Ronald,
I am having difficulties with the VIA Epia M 6000 and LinuxBIOS
snapshot 2158 dated 9 January 2006.
The board has just one IDE disk attached.
Here are the POST codes I observe :
... A few codes going fast
FE, stays here for 4 seconds while IDE disk is being spinned
97
80
88
FF
00 Hangs here. At this point, the RUN LED of the POST card keeps
blinking very fast.
NB : Board runs fine with the original BIOSes, as well as the ones I
downloaded from VIA Web site.
Screen remains black, inactive all the time.
I have followed the instructions in the EPIA-M HOWTO, in particular
capturing the ACPI dsdt and generating the file dsdt.c.
You will find below a copy of the dsdt -tc step which generated
errors and warnings.
dsdt was captured on original BIOS version 1.35 from VIA (Phoenix BIOS).
I have also captured the video BIOS and added as indicated in the
documentation (video.rom.bin first). I am attaching my Config.lb and
Makefile
Can you let me know if there is anything I can do to fix the issue ?
Thanks for your help and best regards
Jean-Noel Simonnet
Flashing BIOS
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Did it with the Willem programmer, in fresh new chips, so that I
could safely play with LinuxBIOS
Generating dsdt.c :
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ns2:~/LinuxBIOS# iasl -d dsdt
Intel ACPI Component Architecture
AML Disassembler version 20051216 [Jan 14 2006]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0
Loading Acpi table from file dsdt
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
..................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Parsing completed
Disassembly completed, written to "dsdt.dsl"
ns2:~/LinuxBIOS# iasl -tc dsdt.dsl
Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20051216 [Jan 14 2006]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0
dsdt.dsl 359: Method (\_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
Warning 2078 - ^ Reserved method must return a value
(_WAK)
dsdt.dsl 403: Store (Local0, Local0)
Error 1048 - ^ Method local variable is
not initialized (Local0)
dsdt.dsl 411: Store (Local0, Local0)
Error 1048 - ^ Method local variable is
not initialized (Local0)
dsdt.dsl 1433: Method (STM, 0, Serialized)
Warning 2085 - ^ Not all control paths
return a value (STM_)
dsdt.dsl 3102: Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
Warning 2085 - ^ Not all control paths
return a value (_STA)
dsdt.dsl 3102: Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
Warning 2078 - ^ Reserved method must
return a value (_STA)
ASL Input: dsdt.dsl - 3590 lines, 118620 bytes, 1427 keywords
Compilation complete. 2 Errors, 4 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 364 Optimizations
ns2:~/LinuxBIOS#
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Sample config file for EPIA-M
# This will make a target directory of ./epia-m
target epia-m
mainboard via/epia-m
option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1
option ROM_SIZE=256*1024
option HAVE_OPTION_TABLE=1
option CONFIG_ROM_STREAM=1
option HAVE_FALLBACK_BOOT=1
###
### Compute the location and size of where this firmware image
### (linuxBIOS plus bootloader) will live in the boot rom chip.
###
option FALLBACK_SIZE=0x30000
## LinuxBIOS C code runs at this location in RAM
option _RAMBASE=0x00004000
#
###
### Compute the start location and size size of
### The linuxBIOS bootloader.
###
#
# EPIA-M
#
#romimage "normal"
# option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0
# option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0xc000
# option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
# option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x18000
# option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffd0000
# option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Normal"
# payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
# payload /filo.elf
#end
romimage "fallback" option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=1
option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000
option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x30000
# option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffe0000
option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Fallback"
# payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
# payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
# payload ../../../../../filo.elf
payload /root/LinuxBIOS/filo.elf
end
buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE "fallback"
------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File: via/epia-m/epia-m/Makefile is autogenerated
all: ./linuxbios.rom
include Makefile.settings
fallback/linuxbios.rom:
if (cd fallback; \
make linuxbios.rom)\
then true; else exit 1; fi;
clean: fallback-clean
fallback-clean:
(cd fallback; make clean)
./linuxbios.rom: fallback/linuxbios.rom cat
/root/LinuxBIOS/video.bios.bin fallback/linuxbios.rom > ./linuxbios.rom
.PHONY: all clean fallback-clean fallback/linuxbios.rom
Makefile:
/root/LinuxBIOS/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/via/epia-m/epia-m/config.py
/root/LinuxBIOS/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/via/epia-m/Config.lb
(cd /root/LinuxBIOS/LinuxBIOSv2/targets ;
via/epia-m/epia-m/config.py via/epia-m/Config.lb
/root/LinuxBIOS/LinuxBIOSv2)
