Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Peter Stuge wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: How many different cores could you put in even the most popular socket, three? LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about). Using some rough math, I get a rounded-down size of 186KB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3046 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Myles Watson wrote: Author: jcrouse Date: 2008-01-11 19:23:47 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) New Revision: 3046 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/buildtarget Log: Add the ability to extend CFLAGS as needed for several new distros Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable. I

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Drop microcode references from Via CPUs

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/cpu/via/model_centaur/Config.lb === --- src/cpu/via/model_centaur/Config.lb (revision 3045) +++ src/cpu/via/model_centaur/Config.lb (working copy) @@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ dir /cpu/x86/sse dir /cpu/x86

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 11.01.2008 02:33, Corey Osgood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you mean the microcode files? If so, the microcode update looks like this: Header Update Revision Date Processor

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-09 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break). These patches eliminate a lot of repeated code, make porting

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] remove duplicated microcode updates for some Intel processors

2008-01-08 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 9:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] how long has it been since we've updated the microcode updates? No idea, but remember the email below from 12/12/07? Looks

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] remove duplicated microcode updates for some Intel processors

2008-01-08 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microcode updates coming in the morning, if the abuild passes. -Corey SWEET :-) Thanks - Joe Well, it failed, but it was only one socket (603/604), and the problem's size. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] problem about dram init

2008-01-02 Thread Corey Osgood
aaron lwe wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 1:40 PM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And now you're where I am. For some reason there's a reserved memory range _somewhere_ at the tolm, of some unknown size. I've found that reserving an extra 1MB doesn't work, but 32MB does. I've found nothing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [Patch] Fix CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA handling in default pci_dev_init.

2008-01-02 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 5:03 PM, Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you still do not believe logic, then please set CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA without setting CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN and then build your rom. The build will fail due to missing symbols. That's a prolem. Which

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on the host or target ?

2008-01-01 Thread Corey Osgood
Phani Babu Giddi wrote: Hi Corey, Thanks for your reply but I am not clear. Let me list the steps, may be that will explain the problem I see. 1. I have a host target environment 2. I build Linux Kernel image with initrd on the host 3. I also build the root file system on the host 4.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on the host or target ?

2008-01-01 Thread Corey Osgood
Phani Babu Giddi wrote: Hi Corey, Is there a way by which I can use the external programmer to flash the complete chip at once. I mean There is the Linux BIOS image which includes the kernel and then there is the root file system and a fall back image. So that I can have a single file

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Proposed changes to cpu/intel organization

2007-12-31 Thread Corey Osgood
On Dec 31, 2007 8:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for slot 1, we no longer care. Why do we not care about slot 1?? What are the 440BX boards going to do?? Thanks - Joe Nobody's buying Slot 1 boards any more. 440BX is 7 years old. So if we have to inconvenience the entusiasts with the 7

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on the host or target ?

2007-12-31 Thread Corey Osgood
Phani Babu Giddi wrote: Hello All, I am trying to understand how to access the flash chip on the mainboard for the very first time. Most of the documentation on Linux BIOS talks about using flashrom but I am confused, are we suppose to use this on the target ( mainboard) or host. If its

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] remove duplicated microcode updates for some Intel processors

2007-12-30 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 9:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] how long has it been since we've updated the microcode updates? No idea, but remember the email below from 12/12/07? Looks

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Support EON EN29F002AT, JEDEC continuation IDs

2007-12-30 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 30.12.2007 13:15, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 30.12.2007 05:40, Corey Osgood wrote: doesn't seem quite right, but it might be (yes, I realize it means 4x more IDs). We also break the ability to use IMT flash chips (which someone may

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Flashrom: Fix vendor codes, add better descriptions

2007-12-30 Thread Corey Osgood
] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Proposed changes to cpu/intel organization

2007-12-30 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 3:50 PM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the latest microcde update, there's one big problem: size. what is the size? The full microcode update file is a little over 1MB, that's all the current updates for all CPUs, since the Pentium

Re: [LinuxBIOS] SST49LF004A/B chip is not detected in MSI MS-7250 VER:2.2 (K9N Ultra) Motherboard

2007-12-29 Thread Corey Osgood
Kiran Patil wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 7:30 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28.12.2007 14:29, Kiran Patil wrote: MSI MS-7250 VER:2.2 (K9N Ultra) motherboard is not detecting SST49LF004A/B chip. I am

Re: [LinuxBIOS] SSE 128 bits in C7

2007-12-29 Thread Corey Osgood
Urbez Santana Roma wrote: Thanks for answer Rudolf, the CPU can SSE and SSE2, when runs with normal BIOS the instruction movd %eax,%xmm0 works in, but if the linuxbios need working with sse and sse2 with a microKernel for example, this instruction produces a exception. My contents of the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: fix page size definitions for new SPI chips

2007-12-29 Thread Corey Osgood
/block size field in struct flashchip would be nice, though. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Must've missed this one Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Support EON EN29F002AT, JEDEC continuation IDs

2007-12-29 Thread Corey Osgood
+ /* Check if it is a continuation ID, this should be a while loop. */ + if (id1 == 0x7F) { + largeid1 = 8; + id1 = *(volatile uint8_t *)(bios + 0x100); + largeid1 |= id1; + } + if (id2 == 0x7F) { + largeid2 =

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: add 25VF016B support

2007-12-28 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Add 25VF016B support to flashrom. Untested, but verified against the data sheet. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: print status register contents for SPI flash chips

2007-12-28 Thread Corey Osgood
Looks good here: Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 28, 2007 7:30 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17.12.2007 21:33, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Print the chip status register for all SPI chips on probe if verbose output is specified. Pretty-print

Re: [LinuxBIOS] problem about dram init

2007-12-20 Thread Corey Osgood
aaron lwe wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:49:32PM +0800, aaron lwe wrote: / I've configured the via cn700 dram controller /.. / Unexpected Exception: 6 @ 10:1bfee821 - Halting /.. / can I say ram is initialized right? / //No. ram_check() is a useless metric. //Until you can successfully

Re: [LinuxBIOS] problem about dram init

2007-12-20 Thread Corey Osgood
aaron lwe wrote: Dear All, I'm terribly sorry that I just found I've mistakenly configured the dram MA Map Type, and now memtest showed no errors. But I still have to reduce the mem size when reporting to system through ram_resource or filo couldn't be started. I have disabled the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3018 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
, using the default from src/mainboard/*/Options.lb (trivial) Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Corey. Marc You're welcome, but it didn't work :( I tested the change with the wrong serengheti_cheetah. Still trying to figure

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3018 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
Marc Jones wrote: Corey Osgood wrote: Marc Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: cozzie Date: 2007-12-19 09:07:37 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) New Revision: 3018 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10/Config.lb Log: Small fix to make the abuild happy

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3019 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: stepan Date: 2007-12-19 18:59:50 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) New Revision: 3019 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10/Options.lb Log: trivial fix for abuild. Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3018 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: -Wall -o rom_stream.o /home/corey/LinuxBIOSv2/src/stream/rom_stream.c /home/corey/LinuxBIOSv2/src/stream/rom_stream.c:47:90: error: invalid suffix x on integer constant make[1]: *** [rom_stream.o] Error 1

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3018 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
Marc Jones wrote: Corey Osgood wrote: Marc Jones wrote: Corey Osgood wrote: Marc Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: `/home/corey/LinuxBIOSv2/util/abuild/linuxbios-builds/amd_serengeti_cheetah_fam10/normal' make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1 It looks like abuild tries

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3021 build service

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
abuild fixes, this should be the last (trivial) Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build Log: Compilation of amd:serengeti_cheetah_fam10 is still broken See the error log at http://qa.linuxbios.org/log_buildbrd.php?revision=3021device

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r3021 build service

2007-12-19 Thread Corey Osgood
Corey Osgood wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 4:26 PM, LinuxBIOS information [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer cozzie checked in revision 3021 to the LinuxBIOS source

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: add support for ST M25P80 chips

2007-12-16 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Add support for ST M25P80 chips to flashrom. Print status register before erase to help debugging block locks. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see how it could break anything, even if it doesn't work. Acked-by: Corey Osgood

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Re: Request for superiotool dump support: SMSC LPC47M192

2007-12-15 Thread Corey Osgood
Ulf Jordan wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Corey Osgood wrote: Ulf Jordan wrote: Attached is a patch for superiotool adding dump support for the SMSC LPC47M192. /ulf Thanks, works great! Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] and r3007 Could you provide example dumps and update

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Re: Request for superiotool dump support: SMSC LPC47M192

2007-12-14 Thread Corey Osgood
Ulf Jordan wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Corey Osgood wrote: Hey guys, I've been looking through the datasheet on this chip, and I've got no idea where the values you use come from. I know some of you have been adding dump support to various chips just for the sake of having them (which

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA help under QEMU

2007-12-14 Thread Corey Osgood
Marc Karasek wrote: I do not see how to put the vgabios image into LB. I see where u can specify to run option roms and tell LB to initialize vga devices. I do not see where you can tell it to pull in the vgabios image. In qemu's Config.lb, you specify something like chip

[LinuxBIOS] Request for superiotool dump support: SMSC LPC47M192

2007-12-12 Thread Corey Osgood
Hey guys, I've been looking through the datasheet on this chip, and I've got no idea where the values you use come from. I know some of you have been adding dump support to various chips just for the sake of having them (which is a good thing, and I'm glad you're doing it), so I was hoping you

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Request for superiotool dump support: SMSC LPC47M192

2007-12-12 Thread Corey Osgood
On Dec 12, 2007 5:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey guys, I've been looking through the datasheet on this chip, and I've got no idea where the values you use come from. I know some of you have been adding dump support to various chips just

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch to lib/console.c

2007-12-12 Thread Corey Osgood
On Dec 12, 2007 8:53 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13.12.2007 01:46, ron minnich wrote: Hey, carl-daniel, what's a good payload for testing my 'payload won't work' problem? Also, I wonder if it is because the payload runs above 0x10? Sorry, Ron, I have no

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 script and will

Re: [LinuxBIOS] question about via chipset v-link and ram init

2007-12-10 Thread Corey Osgood
aaron lwe wrote: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aaron lwe wrote: On Dec 10, 2007 10:19 AM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aaron lwe wrote

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-10 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 07/12/07 22:51 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Jordan Crouse wrote: HOST_CC=gcc -HOST_CFLAGS= +HOST_CFLAGS=$(STACKPROTECT) Okay, there's reason that I've left just this part of the patch. With the patch this way, mkelfimage builds (awesome

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-10 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Typo! That makes 2 mistakes this week! Are you feeling okay? :P This does look pretty good though, and the idea of having v3 in buildrom is great! I'm kicking myself now for never having used buildrom until yesterday

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-09 Thread Corey Osgood
To work around the -fno-stack-protector problem, which mkelfimage isn't smart enough to handle on it's own On 12/9/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:51:30PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: -HOST_CFLAGS= +HOST_CFLAGS=$(STACKPROTECT) With quotes around

Re: [LinuxBIOS] question about via chipset v-link and ram init

2007-12-09 Thread Corey Osgood
aaron lwe wrote: Dear all, the via v-link bus is for data communication between northbridge and sourthbridge, if I just want to make dram work, do I need to configure the v-link bus? thanks. No, vlink can be handled before or after ram init, and it isn't even necessary, if no config is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Typo! That makes 2 mistakes this week! Are you feeling okay? :P This does look pretty good though, and the idea of having v3 in buildrom is great! I'm kicking myself now for never having used buildrom until yesterday

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 06/12/07 10:00 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: None of the new files came through. They look like they're in the patch, but not in the commit. Am I supposed to generate the patches differently? I'm just using svn diff

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Question about QEMU FILO

2007-12-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Marc Karasek wrote: I am trying to get a system up using QEMU. I have compiled LinuxBIOS with Filo as a payload. I followed the steps on the wiki about making a harddrive image, I had to make it a bit bigger than 200M though. When I boot the system, it finds the kernel and the initrd

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: This is my code to expand on what Myles has already done for v3 - basically, we move to using a V3 only .mk for LinuxBIOS, and take advantage of LAR to clean up the build considerably. Also, introduce my new idea for option ROMs which totally cleans things up - if this

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: fix absolute calls from initram

2007-12-04 Thread Corey Osgood
to avoid that. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] CONFIG_ROM_STREAM verus CONFIG_IDE_STREAM verus CONFIG_FS_STREAM?

2007-12-04 Thread Corey Osgood
Steve Isaacs wrote: I'm puzzled about the difference between these options. If I want to boot using an IDE device does the following make sense? ## Boot linux from IDE default CONFIG_IDE=1 default CONFIG_FS_STREAM=1 default CONFIG_FS_EXT2=1 default CONFIG_FS_ISO9660=1 default

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: correct stage2 naming

2007-12-04 Thread Corey Osgood
On Dec 4, 2007 6:54 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linuxbios.stage2.o (and stage2.o in the LAR) are NOT .o files, they are ELF executables. Remove the .o suffix to reduce confusion. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-04 Thread Corey Osgood
. This patch adds -jN support to speed builds. It passes it as an argument to make for the kernel and uClibc. It breaks the build for busybox, so it isn't passed there. The default is -j1, or the status quo. Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ADLO biosdecode

2007-12-04 Thread Corey Osgood
Jun Koi wrote: Hello, I am running LinuxBios + ADLO with QEMU. Strangely, biosdecode now outputs nothing. If I use the original QEMU BIOS, at least biosdecode reports BIOS32 Service Dir + PCI IRQ table + ACPI. So why LinuxBIOS removes those information? They simply aren't necessary for

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-03 Thread Corey Osgood
Michiel van Dijk wrote: Hi, I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options. The system itself is not supported yet, but all the components are. It wouldn't be very hard to port it. I identified the following

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: fix absolute calls from initram

2007-12-03 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Absolute calls from initram were only working from the file which had _MAINOBJECT #defined. Calls from all other files ended up in nirvana because the compiler was not able to calculate the address of the wrapper for the absolute call. The linker tried, but failed

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-27 Thread Corey Osgood
Shocky wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2007 02:46, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Shocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071126 21:37]: It just says: Checking for pciutils and zlib... not found. Please install pciutils-devel and zlib-devel. Nothing more informative. What pciutils,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch for geodelx in arch/x86

2007-11-27 Thread Corey Osgood
ron minnich wrote: add one debug print, move all smbus_read_byte to spd_read_byte. attached. ron Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] alix1c for v3 update

2007-11-27 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 27.11.2007 17:45, Corey Osgood wrote: ron minnich wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 8:24 AM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + [SPD_MIN_CYCLE_TIME_AT_CAS_MAX] = 10, /* A guess for the tRAC value

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-27 Thread Corey Osgood
Fridel Fainshtein wrote: OK, thank you. My employer approved the submission. Ill do it soon. It will be very appreciated, I can assure you of that ;) I look forward to seeing it, and I'll be happy to test. Thanks, Corey On Nov 26, 2007 1:24 AM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Board support [VT8237R Plus]

2007-11-26 Thread Corey Osgood
Forest Dean Feighner wrote: Uwe Hermann wrote: Please post the output of 'lspci -tvnn' and 'superiotool -dV' from the board. Also, is your BIOS chip in a socket or soldered on the board? Please also run 'flashrom -V' to check if flashrom supports your board (and post the output here).

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
Shocky wrote: Hi, I'm new to LinuxBios, and just looking for a way to flash the bios on an HP laptop without installing Windoze. None of the tricks I've found through Google have worked for me so far, including HP's own utility for making bootable usb keys. Some HP laptops these days

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
Fridel Fainshtein wrote: OK, supposing FILO USB works How do I submit the corrections? http://www.linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines#How_to_contribute In short form: 1) cd to the filo-0.5/ folder 2) svn add * -R (if you've created any new files, be sure to move files you don't want

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Various cleanups

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
-Daniel's patches have been applied, Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Add dump support for NSC PC87366

2007-11-24 Thread Corey Osgood
Ulf Jordan wrote: Add dump support for the PC87366. /ulf Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] r2979 -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] A good small mini-ITX case

2007-11-23 Thread Corey Osgood
bari wrote: ron minnich wrote: Any recommendations? I am trying to house the new SiS mainboard ... need a case that is open and makes it easy to get to parts like the SPI ... ron For development I just use a sheet of aluminum (10-12ga) and some Delrin standoffs. All the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom support for AMD CS5536

2007-11-22 Thread Corey Osgood
Nikolay Petukhov wrote: Info from pm49fl002/4's manual: Pm49fl002/4 write protected at power up. This patch fix it. I'm a bit confused, because I use the Pm49fl002/4 regularly, mostly in BIOS Savior RD-1's. I've never had any problems writing to those chips. This patch also needs a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Could original VGA BIOS be responsible for long timeout before LinuxBIOS kicks in?

2007-11-21 Thread Corey Osgood
Coquelicot wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 7:46 PM, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:00:14PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: On 11/20/07, Coquelicot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, what can be responsible for long delay before starting LinuxBIOS? I have

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Trivial patches

2007-11-20 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 20.11.2007 19:20, ron minnich wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 10:20 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: various big code changes/additions have been committed as trivial

[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Could original VGA BIOS be responsible for long timeout before LinuxBIOS kicks in?

2007-11-20 Thread Corey Osgood
Oops, forgot to CC the list. -Corey -- Forwarded message -- From: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 20, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Could original VGA BIOS be responsible for long timeout before LinuxBIOS kicks in? To: Coquelicot [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/20/07

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-15 Thread Corey Osgood
On Nov 15, 2007 8:41 AM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fridel Fainshtein wrote: Hello all, It seams that the USB code was taken from the previous version of FILO but never have been tested. Since noone else piped up, here's what I've figured out: Older versions of FILO

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH 1/2] v3: improve printk documentation

2007-11-15 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Improve printk documentation to match code realities. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-14 Thread Corey Osgood
Fridel Fainshtein wrote: Hello all, It seams that the USB code was taken from the previous version of FILO but never have been tested. Since noone else piped up, here's what I've figured out: Older versions of FILO (0.5) don't have any USB support. The original author(s) of FILO's USB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] From slashdot - a company possibly using linuxbios.

2007-11-13 Thread Corey Osgood
Robert Vogel wrote: I'm catching up on my reading, so there has been some delay since the last post to this thread. One of the reasons why the LinuxBios project seems so large is that it attempts to satisfy the requirements of many different mother boards. Yet, it has not come up with a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #87: flashrom issues on m57sli-s4

2007-11-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Torsten Duwe wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2007 00:48, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Hi Ward, On 08.11.2007 16:51, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 08.11.2007 16:22, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:05:16PM -, LinuxBIOS wrote: #87: flashrom

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #87: flashrom issues on m57sli-s4

2007-11-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Torsten Duwe wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007 15:52, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Boom. The log shows why both parts of the Config.lb patch were ineffective. Can you try the patch below on top of it? This should fix the values for LDN 0x7. If not, please supply a boot log. Index:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Via C7 support

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
r2948, thanks -Corey ron minnich wrote: Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 7, 2007 9:50 AM, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See patch -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Hide stdlib.h prototypes from ROMCC

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c === --- src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c (revision 2947) +++ src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r_early_smbus.c (working copy

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] trivial Options.lb patch for serengeti-cheetah

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Myles Watson wrote: This patch adds this line to src/mainboard/amd/serengeti_cheetah/Options.lb: uses CONFIG_PRECOMPRESSED_PAYLOAD For what purpose? abuild or buildrom? Needs a signed-off-by line as well, no matter how trivial. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildrom tyan s2891 and LAB

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 07/11/07 09:31 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: I really need to make work of that kconfig option for 'add vga bios after compile'. I'm assuming its not freely distributable? If it is, then we can wget it and prepend it automagically. If its not, then we have

[LinuxBIOS] Superiotool output on fintek f71805f

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Sorry, Thunderbird dumps emails more than a month old, so I don't have the original message to respond to. carpc:~/superiotool# superiotool superiotool r2922 Found Fintek F71805F/FG (vid=0x3419, id=0x0604) at 0x4e carpc:~/superiotool# superiotool -v superiotool r2922 carpc:~/superiotool#

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] More vt8237r fixes

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
. Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.c === --- src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.c (revision 2947) +++ src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.c (working copy) @@ -48,7 +48,7

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Walmart/Everex GPC TC2502 (VIA CN700 + VT8237R Chipset), PC2500E

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
And CN700 will be supported very soon, once I can free up a few more registers. Only problem is, it only supports a single dimm for now. Wish I could afford $60 to buy the board. -Corey Vlad wrote: Hi, Walmart has chosen to pre-install Linux on their least expensive computer, the Everex

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] More vt8237r fixes

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Rudolf Marek wrote: Corey Osgood wrote: See patch. Rudolf, can you test this one to make sure it works correctly on your board? Hi, Your patch seems not so solve KBD and RTC correct? Correct, kbc/rtc init should handle things their own way. I thought about doing that when we come

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add Via C7 support

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c === --- src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (revision 2947) +++ src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (working copy) @@ -48,6

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Walmart/Everex GPC TC2502 (VIA CN700 + VT8237R Chipset), PC2500E

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Vlad wrote: Has anyone looked into supporting the motherboard that powers the Everex TC2502 Green gPC? The makers of gOS [2] point to the development kit motherboard with part number PC2500E, available from ClubIT.com [3]. Is it already supported by the vt8237r and Via C7 code checked into

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] More vt8237r fixes (new patch)

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Corey Osgood wrote: Updated patch attached, thanks for the suggestions. I think I've done this right, can you have a look at it/test it? I can't test on hardware ATM because of some work I'm doing on ram init. Oops, little mistake. This line: + if (disable_bit == 0x4) enabled = 0

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting from USB

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Vlad wrote: --- Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FILO has support for USB, but unfortunately UHCI is broken and EHCI is unsupported. GRUB 2 is also supported as a LinuxBIOS payload now.[1] Can GRUB 2 boot from USB? Vlad [1] http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2951 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/southbridge/intel/i82801xx

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Little confused by this. Isn't this supposed to be posted to the list first for review, before being commited? Is it ok for the same person to Signed-off-by: and Acked-by:?? See comments below... This qualifies as a trivial patch, in other words the only

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting from USB

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello! I have a project taking shape that would eventually have a system booting a file-system from USB. Sweet! I look forward to your results! I remember that we had a method of doing something of a sort from USB, using the contents of the v1 release. To be honest

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] More vt8237r fixes (new patch)

2007-11-07 Thread Corey Osgood
for the vt8237r, by setting them up automatically depending on if the function is enabled or not (based on the i82801xx). Also makes writeback use printk() instead of print(). Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/southbridge/via/vt8237r/vt8237r.c

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-03 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:30:25PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to micron), just in case. I've left the function in vt8237r because there's no file that it would really fit into right now. If someone else

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-02 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:03:18AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: @@ -79,11 +62,14 @@ loops = 0; /* Yes, this is a mess, but it's the easiest way to do it. */ -while ((inb(SMBHSTSTAT) 1) == 1 loops = SMBUS_TIMEOUT) +while ((inb(SMBHSTSTAT) 1) == 1

Re: [LinuxBIOS] mptable util not working?

2007-11-02 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:30:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am having prolems with the mptable utility. I keeps telling me MP FPS NOT found, suggest trying -grope option!!!. If I try the grope option

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-02 Thread Corey Osgood
Updated patch attached. Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments inline below. Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:39:16PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Please explain the SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SDRAM/SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SDRAM_DDR2 check in the comment here. If all you want

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-02 Thread Corey Osgood
Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:30:25PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: +void smbus_fixup(const struct mem_controller *ctrl) +{ +int i, ram_slots, current_slot = 0; +u8 result = 0; + +ram_slots = ARRAY_SIZE(ctrl-channel0); +if (!ram_slots

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-02 Thread Corey Osgood
Russell Whitaker wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:30:25PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: +++ src/include/spd.h(working copy) @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ #define SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SGRAM_DDR6 #define SPD_MEMORY_TYPE_SDRAM_DDR

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] vt8237r fixes/improvements (LBv2)

2007-11-01 Thread Corey Osgood
Corey Osgood wrote: This patch is some small changes to the vt8237r to prepare it for the Jetway J7F2 patch that should be coming soon, and also moves most defines into vt8237r.h. I've changed some of the values from u32 to u8, because that's all they should ever need to be. Also includes

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