Hi! On 9/23/06, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Luis Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060923 10:20]: > > There is no ACPI support. > > A spectre is haunting people coping with bios - the spectre of ACPI. > > In LinuxBIOS there _is_ ACPI support. But not enabled for all boards, > because it is usually _not required_. > > > From what I've read, making ACPI tables is not easy... > > > > The board is industrial grade, and it can be found here: > > http://www.icpamerica.com/products/single_board_computers/5_25_NOVA/NOVA-4899.html > > GX1 is basically supported. > > > 1) if I don't specify a device in config.lb, Linux will still be able > > Depends :-) Some devices are not easily detectable or need > initialization in LinuxBIOS. Those have to be specified. > > > 2) about IRQ sharing, what is the best solution > > IRQ routing mainly depends on the wires on the motherboards. It may or > may not be possible physically.
Let's just say that if I have an additional eth card in the PCI slot, with Redhat 9 if I get all the ethernet cards up and then it panics complaining about IRQ's. Therefore I am assuming there are IRQ related issues :) > > Why do you want to share IRQs. In theory this impacts system performance > quite significantly and is not required with today's APICs. > > Does the GX1 have an APIC? I have no idea, can't you tell that by looking at the lspci output? > > > 3) is it possible to enable ACPI without having the tables from the > > factory bios > > Yes, definitely. We are not using any factory bios ACPI tables anywhere > LinuxBIOS. > > There is no GX1 ACPI tables available in LinuxBIOS yet, so someone would > have to write them. Not too hard, depending on what features you expect > from ACPI. Well, I would just like it to work... This is a perfect hardware platform for my router project <pub>Bering uClibc http://www.leaf-project.org/bering-uclibc</pub> > > Stefan > > -- > coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. > Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ > Luis -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
