Re: [LinuxBIOS] MACH BOOT

2007-10-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Jun, 2007/10/7, Jun OKAJIMA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I checked the video. It looks great. Good work. > But, your way limits functionality. You can use only Tiny/X and busybox and... > If you use Firefox, using CD-ROM is necessary, right? > Yes, this is a good approach. You can place the Linux ke

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MACH BOOT

2007-10-06 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Jun, 2007/10/6, Jun OKAJIMA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Maybe you already know this? > > MACH BOOT is a very fast CD booting Linux. > It boots Linux desktop in less than 10 sec from CD. > > Check it out please. > http://www.machboot.com/ > It is fantastic, very good results. > Then, why I mail he

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI SPI support

2007-10-01 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
2007/10/1, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 30.09.2007 22:03, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote: > > Hi Carl-Daniel, > > > > 2007/9/28, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > sic > >> Yes, looking for testers. > >>

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildrom

2007-09-16 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
2007/9/16, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not so sure. Maybe it actually _is_ a good idea to integrate (parts > of) buildrom in the v3 build process? It would sure make the > "user experience" better. The question is how much work this will be. > I guess we'd want to change quite a lot of

[LinuxBIOS] Testing LBdistro

2007-08-28 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi guys, I completed the LBdistro LinuxBIOS build system and need testers to verify it's compilation on other Linux distribuitions. It was tested on Debian Still In Development, Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora (tnx Augusto). To test it just follow this simple tutorial: http://linuxbios.org/Build_LinuxBIOS_

[LinuxBIOS] Running X Server on QEMU

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Guys, I am trying to place kdrive to run on QEMU but I'm facing some problems. First I applied the patch on QEMU to accept bios.bin with more than 256KB, I update this info on wiki page: http://www.linuxbios.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial Then compiled a minimal linux kernel with rootfs inside and te

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Convert hex to dec

2007-07-04 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
2007/7/4, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 07:47:11PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > I use some aliases in my .bashrc which are pretty handy for converting > > HEX or BINARY or DECIMAL: > > > > alias HEX="ruby -e 'printf(\"0x%X\n\", ARGV[0])'" > > alias DEC="ruby -e 'printf

[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte contact

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi guys, I am looking for gigabyte contacts to request a mainboard donation because I want add support to it on LBdistro. I contacted Gigabyte Brazil (Digitrom) but they don't manufacture this board here in Brazil and don't make efforts to contact Gigabyte international do request one. Then if so

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS <3 buildrom

2007-05-10 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Peter, 2007/5/9, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm thinking that buildrom could be integrated with LB a bit better. > > buildrom needs to know which LB target to build. > It also needs to know which payload to build. > And it needs to know the payload's configuration. > I'm doing it on

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildROM

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Crouse, 2007/5/1, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As promised, this is a patch to turn the current buildROM build environment > in to the next generation build system. > I am developing a LinuxBIOS distro maker based in the old buildROM version because I don't know that you are developing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] CN700/VT8237RP support needed. Will pay.

2007-03-29 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi, 2007/3/29, Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have personally contacted Via 3 times now about datasheets for > different chipsets, and never been given a response, and 2 other people > who I've given this datasheet to said the same thing. With my most > recent attempt, I let them know bot

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Silly Question

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Joe 2007/3/26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is a silly question but, when I see something like this (2<<20) > in raminit.c it is saying to change bit 20 to a value of 2?? Is that > correct?? That would have to be a binary value than right? Than what > would that look like?? Jus

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios + xf86-video-unichrome: no VGA BIOS needed.

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Luc, 2007/3/17, Luc Verhaegen. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you saying there that, for the likes of filo, grub, etherboot, etc > will be forced to set up a full VGA console themselves? Or are you for > forcing everybody to use a serial console to: > * instruct the bootloader on what to do, what k

Re: [LinuxBIOS] we got /.'ed again

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi, 2007/3/9, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/03/09/146215.shtml > I think this article title is a misconception or not :), anyway it is a good news. > Thanks Alan :-) > Thank you, I am glad to help. > ron > Alan -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi, 2007/3/6, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dave, I will supply the video in ogg theora with better resolution after. > the video with better quality can be download in ogg theora format here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fornix/linuxbios.ogg Cheers, Alan

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Ron, 2007/3/6, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > WOW! You made my day with this one! > And you made my day developing it ;-) > OK, linuxbios community, here's a challenge: it's 6 seconds to busybox > prompt. Where is the time going? And, how do we get it to 2 seconds? > What would it take? It

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Uwe, 2007/3/6, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:57:00AM -0300, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > there is LinuxBIOS running with graphic mode: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ > >

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside

2007-03-06 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi guys, there is LinuxBIOS running with graphic mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ Thanks my friends Marcelo Barros and Fred Schaf to make the video. Dave, I will supply the video in ogg theora with better resolution after. I hope everybody enjoy it. Best regards, Alan -- li

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Carl, 2007/3/1, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > LinuxBIOS has builtin LZMA support which saves you ~30-50kb over > the LZMA kernel patch. Simply lzma the right vmlinux file. > sure, really this is a better idea, I will test it. > Regards, > Carl-Daniel Best regards, Ala

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Dave, 2007/2/28, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 26/02/07, Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After I will record a video and place in youtube to others people see > > it > > Please make the video available in the free s

[LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Ron, 2007/2/26, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan, this is an interesting idea. yes, I think it is a good idea too although some friends said me it is a crazy idea :) >I wonder how I would replicate your > setup in order to try to replicate your problem? A way to you replicate this pro

[LinuxBIOS] Xvesa on LinuxBIOS

2007-02-25 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi guys, I want place Xvesa (kdrive) inside BIOS, to get graphic mode. First I compiled Xvesa with uclibc, created a rootfs tree with it and compiled the kernel with it inside (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE pointing to this directory). Then created a GRUB option to call this kernel image. Using the ori

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA Console does not start if ROM_SIZE > 512

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Stefan, 2007/1/28, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you change the ROM_SIZE you also need to change the start of > the vga bios: > >register "rom_address" = "0xfff8" > > should be > >register "rom_address" = "0xffe0" > > for a 2MB image > -- thank you very much. It wo

[LinuxBIOS] VGA Console does not start if ROM_SIZE > 512

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
roblem? Cheers, -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura para a infelicidade é a felicidade -- linuxbi

[LinuxBIOS] VGA Console does not start if ROM_SIZE > 512

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
= 512*1024-36*1024 If I change it to 1MB or 2MB it don't work: option ROM_SIZE = 2048*1024-36*1024 -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- N

Re: [LinuxBIOS] sst49lf160c support (patch)

2007-01-27 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
looks fine. Thank you. Signed-off-by: Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Best regards, -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- N

[LinuxBIOS] sst49lf160c support (patch)

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
works :-) Cheers, -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura para a infelicidade é a felicidade diff

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD PIC BIOS - Flashing on WinCE?

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi, 2006/12/7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello all, > I have one of those AMD PIC Computers (Personal Internet Communicator). It > has a Geode processor (x86). it comes with WIndows CE preinstalled and > refuses to boot antthing else. > I read on numerous places that there is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Disassembly?

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
xbios mailing list > linuxbios@linuxbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura para

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2006-11-18 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Stefan, On 11/18/06, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should we add a seperate page in the wiki for the flashrom tool? > I think it is there: http://www.linuxbios.org/Flashrom Cheers, > > -- > coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. > Tel.: +49 761 7668

Re: [LinuxBIOS] booting XP

2006-11-07 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Lu, On 11/7/06, Lu, Yinghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is GNUFI? > "GNUFI is an open source EFI implementation" > YH > Alan -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Stefan,On 9/6/06, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Alan Carvalho de Assis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060906 13:42]: The LF160 is 2048KB, right? So on the VT8237 you see maximum 1/4 of theflash. Yes, it is true. You need to compare it command per command with another Jedec chi

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Bari,On 9/5/06, Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: You're probably going to need access to the VT8237 programming guide. I asked VIA for one VT8237 programming guide, but they don't supply me one. You are going to run into issues with the VT8237 accessing  addressspace with block locking reg

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash

2006-09-05 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
out it?Some idea how can I fix it?Thank you, OllieAlan-- |     Alan Carvalho de Assis| --Não importa o que os outros irão pensar,A cura para a infelici

[LinuxBIOS] Flashrom is not detecting 2MiB flash

2006-09-05 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
ROM/flash device found.diderot:/home/alan/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# Cheers, -- ----|         Alan Carvalho de Assis|--Não importa o que os outros irão pensar

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom support to VIA VT8235

2006-07-25 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
; Sure, but I think the problem is because enable_flash_write() is not unprotecting flash (at hardware) to erase. Another idea to solve it? > But you are on the way! > Thank you, > ron > Alan -- ---- |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom support to VIA VT8235

2006-07-21 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
an 8235 ... doyou have a data book? > > ron > -- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura para a

[LinuxBIOS] Flashrom support to VIA VT8235

2006-07-20 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
flashrom detecting my chipset or no? Best regards, -- ---- | Alan Carvalho de Assis| -- Não importa o que os outros irão pensar, A cura