Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-12 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
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): In

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-12 Thread Marc Jones
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 the flash

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-12 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
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 the flash device is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
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 what

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
I use a script to set DIVIL_BALLS FWIW. but auto sensing? Never worked for me. Is it really possible? ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread Jordan Crouse
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 module

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-11 Thread ron minnich
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 system BIOS.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-10 Thread Tom Sylla
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 to

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
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:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' on Geode LX + CS5536

2007-12-09 Thread Peter Stuge
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 it

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-06 Thread Dijk, Michiel van [FDS]
Yep, let's do it. Does the board have a socketed BIOS so you can hot-swap it to have a backup chip stored away safely? The BIOS is a socketed chip yes (a PLCC, don't know what type). I need a replacement chip first so I can back-up the original. Please send the output of 'lspci -tvnn' and

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:35:34AM +0100, Dijk, Michiel van [FDS] wrote: Yep, let's do it. Does the board have a socketed BIOS so you can hot-swap it to have a backup chip stored away safely? The BIOS is a socketed chip yes (a PLCC, don't know what type). I need a replacement chip first

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-03 Thread Michiel van Dijk
Hi, I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options. I identified the following chips on the mainboard: Super I/O: NSC PC87317 Northbridge: Intel FW82443BX Southbridge: Intel FW82371EB SCSI: Symbios LSI 53C876

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-03 Thread Corey Osgood
Michiel van Dijk wrote: Hi, I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options. The system itself is not supported yet, but all the components are. It wouldn't be very hard to port it. I identified the following

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-03 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: SCSI: Symbios LSI 53C876 (on-board) You'd have to extract the original option rom from the bios for this, then prepend it to linuxbios. Explore around the wiki a bit, there's a build guide for another board with a SCSI option

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on Compaq ProLiant 1850R?

2007-12-03 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options. The system itself is not supported yet, but all the components are. It wouldn't be very hard to

[LinuxBIOS] r59 - in buildrom-devel/packages: kernel linuxbios linuxbios/patches

2007-11-28 Thread svn
Author: jcrouse Date: 2007-11-28 18:59:40 +0100 (Wed, 28 Nov 2007) New Revision: 59 Added: buildrom-devel/packages/kernel/serengeti_cheetah-kernel-x86_64.mk buildrom-devel/packages/linuxbios/patches/serengeti_cheetah-lab.patch

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-11-05 Thread Philip Schulz
Hi, On 10/25/07 18:54, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:44:28PM +0200, Philip Schulz wrote: [...] Unfortunately, I have no idea how to detect FreeBSD from a Makefile or a Python script. But maybe someone on this list knows and wants enhance the patches so they can be included

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-27 Thread Philip Schulz
Uwe Hermann wrote: Btw, you mention in the wiki that VGA won't work. AFAIK it _should_ work with the latest LinuxBIOSv2 version and the required (patched) vgabios-cirrus.bin file in your $HOME (or whereever your bios.bin is stored). Also, I know for sure that VGA works in v3, too. While v3

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Schulz
Am 25.10.2007 18:54, Uwe Hermann schrieb: [...] Please post all patches to the list, with a Signed-off-by: http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure Much easier to review that way, and we don't commit any patches which are lacking a proper Signed-off-by line.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Schulz
Am 26.10.2007 02:07, Peter Stuge schrieb: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:44:28PM +0200, Philip Schulz wrote: I recently played around with LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD. In short, it somewhat works in QEMU using ADLO Cool! Do you know the FBSD boot process internals well? No, I'm still

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-26 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:14:35AM +0200, Philip Schulz wrote: Can you please attach a license to that wiki page? Either GPL, or Creative Commons, or public domain, anything free-ish will do. There are wiki templates you can use, e.g. {{GPL}}, {{PD-self}} etc. Done. Thanks! Btw, you mention

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-25 Thread Philip Schulz
Hi, I recently played around with LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD. In short, it somewhat works in QEMU using ADLO, see [1]. While trying to build LinuxBIOS and ADLO on FreeBSD, I came across some problems. They all come from the assumption that make is GNU make which isn't true on the BSDs. I've

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:44:28PM +0200, Philip Schulz wrote: I recently played around with LinuxBIOS and FreeBSD. In short, it somewhat works in QEMU using ADLO Cool! Do you know the FBSD boot process internals well? I discussed this at Linuxforum.dk this spring with some FBSD people and

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on the IBM eServer xSeries 335 ?

2007-10-23 Thread Viktor Godard
IBM eServer xSeries 335 I would like to use the LinuxBIOS on the IBM eServer xSeries 335. Below is the information I was able to capture regarding this server. I included an ASCII simple motherboard diagram to provide an idea of the integrated circuits location. The letter leading most of

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on the IBM eServer xSeries 335 ?

2007-10-23 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.10.2007 19:19, Viktor Godard wrote: I would like to use the LinuxBIOS on the IBM eServer xSeries 335. Will be difficult to impossible. But see below. CPU: Socket type: mPGA 604 (x2) CPU0: On pins side: 2800DP/512/533/1.50V , SL6VN COSTA RICA, 3431A517-0534 On

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS simposium 2007

2007-10-15 Thread tibor . osztodi
I know, the LinuxBIOS Symposium 2007 canceled, but I get information from Mr. Beck,\ in the 0sec Security Conference in Berne on 19th - 21st October, where we will have a little LinuxBIOS Hackcenter. I would like to ask, from the LinuxBIOS developers who will be participant of this

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios

2007-10-15 Thread Marc Jones
Hi Henry, Henry keultjes wrote: Open BIOSes for Linux http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-bios.html Marc: Are you willing to provide some help/guidance getting LinuxBios implemented on an Acer T180 with a dual core 2.1 Mhz Athlon? Linux BIOS CPU support for the K8 (

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios on a HP ePC C10 to speed up boot time

2007-10-02 Thread giraut benoit
Hello Is it possible to use linuxbios on a ePC C10 computer ? it is using Intel Whitney 82810E that is supported now by linuxbios. The original bios take horrible long time to boot (~13 secondes to get the HP splash screen). Do you think the linuxbios can speedup the boot time or it is a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-10-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:54:20AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:16:32AM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: It's great to hear that AMD is so supportive of this project. .. laptop This was discussed on IRC shortly after Mark's post. For now, the Which post? URL?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-26 Thread ron minnich
On 9/25/07, Robert Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't someone make a motherboard with a socketed, replaceable BIOS ? not really. it's far more common nowadays to pre-flash the chips before they are soldered down. To reflash, you use the vendor program. If it goes badly, the machine is a

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread big one
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Buy 2 Get 1 Laptops are sold for the public. One laptop is sent to the buyer and the other laptop is sent to a child in poor developing country. Unfortunately there is NO BIOS in OLPC, therefore public users cannot use FreeDOS, BSD, AROS, Haiku, ReactOS etc. Is it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread Corey Osgood
big one wrote: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Buy 2 Get 1 Laptops are sold for the public. One laptop is sent to the buyer and the other laptop is sent to a child in poor developing country. This is great idea! I know there's been some demand for the XO in the US market, this is a great way

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 9/25/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big one wrote: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Buy 2 Get 1 Laptops are sold for the public. One laptop is sent to the buyer and the other laptop is sent to a child in poor developing country. The 1-for-the-price-of-2 deal sounds socially

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 25/09/07 08:30 -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: Unless they have changed the hardware, I assume that LinuxBIOS could be slipped right back in... Only a new processor... :) Its going to take a goodly amount of work to catch back up with what OFW has done, and even then, we'll be behind since we

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread ron minnich
On 9/24/07, big one [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to port LinuxBIOS to OLPC laptops? Oh, the irony :-) ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios For Buy 2 Get 1 OLPC Laptop

2007-09-25 Thread ron minnich
We ought to stop worrying about OLPC. Great kid machine, and admirable purpose, and it will probably (we hope!) make good things happen around the world. But a machine for you? I doubt it. Impossible to use, for me, anyway. Kid-sized keyboard. And I find Linux unusable in 128MB. It would be an

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-25 Thread yhlu
On 9/24/07, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it has to be an AMD laptop. Intel is just not gonna play at this point, as far as I can tell. Of course, we have to boot windows or find someone that does not care about booting windows. linux laptop as workstation ? MSI or Arima

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-25 Thread ron minnich
On 9/25/07, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MSI or Arima seems have one MCP55 based laptop... we keep going in circles. what we MUST have: 1. laptop 2. chipset that we understand 3. flash we can pull out 4. known good path to a display device -- vga connector is ok to start, but panel drivers

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-25 Thread Robert Vogel
Doesn't someone make a motherboard with a socketed, replaceable BIOS ? I would think that it ought to be a standard tool for developers. A prerequisite for an open machine. Are there hiding places in the chipset too ? How closed are the chipsets ? Bob -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-24 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 9/21/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, AMD supports LinuxBIOS as one of the boot software options on their systems. People at AMD work with LB. We think it is great of course! :) Full ACK! The support from AMD is really great and very appreciated! Marvelous! It's great

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 10.09.2007 03:59, Danny Piccirillo wrote: I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed. http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549 Maybe we can build up

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-24 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 10.09.2007 03:59, Danny Piccirillo wrote: I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-24 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Well the more support people show and the more we can expand upon the idea to show Dell how it could be beneficial for them and their customers the better the chance of seeing it actually go somewhere Every comment makes a difference On 9/24/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl-Daniel

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-24 Thread ron minnich
I think it has to be an AMD laptop. Intel is just not gonna play at this point, as far as I can tell. Would be interesting to get Shuttleworth, AMD, this group, and a vendor together. The key thing is you have to make a business case. Businesses are averse to doing things for what they see as

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-24 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:16:32AM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: It's great to hear that AMD is so supportive of this project. .. laptop This was discussed on IRC shortly after Mark's post. For now, the graphics hardware simply isn't there to serve this market. LB can run the binary VGA BIOS in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-21 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:08:40AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: I just ran across an FSF web page in support of LinuxBIOS, and on that page the FSF suggests writing directly to Intel: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html Send e-mail to Intel, asking them to cooperate with a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-20 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 9/19/07, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:04:01PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: Robinson Tryon wrote: Would writing to Intel (if only to be counted as one more data point) help at all? No. I just ran across an FSF web page in support of LinuxBIOS, and on

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:18:28PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: Would writing to Intel (if only to be counted as one more data point) help at all? No. I just ran across an FSF web page in support of LinuxBIOS, and on that page the FSF suggests writing directly to Intel:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios Digest, Vol 31, Issue 85

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Sturges
One thing I'd like to investigate as well is initializing the IRQ router in LB. I've seen some discussion about this in the past, and I've come to the conclusion that for Geode GX1/CS5530 systems, it should be initialized in LB rather than Linux. It also seems like some LB ports do this,

[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-18 Thread Robinson Tryon
Hiya, I'm in the market for a new laptop on which to run Ubuntu, and Lenovo's Thinkpads look like a good choice. I like the idea of running an open BIOS, but looking at past posts to the mailing list, it appears that certain chipsets (such as those for the T60) are not supported:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios with SuperIO Winbond W83627HG-AW

2007-09-18 Thread Steffen D.
Steffen D. schrieb: Did anybody have this problem before??? sorry wrong topic :) It works quite good with the current buildrom! :) -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-18 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:49:14PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: I'm in the market for a new laptop on which to run Ubuntu, and Lenovo's Thinkpads look like a good choice. I like the idea of running an open BIOS, but looking at past posts to the mailing list, it appears that certain chipsets

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios with SuperIO Winbond W83627HG-AW

2007-09-18 Thread Corey Osgood
Steffen D. wrote: Did anybody have this problem before??? Can you please do at least me, if not everyone, a favor and leave some sort of quote of what you're responding to? Most email clients should have that capability, but the threading in Thunderbird and gmail alike is pretty terrible. Some

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios support for thinkpads?

2007-09-18 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 9/18/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. No laptop whatsoever (except for the OLPC) is supported by LinuxBIOS at the moment. We definately like to change that, but at the moment there's no support at all. ... ... The last chipset which was added was the Intel 810.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on decTOP

2007-09-13 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:30:27PM -0700, embedded linux wrote: DecTOP (AMD PIC) is selling for $99 or (4 for $297) http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm Since this is similar to OLPC hardware, I assume this is supported? Anyone has any experience with this hardware?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on decTOP

2007-09-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 13/09/07 10:25 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:30:27PM -0700, embedded linux wrote: DecTOP (AMD PIC) is selling for $99 or (4 for $297) http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm Since this is similar to OLPC hardware, I assume this is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on decTOP

2007-09-13 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 13/09/07 17:31 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:00:18AM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: There's a clever hardware hack to get around that by intercepting the DDC lines on the VGA, though, if you are really interested Oh - so that's part of the 5535? I thought it was

[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on decTOP

2007-09-12 Thread embedded linux
DecTOP (AMD PIC) is selling for $99 or (4 for $297) http://www.dataevolution.com/dectop%20info%202.htm Since this is similar to OLPC hardware, I assume this is supported? Anyone has any experience with this hardware? Please forgive me this dicussion has happened before. Thanks, Krane

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Summit Europe 2007

2007-09-10 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:41:05PM +0200, Marc-André Beck wrote: We are planning to have the summit at two locations in Switzerland. Biel October 17th-19th(afternoon) and Berne 19th(night)-21st. I'm going to miss this one,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS - Booting Windows XP

2007-09-10 Thread Myles Watson
Have you done these alterations already? Also try booting your windows installation CD with qemu default's BIOS and let me know the result please. Thanks,   Augusto Pedroza I've tried your fixes. I'm trying to boot on a real machine, so I can't use qemu's BIOS. I'll keep trying. Myles

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Summit Europe 2007

2007-09-10 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:44:09PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:41:05PM +0200, Marc-André Beck wrote: We are planning to have the summit at two locations in Switzerland. Biel October 17th-19th(afternoon)

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Summit Europe 2007

2007-09-10 Thread Corey Osgood
Ward Vandewege wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:44:09PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:41:05PM +0200, Marc-André Beck wrote: We are planning to have the summit at two locations in Switzerland.

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-09 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed. http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549 Maybe we can build up support for this idea again? -- linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

2007-09-09 Thread Corey Osgood
Danny Piccirillo wrote: I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed. http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549 Maybe we can build up support for this

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS - Booting Windows XP

2007-09-07 Thread Myles Watson
http://www.linuxbios.org/Booting_Windows_using_LinuxBIOS Feel free to test it and give some feedback!! I can get it to find my CD-ROM drive, but it fails with code: 0003. According to http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/bios-tips.html that means: For this error, the cdrom support

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS - Booting Windows XP

2007-09-07 Thread Augusto Pedroza
Hi Myles, in the xpboot.diff the following alterations should be made: In the file: util/ADLO/loader.s comment out or remove the lines 177 until 180: ;mov al, #0x3d ;; cmos_reg ;out 0x70, al ;mov al, #0x02 ;; val (hdd) ;out 0x71, al In the file: util/ADLO/bochs/bios/rombios.c uncomment

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070830 01:51]: I'd say it should accept a lar archive via serial console, perhaps using ymodem, and start executing the first member of the lar. I really like the idea. BUT: The one thing that seems unclear is where would we store that lar archive?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:38:05AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: I really like the idea. BUT: The one thing that seems unclear is where would we store that lar archive? On the BIOS chip? RAM seems no option as it is not initialized yet. Good point. How usable is the CAR? I guess either the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 04.09.2007 11:38, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070830 01:51]: I'd say it should accept a lar archive via serial console, perhaps using ymodem, and start executing the first member of the lar. I really like the idea. BUT: The one thing that seems

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070905 01:29]: How usable is the CAR? I guess either the download will in fact write to flash immediately (bad idea!) or only initram would be downloaded first, and then the full lar. Why would that be a bad idea? I think writing the flash directly (except

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 05.09.2007 01:40, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070905 01:29]: How usable is the CAR? I guess either the download will in fact write to flash immediately (bad idea!) or only initram would be downloaded first, and then the full lar. Why would that be a bad idea?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-04 Thread pyro
Greetings, On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 05.09.2007 01:40, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070905 01:29]: How usable is the CAR? I guess either the download will in fact write to flash immediately (bad idea!) or only initram would be

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-02 Thread todthgie
- Original Message - From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: todthgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LinuxBIOS Mailing List linuxbios@linuxbios.org Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 23:55 Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room Hi, On 30.08.2007 21:59, todthgie wrote: for some

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-02 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:25:41PM +0200, todthgie wrote: So you use romcc? yes and im having LOADS of trouble romcc is not actively maintained, so it's not in great shape. Besides, most of the code was assembly anyway.. :) //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-01 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, On 30.08.2007 21:59, todthgie wrote: for some time now i have a bootloader in my howbrew rom emulator that can read / write to memory in on a byte basis and on a block basis using iHex for the block ones i have adapted it it to run on the pc in porting LB to right now. it can erase

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:05:32PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Can we invert the speaker line each time a byte is written out over serial? Great idea! May need some more code for polling the UART status register though. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-08-30 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 30.08.2007 06:19, ron minnich wrote: On 8/29/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say it should accept a lar archive via serial console, perhaps using ymodem, and start executing the first member of the lar. A bit more detailed: If the BIOS fails to verify its checksum,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-08-30 Thread todthgie
: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 06:19 Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room On 8/29/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say it should accept a lar archive via serial console, perhaps using ymodem, and start executing the first member of the lar

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-08-29 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 29.08.2007 23:28, Peter Stuge wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:43:27PM -0400, pyro wrote: Agreed. That way, we could even abuse a fallback image for early porting without the need to reflash continuously. Yes - this has been a thought of mine all the way since the Symposium. I've been

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

2007-08-29 Thread ron minnich
On 8/29/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say it should accept a lar archive via serial console, perhaps using ymodem, and start executing the first member of the lar. A bit more detailed: If the BIOS fails to verify its checksum, it outputs a message telling you about

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios with SuperIO Winbond W83627HG-AW

2007-08-27 Thread Steffen D.
Dear Mailinglist, im trying to build a bios for GeodeLX cpu. I have a development board from LogicPC. Afaik this is the same board that was used for the development for OLCP. I try it with the svn version Linuxbios-3. I have made a image with make menuconfig and configured everything cleary

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Memory Error / Windows Vista

2007-08-01 Thread Augusto Pedroza
Hy guys, While trying to boot vista installation DVD using linuxBIOS/qemu I got the following: LinuxBIOS-3.0.0 Mon Jul 30 20:36:58 BRT 2007 starting... Choosing fallback boot. LAR: Attempting to open 'fallback/initram'. LAR: Start 0xfffc len 0x4 LAR: current filename is normal/initram

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [:LinuxBios] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-07-27 Thread Allix Davis
A bios enables/disables CPU extensions that determines what can be used once the os is loaded. I wonder why they did disable it, i don;t think they have more expensive boards with it enabled, it just seems bizarre especially with virtualization being a hot topic. In regard to me and spi , ive not

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [:LinuxBios] GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-07-27 Thread echelon
What you say is a little bit surprising to me: I tought that the AMD-V (or SVM if you like..) extension cannot be disabled permanently (contrary to Intel).. The technical documents of AMD say that the virtualization is enabled by setting the bit 12 into the EFER MSR register. In my understanding

[LinuxBIOS] Linuxbios hardware compatibility

2007-07-23 Thread Matteo . Merli
Could you help us on understanding if our system architecture is Linuxbios compliant? Below the info you required. Please let us know if you need more details. Thank you in advance, Matteo Step 1: A very brief description of your system: CPU and mainboard and optionally other important

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Linuxbios hardware compatibility

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:40:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you help us on understanding if our system architecture is Linuxbios compliant? I'm afraid it is not. Step 1: A very brief description of your system: CPU and mainboard and optionally other important details. PC

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Linuxbios hardware compatibility

2007-07-23 Thread Corey Osgood
Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:40:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Step 1: A very brief description of your system: CPU and mainboard and optionally other important details. PC based portable device with Intel Celeron 800MHz 0 cache CPU, Intel 915GM north bridge and

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS on AMD's PIC 50x15 (Geode GX500)

2007-07-15 Thread ricardo
Hello all, I am quite new to this MLL as well as LinuxBIOS itself. I do know that there have been some discusions (2 yrs ago) about this, but those seemed to drift away a bit. AMD came out a few years back with a tiny SBC that they called PIC (Personal Internet Communicator), as one of the first

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios V3 build failure

2007-06-22 Thread Juergen Beisert
On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:47, Brendan Trotter wrote: I had the exact same problem (gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2), GNU assembler 2.16.1, GNU ld version 2.16.1). So it seems its more a Gentoo related problem. As far as I can tell binutils is mostly broken for 16-bit code and different

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios V3 build failure

2007-06-21 Thread Juergen Beisert
On Thursday 21 June 2007 19:28, todthgie wrote: i tried building LinuxBios V3 but it fails.. any suggestions ? I tried the same revision (364) fresh from the repository and in a second step with your archive: Hostcompiler: gcc 4.0.3, binutils 2.16.1 Crosscompiler: gcc 4.1.1, binutils 2.17

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios V3 build failure

2007-06-21 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On 6/21/07, todthgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried building LinuxBios V3 but it fails.. any suggestions ? snip /home/reinder/proj/lbv3/LinuxBIOSv3/build/arch/x86/stage0_i586.o: In function `_stage0': /home/reinder/proj/lbv3/LinuxBIOSv3/arch/x86/stage0_i586.S:(.text+0xf):

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios V3 build failure

2007-06-21 Thread todthgie
: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios V3 build failure Hi, On 6/21/07, todthgie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried building LinuxBios V3 but it fails.. any suggestions ? snip /home/reinder/proj/lbv3/LinuxBIOSv3/build/arch/x86/stage0_i586.o: In function `_stage0': /home/reinder/proj/lbv3/LinuxBIOSv3/arch

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS at the Linux Tag 2007 in Berlin

2007-06-04 Thread Peter Stuge
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:03:15AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: Thank you very much to all people contributing their time and effort here at the booth to make this possible I second that. Many thanks to Carsten, Stefan, Uwe and Jens! Also a big thank you to the LinuxTag organizers working

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS at the Linux Tag 2007 in Berlin

2007-06-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi there, The LinuxBIOS booth at the Linux Tag in Berlin is a great success. Thank you very much to all people contributing their time and effort here at the booth to make this possible, and thank you very much to all visitors. It has been a couple of very nice and successful days for the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS at the Linux Tag 2007 in Berlin

2007-06-02 Thread Corey Osgood
Stefan Reinauer wrote: Hi there, The LinuxBIOS booth at the Linux Tag in Berlin is a great success. Thank you very much to all people contributing their time and effort here at the booth to make this possible, and thank you very much to all visitors. It has been a couple of very nice and

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

2007-05-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read: Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX - -based DBE61 ThinCan

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

2007-05-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:08:30PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read: Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX - -based DBE61

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS wiki entry on Products page for Artec DBE61

2007-05-25 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Uwe Hermann kirjoitti: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 02:08:30PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: I would just like to point out that Artec Design is a daughter company of Artec Group, thus the wiki entry for our DBE61 should read: Artec Group [www.artecgroup.com] runs LinuxBIOS on their Geode LX

[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on commel lv671 board with ICH4 chipset ?

2007-05-17 Thread Dieter Bloms
Hi, I own a commell lv-671 board and want to install a linuxbios, because of supporting serial console. I successfully made a qemu bios and it works as aspected From the source I see, that the i82801db and i855pm is supported. Is the i855pm compatible to i855GME ? Or does anybody have

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