[LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-21 Thread Brent Usry
I have a Fry's fm 7770 http://www.fryssupport.net/fs7770.cfm That I was going to put linux on anyway. I had been trying to put fedora on for a few installs and it would not boot so I was messing with the bios and now I can not get the monitor to stay on at all and it reboots when I turn it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 02:40]: I remember discussing with the LinuxBIOS list a year or two ago, the issue of what to do when chipsets drop having any serial ports. We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 03:31]: 2. use cpu cache for ohci or uhci buffer for packet. Don't they circumvent the CPU to access the memory? -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] •

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 03:31]: 2. use cpu cache for ohci or uhci buffer for packet. Don't they circumvent the CPU to access the memory? Depends on the cpu. As I recall Intel cpus flush data to memory for all of their cache coherence, so I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Bari Ari wrote: We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now? I would most rather do what we're doing on OLPC: linux in flash, since linux

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [060703 16:07]: Bari Ari wrote: We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now? I would most rather do

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Bari Ari
Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 02:40]: I remember discussing with the LinuxBIOS list a year or two ago, the issue of what to do when chipsets drop having any serial ports. We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [060703 16:07]: Bari Ari wrote: We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now? I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Bari Ari
Ronald G Minnich wrote: Bari Ari wrote: We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now? I would most rather do what we're doing on OLPC:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Bari Ari
Ronald G Minnich wrote: Bari Ari wrote: We are currently working on mainboard designs that will not have any serial ports with chipsets that don't have any serial ports. What did we decide to do with LinuxBIOS, since the future is now? I would most rather do what we're doing on OLPC:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Bari Ari wrote: While I was at Computex Taipei last month everyone at the Intel suite seemed baffled that Intel would turn down so much business in embedded by not supporting LinuxBIOS. Then again Intel has made a few bad turns the last few years. yes, it is very puzzling. I wish it could

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-03 Thread Ronald G Minnich
yhlu wrote: so you will not get debug info on linuxbios stage. and some later stge of Linux kernel you will get some out put even later than from vga console. yes, but ... that's how it goes. Very few people want to see linuxbios anyway. Many years ago I did an experiment, and was able to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB Support WAS Re: Accessibility of LinuxBios

2006-07-02 Thread yhlu
two ways 1. Eric said that the EHCI that may not need buffer for some debug function. 2. use cpu cache for ohci or uhci buffer for packet. YH On 7/2/06, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060703 01:26]: Maybe this code could be