On Dec 12, 2007 6:01 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that one misunderstood piece of info is what the different
> combinations of boot devices are possible on the LX, how this affects
> where the BIOS chip can end up in the food chain and how the bootstrap
> settings can
On 12/13/07, Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> ron minnich wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 2007 2:42 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> In regards to the DIVIL_BALL settings. FlashROM checks to see what
> >>> device was
> >>> booted from (i.e. LPC, flash controller) before
ron minnich wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 2:42 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In regards to the DIVIL_BALL settings. FlashROM checks to see what device
>>> was
>>> booted from (i.e. LPC, flash controller) before the flash device is
>>> identified. If the
>>> boot device is t
On 12/11/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use a script to set DIVIL_BALLS FWIW.
>
> but auto sensing? Never worked for me. Is it really possible?
Dave Frodin of AMD replied on the Geode mailing list (talking about
how their non-free gx_util.c and closed-source AMD flashrom work):
>
On Dec 11, 2007 2:42 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In regards to gx_util usage, /dev/mem will not work for accesses to the
> > very top of
> > memory. I believe it will not allow access to the top 64k bytes of memory.
> > Which is
> > fine unless you want to modify the sy
On 10/12/07 16:45 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Right now, we're forced to use a deprecated hack from AMD called
> gx_util.c (a non-free kernel module whose only purpose is to play with
> the MSR) to flip the register. We even ended up having to hack a
> slightly different version of this modu
I use a script to set DIVIL_BALLS FWIW.
but auto sensing? Never worked for me. Is it really possible?
ron
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Thank you for your quick reply!
On 12/10/07, Tom Sylla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2007 4:15 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, 'flashrom' would need to read some register
> > (DIVIL_BALLS - see AMD document 3328G_cs5536_db.pdf page 365) to learn
On Dec 9, 2007 4:15 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, 'flashrom' would need to read some register
> (DIVIL_BALLS - see AMD document 3328G_cs5536_db.pdf page 365) to learn
> what is the primary boot device configured by the bootstrap resistors
> and then try t
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:15:45PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> As far as I can tell, 'flashrom' would need to read some register
> (DIVIL_BALLS - see AMD document 3328G_cs5536_db.pdf page 365)
..
> Is the LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' currently incapable of doing this
Well, it doesn't do it. But i
Greetings,
I was wondering if anybody ever managed to get the current LinuxBIOS
'flashrom' utility to correctly detect the location of the BIOS chip
with a Geode LX and CS5536?
Here, I have two platforms with slightly different settings:
platform 1: NOR chip on the flash controller.
platform 2:
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