sorry there was a glitch in that last message!
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> Committed, tested, working. Only gotcha is you only get one SDRAM.
>
> I recommend you get a corsair 128M or 256M, NON-REGISTERED. We've had the
> least trouble with those.
>
> I am running with 256M right now and it works quite well. But no graphics
> yet.
>
> One other gotcha. To make things work I had to build a protected-mode
> ipl.S. I am not sure of how to get the right thing to happen, so you end
> up with a 1M docipl. Obviously this is not right. Here is a manual step I
> had to do:
>
> bash-2.01$ ls -l docipl
> -rw------- 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 1040896 Jun 8 11:20 docipl
> bash-2.01$ mv docipl adocipl
> bash-2.01$ dd if=adocipl of=docipl bs=1 skip=1040384
> 512+0 records in
> 512+0 records out
> bash-2.01$ ls -l docipl
> -rw------- 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 512 Jun 8 11:20 docipl
>
> This produces a 512-byte ipl.S
>
> Here are the total steps I used to build a linuxbios for the CUA
>
> python ~/src/bios/freebios/util/config/NLBConfig.py asus_cua_doc.config \
> ~/src/bios/freebios
> cd asus_cua
> make clean
> make
> ls -l docipl
> mv docipl adocipl
> dd if=adocipl of=docipl bs=1 skip=1040384
> ls -l docipl
> scp docipl linuxbios.strip vmlinux.bin.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:acer
>
> On that other machine I just ran the burn_mtd script.
>
> Have fun.
>
> ron
>
>
>
