Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will linuxBIOS Work on My Machine?

2007-12-11 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! I'm not the guy you asked the question of, but perhaps I can help? >From what I recall from an earlier discussion, the average laptop contains hardware other then just normal things found on the average desktop. There are controllers in use that are normally not documented for special featu

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
On Dec 11, 2007 2:42 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In regards to gx_util usage, /dev/mem will not work for accesses to the > > very top of > > memory. I believe it will not allow access to the top 64k bytes of memory. > > Which is > > fine unless you want to modify the sy

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Will linuxBIOS Work on My Machine?

2007-12-11 Thread Jun Koi
On 12/10/07, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:31:54PM -0800, Wakefield, John wrote: > > I have an Acer 5102WLMi Notebook with Dual Core AMD TL50s, which are 64 > > I'm afraid LinuxBIOS doesn't yet work on laptops, those are much harder > to support than "normal"

Re: [LinuxBIOS] starting ACPI implementation for m57sli

2007-12-11 Thread Rudolf Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The guide is not finished yet :) But please try booting with: pci=routeirq Rudolf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHXxcn3J9wPJqZRNURAqPXAKDTpDQ

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-11 Thread Oliver McFadden
On 12/11/07, Oliver McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers. I will look into implementing SPI support for > > these cards in a week or so. Ping me if you don't see any code/questions > > until then. > > Here

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Interest in a Free Software BIOS for Radeon cards?

2007-12-11 Thread Oliver McFadden
On 12/10/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. I will look into implementing SPI support for > these cards in a week or so. Ping me if you don't see any code/questions > until then. Here is the code for a simple mmap based interface to the card. You'll ne

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Recommendation for multimedia box

2007-12-11 Thread bari
Tilman Klar wrote: > > Hello mailinglist, > > I’m currently in the process of finding some suitable hardware for a > multimedia box. The box needs to be capable to output sound/video, but > this should be no problem: Even if the mainboard does not have support > for a/v, I’m sure that there are

[LinuxBIOS] Recommendation for multimedia box

2007-12-11 Thread Tilman Klar
Hello mailinglist, I'm currently in the process of finding some suitable hardware for a multimedia box. The box needs to be capable to output sound/video, but this should be no problem: Even if the mainboard does not have support for a/v, I'm sure that there are a lot of USB solutions out th

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv3 lgdt and gdtptr patch

2007-12-11 Thread Myles Watson
> > > > It was submitted (but not in patch form) by Brendan Trotter > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxbios@linuxbios.org/msg08771.html > > > > > > > > Here it is in patch form. > > > > - data32 lgdt %cs:gdtptr > > > > + movl$gdtptr, %ebx > > > > + lgdt%cs:(%bx) >

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread Marc Karasek
I did and I came up with a better solution. I added an option called BUILDID_OPTION to the process. This is a string that is set to the "-Wl,--build-id=none" for newer ld versions and can be set to blank for older ld versions. I have attached the patch file to add this to V2. I think this

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
On Dec 11, 2007 8:06 AM, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is a very closed minded attitude. You may not see a reason for > mkelfimage, but it still remains the only way to functionally boot a > kernel under v2. When v3 has many more hours behind it and we can forget > all about v2

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
I think you are adding too much complexity to the build process. it may be time to step back a bit and think about all this. Just my $.02 ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Triton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:20:36 -0500 > Marc Karasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I have come up with a awk script that could be used in the makefile to >> query the ld version and make a decision based the output to add the >> compile option or not. I have attached the scri

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread Marc Karasek
Forgot the attachment /* Marc Karasek MTS Sun Microsystems mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ph:770.360.6415 */ Ed Swierk wrote: On 12/7/07, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We should make sure this doesn't break any other distros / compiler versions.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread Triton
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:20:36 -0500 Marc Karasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have come up with a awk script that could be used in the makefile to > query the ld version and make a decision based the output to add the > compile option or not. I have attached the script and will incorporate >

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems

2007-12-11 Thread Marc Karasek
I have come up with a awk script that could be used in the makefile to query the ld version and make a decision based the output to add the compile option or not. I have attached the script and will incorporate it into the makefile and send a patch out hopefully today. /* M

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/12/07 21:22 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 8:54 AM, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > further question, could we get rid of mkelfimage? I can't see why > > > we're still using it. > > > > mkelfimage combines the kernel and the init.rd so it an be loaded by kexec. > >

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/12/07 16:45 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Right now, we're forced to use a deprecated hack from AMD called > gx_util.c (a non-free kernel module whose only purpose is to play with > the MSR) to flip the register. We even ended up having to hack a > slightly different version of this modu

Re: [LinuxBIOS] PCI: Left over static devices. Check your Config.lb

2007-12-11 Thread Steve Isaacs
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 17:32 -0700, Marc Jones wrote: > > Steve Isaacs wrote: > > > > INIT detected from {APICID = 00 NODEID = 00 COREID = 00} --- > > > > Issuing SOFT_RESET... > > > > When I have seen a soft reset at this point it has been due to a memory > problem. Try simpler configur

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
I use a script to set DIVIL_BALLS FWIW. but auto sensing? Never worked for me. Is it really possible? ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Thank you for your quick reply! On 12/10/07, Tom Sylla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 4:15 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell, 'flashrom' would need to read some register > > (DIVIL_BALLS - see AMD document 3328G_cs5536_db.pdf page 365) to learn