RE: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote: So, you don't need it for production systems, only for development, do you? I would say so. How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2? easy. Been done. Ask Richard Smith. It seems to me that supporting a new SIO

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: Yep. not to bad. I've got the beginnings of the port already done. I got hung up on getting my dump_spd routine to return somthing else besides zero. Its really wierd. I can actually see the data on the SMbus happening but I don't ever seem to

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
As I found on some chipsets, the CPU can be too fast, and it should: 1. start op 2. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 1 3. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 0 is this by any chance your problem? The code is basiclly a port of the working V1 assembly code converted to C.

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2? easy. Been done. Ask Richard Smith. Been working on it. Not even close to done. -- Richard A. Smith ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org

RE: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen.Kimball
Subject: Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? As I found on some chipsets, the CPU can be too fast, and it should: 1. start op 2. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 1 3. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 0 is this by any chance your problem? The code

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:31:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you haven't already tried... maybe a few out's to port 0x80 to slow things down. Thats a pretty quick and easy test. I'll do that in a bit and see what happens. -- Richard A. Smith

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you haven't already tried... maybe a few out's to port 0x80 to slow things down. Thats a pretty quick and easy test. I'll do that in a bit and see what happens. No change. I still get all 0xff's (not all zeros like I said earlier) I think I'm a victim

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:05, Richard Smith wrote: How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2? Not terribly hard. It is more of a time/desire thing. Does vmware accurately simulate what is required to bring memory up or do we Yep. not to bad. I've got

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
I think I'll just clean this structure up a bit ... it's just an smbus controller ... how hard can it be? It was more like. Hey this is known to work and it looks like it does exaclty the same thing. All I have to do change the bits. PC hardware. blech. I don't have any 440

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
You should. What did you do with my XMS system I sent you long ago? oh, I still have it. ok, I'll try to bring it out and revive it. Ok. I'll whip up a patch for v2 and send it to you. -- Richard A. Smith ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Smith
Ok. I'll whip up a patch for v2 and send it to you. I'm trying to do a cvs diff command that will show all the new files I've added to my V2 tree. Whats the magic options? -- Richard A. Smith ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org

RE: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-08 Thread Dmitriy Budko
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, of a LinuxBIOS port and would likely be trivial under

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, of a

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-07 Thread 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 linuxbios-equipped systems. ron ___ Linuxbios

Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Dmitriy Budko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050307 22:28]: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? If you want it please describe why do you want it. This sounds very interesting. Having a possibility to test LinuxBIOS+payload in vmware would allow easy and comfortable payload

RE: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-07 Thread Dmitriy Budko
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 linuxbios-equipped systems. So, you don't need it for

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: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Smith
How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2? Not terribly hard. It is more of a time/desire thing. Does vmware accurately simulate what is required to bring memory up or do we Yep. not to bad. I've got the beginnings of the port already done. I got hung up on