Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070331 02:03]: I _know_ V1 used to work. I had a product at Bitworks based on it. At least it worked for the Bitworks IMS board. If you pull V1 to test then I recommend that you use older gcc's and tweak the makefile to use them. I think you may need

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070331 04:04]: I _know_ V1 used to work. I had a product at Bitworks based on it. At least it worked for the Bitworks IMS board. If you pull V1 to test then I recommend that you use older gcc's and tweak the makefile to use them. I think you may need

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:24:44AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Richard Smith wrote: Yeah.. Thats the problem. V1 code worked great but something in the port to C in V2 is jacked up. Are you sure v1 works? Uwe seems to have suggested that it doesn't. I'm not sure. I recently tested another

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:06:56PM +0200, Oscar Molin wrote: Hi Peter I said in an email to Corey about unbricking, that I think it might be possible to use the recovery part of the bios, appending that file from Intels own bios with a linuxbios. I'm not 100% sure that works but it might. I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread ron minnich
On 3/30/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:24:44AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: Richard Smith wrote: Yeah.. Thats the problem. V1 code worked great but something in the port to C in V2 is jacked up. Are you sure v1 works? Uwe seems to have suggested that

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Smith
ron minnich wrote: Yeah.. Thats the problem. V1 code worked great but something in the port to C in V2 is jacked up. Are you sure v1 works? Uwe seems to have suggested that it doesn't. I'm not sure. I recently tested another 440BX board using the v1 code (Tyan S1846). It got to the point

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:03:00PM -0400, Richard Smith wrote: I'm not sure. I recently tested another 440BX board using the v1 code (Tyan S1846). It got to the point where it says ELF loader by Eric Biederman (or so). That looks like the RAM init passed just fine, right? Can somebody confirm

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Smith
Uwe Hermann wrote: least it worked for the Bitworks IMS board. If you pull V1 to test then I recommend that you use older gcc's and tweak the makefile to use them. I think you may need to use gcc-2.95 or gcc 3.3 Do you think that makes a difference? I used gcc 4.1.2. I had to fix the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-29 Thread Oscar Molin
Hi Peter I said in an email to Corey about unbricking, that I think it might be possible to use the recovery part of the bios, appending that file from Intels own bios with a linuxbios. I'm not 100% sure that works but it might. I forgot to forward that message to the mailing list. Intels bios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-29 Thread Oscar Molin
that was a post by Richard Smith, not Ron. my bad 2007/3/29, Oscar Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Peter I said in an email to Corey about unbricking, that I think it might be possible to use the recovery part of the bios, appending that file from Intels own bios with a linuxbios. I'm not 100%

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-29 Thread ron minnich
that's the weird part. 440bx worked in v1 for years, and worked well. I don't know what the issue is on v2. I have no 440bx boards, have not had them for 4-5 years, so can't tell. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Smith
Oscar Molin wrote: that was a post by Richard Smith, not Ron. my bad I've just started trying to understand this stuff and I read a post by Ron from 2004 where he had two boards working well apparently, he didn't mention any memory issues. Yeah.. Thats the problem. V1 code

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-29 Thread Al Boldi
Richard Smith wrote: Yeah.. Thats the problem. V1 code worked great but something in the port to C in V2 is jacked up. Are you sure v1 works? Uwe seems to have suggested that it doesn't. Thanks! -- Al -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

[LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-26 Thread Oscar Molin
I have 2 Intel SE440BX and one Intel SE440bx-3 (it's some kind of subversion to sebx-2) These were very popular Intel OEM boards and were used by Dell, compaq, fujitsu and the like. If someone wants info on what chips they have etc I'm willing to be of assistance and help with testing code one

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel SE440BX support

2007-03-26 Thread Corey Osgood
First of all, please CC the list. Oscar Molin wrote: I see your point there, it could be a lot of work. But then again there are a LOT of these boards and I'm sure there is demand for it. Yep, there is, at least for people with older hardware. Uwe and I have both been working (off and on) on