I Believe VIA ME6000 uses VT8235 SouthBridge. Ming.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian G. Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leon Woestenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:05 PM Subject: Re: EPIA-ME6000 > That board has a VIA vt82c686b south on it? I built linuxbios for a > similar VIA board (endat) with an 8601 north and vt82c686b south. That > won't work with the epia or epia-m configs. but you can go from the > via/vt5426 config. You are perhaps getting garbage serial output because > you're setting up serial for the wrong superio. > > Have you figured out how to enable flash memory write? I have two 686 > datasheets which seem to contradict one another on how it's done. one > appears like the 8231 south, and another alike the sis630. > > Brian G Rhodes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 612-741-1191 > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have been fiddling with etherboot 5.0.10 and freebios(v1) from CVS today > > on a EPIA-ME6000 platform. > > > > This is the unit with a low speed clock (500MHz?) Eden C3 processor > > which copes with passive cooling. I think it is EPIA-M9000 alike otherwise. > > > > Using a hardware flash programmer, I first copied the VIA BIOS from the > > STT39SF040A (256Kbytes) into a STMicro 29F040B (512Kbytes) device. > > > > That only worked after I copied the BIOS into the upper half of the larger > > device (from 0x40000 to 0x7FFFF). So I recon the highest address line > > is not connected on the board and so the FlashROM sees high-impedance > > on its most significant address line (and addresses the upper half always)> > > > > I followed the HOWTO/EPIA document to the letter (without the VGA > > BIOS at first) booting linuxbios w/ via-rhine.elf payload. > > > > When booting, I merely got garbled output on the serial port. > > > > I have double checked that the config file reads 115200 and that my > > terminal reads 115200 8N1. (The 115200 is assembly hardcoded in > > the vt82c686 superio code -- does it cope with my different processor > > speed? I do not have the datasheet (yet?). > > > > After that, I have tried all speeds on the terminal without result. > > > > Is the EPIA-ME6000 (aka M6000) already reported to work here, > > or are you guys'n'gals refering to the M9000 and M10000 alone? > > > > How can I help? > > > > Regards, > > > > Leon. > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
