Dave, Ron, Dmitry, The patches Dave sent were great! The earlysetup.inc successfully gets VGA going (the pci hard reset is not necessary in my configuration), and the flash application helped me realize what a POS this winbond flash chip in my RD1-PL is... The automatic verification in the tool is very useful. Thank you, Dave.
I am happy to put together patches to current CVS providing I can get something working well. Dmitry has just sent a patch for splash that hopefully will help me set some things up so that I can hand over to vesafb or viafb. Dmitry, did I see somewhere that you had a patch for making viafb work correctly when compiled into the kernel? 2.6 vesafb+vm86d might also be a possibility to get framebuffer init that I will investigate after exhausting alternatives. Anyway, if I can consolidate all these patches, I'll make a unified one that can hopefully fix CVS if that is OK with everybody. Anyway, on to the last current problems: Even though the sytem is more functional, I still can't do much; however, because my PCI devices still do not seem to be getting assigned IRQ's. Is there something I'm just missing here like a kernel patch, or maybe there is still something else that is not in the current freebios CVS? Next, is there a way to hardcode the amount of ram in v1? I know autodetection does not work, but even if I could just manually have the machine set up the full 512MB that would help me a lot until the v2 port progresses. I will try working with Dmitry's changes that he has sent this evening and post results soon. I'm hoping I'll find the IRQ problems.. Thanks again, everyone for all the help! John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Ashley > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: EPIA-M "Magic Potion"? > > Ron says: > > >dave, can you send me a diff -u and I'll apply that patch. > > Between what and what? Your source and my source have forked hopelessly > apart. A human has to step in and integrate the changes. I certainly don't > have time to do it. In fact I had thought when I passed my patch back to > this group July 2003 my version would have been integrated. If I send you > a patch now, maybe that will just gather dust again and we'll have to go > through this all again later. > > Meanwhile I explained in the email what had to be patched and how, start > with that. This should get VGA working at least. Maybe that's all that's > left. Note I'm not actually building the latest cvs version of linuxbios, > I just looked at the files and saw the vga init code wasn't there. > > -Dave > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
