Re: Error in compiling STPC Consumer

2005-03-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Second thing I have got the BIOS writer guide for STPC So If I think I changes the replaces the code of STPC_ELITE for that of STPC_ATLAS then I can make it for STPC_ATLAS If you are going to have to do a lot of re-write work I encourage you

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050309 04:27]: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS

Re: Version Control

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Ron does this sound like something you would be willing to look at? by all means! I'm in the prep stages of merging my tree with Stefan's. This first merge is going to be as bad anything I have done

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:53:03 -0800, yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So need to make shadowing work in V2 before make ADLO working...? which region? 0xf - 0xf and 0xc- 0xc. Look at util/ADLO/loader.s That shows you the ranges.

Re: Version Control

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is the tla command for cvs -d:xxx login cvs -d:xxx co freebios2 tla register-archive ftp://ftp.openbios.org/pub/arch/[EMAIL PROTECTED] tla get -A [EMAIL PROTECTED] freebios--devel--2.0 For more information look at:

Re: Version Control

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: The next piece to investigate is how we plan on publishing and committing changes. The bread and butter of a version control system. Ron are you far enough along in playing with arch that you

Re: we need to sequence this

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:35, Eric W. Biederman wrote: The biggest problem with arch is that it does not work well on a windows machine. Mostly because of limitations of windows filesystems. I believe most of the issues go away if you don't have your

Re: we need to sequence this

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ??? I thought vfat support long filenames. I believe it is the length of the pathname rather than individual filenames. Although some filenames may also be affected. I really don't understand it either. This is my dim recollection from watching some of the

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dmitriy Budko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Eric W. Biederman Does vmware accurately simulate what is required to bring memory up or do we get to short cut that. If the latter the porting could be done very quickly. Memory initialization is generally the hard part

Re: Version Control

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am reading the manual now. One question regarding development model. Are we going to have multiple local archive for each developer and sync to some upstream archive ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from time to time? The current situation is that there are already at

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LinuxBIOS already got pirq table and mptable and may put vga_bios in 0xc. I would help ADLO can get these data automatically. Right if the ADLO loader can be tweaked to copy these from LinuxBIOS we could shortly have a generic ADLO which would be much

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. LinuxBIOS need to pass the position pirq table to loader.s --- put that in CMOS or loader.s search that in RAM PIR 2. LinuxBIOS need to pass the entries in e820 at 1MB to loader.s, or put that in CMOS in LinuxBIOS stage. what standard need to put this

Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?

2005-03-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0600, Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.linuxbios.org/ADLO That info is all from my V1 stuff and ADLO is not in V2 yet. However its just a elf payload just like anything else so it will load fine. It

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dmitriy Budko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Ronald G. Minnich On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? If you want it please describe why do you want it. it would sure make it easier to do full-up sims of

Re: First cluster project

2005-03-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Justin C. Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Lustre (If I can get a good dialogue with the ClusterFS folks started.. still waiting to hear from them. I need to mirror two hard disks over 1000mbit tcp/ip for redundancy.) For the small scale you are looking at, I recommend you look at nbd and

Version Control

2005-03-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Josh England wrote: The offer still stands to host SVN for the freebios trees as well as host linuxbios.org, plan9.net, etcI think the server is close to being ready. We'll have to figure out how to best transfer the

Re: [Etherboot-developers] freeebios project

2005-02-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ramesh Chhaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all I am trying to learn how to makemy own BIOS for my embedded PC. I want to make freebios as my root for the project . If there is anybody woh have usedthe project. Several. when I make it gives error of missing files like rom/stpc.h

Re: [Etherboot-developers] freeebios project

2005-02-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ramesh Chhaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Eric , thanks for ur response u r right i am having old copy plz tell me link from where I can get latest copy and procedure to compile it and make bios for my board. I am using ATPC Vega Board. There is a reason a copied the linuxbios list.

Re: Linuxbios and co...

2005-02-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Guido Fiala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo Mr. Biederman, came to contact you reading your article in the Linuxjournal: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 You mention that you managed to set up Linuxbios for 3 mainboards, was it a big job or quite easy to do? The hard part is

Re: VGABIOS

2005-02-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:16, Richard Smith wrote: The emulator is slightly larger than 32KB. For the Tyan S2885 mainboard, the difference of the final romimage is 41376 bytes. Actuall, it is for uncompress romimage. For compressed image, it is

Re: [BULK] RFC: Generic shadow mechanism useable from a payload

2005-01-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes you can do that with ELF. The big gotcha is going to be that there are pirq tables current stored at 0xf that you are not going to want to stomp. Actually thats not that much of an issue. It currently stomps it already ADLO has that

Re: [BULK] RFC: Generic shadow mechanism useable from a payload

2005-01-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking about ADLO and the shadow enable/disable got some wheels turning. I've been spending lots of time in V2 and I was wondering if the same type of methodology can't work for ADLO. In V2 there are specifc .c files that do thing in a chipset

Re: [BULK] RFC: Generic shadow mechanism useable from a payload

2005-01-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Adam Sulmicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Richard Smith wrote: I wonder if we could not just set things up where the ELF loader just loas it into the right spot in the first place. Perhaps that overwrites where the ELF code lives? if the ram/shadowing was setup

Re: fallback reset_vector offset

2005-01-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in reset16.lds _ROMTOP = (_start = 0x) ? 0xfff0 : 0x8; 0x8 ? And from the line above. /* Trigger an error if I have an unuseable start address */ That is exactly what happens correct? 0xfff8 does not work

Re: fallback reset_vector offset

2005-01-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem solved. I switch the auto.c... before reset.inc in MB Config.lb Also add two inc in it mainboardinit arch/i386/lib/jmp_auto_out.inc after auto.c segment mainboardinit arch/i386/lib/jmp_auto.inc in old auto.c position please advise where

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And since I don't have prototypes (which makes inlining easier) those functions must be defined before they are used. Just curious now, how does the lack of prototypes make inlining easier? The primary benefit comes from compiling everything in

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-21 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Yeah I would say so... Since you guys have the power to render 1000 paperweights with a single command. Ron came insanely close to doing just that a while ago. ?? when was that? I gotta

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-21 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should be straight forward to remove all of the tests etc for switching from a fallback to a normal image. Do I really have to remove them? Ron seemed to suggest that if I just turn off the fallback suff then I will end up with

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-21 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To start I added all of this framework in freebios v1.x and it caused not problems there. We just default to using it all in v2. There should be no reason to require it. Especially if you are doing your own motherboard. I would like what I'm

Re: what cpu models are tested?

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cpu model_6xx will not build. microcode_MU16930c.h: No such file or directory. A typo in the header file include name. It should be microcode_MU16830c.h I just committed the fix. The code was mostly written by converting old freebios1 code, and

Re: memory reported to OS

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Gin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it mandatory to report Reserved Memory region to the OS? For example, the IOAPICs memory-mapped addresses? Reserving the address of any IO devices is a BUG BUG BUG. Your kernel will not boot if it doing things properly. Would that be a problem if Linux

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum. the docs I could find. My cmos is now fixed up, and I'm getting in to my normal image. H... Our

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [050118 20:05]: I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of C functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself to the payload? I guess it

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) Do you have any other non-volatile storage? Nope. A serial eeprom might be another good choice, of a location for variables. Anyway I understand the reasons for it and will happily work on brainstorming By design if you want to change

Re: Another V2 question

2005-01-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok so by design you really only want a single firmware image. Right.. I think Ron has me fixed up. I was unaware that there was an overall flag that enabled/disabled the fallback system. In the generic code yes. It should be straight forward

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Porting LinuxBIOS to new motherboards has become easier and easier over the last period of time. There's almost no need for assembler coding anymore, Hypertransport featured systems do a completely automatical setup of their non coherent

Re: Overlaping IO resource for AMD K8

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:52, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: Ollie, you did it! We should thank SciTech for their wonderful emulator. Yes. Ollie just took a big stack of video cards, some AGP and some PCI, and booted linuxbios one at a time and showed

Re: Running with VGA

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu could you please, please, please fix your mailer so it sets In-Reply-To: and References: correctly or could you switch to a mailer that does. Catching up on a conversation like this when all of the threads are chopped in to little pieces is a major pain. It does not help that you are also

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Greg Watson wrote: I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of C functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself to the payload? I guess it wouldn't solve the

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [050118 12:51]: I agree that there is an issue particularly with respect to interrupts. A lot of this has waited until we have the time to do this properly. I agree. However I also think we are coming

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 18, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: The only issue really is what format to use for serialization. I'm leaning towards s-expressions for use with openbios. However, it's conceivable that different serialzation methods could be provided

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Bari, I have the plain old VIA EPIA (800/5000) working a good 80 % of the time. Not sure if my problems are buggy northbridge setup or buggy motherboard - it generates some spurious serial at power on, and sometimes hangs reading the smbus to size the ram.

Re: SMP linux

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are kidding. I put junk in the CVS server? No. I just could not remember if it was a recent or an ancient board. If it was an ancient board in the v2 tree I could see problems. I guess he still need some time to figure out how to modify his mptable.c. Eric

Re: Intel 7520 support

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, When can you put the E7520 support on the CVS server? I have worked out all amd64 dual core support even on 8 way system and want to play something else. :) Currently this is Eric limited :) I need to send off the latest version of my kexec work to

Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

2005-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An arbitrary graph seems to be adding additional complexity that we don't really need. Do you have an example of where a tree won't actually suffice? The way interrupts are hooked up on most every board, I have seen including dec alphas. When you add

Re: Moving 440bx to V2

2005-01-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to start looking at moving the 440bx stuff to V2. The part I'm most concerned about is re-writing the ram init code. Is it possible to use the V2 structure but graft in the assembly output from V1? Then as time permits I can go back and

Re: speaker beeper

2005-01-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Adam Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Need some way to test if linuxbios is booting correctly. I am debugging and I have reason to believe that my problem is the super io... Does any one know how to get the pc speaker to beep in X second intervals, or some thing that simple, power LED

Re: Moving 440bx to V2

2005-01-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand the cpu naming scheme in the cpu/intel dirctory. Our board uses a PIII Celeron in a PGA socket 370 @ 400 Mhz should I just call the directory socket_PGA370 or do I need to add speed info? What about the Celeron, non-celeron

Re: Overlaping IO resource for AMD K8

2005-01-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Why I got the overlaping IO resources in the 18:0 ? PCI: 00:18.0 1ba - [0x00f400 - 0x00f5ff] prefmem node 0 link2 PCI: 00:18.0 1c2 - [0x001000 - 0x001fff] io node 0 link 2 PCI: 00:18.0 1d8 - [0x002000 - 0x001fff] io node 0

Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes: bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option. As it is I have extreme problems with their free license. Stefan how has

Re: Directory structure for x86emu

2005-01-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, It turns out that the VGABIOS support can be made pretty generic for all kinds of PCI expansion ROM. So I have the emulator the .init method of default_pci_ops_dev. I am going to add the following directories, if there is no objection, I will

Re: VGABIOS is working under LinuxBIOS

2005-01-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron, I just got the vgabios emulation working in the LinuxBIOS. The VGA card is complete inited before the kernel is loaded. Now I have vga console just like normal bios system. I will try the reduced x86emu and see if it works too. How large was

Re: Attic gone?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050104 00:29]: Hi, I want to look at some old files I checked into LinuxBIOS CVS a looong time ago, implementing LDTSTOP_L. But SF's ViewCVS does not show the Attic anymore.. is there a trick to get them?

Re: warning about pci_driver

2004-12-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /tmp/ccX7Rb2q.s:9: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .rodata.pci_driver Why? Good question. We set section attributes that say the section will be present. Beyond that I don't know why binutils (I think it's as in this case) is complaining.

Re: need a linux floppy

2004-12-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Adam Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hummm. Got both tomsrtbt and coyote Linux running. coyote Linux is very nice and I have other apps for it. But none of those had minicom on them. Any other ideas? cat /dev/ttyS0 cat /dev/ttyS0 Should just about do it. Or for something a little more

Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently

RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan I believe I have a better fix for the LinuxBIOS table bug then __attribute__((packed)). How does this look? I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently have any users there. I don't know what is the best long term strategy for

Re: RFC: linuxbios table fix

2004-12-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: I am still worried about ppc, and big endian architectures in general. But I don't think we currently have any users there. we do. I think I'd like to hear Greg Watson's take on this as he

Re: K8 D0 support

2004-12-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The D0 is released last week. And Normal BIOS support it already. Thanks for your great job in raminit.c of K8 and others, and I add several lines to reflect the new mapping of memory bank. Cool. I am confused about what the current situation is. All I

Re: K8 D0 support

2004-12-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Opteron Rev D0 support done. So I need to wait for AMD put the updated Bios porting guide including Opteron Rev D0 info. Only after that, I can commit the patch? Or ask the AMD to review the code? Essentially. It all depends on your relationship. But as a

Re: Substractive Resource

2004-12-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, You explained substractive decoding to me long time ago but I really forgot what it is. Could you tell me again ? Hoe do you determine if some resource of some device is substractive ? Form the data sheet ? A subtractive bridge resource is a

Re: Allocating Resource for Legacy VGA Buffer

2004-12-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, I tried to allocate a MEM resource for legacy VGA framebuffer (0xA - 0xB) on AMDK8 NB Fun 1. I find a new mem_pair and assigned base and size of the resource as the code show in the bottom. But at the run time the resrouce allocation code

Re: k8 cpu rev

2004-12-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: northbridge/amd/amdk8/cpu_rev.c static int is_cpu_pre_c0(void) { return (cpuid_eax(1) 0xffef) 0x0f48; } Why need to and 0xffef? Look at the various cpuid values that happen to be c0 stepping processors. Eric

Re: K8 D0 support

2004-12-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Are you working on Opteron D0 support? There are some memory initialization changes to support D0... It is on the near term TODO list, as are way to many other things. I need to make certain I have some so I can test with them. My impression the biggest

Re: print_smbus_regs_all

2004-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I add some code to debug_device to dump smbus for S4882. Please let me know if you need me to commit it. I don't know about need but I think it could be handy to have. Especially as we don't have many users of i2c code in the tree at the present time. Eric

Re: error disclosure

2004-12-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, the error disclosure of the config tool is a little bit mystic. Building the sandpoint configuration says the following: This looks like an error in the config tool, while it is a mistake in the config file. Is there any easy way to

Re: Alignment of LinuxBIOS table structures

2004-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I got an interesting report today from a customer having problems with building LinuxBIOS and the payload with different compilers The problem is that different compilers handle structure alignment differently, ie 2.95.x and 3.x have

Re: Alignment of LinuxBIOS table structures

2004-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote: I think the big problem is the use of binary data structures. It shows how smart the Open Boot guys were to use strings, and they figured this out 16 years ago! open boot provides a single function you

Re: get_pbus

2004-11-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every pci_read_config and pci_write_config need to findout top parenent bus to get bus ops. (get_pbus). It looks weird Yes, it does look weird. But it comes very close to modeling reality. You have to find the top of the pci bus to perform reads and

Re: Invalidating TLB, cache

2004-11-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, What was the conclusion of invalidating the cache and TLB ? If found that xorl%eax, %eax movl%eax, %cr3/* Invalidate TLB*/ still exists in the current CVS. Cache invalidates are actively harmful, as they can loose

Re: Link and Links again

2004-11-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, From my understanding, the device.link for bridge device does not include the up stream bus. Correct it only includes the device itself. device.link.dev == device The up stream bus is the device.bus field. Correct. So for 'normal' PCI bridges,

Re: Compile error

2004-11-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Adam Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas on this error? What is causing theis? /root/freebios2/src/mainboard/commell/lv-671/auto.c -o auto.inc raminit.c:1369.39: member channel1 not present It looks like you are trying to compile code that references a structure member you don't

Re: [Etherboot-users] Direct message to com2

2004-11-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that mkelfImage should get the com address from commandline. For example: mkelfImage --command-line=ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 rw console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8 --kernel=linuxkernel/bzImage_2. 6.9_k8.2 --ramdisk=rootfs/mydisk8_com2.gz

Re: ppc targets

2004-11-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Just a progress update before I go to bed. I have the totalimpact/briq building now. There are a couple of things that are not quite right but nothing architectural. Looking at where the code is I should be able to get the sandpointx3+pmc/altimus/mpc7410 building. Since there is only one pmc

Re: ppc targets

2004-11-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ok I am starting to dig into these and figure out what needs to happen to get the ppc targets working again. The hardest case currently appears to be the sandpointx3 with pmc processor modules, so I will get to it last. The whole northboard/southboard thing is interesting. But something we

Re: Root_complex in northbridge.c

2004-11-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Is there any reason that you put the root_complex driver in amdk8/northbridge.c instead of amdk8/root_complex/root_complex.c? Because the is very strongly intertwined. Eric ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: Root_complex in northbridge.c

2004-11-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, Is there any reason that you put the root_complex driver in amdk8/northbridge.c instead of amdk8/root_complex/root_complex.c? Because the code is very strongly intertwined. Logical things the pieces are separate but in practice they are not. Eric

Re: pci_operations for amd8111_ac97.c

2004-11-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Li-Ta Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, The lpci_set_subsystem() in amd8111_ac97.c is exactly the same as the default pci_dev_set_subsystem(), why do you define it instead of using the default one? Probably because I didn't realize it. It seems like every device has a different function.

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041109 23:19]: I'll try to find more if I get time today. A complex case would be fine. With abuild.sh I'm not seeing any compile failures. Something's wrong with the line numbers. I get

Re: coherent_ht.c,1.29,1.30

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041115 11:46]: Modified Files: coherent_ht.c Log Message: - optimize_link_read_pointers compiles now on the solo so don't disable it. The problem was actually not htat it did not compile, but that it

Re: coherent_ht.c,1.29,1.30

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041115 17:42]: However there are 2 significant checks we can perform. - Did the original version compile? - Does this work on the tyan/s2850 does the s2850 use an athlon64? Iirc the problem

Re: ram_check

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Gin wrote: I have a question with the ram. Don't know if anyone has heard the same problem before. I ran the ram_check procedure and it reports that there are always 4 bytes out of every 64 bytes that reads zero. I think

Re: coherent_ht.c,1.29,1.30

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041115 17:42]: However there are 2 significant checks we can perform. - Did the original version compile? - Does this work on the tyan/s2850 does the s2850 use an athlon64? Iirc the problem

Re: recent changes

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We now seem to have a chip keyword, in addition to config, device, driver and object keywords. We have a device_operations structure, a cpu_device_id structure and a cpu_driver structure as well as a pci_driver structure. The cpu tree has been

Re: pnp_enable_devices

2004-11-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pnp_enable_devices(dev, pnp_ops,) I think the second parameter is not necessary and can be removed. Sounds right. Eric ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppc targets

2004-11-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 11, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ppc targets fail because of src/cpu/ppc/ppc4xx/mem.c struct mem_range is never ever defined. Is it struct lb_memory?! That is because of the big

Re: mtrr

2004-11-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the cpu/x86/mtrr/mtrr.c #warning FIXME I do not properly handle address more than 36 physical address bits #ifdef k8 # define ADDRESS_BITS 40 #else # define ADDRESS_BITS 36 #endif #define ADDRESS_BITS_HIGH (ADDRESS_BITS - 32) #define ADDRESS_MASK_HIGH

Re: autobuild statistics

2004-11-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04 22:10]: BTW, the latest changes made things a little more dramatic again. In size, compile time and compile success. With my current board I get these: romcc_io.h:106.27: coherent_ht.c:585.48:

Re: ppc targets

2004-11-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ppc targets fail because of src/cpu/ppc/ppc4xx/mem.c struct mem_range is never ever defined. Is it struct lb_memory?! That is because of the big change where sizeram was removed. I think the definition originally sat in src/include/mem.h Which has

Re: autobuild statistics

2004-11-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, The abuild script checks for new checkins now every 4h and logs are placed at: http://snapshots.linuxbios.org/stats/ BTW, the latest changes made things a little more dramatic again. In size, compile time and compile success. Thanks. Sorry

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041109 23:19]: I'll try to find more if I get time today. A complex case would be fine. With abuild.sh I'm not seeing any compile failures. Something's wrong with the line numbers. I get

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041109 23:19]: I'll try to find more if I get time today. A complex case would be fine. With abuild.sh I'm not seeing any compile failures

[Davide louigi600@yahoo.it] Freebios and unsupported hardware ?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Perhaps the list can help. At the moment I don't have time Eric ---BeginMessage--- Hello ... my name is David. I'm writing to you because you are on the AUTHORS file on freebios download and I need some help. I have a Boundless Tech ViewPoint TC that has 4mbyte flash soldered onboard

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I met that too, and I have remove some un converted code in E7501 raminit.c Ok. Checking out the old version I can reproduce this problem. I would like to see Ron's case but YhLu I know what is causing the problem for the old northbridge/e7501/raminit.c case.

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: A complex case would be fine. With abuild.sh I'm not seeing any compile failures. weird! The digitallogic adl855pc won't build for me at all ... I meant I was not seeing any new build failures

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Placing the unconverted assembly in strings, or simply commenting it out will avoid the issue for now. Or removing it. True. Next time can you an least give the me error message? Having

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, YhLu wrote: I met that too, and I have remove some un converted code in E7501 raminit.c it's hard to reproduce with simple cases -- I'm trying to create the simple case but romcc always gets those right. I'll try to

Re: romcc quesiton

2004-11-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041109 23:19]: I'll try to find more if I get time today. A complex case would be fine. With abuild.sh I'm not seeing any compile failures. Something's wrong with the line numbers. I get

Re: Removing device driver code in mainboard.c for Tyan boards?

2004-11-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: They can. But I am about to suggest simply removing the config directive, and assuming the ``config chip.h'' is always given. The overhead is almost zero for a zero filled structure. And always

Re: LinuxBIOS boots

2004-11-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems there is no support on that. Option for you: 1. add that support you self and contribute that to Etherboot. 2. push AMD to support that. Can they? 3. push AMD to pay Etherboot ( Ken, Tim, Eric) to add that for you. I don't think Eric could have time

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