Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv3 Config files

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
want! Thanks. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r90 - in buildrom-devel: . config/platformspackages/linuxbios packages/linuxbios/conf.v3

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 11:24 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rest is in r91. AHHH!! That completely slipped my mind. I'm so sorry. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
and LINUXBIOS_V2. One of the changes Jordan made was to always build v3 with no payload and then add it later with any binary blobs that might be needed. This way you can change them without rebuilding v3. Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
I'm about to introduce some new code, but first, this is some cleanup of the linuxbios/ directory - all the geode targets were the same, so I consolidated them. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Consolidate all the geode

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
otherwise, if you're using snserial there is some option to do that as well. You can set up snserial to output to a pty, and then do a cat 'ptyX myfile.log. But it would be a good idea to make snserial output to a logfile. I'll add that to my todo list. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 14:56 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: I'm about to introduce some new code, but first, this is some cleanup of the linuxbios/ directory - all the geode targets were the same, so I consolidated them. As an aside, I tried all the Geode targets to make sure they work, and it looks like

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 16:51 -0500, Marc Karasek wrote: No the serial port output looks ok. It is the vga ouput I need to capture. The kernel as loader is crashing... Oh, wow... I don't think there's any way to do that. You can log the I/O and memory space accesses, but you can't log the screen.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 14:34 -0800, ron minnich wrote: Fix the payloads on alix1c and msm800sev. ron Fix these to use a more standard relative path for payload. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] And thank you for your speed! Index: targets

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 14:37 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 2:38 PM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fix these to use a more standard relative path for payload. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Committed revision

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 17:50 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:28PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: And the associated patch to bump the revision in buildrom. !DSPAM:4787f1d7211931030414324! [BUILDROM] Bump the mem800sev and alix1c revisions Bump the linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Consolidate all the geode Linuxbios targets

2008-01-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 11/01/08 17:50 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:28PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: And the associated patch to bump the revision in buildrom. !DSPAM:4787f1d7211931030414324! [BUILDROM] Bump the mem800sev and alix1c revisions Bump the linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv3 Config files

2008-01-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/01/08 10:19 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:56 PM, Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make oldconfig newlines.txt yes y | make oldconfig Dangerous - not all defaults are 'y'. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv3 Config files

2008-01-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/01/08 11:03 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 10:29 AM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/08 10:19 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:56 PM, Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make oldconfig newlines.txt yes y | make oldconfig

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

2008-01-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
this. Maybe we need to start using qa.linuxbios.org to as a backup for SVN failures. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question

2008-01-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
. Progress no matter how slow is progress, I guess.. :- ) You can use the head of the tree. Buildrom is supposed to be a stable version, so a working version is always specified for v2. Yes - you can move up. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOSv3 Config files

2008-01-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
that. At least, in my experience, we've always needed to the user to build the entire .config, to avoid oldconfig asking questions. But there might be a conf option that can avoid that. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] pciE spec

2008-01-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
the PCIe book from Mindshare - its most excellent. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3 - vsa into lar

2008-01-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
for this very reason. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3 - vsa into lar

2008-01-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
to build the VSA, let alone a custom VSA. We've discussed this in the past, but in short, somebody will need to figure out how to port the current VSA to the GNU compiler. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] empty payload

2008-01-04 Thread Jordan Crouse
, and then it would be as easy as: libpayload-gcc -o mypayload mypayload.c just give us a main() and a pocket full of dreams and we'll do the rest. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Possible stack protect solutions (RESEND)

2008-01-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/01/08 09:30 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 9:12 AM, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080103 17:25]: This patch will enable setting distro variables such as -fno_stack_protector as needed. It is a simple patch to buildtarget and

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RES: VGA Support on AMD DB800

2007-12-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 26/12/07 10:50 -0200, Omar Esteves Duarte Filho wrote: Jordan, Thank you again! I removed splash and quiet form the menu.lst and added console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200, as you can see below: title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.23.9-geodelx-fb root(hd0,0) kernel

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Possible stack protect solutions

2007-12-20 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 20/12/07 09:27 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 9:53 AM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I offer these two possible solutions. One is a patch to buildrom that changes how we pass in the -fno-stack-protect flag (thanks to Marc for the patch). The other is a patch

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Possible stack protect solutions

2007-12-20 Thread Jordan Crouse
.$$.tmp /dev/null 21 If successful then the flag is valid. Error and its not. Again, hugs and kisses to the gcc guys for making this so easy for us. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA Support on AMD DB800

2007-12-20 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 20/12/07 18:25 -0200, Omar Esteves Duarte Filho wrote: Hello! I'm trying to use LinuxBIOS with AMD Geode DB800 platform. However, until now, I could not manage to get VGA output working. Here is a summary of what i've tried: - built a LinuxBIOS rom image without VGA support. -

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Add support for the Cheetah FAM10 target to buildrom

2007-12-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
Hey all - following on Marc's awesome Barcelona patches, here is the code to add the fam10 target to buildrom. You may see a stack protect problem, patches following shortly to deal with that. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM

[LinuxBIOS] Possible stack protect solutions

2007-12-19 Thread Jordan Crouse
useful for their own uses will hit this too, but it is far more likely to break things. Thoughts? -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Another possible solution for the stackprotect problem - fixing the problem at its source. Not signed off yet Index

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Buildrom remove lgdt patch

2007-12-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 13/12/07 08:00 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: This patch removes the option from buildrom to use the lgdt patch for LinuxBIOSv3. On a compiler that doesn't need the patch, this patch makes the image unbootable. Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator (try 2)

2007-12-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 04/12/07 14:39 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: On 11/28/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/07 12:31 -0800, ron minnich wrote: Is there a howto on the web page to show how to use this sim environment? This is really cool. I put up a basic page today that should help

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildrom qemu patch

2007-12-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
. Myles Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: buildrom-devel/config/platforms/Config.in === --- buildrom-devel/config/platforms/Config.in (revision 84) +++ buildrom-devel

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

2007-12-12 Thread Jordan Crouse
. And last but not least, it is rather difficult to take a laptop apart to get at the motherboard, yet still keep everything working. In short, the downside is huge, the upside is minimal, and few people are willing to donate their laptops to potential bricking. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Some fixes

2007-12-12 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 06/12/07 17:40 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:34:53PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: A few fixes before my v3 patch - this cleans up the menuconfig to be a little bit more clear, and fixes a spurious variable that I removed behind Ward's back. Gah - I never

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

2007-12-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
friendly interfaces. Some combination of these will get you to where you want to be. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
behind it and we can forget all about v2, then we'll revisit it, but 99.99% of the customers and users here need a solution today, and mkelfimage is it. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 09/12/07 10:16 -0800, ron minnich wrote: further question, could we get rid of mkelfimage? I can't see why we're still using it. Are you serious? What other options do we have for turning kernel images into ELF images for payloads? Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Buildrom setup broken for GA-M57SLI?

2007-12-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
of CFLAGS. Jordan: I'll did into this a bit deeper, if want me to, but you will need to give me the 411 on what its supposed to be doing. I'll go in and fix it. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
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, thanks!), but lzma fails: make[1

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-10 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 10/12/07 13:52 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: 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

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-08 Thread Jordan Crouse
Okay, its time to start re-thinking how we do -fno-stack-protector, its obvious we are constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'll look at this on Monday. On 07/12/07 22:51 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Jordan Crouse wrote: On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Typo! That makes 2

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: 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

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-07 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 07/12/07 07:40 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: -Original Message- From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:47 PM To: Myles Watson Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: Expand linuxbiosv3 support On 06/12/07 16:32 -0700, Myles

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
/listinfo/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
with everybody? Jordan Myles Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 06/12/07 09:00 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: And the patch :) Myles Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] r77. Everybody please update - and go nuts. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 06/12/07 09:34 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: -Original Message- From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:26 AM To: Myles Watson Cc: Linuxbios Subject: Re: State of the buildrom On 06/12/07 09:00 -0700, Myles Watson wrote

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
up a commit? :) Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 06/12/07 12:22 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: 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

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Some fixes

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
A few fixes before my v3 patch - this cleans up the menuconfig to be a little bit more clear, and fixes a spurious variable that I removed behind Ward's back. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Some fixes Remove a spurious

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
what you think. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Expand linuxbiosv3 support Add more generic support for LinuxBIOSv3 - add specialized package for v3, and add support for using LAR to put it all together. Also add expanded

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r539 - LinuxBIOSv3/arch/x86

2007-12-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
it to use revision 539 of v3 because that was the last revision before it was broken on purpose to mirror hardware better. Are you saying you snuck v3 support in when I wasn't looking? Well done. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-05 Thread Jordan Crouse
Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] r74. Thanks. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator (try 2)

2007-12-04 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 04/12/07 14:39 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: On 11/28/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/07 12:31 -0800, ron minnich wrote: Is there a howto on the web page to show how to use this sim environment? This is really cool. I put up a basic page today that should help

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
, we will need the ability to override configuration opens with environment variables - ROM size and compression control come to mind as good candidates, but really a generic way to override config without editing text files would be the most ideal. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Infamous __stack_chk_fail problem.

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 08:34 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:57 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 30/11/07 15:29 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: Is it a viable solution to have buildrom build a cross-tool chain? Imho: This would be best in order to have repeatable results. Having

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 18:00 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:15:37AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: There just isn't any good way to change v2 config files without lots of pain Not that we really have a great story for v3 either, .. really a generic way to override config

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 18:54 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:41:11AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: How about one environment variable that points to another file with options? Oh, I like it. Lets make this happen. See mainboard() at line 1333 in util/newconfig/config.g

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Qemu compile for LinuxBIOSV2

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 10:15 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote: On 12/3/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we get a Signed-off-by: line for this patch? It seems sane enough to me. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jordan Crouse Systems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Qemu compile for LinuxBIOSV2

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 13:15 -0500, Marc Karasek wrote: Unfortunately, it is still broken under Fedora 8. V3 works, it is just V2 that is having these linking problems. This patch makes things better, and it at least gives us a more descriptive error than just a segmentation fault. This at least

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
how we really want to configure LinuxBIOS (it seems to be a large hurdle for newbies), not buildrom. Agreed - being able to do these things easily with v3 is a priority. We have to think about what we would want to control externally, and then make those knobs easy to turn. Jordan -- Jordan

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Infamous __stack_chk_fail problem.

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 10:32 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:08 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: However - I want it to remain optional rather than a requirement, so that the entry level stays as low as possible for as many as possible. I agree. A fully native build should be

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Infamous __stack_chk_fail problem.

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/12/07 11:29 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:52 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: I'm already on board with my opinion on a cross compiler, no need to rehash that here. But the thing about _this_ bug is that this can be fixed, and if you use buildrom it _should_

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Infamous __stack_chk_fail problem.

2007-12-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
of these tools are on the creators and maintainers of those tools, not the LinuxBIOS community as a whole. The only deliverable that this group needs to care about is making LinuxBIOS work. Jordan --- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildrom: add preliminary gpxe support

2007-11-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
-by: Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: config/payloads/payloads.conf === --- config/payloads/payloads.conf (revision 68) +++ config/payloads/payloads.conf (working copy) @@ -18,6

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Infamous __stack_chk_fail problem.

2007-11-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
, we'll be relying more on hacking on the buildrom development environment, and we lose. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] buildrom: add supermicro h8dmr

2007-11-30 Thread Jordan Crouse
support to buildrom. Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: config/platforms/Config.in === --- config/platforms/Config.in(revision 68) +++ config/platforms/Config.in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add targets for mconf and lxdialog

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/11/07 00:46 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:13:49PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: [BUILDROM] Add targets for mconf and lxdialog There isn't any need to be running make for mconf and lxdialog every time we run menuconfig - we invoke the power of Make and add

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Move to memtest86 version 3.4

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/11/07 01:00 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:14:56PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: [BUILDROM] Move to memetest86 version 3.4 Memtest86 version 3.4 has some fun new tricks, like understanding multiple CPUs. Also use the correct name in the config.in - its

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Very minor fixes to make it easier to use custom ELF payloads

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/11/07 09:53 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071129 00:16]: [BUILDROM] Very minor fixes to make it easier to use custom ELF payloads Some fixes to make it easier to use a custom ELF payload. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Download and prepend the VGA VBIOS for the ga-2761gxdk

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 29/11/07 00:48 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:18:11PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: [BUILDROM] Download and prepend the VGA VBIOS for the ga-2761gxdk First try at downloading and prepending the VGA VBIOS for the ga-2761gxdk board stored on linuxbios.org

[LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
tricks and the like. I think things are stable enough in the core that we can start to twist some knobs without blowing everything up. What does everybody else think? What have I missed? Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] State of the buildrom

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
that kind of stuff. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

2007-11-29 Thread Jordan Crouse
to several seconds of delay before you can access them. I'm curious, what do you use for USB booting? Is it suitable for generic LinuxBIOS use, too? Both FILO and Etherboot seem pretty broken wrt USB at the moment, GRUB2 doesn't have support at all AFAIK. They use OFW. Jordan -- Jordan

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator (try 2)

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
Here is the refreshed patch for the SimNow support against current RCS. Something is triggering my bat sense that the tree isn't exactly in a right state, but I can't remember what it is. Please test the tree with and without the patch to make sure that its sane. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 21/11/07 16:29 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: My patch makes it so all targets use vmlinux and 2.7 Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Committed, thanks. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator (try 2)

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 28/11/07 11:47 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: On 11/28/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the refreshed patch for the SimNow support against current RCS. Something is triggering my bat sense that the tree isn't exactly in a right state, but I can't remember what

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r64 - in buildrom-devel: config/platforms packages/linuxbios packages/linuxbios/patches

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
can add it to be a permanent part of LinuxBIOS. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Add support for the AMD SimNow (TM) simulator (try 2)

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
it from the code, which is a different path). Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Move to memtest86 version 3.4

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
Bump memtest86 to version 3.4, which has some new features that are useful for those of us hacking on memory controllers on AMD K8 and beyond. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Move to memetest86 version 3.4 Memtest86 version 3.4 has

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Add targets for mconf and lxdialog

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
Hey all - I've been holding a mini-hackathon of one for buildrom today. Here is a simple cleanup for the makefile. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Add targets for mconf and lxdialog There isn't any need to be running make for mconf

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Download and prepend the VGA VBIOS for the ga-2761gxdk

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
- I think there is definitely some room for consolidation and improvement, but we are hobbled by v2 in many regards. v3 will make this stuff so much better. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Download and prepend the VGA VBIOS

[LinuxBIOS] [BUILDROM] Very minor fixes to make it easier to use custom ELF payloads

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
This prevents errors when building and cleaning trees with custom payloads in them. -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [BUILDROM] Very minor fixes to make it easier to use custom ELF payloads Some fixes to make it easier to use a custom ELF

Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD CPU ID fixes and additions

2007-11-28 Thread Jordan Crouse
-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/cpu/amd/model_fxx/model_fxx_init.c === --- src/cpu/amd/model_fxx/model_fxx_init.c(Revision 2988) +++ src/cpu/amd/model_fxx

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3: convert stage2 to multi-segment LAR

2007-11-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
- that will drive others (like me) off course thinking an object file is living in the LAR, which is not the case. JOrdan On 27/11/07 08:18 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 8:04 AM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying that the new method isn't a good one, but Stefan has

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3: convert stage2 to multi-segment LAR

2007-11-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 27/11/07 08:29 -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 8:33 AM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I would abandon the use of .o naming in the LAR - that will drive others (like me) off course thinking an object file is living in the LAR, which is not the case. your

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

2007-11-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-27 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 27/11/07 16:32 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: -Original Message- From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:05 PM To: Myles Watson Cc: 'Jordan Crouse'; 'Linuxbios' Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Drop Bitworks IMS board

2007-11-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 14/11/07 00:28 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:47:07PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: Drop the unfinished, non-working Bitworks IMS board. Richard? Ok with you? I asked him on IRC and he said OK. Acked-by: Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] //Peter -- linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
-x86_64.mk? kernel.inc does all the heavy lifting now. Or not? Jordan Thanks, Myles In case we need a separate signed off Signed-off-by: Myles Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/21/07, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/11/07 14:51 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Wed, Nov 21

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-26 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 26/11/07 16:36 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: -Original Message- From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 21/11/07 16:41 -0700, Myles Watson wrote: I forgot to add these 3 files to the diff. Sorry. I also don't know how to remove s-c-payload.patch from packages

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-21 Thread Jordan Crouse
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Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-21 Thread Jordan Crouse
(phdr[i].p_type) != PT_LOAD) continue; phdrs++; } -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

2007-11-21 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 21/11/07 14:51 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:13:23PM -0700, Myles Watson wrote: It makes the same changes as mentioned before, but it also uses the correct kernel image depending on the architecture. mkelfimage doesn't work with an x86_64 vmlinux, and with an

Re: [LinuxBIOS] alix1c

2007-11-17 Thread Jordan Crouse
with that - the failsafe is generally considered be a pretty valuable addition. I can't think of any pratical reasons why you would want to not have the failsafe. Even in this case, it wasn't the failsafe that was to blame, though it was what was giving you heartburn. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software

Re: [LinuxBIOS] alix1c

2007-11-17 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 17/11/07 21:45 -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 18/11/07 03:18 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:14:46PM -0500, Tom Sylla wrote: Does anyone know what can be done to appease the hardware into _not_ shutting down even though pwrbtn is held pressed from boot

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-16 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 17/11/07 00:09 +0200, Fridel Fainshtein wrote: Usb boot loader would be just a nice feature to have in an existent application. Why should one use tiny kernel + kexec, if there are such a wonderful things like linuxbios and filo? Well, first and foremost, because the tiny kernel already

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-16 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 16/11/07 14:58 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: Jordan Crouse wrote: Well, first and foremost, because the tiny kernel already knows how to do I'm sorry, can someone enlighten me as to what a tiny kernel is? Is that anything similar to this? http://www.selenic.com/linux-tiny/ Well, typically

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3: documentation fixes

2007-11-15 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 15/11/07 11:45 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 15.11.2007 01:32, Jordan Crouse wrote: I think printk is always available - any previous printk pain has been (finally) resolved. That warrants updating the design doc as well as another question: Is printk available before

Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3: documentation fixes

2007-11-14 Thread Jordan Crouse
/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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