Re: [LinuxBIOS] [ADMIN] Mail headers: random variations?

2007-11-25 Thread Russell Whitaker
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello! Actually yes. Numerous times. I've examined my own when they arrive from the list. Others as well. There must be a good reason somewhere for this issue. My guess: more than one mail server, each programmed slightly different. Russ --

Re: [LinuxBIOS] flashrom fails on GA-M57SLI with 1MB ROM

2007-11-25 Thread Andreas B. Mundt
To summarize: Proprietary BIOS: * Erasing the chip was tested, reading from the chip gives you all 0xFFs after erase. * Writing the chip after erase was tested, verify successful. correct LinuxBIOS: * Erasing the chip fails, only a few bytes are changed (if any). * Writing fails as

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Trivial patches

2007-11-25 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Saturday 24 November 2007, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 21.11.2007 00:30, Torsten Duwe wrote: Seconded. A trivial patch must _never_ break anything. Leave that basically to each committer's judgement. If it does break something, flame at will; we all make mistakes, but the blame must

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Trivial patches

2007-11-25 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Saturday 24 November 2007, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: I produce two classes of patches: * Patches where I'm not sure they will work [...] * Patches which are IMO obviously correct. They can involve pretty large code changes or rewriting fragile (and long-time unchanged) code everybody

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [ADMIN] Mail headers: random variations?

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Man, you gotta have plenty of time ;-) It's called VERP - Variable envelope return path http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path Every 1 of X mails is sent out with a variable header. That's a compromise between mail server load / traffic and undeliverable mail address

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Trivial patches

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Torsten Duwe schrieb: On Saturday 24 November 2007, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: * Patches which are IMO obviously correct. They can involve pretty large code changes or rewriting fragile (and long-time unchanged) code everybody uses. Obviously correct patches are trivial. That is a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: duplicate less code

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger schrieb: On 21.11.2007 15:39, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: [explanation snipped, see original post] To reduce code duplication, make sure STAGE2_*OBJ does not contain any object already mentioned in STAGE0_*_OBJ. Specifically, remove mem.o, delay.o, udelay_io.o

[LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Shocky
Hi, I'm new to LinuxBios, and just looking for a way to flash the bios on an HP laptop without installing Windoze. None of the tricks I've found through Google have worked for me so far, including HP's own utility for making bootable usb keys. I'm trying to compile just the flashrom component

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Frederico Silva
Hello, I'm a new member of the mailing list too, until now i was only a passive reader. I have a suggestion. You can use grub to boot a floppy disk image with the flasher and bios. (and flash it). Here is how http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Boot_Floppydisk_Image_without_Floppy_using_GRUB Good

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
Shocky wrote: Hi, I'm new to LinuxBios, and just looking for a way to flash the bios on an HP laptop without installing Windoze. None of the tricks I've found through Google have worked for me so far, including HP's own utility for making bootable usb keys. Some HP laptops these days

[LinuxBIOS] Micro-ATX Via CN700 + VT8237R plus

2007-11-25 Thread tw3k
Greetings list, I see from the wiki that there are several variants of Via supported. http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards Has anyone tried LinuxBIOS with the Via CN700 + VT8237R plus? This would also be know as the $200 walmart gPC TC2502. Many Thanks Forest -- linuxbios mailing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Trivial patches

2007-11-25 Thread Russell Whitaker
I would define a trivial patch as follows: 1. Compile source. 2. Apply patch. 3. Compile source. 4. If the object code from (1) is the same as the object code from (3) then the patch is trivial. my .02 Russ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

[LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
This builds. It will not work. But I want this code backed up somewhere, not just on my laptop.I also want other people to see it and add corrections, if needed. The alix1c will use the fake spd array. A lot of support can come across from the v2 port. ron this is an initial commit for the PC

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Shocky
On Sunday 25 November 2007 11:45, Corey Osgood wrote: ... Some HP laptops these days use SPI flash, which flashrom can do only in one special situation (afaik), Gigabyte m57sli. Also, the flash may have protection coming from the embedded controller or GPIO lines, which flashrom knows nothing

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Use 'static const' instead of 'const static'

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:57:34PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Use the preferred order of 'static const' instead of 'const static'. This is the common style in both Linux as well as in LinuxBIOS. For reference, this is r2922. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: improve LAR comments, fix possible access to uninitialized memory

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:42:42PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Acked-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, will fix and commit. This was r506. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread Frederico Silva
Hi, If you need a windows environment without installing it, you can try use a Preinstalled Environment like BartPE http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/. I don't know how to create a BartPE under Linux (maybe with Wine...). ___ Frederico Silva Shocky wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2007

[LinuxBIOS] r2986 - trunk/util/superiotool

2007-11-25 Thread svn
Author: uwe Date: 2007-11-25 22:43:29 +0100 (Sun, 25 Nov 2007) New Revision: 2986 Modified: trunk/util/superiotool/smsc.c Log: Dump support for SMSC FDC37C67x. Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modified: trunk/util/superiotool/smsc.c

Re: [LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37c672

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 04:27:33PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, r2986 with some small changes. Sorry for the delay. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org |

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-25 Thread Fridel Fainshtein
OK, supposing FILO USB works How do I submit the corrections? On Nov 17, 2007 2:56 AM, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:27:12AM +0200, Fridel Fainshtein wrote: VxWorks bootrom is an example of such a tiny-kernel as well as I understand. But in my case

[LinuxBIOS] r2986 build service

2007-11-25 Thread LinuxBIOS information
Dear LinuxBIOS readers! This is the automated build check service of LinuxBIOS. The developer uwe checked in revision 2986 to the LinuxBIOS source repository and caused the following changes: Change Log: Dump support for SMSC FDC37C67x. Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Micro-ATX Via CN700 + VT8237R plus

2007-11-25 Thread bari
Corey has C7D+CN700+8237 support posted but not committed yet. It's 99% there. The mainboard in the Wal-mart/Everext PC is a VIA Mfg. NO: PC2500E: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/empowered/pc2500_platform/index.jsp ClubIT Price: $59.99:

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:45:29PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: This builds. Not yet: HOSTCC build/util/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTCC build/util/kconfig/mconf mainboard/Kconfig:61: can't open file mainboard/pcengines/Kconfig make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1 The fix should be easy though. You

Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO with the USB

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
Fridel Fainshtein wrote: OK, supposing FILO USB works How do I submit the corrections? http://www.linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines#How_to_contribute In short form: 1) cd to the filo-0.5/ folder 2) svn add * -R (if you've created any new files, be sure to move files you don't want

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Constify structs

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
See patch. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org Constify structs which can be const. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: include/device/device.h

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Various cleanups

2007-11-25 Thread Uwe Hermann
See patch. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org Various cleanups and cosmetic fixes. Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: Kconfig

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Various cleanups

2007-11-25 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: See patch. Uwe. Did Carl-Daniel's documentation fixes make it in yet? Index: mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/vga.c === --- mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/vga.c(Revision 518) +++

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't compile flashrom

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
how's about we just figure out why flashrom won't build? ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
Add post codes so that we have a better idea where it fails, if it fails. ron Add some post codes so we have some idea where it fails. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: arch/x86/geodelx/stage0.S === ---

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
Oops, ignore this, I missed one of uwe's comments. ron On Nov 25, 2007 6:53 PM, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add post codes so that we have a better idea where it fails, if it fails. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
try again. On Nov 25, 2007 3:23 PM, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fix should be easy though. You probably forgot to 'svn add' the Kconfig file mainboard/pcengines/Kconfig. fixed. Add a full stop to the help text, please. fixed. +## Copyright (C) 2007 coresystems GmbH +##

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Constify structs

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
Acked-by: Ronald G. MInnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] you just saved me a headache. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[LinuxBIOS] It's always fun to watch the very first boot on real hardware :-) (This is on alix 1c)

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
LinuxBIOS-3.0.0 Sun Nov 25 19:26:24 PST 2007 starting... Choosing fallback boot. LAR: Attempting to open 'fallback/initram'. LAR: Start 0xfff8 len 0x8 LAR: seen member normal/payload/segment0 LAR: seen member normal/payload/segment1 LAR: seen member normal/option_table LAR: seen member

[LinuxBIOS] [PATH] irq routing on cs5530a/cs5536

2007-11-25 Thread Nikolay Petukhov
Here patch to support IRQ routing by LinuxBios. This is necessary for the right setup on the unsupported Linux's chips. This functionality is include through macro PIRQ_ROUTE in Config.lb. Tested on iei/juki-511p(cs5530a) and iei/pcisa-lx(cs5536). Signed-off-by: Nikolay Petukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LinuxBIOS] v3: an interesting problem with initram

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
Initram is being set up as follows: 08048074 T spd_read_byte 080480e0 T main 08048145 T __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx 0804814c t helper_calc 08048199 T hcf 080481bd T banner 080481f6 t helper_spd 08048248 t auto_size_dimm 08048451 T sdram_set_spd_registers 08048a32 T sdram_set_registers 08048a89 T

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] add support the IEI PCISA-LX

2007-11-25 Thread Nikolay Petukhov
This board (http://www.ieiworld.com/en/product_IPC.asp?model=PCISA-LX) is based on amd-lx800/cs5536, so most of the on-board hardware is work normally. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Petukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nikolay diff -Nru LinuxBIOSv2-2986/src/mainboard/iei/pcisa-lx/cache_as_ram_auto.c

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071126 04:07]: Alix 1.C support for v3. Builds. Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613

Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch: alix1c support for v3

2007-11-25 Thread ron minnich
Hey too late! I already have a better patch :-). Will send tomorrow. and a LAR problem: LAR: CHECK normal/initram @ 0xfff93b80 start 0xfff93bc0 len 5092 reallen 5092 compression 0 entry 0x loadaddre0 where is 0xfff93bc0 OK, it says 'where is fff93bc0' but it appears to be calling