Nice work so far. I just applied the patch, followed the instructions in
Nick's HowTo and flashed linuxbios to my Epia-M10000 (1). The only thing
I see on the serial console is:
LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Fallback Fr Okt 28 19:21:21 CEST 2005 starting...
Enabling mainboard devices
I used the default epia-m Config.lb (attached) with filo. Loglevel is 8.
The board has 256MB of single sided DDR memory.
Should I increase the loglevel to 9 to get more information? Or any
other ideas?
One thing I don't really understand in the HowTo is, that you change:
> cat fallback/linuxbios.rom > linuxbios.rom
>
> to
>
> cat /video.bios.bin fallback/linuxbios.rom >linuxbios.rom
in the Makefile. This means, that the video bios is at the beginning of
the ROM file. Is that correct?
In the next step I have to get the original BIOS back on the chip. Since
I do not own a Bios-Savior, a friend with a programmer has to do this. I
think he has to know the format of the ROM-File which flash_rom uses
when dumping the BIOS. I assume this is Intel-Hex Format, right?
Martin
# 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 /media/mytmp/lb/filo.elf
end
buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE "fallback"
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