Re: [LinuxBIOS] Please add support for MX25L8005 and MX25L3205D

2008-01-10 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 14:38:18 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: OK, I now know the exact problem. The IT8716F flash translation function does not work with chips bigger than 512 KByte unless you use a special software enable routine. And please tell me how much RAM the machine has

Re: [LinuxBIOS] different versions of the GA-M57SLI-S4 (PLCC vs SPI)

2008-01-09 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007 05:48:23 schrieb Peter Stuge: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:46:14PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: CS# from the IT8716F is routed up to R509 which is a zero ohm resistor. If this resistor is in place then CS is hardwired to CS# on U5 which is the SPI chip that's

[LinuxBIOS] Please add support for MX25L8005 and MX25L3205D

2008-01-09 Thread Harald Gutmann
in the flashchips.h file.) It would be really fine, if someone of you could implement that correctly, i can and will test if it works. Kind regards, Harald Gutmann -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Fix FireWire on GA M57 SLI-S4

2007-12-20 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 11:36:36 schrieb Torsten Duwe: On Monday 17 December 2007, I wrote: Potential ACKers please verify 01:0a.0 is not assigned any APIC pin so far. Could someone please confirm that in src/mainboard/gigabyte/m57sli/mptable.c 01:0a.0 has fallen between the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] different versions of the GA-M57SLI-S4 (PLCC vs SPI)

2007-12-05 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007 16:08:12 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Great work Richard! In fact what you have found, confirms the theory of one of my cow-workers that sometimes MB manufacturers ask chip makers to issue custom revisions for some types of components used in new series of a MB.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte M57SLI rev2.0 - PCI-Express

2007-12-05 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 01:48:35 schrieb Ward Vandewege: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:43:44AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 02.12.2007 21:05, Harald Gutmann wrote: And I have no idea whether we boot the Nvidia graphics BIOS or not. A LinuxBIOS serial capture should help

Re: [LinuxBIOS] different versions of the GA-M57SLI-S4 (PLCC vs SPI)

2007-12-05 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 13:44:53 schrieb ST: Hi one of the main big things on that board is the missing ACPI implementation. the other issues seem to be just little things: ACPI or in my case fan control is a real showstopper for me. What has to be done to remedie this problem?

[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte M57SLI rev2.0 - PCI-Express

2007-12-02 Thread Harald Gutmann
Hello! As i know the PCI-Express port on that board should work with lb but i've troubles on using an nvidia-grapic card with the propritary nvidia driver and lb. i used the revison 2994 for this test with lb-v2. Or is it nessacary to use a patch to get the PCI-Express working with lb? here

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom fails on GA-M57SLI with 1MB ROM

2007-11-21 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2007 23:07:27 schrieb Andreas B. Mundt: Hi all, today, I replaced the 512kB EEPROM on my GA-M57SLI by a 1024kB SST49LF080A chip. Flashing of a 1024kB BIOS (after booting with proprietary BIOS) works fine. After booting LB, writing with flashrom fails. (If you

[LinuxBIOS] Offering MX25L4005A Chips - For Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 rev2.0 Mainboard

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Hello! I've here 3 more pice of this chip, which can be soldered on the second bios place on the Gigabyte board. As i've soldered one of these chips to my board and i have more chips available i want to offer them to you. If you want to get such a chip, just send me an e-mail with your

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

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 02:27:21 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Found ITE IT8716F (id=0x8716, rev=0x0) at 0x2e Register dump: idx 07 20 21 22 23 24 2b -val 01 0a +val 0a 87 16 00 11 1a 00 def NA 87 16 01 00 00 00 23: Clock Selection 24: Software Suspend and Flash

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

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 16:53:54 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Strange. None of the changes in my patch show up in your superiotool output. That either means these registers are special or some part of the patch was ineffective or it was not applied. you are right! - it seems that

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

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 19:57:45 schrieb Uwe Hermann: On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Harald Gutmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 16:53:54 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Strange. None of the changes in my patch show up in your superiotool output. That either

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

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 01:14:52 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: On 13.11.2007 19:34, Harald Gutmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 16:53:54 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Strange. None of the changes in my patch show up in your superiotool output. That either means

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

2007-11-12 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 12. November 2007 12:30:33 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: On 08.11.2007 15:05, LinuxBIOS wrote: #87: flashrom issues on m57sli-s4 -+--- --- Reporter: ward | Owner: hailfinger Type:

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

2007-11-12 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 12. November 2007 22:41:05 schrieb Harald Gutmann: To be able to autodetect presence of serial flash, I'd like full superiotool output for * board with parallel flash * board with serial flash here is the output form superiotool for a board with serial flash. flashrom under

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [patch] Fix M57SLI interrupt routing

2007-11-12 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 01:25:28 schrieb Torsten Duwe: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:40, Torsten Duwe wrote: On Monday 05 November 2007, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Do you still need irqpoll? Rebuilding and rebooting right after this mail ... :-) ...now posting from it. No

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA M57SLI _really_ supported?

2007-10-28 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 20:12:31 schrieb Torsten Duwe: Hi all, trying to get my machine into productive use with LinuxBIOSv2 I just found major issues with the bridge configuration. The primary PCIe cannot generate interrupts, the other PCIe bridges are configured although the slots

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-22 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 22. Oktober 2007 21:56:32 schrieb Chris Lingard: Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:47:41PM +0100, Chris Lingard wrote: I'll get in touch with the distributors here. Will get back when I know more. I have been trying to get my M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI running LinuxBios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: add MX25L4005 erase/write support

2007-10-18 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 02:33:36 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: On 18.10.2007 02:28, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 18.10.2007 02:08, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071018 01:59]: My new version is way more generic and hopefully works as well.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-18 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 01:10:03 schrieb Peter Stuge: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:47:41PM +0100, Chris Lingard wrote: I'll get in touch with the distributors here. Will get back when I know more. I have been trying to get my M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI running LinuxBios for a while, but

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-18 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 17:05:30 schrieb Ward Vandewege: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Harald Gutmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 01:10:03 schrieb Peter Stuge: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:47:41PM +0100, Chris Lingard wrote: I'll get in touch

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: add MX25L4005 erase/write support

2007-10-17 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 14:14:17 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: On 15.10.2007 01:28, Harald Gutmann wrote: Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 01:06:00 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Great, thanks! The code I have also is not polished, so even if your code is ugly, it is better than no code

Re: [LinuxBIOS] badly initialized (?) pci bridge on the M57SLI (with irq table and mptable)

2007-10-16 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 21:56:47 schrieb Harald Gutmann: i tried that patch today, but it doesn't help to geht pci-slots working on my board, which is a rev.2.0. seems that i've patched in the wrong directory (src not work). the patch works for one slot. i patched both lines, also the one

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-15 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 02:57:00 schrieb Stefan Reinauer: * Harald Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071015 02:16]: +static void check_n_write_enable() { + uint8_t result[3] = {0, 0, 0}; + uint8_t command[5] = {0x06, 0, 0, 0, 0}; + // Send WREN (Write Enable

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - write support patch (speed improvements, erase fix.)

2007-10-15 Thread Harald Gutmann
diff -ubrN ../../flashrom.original/board_enable.c flashrom.new/board_enable.c --- ../../flashrom.original/board_enable.c 2007-10-15 01:14:29.0 +0200 +++ flashrom.new/board_enable.c 2007-10-14

Re: [LinuxBIOS] badly initialized (?) pci bridge on the M57SLI (with irq table and mptable)

2007-10-15 Thread Harald Gutmann
i tried that patch today, but it doesn't help to geht pci-slots working on my board, which is a rev.2.0. thus i don't really know which informations would be good to have from the pci things, i can't send them. but at the beginning i did an lspci - -s 00:06 on both bios versions. from the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-14 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007 03:45:10 schrieb Peter Stuge: I have a couple of 8Mbit SST25VF080B sample chips that I can pass on. I can't sell them but if you pay for postage I'll send you one or two. They are in WSON package which is footprint compatible with SOIC but not quite as easy to work

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-14 Thread Harald Gutmann
after a friend of mine (wolfgang illmeyer) implemented the code to write to the spi chip, i can finally give you the following output: % benchvice flashrom # ./flashrom -m gigabyte:m57sli -w

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-14 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 01:06:00 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Great, thanks! The code I have also is not polished, so even if your code is ugly, it is better than no code. We can clean up that stuff together. yes, that's right! here it is. the patch is done with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-14 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 01:45:51 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: Nice! it works, and that's the main thing! :) I'll review later this week, but from a first glance at the code it looks nice. some dirty hacks are in the code, but how i told it works. and now writing from a booted linuxbios!

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
just talking to myselv, but here are some more detailed informations including a backtrace of flashrom: i removed stripping and optimisation, but added the debug flag in makefile. benchvice flashrom # file flashrom flashrom: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 17:17:15 schrieb Peter Stuge: Excellent job! The soldering looks great - very impressive if this was the first time you soldered electronics. :) no, it wasn't the first time that i soldered, but i don't often solder. Also great to have confirmation that the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-13 Thread Harald Gutmann
Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 18:32:28 schrieb Ward Vandewege: I have updated the M57SLI build tutorial to indicate that the SOIC hardware hack has been confirmed. I really need to get the components so I can do it too on my board. thanks for adding it to the wiki, because i've no account right

[LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-12 Thread Harald Gutmann
://illmeyer.com/hg87/dscf1624.jpg http://illmeyer.com/hg87/dscf1628.jpg http://illmeyer.com/hg87/dscf1629.jpg http://illmeyer.com/hg87/dscf1630.jpg http://illmeyer.com/hg87/dscf1631.jpg at the and i want to thank j0hn for the chip. regards, harald gutmann -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] M57SLI Rev2.0 SPI - how to add the second bios chip (incl. pictures)

2007-10-12 Thread Harald Gutmann
trying to flash the new chip with flashrom fails right now, but i don't know why. here is the output from flashrom, when i try to flash the linuxbios.rom file: ./flashrom -V --mainboard gigabyte:m57sli -w /home/hg87/src/linuxbios/buildrom-devel/linuxbios.rom Calibrating delay loop... 291M loops