Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

2008-01-08 Thread David H. Barr
On Jan 8, 2008 4:53 PM, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote: If you do a svn co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails behind a proxy server :-(. I have not been able to find any info on setting svn up to use a proxy

[LinuxBIOS] Borrowed plumage

2007-11-01 Thread David H. Barr
I was doing some random surfing over lunch on the fine Gigabyte / SiS / AMD DTX board we've been so recently discussing, and ran across some weird hits. It's odd, they all redirect to http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Desktops, but they're hosted at: imgºzolºcomºcn myarticleºenetºcomºcn

Re: [LinuxBIOS] virtual box

2007-10-26 Thread David H. Barr
On 10/26/07, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's time we put an lguest kernel in flash, and show the world how free software does virtualization. Fantastic! I've been drooling over half-formed fantasies of virtual+LB for a while. - I need a nice quiet case. Any suggestions?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for the MSI MS-7260 (K9N Neo)

2007-09-17 Thread David H. Barr
On 9/17/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:23:08PM -0500, David H. Barr wrote: I have two boards, BIOS-Saviors, and remote reboot capability. Do you mind hacking a bit? The scripts are currently designed for a network-based power switch, but it should

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for the MSI MS-7260 (K9N Neo)

2007-09-17 Thread David H. Barr
On 9/17/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you get a chance to try this on your board(s), please post your boot logs and check whether you see problems with PCI add-on cards (e.g. PCI VGA cards). Also, if you could try a PCI Express VGA (or other) card, that would be nice. If I'm

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Support for the MSI MS-7260 (K9N Neo)

2007-09-16 Thread David H. Barr
On 9/16/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here it is, working code for the MSI MS-7260 (K9N Neo). It's almost fully supported, a full Linux boot works, USB works, IDE works, onboard audio works, onboard ethernet works. Uwe, my hero! Other than that this is a very nice new target, a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] denver in april

2007-09-11 Thread David H. Barr
On 9/11/07, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked for the following: #1, can you use your mailing list to quickly take the temperature of those likely to attend, to see if they are sufficiently interested in a Denver meeting on March 31-April 1 in Denver. , so, let me know if

Re: [LinuxBIOS] pre-bricking an A8N-E !

2007-08-29 Thread David H. Barr
On 8/29/07, Quux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a de-bricking utility is one ( notorious is the debricking tool by a guy who likes to call himself hairy dairy maid and used in the openWRT router project, employing a JPEG hardware interface) I'm guessing this is JTAG and not JPEG? -dhbarr. --

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

2007-07-03 Thread David H. Barr
On 7/2/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:44:13PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070627 21:40]: Why is that? Multiboot? Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel? Mulitboot. Ok. Grub2 will

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 16p h8qm8 s4985 1207f

2007-05-10 Thread David H. Barr
Has anybody so much as sniffed at either of these boards for LinuxBIOS purposes? 16-way systems with 4GB per core in a 1U or 2U enclosure make for some interesting cluster configurations -dhbarr. On 3/12/07, Zeb Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: supermicro h8qm8-2 tyan s4985 are only

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ECS top hat flash - dual-bios-circuit useable elsewhere ?

2007-04-29 Thread David H. Barr
On 4/29/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:06:08PM +0200, Quux wrote: it is an empty plcc32 socket to flip over an soldered in flash chip. attached to the socket is a secondary flash mem and some circuitry to handle the chip enable signal, i.e. pull down the

[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: ECS top hat flash - dual-bios-circuit useable els ewhere ?

2007-04-29 Thread David H. Barr
:48 PM Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] ECS top hat flash - dual-bios-circuit useable els ewhere ? To: David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, that sounds fine to me :) Go ahead and post. Hope it helps out. Thankx again, Jeff -Original Message- From: David H. Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: board specific enables based on matching pci-ids.

2007-03-25 Thread David H. Barr
On 3/25/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luc, could you check out the PCChips M789CG for me Just a warning: like many of PC Chips' products, the M789CG comes in several revisions. To the best of my knowledge, the 2.x series have an unsocketed PLCC-32 part, where the 3.x series have a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Getting Friendly with Flashrom

2007-03-21 Thread David H. Barr
On 3/21/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.03.2007 01:53, David H. Barr wrote: On 3/20/07, David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not yet issued a write in the ORG position, only read and verify. I erased the Pm49FL004 flash part present in the BIOS Savior

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Getting Friendly with Flashrom

2007-03-20 Thread David H. Barr
On 3/20/07, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the original image is 0xff in the first 164d0 bytes? Or did you brick the machine this way? Yes, it appears that for v130 it is 0xff in the first 164d0 bytes. Looking at v300, it is 0xff in the first 15f58, and trying with other factory

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Getting Friendly with Flashrom

2007-03-19 Thread David H. Barr
On 3/18/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:54:29PM -0500, David H. Barr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/msi_orig$ sudo flashrom -vV -c Pm49FL004 A7260NMS.300 Try -w Well -MY- face is red; I forced the chip detection but failed explicitly to invoke the write

[LinuxBIOS] RD1-PMC4 Inventory

2007-03-03 Thread David H. Barr
I'm trying to find just a few more BIOS Saviors, but the only place I can see that has any on hand will be about $40 USD delivered from the E.U. Does anybody know of a U.S. vendor that has stock remaining (I know, they're not manufactured anymore)? -dhbarr. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] cleaned up MCP55 chipset code

2007-02-01 Thread David H. Barr
). Signed-off-by: Some Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Some Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied-by: David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR Commited-by: David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there some blindingly obvious reason why one of these two wouldn't be appropriate? -dhbarr. -- linuxbios mailing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add support for Via vt82c686a

2007-01-14 Thread David H. Barr
On 1/14/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In trac, who are ebiederm and mwrwilkinson? I can't seem to find names to go with handles... ebiederm has got to be Eric W. Beiderman. Last I remember he was ebiederman at lnxi dot com. -dhbarr. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MSI K9SD Master-S2R (MS-9185)

2007-01-13 Thread David H. Barr
On 1/13/07, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will release MCP55 support very soon. We got the approval. Great news! Thanks for all your hard work on this, YH. I know all the other desktop people must be as eager as I am. -dhbarr. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

2006-12-01 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/30/06, Simon Labrecque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with the MSI K9N is that the Northbridge's passive cooler is said to get very, VERY hot, which might be problematic in our application as noise (and therefore airflow) needs to be minimized. I haven't tested it personally

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Anyone bought a BIOS Savior recently?

2006-11-28 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/28/06, Ed Swierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a RD1-PMC4 BIOS savior, but am having trouble finding places with it in stock. I even tried contacting the manufacturer and ordering one from Taiwan, but they don't have any

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2NPV-VM + ASUS V2-AH2

2006-11-18 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yhlu wrote: I have finished the porting for mcp55. and like to spend one day to port one mcp55+AM2 based MB. MSI K9N Platinum Good, but expensive. Could you port to the MSI K9N Neo 4F instead? It is much cheaper and will

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2NPV-VM + ASUS V2-AH2

2006-11-18 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/18/06, David H. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we get these similarly named MSI desktop boards into the tree, it will probably make more sense to refer to them as K9N Neo (ms-7260), K9N4 Ultra-F (ms-7310), etc. Mea culpa

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2NPV-VM + ASUS V2-AH2

2006-11-18 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/18/06, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatn3400b_spec.html On 11/18/06, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/MCP55/H8SMA-2.cfm Are you letting me know that not all single-socket AM2 boards are

[LinuxBIOS] google, qa.linuxbios.org

2006-11-14 Thread David H. Barr
From... http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/11/ google-sponsors-linuxbios-project.html ...by way of... http://www.linuxbios.org/Press Anyone with a spare board supported by LinuxBIOS is welcome to put it into the automated test system, thus helping the LinuxBIOS project increase

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Advice for buying a new and not-obsolete workstation?

2006-11-09 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/9/06, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the UK and would like to buy a workstation that can be 100% Free Software, using gNewSense and a Free Software BIOS - ie, LinuxBIOS - and am not sure where to turn. Dave, This is, as LB topics go, a hot one right now. From the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MSI K9N Neo support for LinuxBIOS?

2006-11-09 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/9/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would you help us port LinuxBIOS to the MSI K9N Neo? It is a good and cheap board and a few of us will buy it to port LinuxBIOS to it, but we need your support. This is also the board I'd hoped to have YH-Lu's AM2 / MCP 550 help

Re: [LinuxBIOS] well supported current cheap desktop pc mobo recommendation?

2006-11-03 Thread David H. Barr
On 11/3/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Waguespack wrote: Can someone please provide me with a short list of (current / cheap / desktop oriented) motherboards that enjoy full support with linuxbios? Sorry, there are none. But you are welcome to help us with the task

Re: [LinuxBIOS] well supported current cheap desktop pc mobo recommendation?

2006-11-03 Thread David H. Barr
Ron: This might be a good time to start a page on the wiki: LinuxBIOS desktop, documenting the boards, and how to build a linuxbios desktop, where to buy, etc. Count me in! YH: I could spend some time to port one AM2 socket based MB, but the MB should be more popular in the open market.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] New wiki index page.

2006-10-10 Thread David H. Barr
version I have been thinking about. It definately needs a bit more work, but maybe you like it. It's great, but someone needs to complain, so - The penguin in the About logo could be a bit bigger (just bleed/ crop it a bit if needed); - It took me a while to realise the thing in