[LinuxBIOS] Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Li Haiqiang
My mainboard's northbridge is i440bx, southbridge is i82371eb, superio is w83977ef, cpu is pentium III 450MHz(slot 1).I use the asus/p2b 's config file to build the linuxbios, but it stopped at debug code 0x12.The last debug string is "Copying LinuxBIOS to ram.Jumping to LinuxBIOS.", then

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Li Haiqiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 11:34]: My mainboard's northbridge is i440bx, southbridge is i82371eb, superio is w83977ef, cpu is pentium III 450MHz(slot 1). I use the asus/p2b 's config file to build the linuxbios, but it stopped at debug code 0x12. The last debug string is Copying

[LinuxBIOS] #27: Minor typo

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#27: Minor typo +--- Reporter: Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: trivial

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #27: Minor typo

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#27: Minor typo -+-- Reporter: Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: trivial

[LinuxBIOS] r2488 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/boot

2006-11-05 Thread svn
Author: stepan Date: 2006-11-05 13:18:58 +0100 (Sun, 05 Nov 2006) New Revision: 2488 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/boot/elfboot.c Log: Fix a typo in elfboot.c. Closes #27 Signed-off-by: Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch for vmlinux amd64 with mkelfImage

2006-11-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/4/06, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1M for bzImage remains fine. All bootloaders would break if you changed that. But for vmlinux you pretty much have it nailed. Actually, we only mkelfImage with bzImage before we are trying to use lzma to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #28: Finish Intel 440BX port

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#28: Finish Intel 440BX port +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: task| Status: new Priority: critical| Milestone: Going mainstream

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch for vmlinux amd64 with mkelfImage

2006-11-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or we need to make elfboot in LinuxBIOS to be 64elf aware, and it need to switch 64bit before load 64bit elf. This is the preferred thing I guess, because it will allow us to use other 64bit payloads as well without requiring that they do the same

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: major| Milestone:

[LinuxBIOS] #29: this is a captcha test

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#29: this is a captcha test ---+ Reporter: anonymous | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: code

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #29: this is a captcha test

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#29: this is a captcha test +--- Reporter: anonymous | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component:

[LinuxBIOS] 440bx stuff

2006-11-05 Thread Richard Smith
Thinking about this some more, whats needed is a lot of grunt work that doesn't necessarily have to be done by the same person who fixes the ram init code. Here's TODO from my past emails.. 1. I named both the northbridge and the southbridge i440bx. While I don't think it s a huge problem.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: major| Milestone:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx stuff

2006-11-05 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:07:58AM -0600, Richard Smith wrote: 1. I named both the northbridge and the southbridge i440bx. While I don't think it s a huge problem. The southbridge code needs to be changed to piix4 since thats really what the part is. I'll hopefully be able to do

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch for vmlinux amd64 with mkelfImage

2006-11-05 Thread yhlu
On 11/5/06, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First a decode of letters, in bzImage the b stands for big and the z stands for gzip. We don't have a bzip2 decompressor in there. Thanks for the explanation... An interesting question is if we make a bImage target that does everything

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch for vmlinux amd64 with mkelfImage

2006-11-05 Thread yhlu
On 11/5/06, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are we not going to switch to 64bit mode in LinuxBIOS anyways? Then we just need a 64bit version of mkelfimage. Yes. actually the elf64 aware elfboot too. This is the preferred thing I guess, because it will allow us to use other 64bit

[LinuxBIOS] r2489 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2006-11-05 Thread svn
Author: uwe Date: 2006-11-05 19:26:08 +0100 (Sun, 05 Nov 2006) New Revision: 2489 Modified: trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom/flash_enable.c Log: Add support for Intel PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M-based mainboards to flashrom. Tested on real hardware, reading, detecting and writing various chips works.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #15: fix abuild for all boards that use the three images solution

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#15: fix abuild for all boards that use the three images solution +--- Reporter: anonymous | Owner: yhlu Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #11: pirq table automation

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#11: pirq table automation -+-- Reporter: stepan | Owner: yhlu Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major| Milestone: Going mainstream

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Patch for vmlinux amd64 with mkelfImage

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Are we not going to switch to 64bit mode in LinuxBIOS anyways? We probably should, PCIe requires 64-bit loads and stores (well most devices don't need those, but hey). It also makes accessing stuff above 4GB way easier, and you can use all 16 regs without needing prefixes. Or we need to make

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
You need to run dump_pci_devices(); as last command in auto.c lspci -xxx: If you resend this lspci output with the dump_pci_devices() output (and please do!), use lspci -xxx -s0:0 or just cut'n'paste only device 0 (Host Bridge), the rest isn't interesting. Did you send the SPD contents

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #29: this is a captcha test

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#29: this is a captcha test +--- Reporter: anonymous | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component:

[LinuxBIOS] #30: Support for VIA VT82C686 in flashrom

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#30: Support for VIA VT82C686 in flashrom ---+ Reporter: stepan | Owner: stepan Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major

[LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts ---+ Reporter: stepan | Owner: stepan Type: defect | Status: new

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts +--- Reporter: stepan | Owner: stepan Type: defect | Status: assigned

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M -+-- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority:

[LinuxBIOS] #32: New motherboard IEI NOVA4899R

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#32: New motherboard IEI NOVA4899R +--- Reporter: Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new

[LinuxBIOS] #33: New motherboard IEI NOVA4899R

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: New motherboard IEI NOVA4899R +--- Reporter: Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Cosmetic

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical|

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread Luis Correia
On 11/5/06, LinuxBIOS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2489 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Segher Boessenkool [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 20:49]: Trivial in this case, but in general: can we please add the name or document number (not just the URL) for datasheets and other documentation? Vendors just _love_ to rearrange their websites (and some pull their old docs altogether); if

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Cosmetic

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Instead of checking the first byte only, the whole part is checked now. This will detect any improper erase. The patch removes a FIXME. :-) ... and adds one, heh :-) Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The patch never made it to the mailing list. To review the patch I now

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical|

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #26: flashrom: Support for PIIX4/PIIX4E/PIIX4M

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
I don't work well with web applications but tried submitting a note via trac anyway, only to be rejected as potential spam, according to Akismet. I would love some way to interact with trac that is not web based. Does anyone know? it is possible to send emails to trac-at-linuxbios.org (lets

[LinuxBIOS] Using trac

2006-11-05 Thread Richard Smith
Segher Boessenkool wrote: LinuxBIOS is really low-volume but it already almost takes me longer to keep up with the patch flow than it takes for Linux. Don't take this as a flame, I just need a working working environment :-) OLPC uses trac as well and I'm going to have to side with

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Segher Boessenkool [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 21:40]: The patch never made it to the mailing list. To review the patch I now have to: I contacted the trac folks for that problem. Attachments should make it into notification mails. Don't take this as a flame, I just need a working working

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx stuff

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
This has been done. It's now i82371eb. Why not 82371eb (that's the official name AFAIK)? Is there some requirement that directories have to start with a letter? Its a C thing. You can't start a variable with a number. That allows you to match the directory name to the struct statements

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2489 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ Set bit 2: BIOSCS# Write Protect Enable (1=enable, 0=disable). */ The bit is misnamed in the datasheet: it's the write enable bit, not the write protect enable (which would be write disable). nitpicking award 2006 ;-) Not really -- I thought I spotted a code error but then went

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Using trac

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 21:54]: Although it does keep things together its a much larger PITA to work with. And I find it cumbersome to find the stuff I'm looking for unless I just happen to remember the Trac ID#. The search function is not worse than searching the mailing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] r2489 - trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom

2006-11-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ /* Set bit 9: 1-Meg Extended BIOS Enable (PCI master accesses to + FFF0-FFF7 are forwarded to ISA). + Set bit 7: Extended BIOS Enable (PCI master accesses to + FFF8-FFFD are forwarded to ISA). + Set bit 6:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 22:03]: Stefan Reinauer wrote: Patch management on the mailing list just does not work. It never will. The Linux Kernel guys seem to think otherwise. 1. There are _lots_ of people hired full time to check no patches get lost. 2. Patches still

Re: [LinuxBIOS] 440bx stuff

2006-11-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Segher Boessenkool [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061105 21:57]: This has been done. It's now i82371eb. Why not call it piix4e (or just piix4), much easier to type and proofread and understand in general? because we called all the others after their part numbers rather than their code names, too.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#20: Cleanup of all CHIP_NAME() entries +--- Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Cosmetic

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical|

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical|

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless +--- Reporter: segher | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: critical|

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #33: Signed-off-by in trac is meaningless

2006-11-05 Thread ron minnich
We have to have something like trak. If trak is not it then let's pick something better. But don't underestimate how hard the problem is, or how hard stefan has thought about this :-)ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for IEI Nova4899R [1]

2006-11-05 Thread ron minnich
What I recommend is that you skip the PIRQ crap and just hardwire the IRQs in linuxbios. OLPC is one example of a system which does this. PIRQ does not work in many cases. ronp.s. heroic work there with the VOM, I am very impressed! -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #22: sed error in abuild

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#22: sed error in abuild ---+ Reporter: uwe | Owner: uwe Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: critical

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for IEI Nova4899R [1]

2006-11-05 Thread Luis Correia
ron minnich wrote: What I recommend is that you skip the PIRQ crap and just hardwire the IRQs in linuxbios. OLPC is one example of a system which does this. PIRQ does not work in many cases. ron p.s. heroic work there with the VOM, I am very impressed! -- This message has been scanned

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for IEI Nova4899R [1]

2006-11-05 Thread ron minnich
either one will let you see the way we hard wire IRQsron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts

2006-11-05 Thread LinuxBIOS
#31: Do proper checking for flash erase for SST FWH parts ---+ Reporter: stepan | Owner: stepan Type: defect | Status: assigned

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Richard Smith
From: Li Haiqiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6 november 2006 2:39:39 GMT+01:00 To: Segher Boessenkool [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163. Yes, I have only one memory module. Li, See my mail earlier today on 44bx.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Li Haiqiang
I even don't know how to .Can you help me?- Original Message From: Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Li Haiqiang [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: LinuxBIOS mailinglist linuxbios@linuxbios.orgSent: Monday, November 6, 2006 10:12:57 AMSubject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Li Haiqiang
What does debug code 0xf9 mean?It stopped here.- Original Message From: Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Li Haiqiang [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: LinuxBIOS mailinglist linuxbios@linuxbios.orgSent: Monday, November 6, 2006 10:12:57 AMSubject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

2006-11-05 Thread Richard Smith
Li Haiqiang wrote: What does debug code 0xf9 mean? It stopped here. Li, The 440bx is NOT COMPLETE. It will NOT function. It is BROKEN. The port is not finished. Its does not enable RAM. Hopefully, one of those translates correctly. Do you understand? To make it work you need to add a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for IEI Nova4899R [1]

2006-11-05 Thread Luis Correia
Segher Boessenkool wrote: Following this, i changed the irq_tables.c file to be like this: Did you fix the table's headers too, to read the correct number of entries, and the right checksum? The table you derived yours from had only two devices entries, and your results are sort-of consistent