Re: Building error
what version of python do you have on your machine? what distro is this? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Booting Linux using netboot and HD
I strongly recommend filo for people trying to boot off ide. It just plain works for me and etherboot, though it is wonderful, has not been as reliable. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Booting Linux using netboot and HD
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, beneo wrote: Does filo support ext3 file system? the intruduction say it supports ext2, but didn't say anything about ext3. If it doesn't support ext3, does it mean I have to re-install Linux to ext2? IIRC read-only ext3 can almost always be read by ext2 file system code. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: DiskOnChip and PLCC32 packages
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Seb James wrote: Great. Would LILO also function as a payload for LinuxBIOS? no. LILO makes bios calls. Sorry :-( Use FILO! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX2
lots of people are interested in this, I'm trying to find out who to talk to at amd. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX2
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, William J Beksi wrote: I have the source files (cpu setup, southbridge, northbridge) for the NSC Geode GX1/GX2 orginally written by Christer Weinigel. I'm not sure, but it may have been in the Linuxbios cvs a long time ago? it's been in v1 for years. I have it working on an Informtech S7 board running an NSC Geode GX1 except for the serial console. I believe AMD did not change the architecture after buying out the Geode from NSC, so this should work for AMD Geodes. I guess hamish could use the code, he is the geode guy now. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Building error
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Huang-Jen Wang wrote: my phthon version is 2.2.2, and my linux is Red Hat 9.0 hmm. Can you try something a little more modern? I don't understand the error you are seeing. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBIOS Pentium-M embedded boards
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Tobias Erichsen wrote: Has there been any success to get any of those going with LinuxBIOS? no, as Intel does not want it to happen. They are determined to ensure that no future Intel hardware can run linuxbios. They have stated as much to me directly. I am hoping this situation will change at some point, however, as some larger customers are starting to ask for LinuxBIOS. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: demo cluster
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, YhLu wrote: in the wiki, you said At LANL, we are building a new 'no moving parts' 16-node cluster to demonstrate this capability. only linuxbios + bproc there? what's MB? probably amd sc520 based ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: post code fe means what ?
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Huang-Jen Wang wrote: Hi All, I tried to build a linuxbios for Arima Hdama, but the rom can't work I use a debug card , and it shows post code fe what dose it mean? that's I thought the last code before jumping to payload. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Tyan 2850 video output
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Alexey wrote: My goal is to see the whole boot process on display. you mean linuxbios messages too? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Amlcode structure generation [PMX:#]
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [050329 23:32]: just a note, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] from here on out. I will linuxbios@openbios.org ah, sorry, tired fingers type wrong words. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: NSC sc1100 port
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, William J Beksi wrote: Has anyone ported or working on porting the National Semicondutor sc1100 cpu? is that an x86? intel has an 1100 too ... it's an ARM. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Intel StorageStation port
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Dave Mills wrote: Chipset Intel 430TX try the digitallogic/ p5 target in freebios 1. same north. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Amlcode structure generation [PMX:#]
just a note, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] from here on out. I will give this transition a few more days. Please fix your address books! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Error in compiling STPC Consumer
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:54:17 + (GMT), Ramesh Chhaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Sir , u was right that I was missing that payload = line in configuration :) So I have aded that line and also enabled STD_FLASH and ELF_BOOT options and also added PAY_LOAD_SIZE = 64KB and ROM_SIZE =126KB But I want to make my romimage within 256KB So what options I acn change to do that currently my image is 356 (approx) KB PAY_LOAD_SIZE is not a maximum size. its the blocksize option thats used in the 'dd' statemnet that copies the payload into a file. So 64k is the minimum it will be but it could be 128k, 192k, 256k, etc. Make your ROM_SIZE be the size you want the image - payload size. You can see all the magic for this in the makefile that the config tool generates. I remember I had to tweak with my numbers till I got to to come out the right size. 356k seems a little large for just linubios and etherboot. How big is your payload? this is a clear FAQ entry. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Error in compiling STPC Consumer
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: think I would still make v1 people ask so we can tell them not to use v1. ah, good point. Hey richard, previous letter, question is: Q. Should I use V1? A. Your previous letter ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: How to flash the bios?
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Markus Wolters wrote: I have compiled and build freebios and everything went ok. The romimage is at /usr/src/freebios/build. My mainboard is a K7SEM. When I do flash_rom, this error message appears : 2f is 0xfd EEPROM not found What type of flash part is it ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
This list is shutting down
In a very short time, possibly today, this list will stop. All traffic should now be on the openbios version of this list. thanks ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Disk On Chip strangeness
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Gregg C Levine wrote: Just how hard is it to render these things unreadable, or even unusable by normal methods? sometimes I've had them just die on me. I wonder if that's what happened to you. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Neither IDE Port Enabled
what platform is this? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
cutting over
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the new mailing list. I will shut the old one down in a day or two. Hope you call get this. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Looking for advise for DiskOnChip Tyan s2850 setup
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Thomas Wehrspann wrote: You need a DiskOnChip Millenium (no 2000). Those were only available with 8MB and aren't produced anymore. ONLY if you're going to use DoC-only with no bios flash. If you're going to use DoC in addition to bios flash, any DoC will do, I think. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
looking for an OS hacker
I hope nobody minds the spam but os hacker jobs can be hard to find, as opposed to java web applet hackers. If you go to the LANL job site, and look at job #209754, that is to work for me on OS stuff. Go ahead and apply if interested. US citizenship is best. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: [LinuxBIOS] cutting over
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Do we need to move ourselves over or will the existing list of subscribers be moved? gets moved automagically, (i.e. stefan) but you should be getting dup mail emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Done. How do I identify the BIOS chip on my mainboard? ah, I love the wiki. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: glossary update...
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: Is there any interest in adding this to the linuxBIOS wiki? yes, this is a great start at a common glossary. Wonderful! thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote: if remove FreeBSD's dependence on BIOS calls. can we move pci bus routine from Linux Kernel to them? Is any license problem with that? yes. But I think freebsd would work fine without bios calls, when I looked it was informational calls they made such as memory size, etc. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Help with EPIA
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1st, what settings do you have in the Config.lb for enabling the IDE controllers - they should be in compatibility mode (I think). yes, and they are not. I did notice that. 2nd, I'm curious to know how stable your raminit appears to be, I've been having problems with it hanging reading the spd eprom on the dimm's. yes, overall the southbridge seems to be significantly less reliable than it used to be. We have seen the same hang. The code is much better, we just have to shake it out a little. 3rd, I have a cleaned up version of the southbridge/via/vt8231/vt8231.c ready to commit after Ron checks it over, if you'd like to test it, I can email you the diff (plus a few changes to the Options.lb and Config.lb) I think we're interested in that! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520
I'd still like to find an elan board that: - has removable flash part - flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP. - has a working bios. This combination seems to be really hard to find! Any pointers? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520
Dave, this is *exactly* what I'm looking for. Thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks like this: Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was invented. Sorry. Anyone who wants to put this in the FAQ, be my guest :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Help with EPIA
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Josiah England wrote: As Ron said, there are no such settings. How do I set them in compatibility mode? Josiah, let's you, me, and Ollie sit down tomorrow and walk this code. I think it will be pretty easy. thanks That problem has reared up a few times. Quite odd how intermittent it is - seems to just start happenning on some builds and rarely thereafter gets past initialization, then on another build (with no different settings), it works fine indefinately. it's not the build, it's a wacky race condition. kron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote: So what do you guys think I should do? Do you agree with my assessment above? The easiest thing to do would be to add a linux kernel boot parameter that'll allow LinuxBIOS to tell filo to tell the kernel exactly where in sdram the uncompressed PIRQ table is. yes, but then you have to keep maintaining your patch. I think I can do that. Alternately, since we know that Fh is the start of the flash, could we just reserve that small section of flash for storing an uncompressed PIRQ table and leave everything else as is. yes, but you're going to have to figure out how to do that :-) I think the simplest is CONFIG_COMPRESS=0, and just don't worry about it. LinuxBIOS fits, right? Then don't worry about it. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote: So, you don't need it for production systems, only for development, do you? I would say so. How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2? easy. Been done. Ask Richard Smith. It seems to me that supporting a new SIO chips (the emulated NS PC97338/PC87338) should be easy. yes. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: Yep. not to bad. I've got the beginnings of the port already done. I got hung up on getting my dump_spd routine to return somthing else besides zero. Its really wierd. I can actually see the data on the SMbus happening but I don't ever seem to get a result back. ah, richard, it just occurred to me. A lot of the spd code starts the op, and waits for the 'active' bit to go to 0 in the status. If the CPU is too fast, it will sample the 'active' bit before the smbus hardware starts to do anything. Then you read back bad data. As I found on some chipsets, the CPU can be too fast, and it should: 1. start op 2. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 1 3. wait for 'smbus active' indicator to go to 0 is this by any chance your problem? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Version Control
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: The next piece to investigate is how we plan on publishing and committing changes. The bread and butter of a version control system. Ron are you far enough along in playing with arch that you are ready for that piece of the conversation? nope. Have not had time to look as I have been sick. Fooey. The only issue I worry about is making sure that vendors have One Place To Go for as they do know (i.e. sourceforge.net). It seems to me that openbios.org could be that place. Sound ok? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Version Control
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote: We could either use pqm or add ssh keys for each commiter. How many are there currently? I think maybe 8 or so active. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Version Control
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote: Can we put the server in US instead of EU? I'm afraid to ask this question, but why does it matter? EU patent issues? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
we need to sequence this
we need a 'controlled shutdown' of the cvs project so we can do a clean cut over to tla. Can we pick a day and time? midnight this saturday or some such? Do we all trust tla enough to go for it? What stepan could do is an import, and at the same time we shut down commits to the cvs. Sound ok? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: we need to sequence this
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, YhLu wrote: why does the Linux kernel use bitkeeper? because it is really really good. Xen uses it too. IBM uses it extensively and they were trying to convince us to use it for linuxbios. But Larry's 'rules of engagement' for free use of the software are not aceeptable to some of our contributors, so for this project we are not going to use it. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: we need to sequence this
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote: How does closing the tree work? We can also tag it and leave it sitting there with a notice that it is obsolete. I am not sure how to close it. Possibly remove all developers this weekend. And, no commits post-midnight of this sunday. Something like that. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote: Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? If you want it please describe why do you want it. it would sure make it easier to do full-up sims of linuxbios-equipped systems. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: ASUS and linuxbios
I was talking to ASUS at one point but the conversation faltered. I can try again. Pick a mobo you really want to see it done for. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, YhLu wrote: Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD? I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would need to be fixed. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote: Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed. making region read/write nope. you need to make it write-only, Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf...failed, then copy The make it read-write. Could it be that f is mapped to the flash? yes, it's supposed to be! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Version Control
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Ron does this sound like something you would be willing to look at? by all means! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: linuxbios on k7sem with 2.6.x kernel?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Markus Wolters wrote: Is it possible to use a 2.6 kernel? yes Is it possible to use the original bios chip? DON'T DO THAT. if you don't have a backup chip, don't try it. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote: Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed. making region read/write nope. you need to make it write-only, arg, I'm not thinking, we are running out of high memory and then RAM. So making it read/write should have worked. Blash. Dump the memory at 0xf BEFORE and AFTER you copy the PIRQ. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: -- I2C - Inter-Integrated-Circuit, a bidirectional 2-wire bus for efficient inter-IC control. See 'http://www.esacademy.com/faq/i2c/index.htm' for more info. this is fine. And as someone else mentioned that explanation of config options is needed; why not use doxygen (or similar tool), which seems a really easy way to document the code and outputs, text, html, LaTeX etc.? Actually, when you build a target, you can then type make documentation and should get docs for that board. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written back asking for permission to disclose the contents without NDA. I have pointed out the benefits they are going to derive. Let's see how it goes. I have a feeling that they may allow disclosure without NDA. another option is to ask for permission to release code but not release the material. VIA has done that for me in the past. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: error in making bios
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ramesh Chhaba wrote: Hi All , I was just trying to make a linuxBIOS for epic. at last step it gives error . ././buildrom linuxbios.strip linuxbios.rom ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi 0x1 0x2 ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi: No such file or directory it needs that file. So you need to provide that file or make your own Config file with a different file. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: Ok, thanks again for educating me! so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: [wiki] v2 PC-Chips support
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Justin C. Darby wrote: I seem to remember LinuxBIOS having a few PC-Chips motherboards supported, but there is currently no mention of it on the page. Is this not in v2? It is not in v2. Are any of the supported PC-Chips motherboards still in production or use that should be in the documentation? Not sure. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Justin C. Darby wrote: If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd guess) to find all of the configuration options without descriptions I can setup a page dedicated to explaining them one at a time. src/config/Options.lb What's nice is the format greg watson worked up is amenable to processing to produce html. I think this ought to be easy to autmoate. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: Thats a good idea. What about adding a description section where this info is filled out. Then the config tool would generate some sort of text file in the target directory describing all the options that are set. Makefile.settings ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: FILO dependencies
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FILO with nVidia reference board with a CK804. I've got LinuxBIOS to load FILO and FILO sees the IDE controller but not the drive. I thought FILO was device independent, but could the IDE controllers on the CK804 require FILO changes? Wow, you've taken this far. Not sure yet. I need a board, so guess we'll order some. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: FILO dependencies
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote: Why not try Etherboot at first? That would be easier. we've never found it to be easier, but that is a point of disagreement between several places :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
for shadow ram, you need to enable writes to go to ram. Later on, when you are done with a region, you need to enable reads. So the way you do this: figure out which one is for 0xf. Enable writes (2). At the end of the process, you need to set (3) for the area. And, somebody will have to explain how this fits in with the new stuff, as I have not looked at shadow ram setup at all in V2! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: There are probably more sections that would be useful too. Technical jargon? I'm still a bit confused about what payload is and there's probably quite a few words/acronyms that are being used but it's hard to know exactly what they mean. Best regards wiki contributors, here is a question; go for it! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, ramesh bios wrote: That's odd. My understanding might be lacking. I think the PIRQ table parser in 2.6.10 seems to work because it works when I use the normal BIOS. no, it's messy. Some bioses set IRQ settings that don't agree with their own PIRQ tables. I've seen this in practice. So the fact that the normal BIOS has working IRQs means nothing. I'd like a URL for the Cox/Christer discussion :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas, which version of LB where you looking at ? People still seem to be getting on ok with V1 and the HOW-TO I wrote some time ago. Which version of the EPIA are you using, is it the original EPIA or one of the other version (ie EPIA-M, EPIA-MII etc) ? If it's the EPIA, I may be able to help. V2 epia. V2 epia used to work, but does not currently. It locks up in ram init. My worry is that the code was fixed to use DRAM timings from SPD and the infamous 8601 bugs have now caught up with us. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote: Would I be able to test if Linux 2.6.10 is able to parse the normal BIOS' PIRQ table by booting linux with acpi=off? no, the problem is that the BIOSes we have seen in some cases just assign a bunch of IRQs, and ignore their own tables. Hence, the problem gets harder. I'm still somewhat confused though. At the point that LB calls the kernel, shoudn't LB have used the IRQ table values to set the PCI config space registers to write IRQ values to the PCI config registers and such? no, we have always let Linux do this because: - for a given version of linux, you really don't know what tables it will use, so it makes no sense to do a lot of work and then have linux repeat it - there are multiple options in some cases for which IRQ to use, and again, you want to let the OS figure that out ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: To get more people interested in linuxbios one has to lower the bars, and technical jargon is a major blocker (at least for me). And yes, I do know what i2c is, and I think I know what spd is (ram speed?) but vid did does not ring a bell. For anyone not knowing what i2c is I'll recommend: http://www.esacademy.com/faq/i2c/index.htm so we need a glossary. Good point. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote: I've found that Linux up to 2.6.9 (I haven't tested .10) Dosen't do this fully. With my 440bx chipset there are config registers in the northbridge that control which IRQ line each of the PCI PIRQ lines are routed to. Even with a proper PIRQ table these registers are not setup and I get the same error reported. that's whacky. The old linux did fine with 440bx. I never had to do anything but set up PIRQ tables. I suggest you diff the output of lspci -xxx for the northbridge between linubios and factory bios and resolve all the differences with the datasheet. on the geode 2.4.18 always worked, and if I patched linux for later linuxes, that worked fine too. What a mess PIRQ got to be ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
wiki.linuxbios.org
I have started to bring over content to the wiki. Those who have logins -- you can see my formatting is not that great in the FAQ, fixers welcome. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: So would someone who DOES have an account please edit the login page to put a mailto link there to allow users to at least know that the UI on that page isn't as described in the error you get when you try to create an account the way the page says to do so? It's guaranteed to be an FAQ which will bother everyone more than the time it would take to fix it on the page. Alan, you mean the thing on the upper right 'log in or create account'? We'll get that done. Thanks for checking things out. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
port guides
I've moved the three port guides over. Antony's is really good, but sadly is for v1. The EPIA one is good for V2. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: Do I have to right to distribute my FREENIX '05 paper? If I can, should I put it on the wiki? yes. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote: even the copyright is assigned to USENIX.org? yes, AFAIK you can still post it. I post all my usenix pappers. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Can any one ID this board?
don't know, but it sure looks like yer basic geode board to me. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
wiki.linuxbios.org
This page is improving so quickly you almost need a video camera to watch it! Thanks to all of you who have contributed today. It's just fantastic! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: wiki.linuxbios.org
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bari Ari wrote: What's the status on getting an account password? Who do you have to know? -Bari me or stepan. You want one bari? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: wiki.linuxbios.org update
Yes, Justin Darby did a GREAT job of fixing up the FAQ, btw. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote: Strike that. The issue is somewhere with copy_pirq_routing_table. IE: why does the copy to f fail. I had assumed that the 500 address was an alternate location that the table was copied to. So now, I'm looking at that f000 failure. the copy to f fails because shadow ram is not set up. You can fix this one of two ways. One is to figure out how to enable shadow ram. The second is to make the payload uncompressed. The copy will still fail but linux will find the PIRQ table anyway. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
if you see errors let me know (I did not write this but they will take input). I know the comment about linuxbios being stripped-down linux is not quite right; anything else? Nevertheless it is really great to see the FSF weigh in on this issue. If your company is a supporter of linuxbios, or other free bioses such as U-boot etc., then you should definitely contact the FSF and get your name listed. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: A Four X Solution?
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote: it is one of my regrets that I never finished that ram initalization project on that Thankpad T23 back at UMD. well, adam, show Justin the URL for that work and the hardware mod you have to make for development on t23. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: I think it would be MOST helpful if the linuxbios web site reflected true and accurate recent information. It appears to be very out of date and doesn't even say how to get to freebios2 IIRC. If I knew more of what WAS true and correct, I would offer to help update the site. But alas, I am just lurking on this mailing list and absorbing what I can... It is out of date. I have had volunteers to fix this up but nobody ever really actually ever has picked it up. Since one of the maintainers is not at Cray, it has been hard to keep it going. sorry about that. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: has picked it up. Since one of the maintainers is not at Cray, it has been now sorry. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jamie Rollins wrote: I agree very strongly on this point. If linuxbios is going to move forward, it's public face needs to be very well presented, which at the moment, it is not. The linuxbios.org web site is very out of date. The page desperately needs a documentation section, and a better way to download the most recent source code other than through the CVS. volunteers? I've really got a day job that eats most of my waking hours. I used to have more time for the web site but my free time is almost zero. I'm willing to have someone else take it over. I have no problems with this. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http: //www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Josh England wrote: The offer still stands to host SVN for the freebios trees as well as host linuxbios.org, plan9.net, etcI think the server is close to being ready. We'll have to figure out how to best transfer the CVS history over to SVN -- I've heard the tools for that are not the best. good stuff. I think linuxbios.org web pages will be somewhere but SVN would be nice on the sandia.org host. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Kevin O'Connor wrote: I think a two computer solution might be easier. If one can get early serial on the target machine, then a small romcc program could read commands from the serial port, execute them, and transmit back the results. (I think I even saw an email from someone that did this in pure assembler.) That is a *very* cool idea. Then, a specially modified emulator could run the original bios on a second machine, forwarding memory reads/writes and io reads/writes through the serial port to the target machine. I like it a lot. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Andreas Thienemann wrote: [new website] volunteers? Well, I would volunteer to a) create the new webpage and b) set it up with some kind of CMS so that someone else can fill it with content. OK, guys, we've got a new web site for linuxbios, courtesy Stefan. Check it out: wiki.linuxbios.org Only problem: I have been trying to get linuxbios running on one of our epia boards and failed horribly. that's because somebody appears to have busted linuxbios/epia recently :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: Woo. Very nice. Thanks to all - maybe we can create some nice content for this cool new container! I will do what I can when I have some content to share. Yh Lu did a great job of adding content to day. I am hoping to get guys like Eric and Richard Smith to get accounts and add content! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Alan Mimms wrote: One problem tho: no form for creating usernames. Was this intentional? yes. Creating users who can edit the pages is going to pass through sysops so we don't have people randomly dropping in and trashing the pages. Plan 9 wiki had a terrible time with this until they locked things down. Every once in a while all the Plan 9 wiki would end up with links to porn sites. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, ramesh bios wrote: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device :00:0b.0. what kernel? It matters. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, ramesh bios wrote: I used Linux 2.6.10. I'm reading through the list archive now for any related kernel issues. From 2.4.19 on, the IRQ parser for PIRQ tables for geodes is broken. That could be part of the problem. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: A Four X Solution?
I like your idea, but linuxbios and thinkpads are hopeless. Sorry. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any pointers? my mail archive does not throw up aything. it's complex. You have to compile the emulator with romcc, and then romcc uses the standard bios as the target. It would be a heroic hack! But, at the end, we would have the ability to run the fuctory BIOS from power-on under emulation and work out all the chip secrets. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Detection of size and speed?. Suppose we freeze on a particular ram type only for starters. good plan. I was hoping that by comparing some other similiar via chipset bios with this one I could probably make a guess (with plenty of hand holding from you guys) of important events. Then use that as a template to get things going. I am presuming that the current crop of devices wont be wildly different. It's worth a try, it sometimes works, sometimes fails to do it this way. I failed on the Intel 855GME but that was partly a lack-of-time issue. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Build error on the EPIA-M
it's clear we failed to update that target. I have some epia work to do and we will look at this next week. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Python config file options
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, corentin hache wrote: Is there a file or a website where I can find informations about all possibles options ? I'm sorry, there is not. I started to write it up and as usual ran out of time ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: [Etherboot-developers] freeebios project
Ramesh: go to linuxbios.sf.net, take it from there. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: On Thursday 24 February 2005 20:32, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which would be easier / successful emulator or comparing with the EPIA stuff. I would try the emulator that is in linuxbios src tree already, not BOCHS. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Build error on the EPIA-M
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Adam Talbot wrote: Well, its a step in the right direction, I updated the configs and started the compile... ERROR!! Any ideas on this one. Am I missing something in my configs? this may be obsolete code, compare against the amd southbridge code. sorry. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:09, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I would love it if you could do that port. You need to get data from via on how the chips work. That is your first step. Argh!!. That would take forever if at all.Isnt there another way? Like simulator or gdb or reading up stuff from the kernel since that already works with the motherboard. it's hardware and there is no other way. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: yet another reason to use linuxbios in laptops I guess
yeah, I hit this problem 2 weeks ago. Tried to put an X24 minicard into a T41 and got the same error. I hate fuctory BIOS. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A
I would love it if you could do that port. You need to get data from via on how the chips work. That is your first step. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Any update on linuxbios for laptops
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Justin Rietz wrote: I have been following/searching this mailing list, and haven't been able to find whether or not there has / will be a successful attempt at linuxbios on a laptop. we need a cooperative company. IBM *almost* was one, but it did not work out. I tried linspire, and there was interest, but not at the high levels. It's hard. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: Porting nVidia's Crush chip - I seem to be having smbus trouble.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote: I'm porting LinuxBIOS to nVidia's CK8-04 (nForce4) chip. Currently, the serial port is working and I believe the soft reset is working OK. sure wish we could get a release. Are you doing reverse engineering or ... thanks ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
