Re: [LinuxBIOS] cmos.layout field meanings.

2007-12-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:03:51PM -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: > The bits I'm most interested in at this time are the ones that > payloads such as FILO, etherboot may depend upon. Anybody have > any clues? Sorry, best to just dig into the code. At least FILO is easy to grep. //Peter -- linuxbio

Re: [LinuxBIOS] cmos.layout field meanings.

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Isaacs
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:05 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > Steve, I am afraid few people really understand all the ins and outs > of the cmos bits, and most don't really use them. We used them > somewhat at LANL, but the real usage was by linux networx on their > cluster nodes. I would say we used may

Re: [LinuxBIOS] cmos.layout field meanings.

2007-12-18 Thread ron minnich
Steve, I am afraid few people really understand all the ins and outs of the cmos bits, and most don't really use them. We used them somewhat at LANL, but the real usage was by linux networx on their cluster nodes. I would say we used maybe 2 bits at most :-), and LNXI used just about all there were

[LinuxBIOS] cmos.layout field meanings.

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Isaacs
For my design review I'm trying to document the meaning of the various fields in CMOS RAM. I've done some grepping and found limited use of the generated CMOS_VSTART_ and CMOS_VLEN_ definitions which are generated from the board's cmos.layout. Also, I've found a number of inconsistencies regarding