Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.07.2007 03:05, Peter Stuge wrote: Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS. Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch. What about writing to flash instead? IIRC some factory BIOSes

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VIA epia-MII Hangs on reboot

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marcel Graber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 07:42]: My EPIA-MII Board with LinuxBIos hangs sometimes on reboot. The Shutdown Process goes completly down, the Screen is flickering. - I tried different acpi / apm Options It should work out of the box without any options (ACPI needs

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VIA epia-MII Hangs on reboot

2007-07-18 Thread Marcel Graber
Hi Stefan, It's a MII 6000EG Board Perhaps, the SUSE Kernel has a patch (in reboot_fixups.c?)? I've build the Kernel from Kernel.org (with viafb and bootsplash patch) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 11:21

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 03:05]: But since many payloads don't do this correctly, should this be a config option? Not payload, the OS. Maybe even the application. I say teach lxbios how to set the completed flag if it doesn't already know and move the problem to where it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 05:06]: Peter Stuge wrote: Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS. Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch. Agreed This wont work, or it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VIA epia-MII Hangs on reboot

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marcel Graber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 11:26]: Hi Stefan, It's a MII 6000EG Board What's the EG? Mine is a 6000E Perhaps, the SUSE Kernel has a patch (in reboot_fixups.c?)? possibly. -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 12:43]: Hm. Can we abuse ACPI to do that? Like accessing SystemCMOS from a _INI function? Possibly. But ACPI is running very early in the game. Where would we hook it up? This would also establish ACPI as a pretty hard requirement. There

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.07.2007 13:15, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 12:43]: Hm. Can we abuse ACPI to do that? Like accessing SystemCMOS from a _INI function? Possibly. But ACPI is running very early in the game. Where would we hook it up? This would also

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VIA epia-MII Hangs on reboot

2007-07-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: It's a MII 6000EG Board What's the EG? Mine is a 6000E EG is equivalent to E just RoHS-compliant. Perhaps, the SUSE Kernel has a patch (in reboot_fixups.c?)? possibly. I was also unable to reboot reliably with my

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VIA epia-MII Hangs on reboot

2007-07-18 Thread Marcel Graber
I was also unable to reboot reliably with my EPIA-MII 6000E board using vanilla 2.6.17-2.6.18 kernels with and without viafb. With the Fedora Rescue System, everything is , but with the Debian initrd / kernel I have also the reboot problem. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

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2007-07-18 Thread Marcel Graber
Hi, Perhaps a dummy, stupid question: I want to set a value in the epia-m southbridge Generic Power Management Register. Is this possible? In the source code of the vt8253 I see only Value Settings to the Bus Control Register. Tnx, marcel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

[LinuxBIOS] Change Value in Southbridge Register

2007-07-18 Thread Marcel Graber
Hi, Perhaps a dummy, stupid question: I want to set a value in the epia-m southbridge Generic Power Management Register. Is this possible? In the source code of the vt8253 I see only Value Settings to the Bus Control Register. Tnx, marcel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:15:50PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 12:43]: Hm. Can we abuse ACPI to do that? Like accessing SystemCMOS from a _INI function? Possibly. But ACPI is running very early in the game. Where would we hook it up?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
ron minnich wrote: On 7/17/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS. Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch. //Peter

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070718 17:32]: Using ACPI here would be nicely transparent though, hiding firmware specifics in the firmware code. I like that approach. We want to use less ACPI, not more, right? Not sure. I think the use of ACPI as to and will greatly increase in the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

2007-07-18 Thread ron minnich
On 7/18/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18.07.2007 03:05, Peter Stuge wrote: Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS. Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch.

[LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] Clean up mc146818rtc

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
As the title says. Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Software Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors Clean up do_normal_boot() by adding defines, moving defines to the header file, and add a function header. Signed-off-by: Marc Jones [EMAIL

[LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] Add execute in place to lar

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
:) Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Software Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors Add execute in place to lar. Allows code to be run from the ROM. Signed-off-by: Marc Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: LinuxBIOSv3/include/lar.h

[LinuxBIOS] r457 - in LinuxBIOSv3: arch/x86 include

2007-07-18 Thread svn
Author: mjones Date: 2007-07-18 21:19:48 +0200 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) New Revision: 457 Modified: LinuxBIOSv3/arch/x86/mc146818rtc.c LinuxBIOSv3/include/mc146818rtc.h Log: Clean up do_normal_boot() by adding defines, moving defines to the header file, and add a function header.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] Clean up mc146818rtc

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
ron minnich wrote: Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] r457 Thanks, Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Software Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

[LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] stage0 and stage1 cleanup and improvements.

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
This patch gets Geode LX into initram. It also cleans up some of the generic stage0 and stage1 code for getting through CAR and initram. At this point I need some help. We get into initram but I think that there is a link problem where the first function call to post_code() is past the

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH][v3] static/const cleanups

2007-07-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
See patch. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org Various smaller code fixes: - Use 'static' for functions and structs which are not meant to be public. - Use 'const' for variables which are

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH][v3] static/const cleanups

2007-07-18 Thread Marc Jones
Uwe Hermann wrote: See patch. Uwe. Various smaller code fixes: - Use 'static' for functions and structs which are not meant to be public. - Use 'const' for variables which are not meant to be modified.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] stage0 and stage1 cleanup and improvements.

2007-07-18 Thread ron minnich
Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will try to look at your other problem tomorrow. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Change Value in Southbridge Register

2007-07-18 Thread ron minnich
On 7/18/07, Marcel Graber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Perhaps a dummy, stupid question: not at all. I want to set a value in the epia-m southbridge Generic Power Management Register. Is this possible? In the source code of the vt8253 I see only Value Settings to the Bus Control

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] Add execute in place to lar

2007-07-18 Thread ron minnich
Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/18/07, Marc Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Software Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors Add execute in place to lar. Allows code to be run from the