On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:08:42PM -0500, Anose, Bijoy K (N-Aerotek) wrote: > > I just built an s2892 rom image with LAB payload (32 bit) > > using the latest buildrom revision, without problems. I'm > > building on 32-bit Ubuntu Hardy. > > Toolchain issue? > > Hmm.. I attempted the 32-bit LAB build with a (32-bit) Intrepid Ibex > system that had > just recently been upgraded from Hardy.. I do have a Hardy box to build > on as well, > and I'll try that when I get home.
OK. I'll see if I can find out what goes wrong on Intrepid. > > > In case this turns out to be a dead end, what does porting > > a driver to > > > FILO involve? > > > > LAB shouldn't be a dead end - I've got it in production on > > several Tyan systems (s2881, s2882). > > Ok. This is encouraging. And I've got it working on an s2891, but there I see the ck804 sata performance problem that I mentioned, so that box still runs under the proprietary bios :/ > > > [... ] If I understand > > > correctly, leaving out the ~36k chunk will still allow me > > to have all > > > the core functionality, just without VGA output.. > > > > Yes. Once you have the image, you just prepend your VGA rom > > to the image, and flash it. You can get the VGA rom from the > > factory bios by using the correct decode utility (see the > > s2881 tutorial, for example). > > I did happen to see the link to the "amideco" utility on the S2881 > tutorial, but the > S2892 has a Phoenix BIOS. If there is a Phoenix version of that > utility, could someone > make it available on the coreboot site? The Russian domain is blocked > by our Net Nanny.. I'm not sure that site is still what it used to be - the registration lapsed a while ago iirc. In any case, there is a phoenix utility as well, and they are all in debian and ubuntu universe (thanks to Uwe!). So you should be able to just apt-get install phnxdeco it. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
