Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-18 Thread bari
Al Boldi wrote: > bari wrote: >> Who is or will be designing anything with only 2Mb (256KB) of Flash? >> It's difficult to even find Flash under 4Mb (512KB) in high volume. > > Even with 512kb you run a pretty tight ship. And that's most boards today. > > The idea here is to keep the LB-footprin

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Socket 370 thought....

2007-11-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:20:42PM +0100, popkonserve wrote: > >> but apart from all this: the bios (not even linuxbios) can distinguish > >> between a fcpga/fcpga-ii board and a ppga only board. > > > > That's a good thing right? This way you can do some things you > > normally wouldn't be able

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] fix port 0 on sata controller 0 for ck804 based boards

2007-11-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:34:33PM -0800, yhlu wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure why both the ck804_early_setup.c and the > > ck804_early_setup_car.c file are included in the mainboards/sunw/ultra40/ > > tree; probably only one of those files is actually used. > > we can delete non car version for now,

[LinuxBIOS] Mounting root FS from VIA EPIA M-II still not working

2007-11-18 Thread Coquelicot
Dear all, I know that this subject is coming back and forth to the mailing list like boomerang but I need some help with it. Apparently it IS possible to make linux recognize CompactFlash as a root device but so far I have been unable to make it work. I have tried lots of paths, both from reading

[LinuxBIOS] Long LinuxBIOS boot

2007-11-18 Thread Coquelicot
Hey all, I'm experiencing curiously long startup time - 20 seconds before LB starts booting - on my VIA EPIA M-II. To investigate, I have re-compiled LB with logging level 9 and it seems that the delay is very long even before LB starts to output any messages to TTYS1. I am worndering what can be