[LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
I've put up a build tutorial for the m57sli-s4 at http://linuxbios.org/M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial It's still based off of YH's big patch, but if Ed's patch from today gets merged, I will update the tutorial to use the v2 tree. Remaining issues are ACPI support, and the mac address changes (but

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:03]: I've put up a build tutorial for the m57sli-s4 at http://linuxbios.org/M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial It's still based off of YH's big patch, but if Ed's patch from today gets merged, I will update the tutorial to use the v2 tree. Remaining

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:30:19PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:51]: flashrom -w -s 0x3ffd0 -e 0x3ffdf image.rom This is only for the case that a linuxbios image was previously flashed. Here image.rom is the factory BIOS, correct?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 23:59]: it just ignores the 16 bytes at ffd0 Ok, sorry if I'm daft, but how does the MAC address end up in the LinuxBIOS rom file? Or, aha, did you mean This is only for the case that a factory image was previously flashed. instead of the other

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:58:09PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Determine that it's a transition from awardbios to linuxbios (safely) * read the mac address (will it always be the same position for all award bios updates in the future?) Of course there is a bit more information that can

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. Or it can be easily determined with ifconfig. Yes, that's a great idea. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Let the flashrom take extra command parameter. MB should have MAC address stick on the side. Either that, or add a Config.lb option for the MAC since it will always be the same for each board. Plus it only makes sense for some

Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
You will build rom for each MB if you have 10 or 100 same MB? YH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:28 PM To: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 build tutorial On Mon, Mar