I modified my matsonic mainboard.c file to set the fsb speed on boot. Is this a bad thing to do? I mean, will this break/affect any delay loops or similar in LinuxBIOS when having it in mainboard.c, should this code go somewhere else. It seems to be working.
-mikael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mikael Halvarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 13:06 Subject: Re: Got some new problems > Greetings, > > The fsb speed is controlled by a clock chip on the i2c bus. > > grab http://linuxlabs.com/LinuxBIOS/patches/set-133-133.c > > It's a userspace tool (run as root) to set the clock. You will want to do that in a boot kernel and then use monte. Otherwise, the timing loop calibration the kernel does will be invalid. > > Alternatly, the code can be easily enough incorperated into whatever else you need. > > The clockl setting is persistant across reset. You could even set it and reboot (or trigger the reset line through the ACPI watchdog timer) if necessary. > > G'day, > sjames > > > Quoting Mikael Halvarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I cannot get linux to understand that there is a ide1 port that I want > > to use, > > is there something that I have to enable in LinuxBIOS or has something > > else > > gone wrong? > > > > Also, the CPU is running in 450MHz when I boot, but there is a 600MHz > > installed, is it possible to change the multiple and such somewhere? > > > > Motherboard is MS7308ET > > > > Thanks, > > -mikael > > >
