Stefan, Thanks for your help! Comments and patch for raminit.c for Opteron follows.
Craig > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:53 AM > To: Craig C Forney > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hdama + etherboot problems > > > * Craig C Forney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031008 09:45]: > > I'm compiling everything on a stock SuSE 8.2 Professional > release with > > the stock compilers on an Intel-based laptop (I ran into problems > > earlier trying to make the Linuxbios native on the Arima board, as > > there are some in-line assembly code issues that still need to be > > resolved). > > Compiling natively is possible by adding the following 2 > lines to the target Config.lb: > > uses CC > option CC="gcc -m32" Thanks!! That hadn't occurred to me, but makes sense. > > > I've been able to create a linuxbios.rom using the latest code from > > sourceforge (earlier today). I changed raminit.c to accommodate > > 200Mhz registered memory (this case is missing in > raminit.c), as this > > is the memory that I have. > > Can you provide a patch? This sounds like a must-have in the > freebios2 tree. I've never created a patch, but I think this works ... I verified the rdpreamble value in the AMD docs. ---Begin patch *** raminit.c.orig Fri Oct 10 00:42:25 2003 --- raminit.c Fri Oct 10 00:42:36 2003 *************** *** 2063,2068 **** --- 2063,2072 ---- /* 166Mhz, 7.5ns */ rdpreamble = ((7 << 1)+1); } + else if (divisor == ((5 << 1)+0)) { + /* 200Mhz, 7ns */ + rdpreamble = ((7 << 1)+1); + } } else { int slots; ---End patch > > > I programmed a FLASH part with linuxbios.rom and turned on the > > machine. It goes through what looks like reasonable startup stuff, > > finds the etherboot payload, loads it, and tries to run it. > It then > > appears to go back and reboot before anything interesting > is reported > > happening in etherboot, and then repeats this cycle forever. > > Did you change the etherboot config file to build for > LinuxBIOS? src/arch/i386/config This was my problem ... Things are much better now!!! Thanks!!! > > > I don't like the looks of the irq_routing_table checksum error, but > > I'm not sure if it is a problem or not, at this point. > > No, etherboot does not need the pirq table iirc. > > Stefan > > -- > Architecture Team > SuSE Linux AG > > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
