Re: [LinuxBIOS] RESEND: patch: fix the problem with CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA not pulling in the emulator

2008-01-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Agreed. How about an additional CONFIG_NONVGA_ROM_RUN? This is a good start. I assume you have tested it with abuild. Please try to get another ack from Ron or Luc as well. Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RESEND: patch: fix the problem with CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA not pulling in the emulator

2008-01-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
? This is a good start. I assume you have tested it with abuild. Please try to get another ack from Ron or Luc as well. Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks very good from an initial glance, but i will take a more in depth look first before ack :) Luc Verhaegen. SUSE/Novell X

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

2008-01-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
that this will finally satisfy you so that i can finally move on and fix the remaining issues with my native vga textmode bringup. Luc Verhaegen. SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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

2008-01-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:31:27PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 5:03 PM, Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What i am trying to do is implement native VGA bring-up for unichrome. I have had userspace code doing this on top of a clean linuxbios for more than 8 months

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

2008-01-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
be done by the relevant init function of possible (future) VGA setup drivers. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: src/devices/pci_device.c === --- src/devices/pci_device.c(revision 3031) +++ src/devices

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

2008-01-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:46:15PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: you need a signed-off by ... Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] beautifying is always a good idea. ron How bloody insulting. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http

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

2008-01-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:26:10PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 1:16 AM, Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA and CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN logic in src/devices/pci_device.c:pci_dev_init is messed up. It may be hard to read, but I am pretty sure it is doing

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

2008-01-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
already? I really do not see what you continue to keep having against this trivial and rather sane fix. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom: add board enable for epox ep-bx3

2007-08-10 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:02:42PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Luc Verhaegen. Hrm, This version has some comments :) Luc Verhaegen. flashrom: Add board enable for the EPOX EP-BX3. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: README

[LinuxBIOS] flashrom: add board enable for epox ep-bx3

2007-08-10 Thread Luc Verhaegen
Luc Verhaegen. flashrom: Add board enable for the EPOX EP-BX3. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: README === --- README (revision 2742) +++ README (working copy) @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ * Agami Aruma: use -m

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom move into global util/ directory

2007-07-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
flashrom support for any board out there. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: add support for tyan tomcat k7m.

2007-07-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
Luc Verhaegen. Flashrom: Add support for Tyan Tomcat K7M. Same board enable as Asus A7V8-MX. Tested by Reinhard Max. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: board_enable.c === --- board_enable.c (revision 2731

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom move into global util/ directory

2007-07-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:32:36AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:00:57PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: I fully agree with the earlier stuff, but is there any reason to keep this in the v3 tree? People will not be that unhappy if they're required to pull in the flashrom

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Flashrom move into global util/ directory

2007-07-01 Thread Luc Verhaegen
patches/modifications you may have. If there are problems please let us know (try a fresh checkout before, though). If nobody objects, I'll perform the required actions later this day or tomorrow. Thanks, Uwe. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RD1 BIOS Savior [was Re: No known linux compatable BIOS programmer ?]

2007-06-05 Thread Luc Verhaegen
using -w, a pci tag argument should be required to avoid mistakes. -r with -p can happen if only one possible device is found. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] EPIA CL

2007-05-28 Thread Luc Verhaegen
same ids. Ain't that cute? Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:26:54PM -0700, Russ Whitaker wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT Shouldn't that be vga video mode 3, 720x400 res

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
parsing and cvt modeline generation in linuxbios. And this will all be getting rather big rather quickly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is somewhat safe, as most devices on the CRT connection will be able to handle this, as this is the default BIOS textmode. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
against a bootsplash or a full modeset in BIOS, but imho other things are way more important. I will have to do a bit more work than what i'm currently doing though, i will need to make it possible to use textmode on DVI or a panel on the CLE266. That way all basic needs are taken care of. Luc

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
further work integrating in linuxbios. I'm pretty much stuck until halfway june, though. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: add support for Asus P5A

2007-05-16 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:34:12PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:11:26PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: The Asus P5A also seriously messes up pci-ids, there is nothing dependable there, so people who want to use flashrom on this board should use -m asus:p5a Did anyone

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: add support for Asus P5A

2007-05-15 Thread Luc Verhaegen
, there is nothing dependable there, so people who want to use flashrom on this board should use -m asus:p5a but it works :) This is a board i own myself and this has been tested successfully. Luc Verhaegen. flashrom: add support for asus p5a (Socket7, ALI based) * Add support for the ALI M1533

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Willem EEPROM Programmer

2007-05-13 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. You're only throwing money away. Just buy some roms. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] WARNING: flashrom coding style fixes ahead

2007-05-04 Thread Luc Verhaegen
being. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-05-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. I will look into writing static int W83627HFGPIORaise(int Port); which handles the raising of GPIO20-27 on this very superIO. This would reduce the two relevant board enables and stop mistakes like this from happening ever again. Luc Verhaegen. Add Winbond SuperIO helper functions to clear up

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-05-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
on for vga io in my unichrome driver :) Sorry for the hassle, Mondrian Don't apologise. You saw this through to the end. Also, the code is cleaner, and we have what currently seems the best solution in place. The result is there, that's what counts. New patch will be sent in shortly. Luc

[LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: w863xx helpers and w86327hf_gpio42_raise

2007-05-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
some things from the old iwill code. * Moved all board functions name argument to const. (warning breaks build) * Moved iwill entry in board_pciid_enables. Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: board_enable.c

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: w863xx helpers and w86327hf_gpio42_raise

2007-05-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:39:30AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:50:47AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Add WinBond Super IO helpers. Looks very good except for one small thing.. +wbsio_mask(unsigned char index, unsigned char data, Could this be called

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [patch] flashrom: w863xx helpers and w86327hf_gpio42_raise

2007-05-03 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:47:14AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:10:29AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: You can take this sort of thing very far A single bitwise clear is: wbsio_mask(reg, 0x00, 0x10); A single bitwise set is: wbsio_mask(reg, 0x10, 0x10

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Suggestions for LinuxBIOS v3

2007-05-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
who prefer a bit of bling that is) Really, what is this drive for GUIs. What's wrong with a nice command line utility. If you need a gui to configure and flash your bios, then maybe you shouldn't be touching your bios at all. Luc Verhaegen. X.org driver developer. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-05-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
see that it really makes a lot of difference, even on such a small file. 3 out of 4 board enables make use of it though. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Suggestions for LinuxBIOS v3

2007-05-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:36:00PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:10:33PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:49:53AM -0700, Vlad wrote: 1) Bootsplash in both LinuxBIOS and bootloader, with a message along the lines of Press the Esc key to change

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Suggestions for LinuxBIOS v3

2007-05-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
for years. Which is why my driver was so happy with plain linuxbios. I'm not about to start a direct VBE replacement, it only makes driver developers lazy. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-28 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:00:42AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:33:53PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Mondrian Nuessle wrote: Actually you do not need to set the index reg twice. I just used the code pattern from the Agami

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
when i was too busy to fix things then. Sorry for that. It will probably still exist in other places of flashrom too, nothing you should worry about though. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:17:27PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:01:19PM +0200, Mondrian Nuessle wrote: The attached patch enables flashing on the Iwill DK8-HTX board. Basically, it configures the SuperIO to set the right GPIO pins, so write protection is disabled

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
, 0xD0); /* Set GPIO regs... */ I don't think that these functions need to live outside board_enable.c The size of them will already largely be made up for by the code we save with this. Luc Verhaegen. PS: Mondrian, there is no need for your patch to also implement this. With the whitespace

Re: [LinuxBIOS] about programming BIOS Savior

2007-04-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
be printed. I could provide a patch in that direction. What do you think? Mondrian Provide linuxbios name and only main ids and the matcher will not try to match on pci-ids. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-26 Thread Luc Verhaegen
at least one set of main pci-ids. This will stop joe simple from simply running down the list of board enables. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
subsystem ids that differ from the main ids. That way, you don't need to provide the board name as an argument. Yes, once linuxbios is installed, it'll try to match on name, but please also make correct use of subsystem ids under linuxbios. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
, Ning On 4/25/07, Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two full sets of pci ids possible in that structure. A full set consists of: * vendor id * device id * subsystem/card vendor id * subsystem/card vendor id There are two sets here, to ensure a good board match

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
are very universal and easy to retrieve. Vendor error is the big let-down here, although, for the unichrome, there has been some albeit minimal positive evolution over the years. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
) Subsystem: 1095:3114 0x1022:0x2B80 indeed does seem like a solid and very deliberate subsystem id here. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom patch for iwill dk8_htx

2007-04-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
to be a problem. Vendors should imho just be more responsible about these things. As it's pure stupidity that stop this neat functionality to be universally useful. This mess happens everywhere though, DDC/EDID (monitors) is pretty much the same story. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Dumping BIOS on ASUS boards

2007-04-11 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. You're probably talking about the board enable code i added? My test system was a A7V400-MX, a rebadged A7V78X-SE. It's no problem to dig out the bioses of the two boards listed above. I would like to see some pci subsystem ids though. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Dumping BIOS on ASUS boards

2007-04-11 Thread Luc Verhaegen
i promised over the past few weeks though. :) Luc Verhaegen -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Dumping BIOS on ASUS boards

2007-04-11 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:58:32PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:34:59PM +0400, Anton wrote: Ah, yeah. I'm not sure how the code in board_asus_a7v8x_mx() corresponds with ASUS_FLASH structure. There is completely different code. This is from the AWDFLASH

[LinuxBIOS] rom-madness: CFI vs FWH vs SPI, 5V, 3.3, ...

2007-04-09 Thread Luc Verhaegen
and stuck on the wiki. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2578 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2007-04-01 Thread Luc Verhaegen
cleanly anymore thanks to the ICH7 commit. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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

2007-04-01 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:36:28AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Here's a quick review: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: been relegated to flash_rom.c. Then there's only some extraneous whitespace removal and replacing // with /* */. I'm not sure how svn

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

2007-03-31 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Done. The island aruma got renamed to agami aruma at some point, the board specific match has been adjusted to that now. I hope that the pci ids i gathered from its src/mainboards/ directory are ok. I of course have no way

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

2007-03-29 Thread Luc Verhaegen
directly but hasn't made generally public (yet). It therefor directly forces you to breach the GPL. Daft, clueless, useless and will probably not stand in court. A typical example of VIA stupidity. Luc Verhaegen. http://unichrome.Sf.net/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http

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

2007-03-29 Thread Luc Verhaegen
not allowed to disclose anything, the addendum tells you that you're allowed to disclose everything, except that bit with gpled code VIA handed you directly. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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

2007-03-27 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:52:16AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:40:23AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Luc, could you check out the PCChips M789CG for me and see if this can support it? The stock bios

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

2007-03-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:46:45AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:47:43AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: This patch adds initial flashrom support for matching mainboards based on pci-ids and pci subsystem/card ids. Acked-by: Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I won't

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

2007-03-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. * Int16 vector for AMI * Dump of 0xE-0xF. The int16 vector should live here, and the AWDFLASH structure exists here too. So a tiny bit of python will provide for AMI and AWD. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo

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

2007-03-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
you make this an extra file? Then I'll commit it. Yeah, sure. Any idea about sensible naming? chip_enable.c and board_enable.c? Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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

2007-03-25 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:40:23AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Luc, could you check out the PCChips M789CG for me and see if this can support it? The stock bios is an AMIBIOS (if it matters), with a VT8235M southbridge and ITE

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

2007-03-22 Thread Luc Verhaegen
-vn. Commit message, signed-off, etc are done git-style. Luc Verhaegen. flashrom: Add board specific flash enables based on matching pci-ids. * Matches mainboards with up to two full sets of pci-ids, and if matched calls the respective enable function. * Falls back to name based matching/enable

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

2007-03-17 Thread Luc Verhaegen.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Luc Verhaegen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070317 14:04]: I want it to go into a nice picture/or solid color within less a second after press the ON button. Yes, people do seem to want to have a pretty bootsplash

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

2007-03-17 Thread Luc Verhaegen.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Luc Verhaegen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070317 15:39]: Are you saying there that, for the likes of filo, grub, etherboot, etc will be forced to set up a full VGA console themselves? Not more than at the moment. You need

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

2007-03-16 Thread Luc Verhaegen
did brick it here is when i did try to run a VGA BIOS (at a wrong, hardcoded offset), so don't worry too much, just be very careful :) Oh well, true free software geekdom is only for the brave. Luc Verhaegen. http://unichrome.sf.net/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Programming i2c video-out

2007-03-13 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:57:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:50:47AM +0100, Quux wrote: I understand video encoders are not standalone. They receive input from your GPU, in my case it is embedded so

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Programming i2c video-out

2007-03-12 Thread Luc Verhaegen
. As such, it is all up to the VGA BIOS, or, if available, up to the direct support of certain graphics devices. Luc Verhaegen. http://unichrome.sf.net/ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Fix wrong VT8235 flash enable failed warning.

2007-03-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
This fixes the warning that's present for all VT8235 southbridges: ... Enabling flash write on VT8235...tried to set 0x4 to 0x14 on VT8235 failed (WARNING ONLY) ... It's bourne from misinterpreting the return value of pci_write_byte, which peculiarly returns 1 for success. Luc Verhaegen

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Fix wrong VT8235 flash enable failed warning.

2007-03-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
KM400 + VT8237 K8M800 + VT8235 I have no VT8231 at my disposal, but the codepath is and used to be the same for VT8237. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Fix wrong VT8235 flash enable failed warning.

2007-03-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
for an extra ROM. There have been several of these crashfree things in the course of a few years, all are more or less equally obscure. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] CrashFree, Virtual DualBIOS, etc.

2007-03-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:22:57PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:09:28PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: This motherboards BIOS is supposed to have a CrashFree BIOS, and i have a hard time finding out what that actually is supposed to do. I have a hard time looking

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] flashrom: Fix wrong VT8235 flash enable failed warning.

2007-03-02 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: Signed-off-by: Luc Verhaegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Committed in r2568, thanks. Uwe. Thanks Luc Verhaegen