Re: [LinuxBIOS] hotplugging flash piece on A8N-E / ROMSIZE

2007-09-01 Thread Philipp Degler
On Friday 31 August 2007 18:49:55 Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > On Monday 27 August 2007 00:31:37 Quux wrote: > > > Peter Stuge schrieb: > > > > It may not be best practice to hotplug, but it is rather

Re: [LinuxBIOS] hotplugging flash piece on A8N-E / ROMSIZE

2007-08-30 Thread Philipp Degler
On Monday 27 August 2007 00:31:37 Quux wrote: > Peter Stuge schrieb: > > It may not be best practice to hotplug, but it is rather safe since > > the chip is never accessed once the system is running. > > saves plug cycles and time ... > > >> Even an 8 Mbit piece 49LF080A works with the Asus a8ne,

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

2007-08-24 Thread Philipp Degler
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:00:49 Quux wrote: > wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at > ebay for €22. > > I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current > revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of 2hex as in the M57SLI > target. Once I fixed that

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

2007-08-24 Thread Philipp Degler
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:00:49 Quux wrote: > wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at > ebay for €22. > > I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current > revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of 2hex as in the M57SLI > target. Once I fixed that

Re: [LinuxBIOS] new Target ASUS A8NE

2007-05-27 Thread Philipp Degler
On Saturday 26 May 2007 17:39:02 you wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Applied (with some m

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: ite/it8712f

2007-05-25 Thread Philipp Degler
On Thursday 24 May 2007 20:46:24 Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:22:28AM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Committed in r2695, thanks. > > Can you confirm that the entries in pnp_dev_info[] all work

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Progress on ASUS A8N-E

2007-05-23 Thread Philipp Degler
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 01:59:01 Jeremy Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > Wondering if you can test all 4 SATA ports, i don't think anyone has > more than 2 of 4 working. yes same thing here. Tested all for ports but only the first 2 of em work. > > I'm working on a Tyan S2865 board, similar except the Su

[LinuxBIOS] patch: ite/it8712f

2007-05-23 Thread Philipp Degler
patch modifies: it8712f.h -> added GPIO superio.c -> added entry and exit functions Signed-off-by: Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: superio/ite/it8712f/superio.c === --- superio

[LinuxBIOS] Patch: Adds error message if keyboard selftest fails

2007-05-23 Thread Philipp Degler
Small patch that adds an error message in case keyboard selftest fails. Signed-off-by: Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: src/pc80/keyboard.c === --- src/pc80/keyboard.c (Revision 2688) +++ src/pc80/keyboard.c (Arbeit

Re: [LinuxBIOS] new Target ASUS A8NE

2007-05-22 Thread Philipp Degler
gt; > > +## > > > +## Copyright (C) 2007 University of Mannheim > > > +## Written by Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Uni > > > Ma. > > > > Just curious -- are you sure the university owns the copyright? AFAIK > > this is not possible in Germany, you as

Re: [LinuxBIOS] new Target ASUS A8NE

2007-05-19 Thread Philipp Degler
On Friday 18 May 2007 23:29:45 Uwe Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:39:38PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > - RAM olny runs with small modification of amdk8/raminit.c > > => comment out debug fo

[LinuxBIOS] Progress on ASUS A8N-E

2007-05-17 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi I realized some guys on this list were talking about porting ASUS A8N-SLI. I started porting LinuxBIOS to ASUS A8N-E [1]. The boards seem to share some similarities so maybe my code is of any use for A8N-SLI port. At the moment I'am able to fully boot an open SuSE 10.0 using the standard

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add includes to it8712f/superio.c

2006-12-01 Thread Philipp Degler
hi On Friday 01 December 2006 13:32, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:24:11AM +0100, Philipp Degler wrote: > > sorry for confusion I've tested flashing again - this time with original > > BIOS chip (SST49LF004A/B) and I was able to write without problems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add includes to it8712f/superio.c

2006-12-01 Thread Philipp Degler
ing with flashrom? > > We have a couple of A8N-VM CSM boards, and while reading data with flashrom > works, writing doesn't yet. > > Thanks, > Ward. > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:27PM +0100, Philipp Degler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we've tested th

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add includes to it8712f/superio.c

2006-11-29 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi Ward, > Hi Philipp, > > Out of curiosity, have you managed in-board flashing with flashrom? well, yes and no => yes we used flashrom but up till now we only flashed the internal ROM of our BIOS Savior. Reading the original ROM image was possible too. But we did not really tested writing yet.

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Add includes to it8712f/superio.c

2006-11-29 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi, we've tested the it8712f code, too. We see serial output on our ASUS a8ne. It is equiped with a ck804 SB and 1GB of RAM and a Athlon64 CPU. But we needed to set the clock to 24MHz in order to see valid serial output. Index: src/superio/ite/it8712f/it8712f_early_serial.c =

Re: [LinuxBIOS] DK8HTX - CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN -> VGA

2006-09-28 Thread Philipp Degler
On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:51, ollie wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 21:09 +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 19:49 schrieb ollie: > > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 18:03 +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > > > Am Mittwoch, 27. Sept

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios Digest, Vol 19, Issue 57

2006-09-28 Thread Philipp Degler
Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 22:20 schrieb ollie: > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 21:13 +0200, Philipp Degler wrote: > > Right now we have all on-board devices working. Even xorg shows up. Only > > exception is native vga-bios. It gets loaded but just a few lines of > > LB-boot a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios Digest, Vol 19, Issue 57

2006-09-28 Thread Philipp Degler
ain on bus 0. > > Also need one extra entry in irq_table so your HTX card showed on lspci. well actually we can access it with our kernel driver and it also shows up on lspci? > > YH > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios Digest, Vol 19, Issue 57

2006-09-27 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi after a few months of work we (my mentor Mondrian Nuessle and me) managed to get Iwill DK8HTX board running. Porting LinuxBIOS to "DK8HTX" was part of an academic project. Main goal was to get the htx socket running together with our htx fpga board: http://hypertransport.org/products/productd

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Kernel will not boot

2006-07-02 Thread Philipp Degler
by commenting out the if statements I was able to init ide. thx phil On Tuesday 28 March 2006 16:47, you wrote: > * Philipp Degler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060328 16:24]: > > I tried various payloads to boot the system. Filo could not find my hda > > saying > > for filo di

[LinuxBIOS] irq_table/mptable problems?

2006-06-22 Thread Philipp Degler
hi step by step I make my way booting a 2.6 kernel with linuxbios on an Iwill dk8htx board. I was able to compile a working rom and start loading a 2.6.13 kernel but something seems to be wrong with my irq_table/mptable settings. I first used initial cvs-settings. Finally I generated a new irq

[LinuxBIOS] Kernel will not boot

2006-03-28 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi, I tried various payloads to boot the system. Filo could not find my hda saying floating bus. Etherboot loads OK and gets a kernel elf image via tftp but kernel is not loading. Do you have an idea what could be the problem? Maybe some PCI-Devices not initialized correctly? VGA-Support is tu

[LinuxBIOS] resourcemap for IWill dk8htx

2006-03-22 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi I started porting LinuxBIOS to IWill dk8-htx board. I used the dk8s2 to start from. After some smaller changes to the Config.lb I could compile it and flash it with flashrom. Unfortunately it seems that the default_resource_map is not working. This is what I get when I debug a little. Lin

[LinuxBIOS] IWILL DK8-HTX

2006-01-31 Thread Philipp Degler
Hi greg, coming back on your thread-entry. We would like to get the IWILL DK8-HTX Rev. 1.0 running. Is it possible to use devbios or mtd to access the bios or is the hardware flash programmer the only possible (better) way? The board uses an AMIbios, SVR 2000, AA46 (6827) with the following lay