Greetings, I just tried an update/build/test for Clearwater and all is well there (except that slow spot check I still can't explain).
G'day, sjames On 25 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I have committed so many files today I can barely track what I am > doing. The result is that all of my oustanding code has now been > pushed to the LinuxBIOS tree. So the supermicro/p4dpr and > supermicro/p4dpe should now be stable ports of linuxBIOS. I would say > so in the status file, but there isn't a single one in the whole tree. > > Things other people will notice. The upx compressor code was > integrated and is on by default. So you will get smaller linuxbios > rom images. I accomplished this by explicitly factoring linuxbios into > a C part that runs in ram and an assembly part that runs directly out > of flash. The seperation was there before but now it is explicit. > This greatly simplifies the linker scripts, so we are actually less > likely to run into LD bugs now than before. > > The config option is CONFIG_COMPRESS if you want to turn it off. > > Other things of note. cmos.conf was renamed cmos.layout to reduce > confusion. And a new checksum entry was added to the LinuxBIOS table > so external programs can find the checksum that protects the LinuxBIOS > options. > > My code has been synced with the changes Steve James made for the > Clearwater port. > > There are microcode updates in the tree, and some other cpu fixups > for the pentium 4. > > Have fun, and hopefully nothing broke except the p4dc6, as they way > it utilized the cache as ram trick depended on the muddy watters > between code that ran in rom and ram. The code is fixable, if I turn > off compression. It just requires a little magic to find the cache as > ram entry point... > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
