/Kconfig LinuxBIOSv3/arch/x86/Makefile LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/emulation/Kconfig Log: (trivial) add example of how to add stage0 for other cpu types to LBv3 Signed-off-by:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Ceri Coburn
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all Stefan wrote : /Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? Stefan/ That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for MSDOS

[LinuxBIOS] subversion/svn:external

2007-05-18 Thread Ward Vandewege
Following up on the discussion a while back about the use of svn:external, I thought this was a piece of useful advice. But it might be entirely obvious to you, in which case, please ignore this message :) Thanks, Ward. - Forwarded message from David Kramer - Date: Fri, 18 May 2007

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] revised fan control for tyan s2881

2007-05-18 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:21:11PM -0700, yhlu wrote: I made some change, please check it Acked-by: Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've fixed a small issue with your changes (struct bus children vs. child) and tested the revised patch on real

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Janek Kozicki
Ceri Coburn said: (by the date of Fri, 18 May 2007 16:08:34 +0100) Correct me if I'm wrong here guys, but LinuxBIOS as it currently stands does not setup the old BIOS interrupts that DOS uses, which means booting DOS from LinuxBIOS would be a big change Martin - booting Windows/Linux

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Janek Kozicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070518 18:07]: An alternative is to use dosbox (very slow, about 50% of processor speed). I'm afraid that dosemu will not work here (very fast, about 95% of processor speed - I used it to run DOS version of fractint to calculate mandelbrot set). Why does

[LinuxBIOS] r319 - in LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard: . amd amd/norwich

2007-05-18 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-05-18 18:33:52 +0200 (Fri, 18 May 2007) New Revision: 319 Added: LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/ LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/Kconfig LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/norwich/ LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/norwich/Kconfig Modified: LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/Kconfig Log: add amd

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Ceri Coburn
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello ceri /Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine / I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I believe?), aren't you? I wouldn''t like to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 4mb Flash

2007-05-18 Thread Jeremy Jackson
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 22:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, Wow, I really feel like an idiot. I read 4Mb and NOT 4Mbit. Anyways, thanks for such a speedy response. you can say 4MB for megabytes, or to be more exact use the new 4MiB for 4*1024*1024 bytes. the disk drive people say M

[LinuxBIOS] r321 - in LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge: . amd amd/geodelx

2007-05-18 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-05-18 19:48:21 +0200 (Fri, 18 May 2007) New Revision: 321 Added: LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge/amd/ LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge/amd/Kconfig LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge/amd/Makefile LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge/amd/geodelx/ LinuxBIOSv3/northbridge/amd/geodelx/Makefile

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #5: Add license header to all source files

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#5: Add license header to all source files +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: task |Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone:

[LinuxBIOS] r322 - in LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd: . norwich

2007-05-18 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-05-18 20:01:18 +0200 (Fri, 18 May 2007) New Revision: 322 Added: LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/norwich/Makefile Modified: LinuxBIOSv3/mainboard/amd/Kconfig Log: small fixup for amd norwich skeleton (trivial) Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by:

[LinuxBIOS] r320 - in LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge: . amd amd/cs5536

2007-05-18 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2007-05-18 19:42:13 +0200 (Fri, 18 May 2007) New Revision: 320 Added: LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge/amd/ LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge/amd/Kconfig LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge/amd/Makefile LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge/amd/cs5536/ LinuxBIOSv3/southbridge/amd/cs5536/Makefile Modified:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Augusto Pedroza
On 5/18/07, Ceri Coburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello ceri /Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine / I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #24: Remove all files which have a GPL-incompatible license

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#24: Remove all files which have a GPL-incompatible license +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: defect |Status: new Priority: blocker |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #21: Library to unpack, repack, change and use DTB structures

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#21: Library to unpack, repack, change and use DTB structures +--- Reporter: stepan | Owner: segher Type: task |Status: closed Priority: blocker |

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

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#35: Make it possible to boot Windows using LinuxBIOS +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: critical |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Ceri Coburn wrote: ADLO is an option for booting DOS as this is how Windows 2000 is booted using LB, but it depends if all the interrupts that DOS uses are implemented within ADLO. We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working

[LinuxBIOS] LInuxBIOSv3 - Reset and CAR code

2007-05-18 Thread Juergen Beisert
Hi, currently I'm trying to understand how it works in assembly until C starts. Could we divide the stage0_i586.S file into its three parts? Resetvector, Jump to protected mode and the CAR code? Maybe it would be easier to understand and to maintain. With my GeodeGX1 systems I cannot use the

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

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#35: Make it possible to boot Windows using LinuxBIOS +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: critical |

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

2007-05-18 Thread LinuxBIOS
#35: Make it possible to boot Windows using LinuxBIOS +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement |Status: new Priority: critical |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Progress on ASUS A8N-E

2007-05-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
[Please always reply to the mailing list, not individual developers] On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:51:07PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: i have also modified: == superio.c of it8712f - added pnp_enter_ex_func_mode .. and extended pnp_dev_info. ==pc80/keyboard.c - added missing error msg

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LInuxBIOSv3 - Reset and CAR code

2007-05-18 Thread ron minnich
On 5/18/07, Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, currently I'm trying to understand how it works in assembly until C starts. Could we divide the stage0_i586.S file into its three parts? Resetvector, Jump to protected mode and the CAR code? Maybe it would be easier to understand and

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Adam We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working reliably and you should be 95% there. Yes, this is at least partly confirmed since I am currently running all my existing Illumination books on a Windows 98 machine, which has no trouble

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports? LinuxBIOS, ADLO and Bochs could be made to boot from USB storage but it needs some work. I don't think Bochs does USB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 18/05/07 22:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports? LinuxBIOS, ADLO and Bochs could be made to boot from USB storage but it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:51:40PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 18/05/07 22:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: I don't think Bochs does USB storage. Which is understandable. USB is a very annoying and complex protocol, I really like USB, in part exactly because it is heavy on the host and

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Progress on ASUS A8N-E

2007-05-18 Thread Jeremy Jackson
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 19:30 +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: Hi I realized some guys on this list were talking about porting ASUS A8N-SLI. I started porting LinuxBIOS to ASUS A8N-E [1]. The boards seem to share some similarities so maybe my code is of any use for A8N-SLI port. At the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] new Target ASUS A8NE

2007-05-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: - RAM olny runs with small modification of amdk8/raminit.c = comment out debug for athlon 64 in line 1204

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LInuxBIOSv3 - Reset and CAR code

2007-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070518 20:53]: currently I'm trying to understand how it works in assembly until C starts. Could we divide the stage0_i586.S file into its three parts? Resetvector, Jump to protected mode and the CAR code? Maybe it would be easier to understand and to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Winflashrom - Directory structure consideration

2007-05-18 Thread Darmawan Salihun
Peter Stuge wrote: In the mean time I need the information on how to commit the code once I have a tested version of the Winflashrom. What you do is send a signed off patch to the mailing list. Use svn diff to produce it. Then people on the list review and if it looks good it gets

[LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2N-E (Non-SLI) Motherboard MCP55 - Support? - newbie.

2007-05-18 Thread Jonathan King
Hello I just joined the list and I am truly excited to hear that Nvidia is cooperating with the MCP55 chipset. I have an ASUS M2N-E motherboard and here are my stats. The BIOS is socketed. Please forgive me if I haven't followed protocol here - newbie. Are there pre-built packages/payloads