Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX CAS setting fix

2007-06-14 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 13/06/07 17:51 -0700, ron minnich wrote: Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: I have not tested this on hardware. But I can bet Marc has :-) This just convinces me that DRAM really is black magic :-) r2722. And yes - it is all black magic, which is why Marc wears a black

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX support

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
Indrek Kruusa wrote: Could it be that setup for one LX board (amd/norwitch) does something very special that prevents this LB ROM to run (to some extent) on another LX board (artecgroup/dbe61)? It stops at postcode 0x10 (Entry into protected mode). I suppose that whatever LX target rom

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX support

2007-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On 5/21/07, Indrek Kruusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be that setup for one LX board (amd/norwitch) does something very special that prevents this LB ROM to run (to some extent) on another LX board (artecgroup/dbe61)? It stops at postcode 0x10 (Entry into protected mode). I suppose that

[LinuxBIOS] Geode LX support

2007-05-21 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Could it be that setup for one LX board (amd/norwitch) does something very special that prevents this LB ROM to run (to some extent) on another LX board (artecgroup/dbe61)? It stops at postcode 0x10 (Entry into protected mode). I suppose that whatever LX target rom should be able to reach at

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX support

2007-05-21 Thread Marc Jones
Indrek Kruusa wrote: Could it be that setup for one LX board (amd/norwitch) does something very special that prevents this LB ROM to run (to some extent) on another LX board (artecgroup/dbe61)? It stops at postcode 0x10 (Entry into protected mode). I suppose that whatever LX target rom

Re: [LinuxBIOS] ### Geode LX

2007-05-08 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Steve Spano [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070507 15:58]: I have seen a lot of chatter regarding the GeodeLX linux bios. Where is the current release version/patch list for the GeodeLX bios. All required code is in the current development tree. See http://www.linuxbios.org/Download_LinuxBIOS on how

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/05/07 20:50 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Don't do it. Thanks. Removing working code is not a good option, and there may still be people with rev_a/btest boards out there. Also, the code is very useful as a reference for other boards etc. There's no indication that code is actually working -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/05/07 21:12 -0700, ron minnich wrote: yes, it is companies and organizations that ship distros and turn on switches that require things like stack checking, and hence break linuxbios builds on certain distros. They don't seem to realize that all the world is NOT an application ...

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread ron minnich
let me say it differently. I think if we want to target OLPC, we ought to do it from V3, not V2. I'm still in favor of dropping the current code and forcing a 'rework' of the code. Get people into working with V3. It is so much nicer ... ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 03/05/07 08:52 -0700, ron minnich wrote: let me say it differently. I think if we want to target OLPC, we ought to do it from V3, not V2. I'm still in favor of dropping the current code and forcing a 'rework' of the code. To me, the current OLPC code is the worst possible example of a Geode

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Richard Smith
Jordan Crouse wrote: I have no problem at all with somebody porting V3 to work on the OLPC - I hope they do it for every Geode platform they can get their hands on. But perpetrating iffy code that will never be used in production for a board that will never *be* in production to me is silly.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070503 18:01]: I have no problem at all with somebody porting V3 to work on the OLPC - I hope they do it for every Geode platform they can get their hands on. But perpetrating iffy code that will never be used in production for a board that will never *be* in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: Norwich mainboard

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:20:14PM -0400, Richard Smith wrote: then we end up dropping half the tree. This is not something unique to the OLPC and GX. Good point. If we drop code then for someone to go look at the olpc stuff they will have to figure out what revision of the tree had the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX (round 2)

2007-05-03 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 04/05/07 02:27 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:15:48PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote: Here is a refresh of the Geode LX patches based on the comments from the list. This set also includes the patches to add the GPL licenses to some of the files that Jordan posted. This

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Geode LX: CPU

2007-05-01 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/05/07 01:37 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: === --- LinuxBIOSv2.orig/src/cpu/amd/model_lx/cpubug.c 2007-04-30 15:25:27.0 -0600 +++ LinuxBIOSv2/src/cpu/amd/model_lx/cpubug.c 2007-05-01 12:09:15.0

Re: [LinuxBIOS] geode LX

2007-01-14 Thread ron minnich
One LX port has been done, I'm doing another, and you would hence be the 3rd or 4th. You have contacted AMD I assume concerning redistribution rights for the LX VSA? You are going to need to do that. The build depends on what you put on the board. The best thing you could do would be to talk to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] geode LX

2007-01-14 Thread Steve Spano
on the output of the CS5536 to store the linux image, full fillsystem, bios, etc Thanks! Steve Spano FLE -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:50 PM To: Steve Spano Cc: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] geode LX One LX