[coreboot] More about that Google Mail outage

2008-08-12 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! This surfaced while reading Google Mail. (While I find that ironic, I did so inform my Google Mail screens to do the work of finding interesting articles.) Anyway here goes: http://tinyurl.com/62rgqp Ideally it should explain something. However I am considering it to be not even close.

[coreboot] SIS device support

2008-09-11 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I've just been given an SIS based system. I'll know more about it when I get back from vacation, but is this older family supported on Coreboot? Or do I need to go back to either of the two original LinuxBIOS trees I've got someplace? Basically its the original family that I distinctly

Re: [coreboot] Latest GRUB uses Multiboot on coreboot

2008-11-22 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Millan wrote: Hi! Starting with revision 1910, latest version of GRUB uses the newly added Multiboot support in coreboot. If you're using GRUB on coreboot, when you update to the latest GRUB mind that you also

[coreboot] Baremetal bootloader project

2008-11-30 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! During the ramp up that brought us to the coreboot project, one Steven James contributed a project he called Baremetal, and described it as a bootloader of sorts. During that time period I actually did get it to build, but sadly never did get around to test it. Was this project imported

[coreboot] Where would I find a listing of completed ports to existing chipsets?

2008-12-26 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I have here a legacy Intel board, it claims to be an i440FX based board, and of course these Dell systems insist they are i440GX and related family members. So my question is, where would I find a listing of completed ports to these existing chipsets? - Gregg C Levine

Re: [coreboot] *** Spam *** Re: Rev 4099+ Broken Tree?

2009-04-24 Thread Gregg Levine
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:31:58 -0400, Ward Vandewege w...@gnu.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:26:55AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: Can someone test if

[coreboot] EHCI Debug Port questions

2009-04-24 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Besides the web pages discussing what works and what does not, sorry to state that my current Linux box doesn't wear an ECHCI style USB port, is there anything else to report here? For example I just visited the site that discusses the Debug device, and their favorite supplier (and builder

Re: [coreboot] EHCI Debug Port questions

2009-04-25 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Stefan Reinauer ste...@coresystems.de wrote: Hi, Greg, On 25.04.2009 7:49 Uhr, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Besides the web pages discussing what works and what does not, sorry to state that my current Linux box doesn't wear an ECHCI style USB port

[coreboot] Trac Spam

2009-05-15 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Just for the sake of argument, is everyone aware of this annoying tendency of Trac to attract spam? This guy is getting to be more annoying then a certain series of advertisments on the telly for something even more useless then a certain brand of soft drink. And no I am not going to quote

Re: [coreboot] coreboot utilities on MacOSX

2009-09-01 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Stefan Reinauerste...@coresystems.de wrote: Hi, As a weekend project I had been porting coreboot utilities to Mac OS X. I put up a new set of installer images, source code and patches to http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/OSX/ The order of installation

Re: [coreboot] BIOS RAM in AMD SB7XX southbridges ?

2009-10-27 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Darmawan Salihun darmawan.sali...@gmail.com wrote: What is the BIOS RAM in AMD SB7XX used for? Looks like scratchpad memory to me. From the public doc: 3.3 BIOS RAM The SB700 has

Re: [coreboot] Dell Optiplex GX150 Bios

2010-01-06 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:32 AM, CHRIS PITZER dogst...@q.com wrote: My old Dell Optiplex GX150 Mini-Tower has Dell A11 Bios. The maximum RAM the system will support is 512MB-The system won't boot if more that 512MB is added to the two RAM slots (Memory Error). During a chat with the Dell

[coreboot] printk question

2010-02-12 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Before I completely make a fool of myself, here, (don't ask!), would one of you please define the term printk? It sound as if this is one I should know, but again I can't be expected to know everything. (Even if the company mascots insist on it.) - Gregg C Levine

Re: [coreboot] Details for choice of motherboard

2010-03-03 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:02 AM, anand bhagwantrao anandbhagwant...@gmail.com wrote: Hello frnds.. I want to have coreboot in my motherboard. pls let me know the same specification motherboard as Intel BOXDG43NB LGA 775 Intel G43 ATX Intel Motherboard but apart from Intel. Thank you

[coreboot] Console ports and Coreboot versions

2010-04-12 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Here's the issue: Dating over a period of about two to three weeks, and averaging about three messages per time period about two years ago September to October, happen to be a serial about just that. The group was discussing the issue concerning the impending (by that time) disappearance

Re: [coreboot] (no subject)

2010-05-22 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 19:20:31 +0200, mbertens mbert...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 09:53 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: On 05/22/2010 02:39 AM, mbertens wrote: hi all, I have a question about the PCI api

[coreboot] RCA IP1150

2010-05-27 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Joe, just for fun I ran the supported boxes on your website past Amazon and surprisingly enough it found two of them so far. The first one was the original RCA RM4100, and the imagery there confirmed what it was originally programmed to do. There are several available there at the usual

Re: [coreboot] RCA IP1150

2010-05-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On 05/27/2010 03:00 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Joe, just for fun I ran the supported boxes on your website past Amazon and surprisingly enough it found two of them so far. The first one was the original RCA RM4100

Re: [coreboot] RCA IP1150

2010-05-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I should mention that in parallel universe I work in there's lots of weird things going on with gcc. It's a nightmare, highly threaded program that blows up with gcc 4.4 ... so we're not alone. ron Hello! I see your

Re: [coreboot] RCA IP1150

2010-05-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, On 29.05.2010 20:54, Gregg Levine wrote: system is running a later version of the PCI libraries.  And the program builds properly on the other one running Slackware 11.0 because the PCI

[coreboot] Set top box update

2010-06-08 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Amazon tells me that there are now two people selling their Akimbo boxes. Perhaps I'll definitely buy one. And Joe here is the linked page which contains a reference to the STB kit from Intel: http://cerberus.teamhackaday.com/?p=3 It turns out that it comes up right below the description

Re: [coreboot] H8DME-2

2010-07-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Daniel J. Celta dce...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone updated this Supermicro server Board BIOS for the H8DME-2.. I have installed FC10, (i was able to complete this installation by turning of the RAID configuration in the BIOS), and now I am having trouble

Re: [coreboot] H8DME-2

2010-07-05 Thread Gregg Levine
, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Daniel J. Celta dce...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone updated this Supermicro server Board BIOS for the H8DME-2.. I have installed FC10, (i was able to complete this installation by turning

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5872 - in trunk/src/mainboard: . olpc

2010-09-27 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I have some rumbas if anyone wants them and can pay postage. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot Hello! How many, and are you thinking of the

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5872 - in trunk/src/mainboard: . olpc

2010-09-27 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: How many, and are you thinking of the motherboards (By that name) or the robotic vaccum (who I also know by that name)? motherboard. I have about

[coreboot] Trac spam

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! This is getting monotonous. It seems every time a trac entry is updated, it aquires some blockhead's random example of junk. In this case its #163. Now I realize that everyone does know about them, but I am simply bringing it up so that we can get the matter resolved. - Gregg C Levine

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Russell Whitaker r...@ashlandhome.net wrote: Could you make closed tickets read only? Then if a spammer happens to pick a closed ticket and he doesn't know why his spam didn't take, he might think it's a moderated list and just go away.  Russ -- coreboot

[coreboot] Fwd: [nylug-talk] Trac questions

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
, 2 Oct 2010, Gregg Levine wrote: I remember participating in a LUG meeting with that as its theme but I do not recall what it was written with. Or perhaps a related beastie, but both apply. You probably will need to remove anonymous write access to tickets, the wiki, etc. Very easy if you have

Re: [coreboot] Intel datasheets require NDAs

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: ali hagigat wrote: I am afraid those unmentioned registers have a significant effect in understanding the function and logic of the internal parts of the IC and the standards used. What function, logic and standards is it you

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] mkelfImage: set kernel_alignment so 2.6.31+work

2010-10-06 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Eric W. Biederman ebied...@xmission.com wrote: Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se writes: Eric W. Biederman wrote: At the moment I want to mandate a bzImage for x86, but I'm not certain if that is practical the way we build images for coreboot. .. I think I need to

[coreboot] LANL in the news (sort of)

2010-10-13 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I had first heard about the Utah facility when I had started exploring the logic behind how to network boot a computer. Yes this includes http://etherboot.org/ as well as the netboot project as well. (Which is at http://netboot.sourceforge.net/ ) The home page for the whole business is at

Re: [coreboot] Mark Beihoffer has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-10-22 Thread Gregg Levine
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mark Beihoffer mbeihof...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. You're Invited to Gmail! Mark Beihoffer has invited you to open a Gmail account. Gmail is Google's free

Re: [coreboot] What is the difference between fadt rev 3 and rev 1

2011-01-21 Thread Gregg Levine
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Scott Duplichan sc...@notabs.org wrote: -Original Message- From: coreboot-boun...@coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-boun...@coreboot.org] On Behalf Of Bao, Zheng Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 02:53 AM To: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] What

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot meeting @ Google, Sunday Mar. 13

2011-03-11 Thread Gregg Levine
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: Hey everyone, Stefan and I are going to be @ Google in Mountain View hacking on Coreboot this weekend, so we figured this would be a good time to host another users group meeting for those interested. This time we'll

Re: [coreboot] Mohammad Hoda wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-04-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Mohammad Hoda shiyamh...@gmail.com wrote: LinkedIn I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Mohammad Hoda Mohammad Hoda Student at West Bengal University of Technology India Confirm that you know Mohammad © 2011, LinkedIn

Re: [coreboot] SuperI/O Access (Kernelspace)

2011-04-14 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Jeremy Moles cubic...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, me again. :) So, my device is working great now that I can access the GPIO pins via userspace (using iotools w/ Tom Sylla's help) and can power on the device. However, I'd like to be able to toggle the power on

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] coreboot support for memory mapped UARTs

2011-04-20 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:59 PM, David Hendricks dhend...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Stefan Reinauer reina...@google.com wrote: See patch. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot Very cool -- Serial debug

Re: [coreboot] Alternate for serial port debug messages

2011-05-13 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodb...@tadpole.com wrote: Vikram Narayanan wrote: I have an USB port that has debug capabilities (according to the lspci output) Should I buy the one mentioned in this page http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port Yes or can I use

[coreboot] Svn works

2011-05-22 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I just ran the commands to update a previously checked out release. And without any complaints or anything else repeatable it just worked. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] Problem returned regarding SVN (and then vanished)

2011-05-29 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Group I returned from vacation, (which is where SVN worked) on the Friday. Today I went ahead and attempted the regular and routine update of SVN. Stefan is it possible, however unlikely that something where you are located happens to be blocking any US based IP address in the range

Re: [coreboot] Problem returned regarding SVN (and then vanished)

2011-05-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org wrote: On 5/29/11 6:06 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Group I returned from vacation, (which is where SVN worked) on the Friday. Today I went ahead and attempted the regular and routine update of SVN. Stefan

Re: [coreboot] [ANN] New code repository and development workflow

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Dear coreboot developers, stakeholders, and enthusiasts, I'm glad to be able to announce that we moved the repository infrastructure to git and gerrit, with jenkins as supporting facility. This was done with the

Re: [coreboot] [ANN] New code repository and development workflow

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 00:17, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Dear coreboot developers, stakeholders, and enthusiasts, I'm

Re: [coreboot] [ANN] New code repository and development workflow

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Gregg Levine wrote: What would prompt this to happen? root@jimkirk2:/usr/src/lobos# git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/lobos/coreboot/.git/ fatal: http

Re: [coreboot] [ANN] New code repository and development workflow

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Am Sonntag, den 05.06.2011, 18:38 -0400 schrieb Gregg Levine: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Gregg Levine wrote: What would prompt this to happen? root@jimkirk2:/usr/src

[coreboot] Linux and distribution versions and installed tools

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Peter you are correct regarding how to upgrade a package for Slackware. I've done it several times on every single release I've run. However I believe the libraries that the version of Git we now need for Coreboot, are some what advanced versus the ones for the version that was installed

Re: [coreboot] [ANN] New code repository and development workflow

2011-06-05 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Am Sonntag, den 05.06.2011, 18:38 -0400 schrieb Gregg Levine: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Gregg Levine wrote: What would prompt this to happen? root@jimkirk2:/usr/src

[coreboot] Updating a git based local repository

2011-06-14 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Here's an interesting one, the Emulab application running (both hardware and software) at the University of Utah, at http://www.emulab.net/ and describing here: http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/GitRepository has gone and made its software available in much the same way. That same

Re: [coreboot] New Birthday Calendar

2011-06-28 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Teja Kesineni tejakesin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Click on the link below and please enter your birthday for me.  It will take less than one minute. http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/85415695a423799569b1539024408c576625487d1386 Thank You, Teja --

Re: [coreboot] Unsupported MB?

2011-07-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Aaron P viautbel...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that there are no AOpen motherboards on the list. Is there any possibility of getting coreboot (and SeaBIOS) working on my old AX4BS-V? I'd like to be able to boot the FreeBSD installer via USB, but my BIOS

Re: [coreboot] Unsupported MB?

2011-07-10 Thread Gregg Levine
system. Most of the information is info I already inadvertently gathered looking for my motherboard model and updating the BIOS. I've done a bit more digging, but I'm having trouble finding the northbridge. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul

Re: [coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: 6709bdd Fix multipleVGA cards resource conflict on Windows

2011-12-19 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Anthony Crenshaw quest1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'd like to ask you how long have you been making patch's Hello! An interesting question. Ron practically started the original project. (Which is where I come in.) and Kerry started contributing to it, fairly

Re: [coreboot] Asus M2V-MX problems

2012-01-31 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:56 AM, David Hillman hillma...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to use the board above to experiment with Coreboot.  The board has the same northbridge as the Asus M2V-MX SE (VIA K8M890) and the same southbridge as the Asus M2V (VIA 8237A).  Both of those chipsets are

Re: [coreboot] separate mailling list for gerrit mails?

2012-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Hi, this came up on IRC again, but I think the issue requires wider discussion: Several people asked if gerrit mails can be moved to a separate mailing list to reduce the mechanic noise. We're highly flexible

Re: [coreboot] Set top box update

2012-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:12:28 -0400, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Amazon tells me that there are now two people selling their Akimbo boxes. Perhaps I'll definitely buy one. And Joe here

Re: [coreboot] Grub2 for Coreboot

2012-04-28 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Nachiketh G nachik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm new on Coreboot and I'm trying to compile Grub2 as a payload for Coreboot. I'm following the steps provided under http://www.coreboot.org/Talk:GRUB2 and i'm getting the following compilation error: cc1:

Re: [coreboot] Grub2 for Coreboot

2012-04-28 Thread Gregg Levine
in what I'm doing. Thanks! -Nachiketh On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Nachiketh G nachik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm new on Coreboot and I'm trying to compile Grub2 as a payload for Coreboot. I'm

Re: [coreboot] Fwd: Microsoft Antitrust behaviour

2012-09-24 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Alex G. mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: What are your thoughts? Do you think any action will be taken? Alex Original Message Subject: Microsoft Antitrust behaviour Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:39:19 -0500 From: Alex G. mr.nuke...@gmail.com To:

Re: [coreboot] how to use TianoCore as a coreboot payload

2012-12-09 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: David Hendricks wrote: http://www.phisch.org/website/efiboot/ Perhaps you can contact the author? His e-mail address is at the very bottom of the efiboot website. This has been attempted by several people already, and as far

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Keep all Jenkins build logs

2013-03-06 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:38 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not convinced. ron On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Dear coreboot folks, Jenkins seems to be configured to delete build logs after a certain amount of time. For

Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts

2013-11-02 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I am leaning towards the payload if one can use that term, to have been delivered via an infected USB stick. There are plenty of stories, sadly none verifiable of people who work for Defense contractors seeing their parking lots littered with these selecting one and bringing it in. When

Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts

2013-11-03 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I don't know about you Alex, Ron that's a different question, but I, myself, do use WiFi cards, this computer has one, USB sticks, only ones I own, and SATA disks, of course. Both this computer use one, and the one running Linux does. I'm still waiting for a satisfactory response in

Re: [coreboot] Please tell us more about Falco, Peppy, Slippy, Bold and Pit!

2013-12-05 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Gabe, you can't add that Both were destroyed, and the plans were misplaced. We're looking into why they were misplaced. Aaron a question. A reference platform is just that, a platform created to test out a specific operating system or a family of systems, but its only designed to

[coreboot] Hack A Day is slamming the PCduino

2013-12-10 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! It is interesting. A number of weeks after Ron brought up the existence of this gadget, the site I track the availability of discussed the thing. Basically they are trying to stay out of the argument, but the comments are quite negative. It seems the connector across one end makes it

Re: [coreboot] Hack A Day is slamming the PCduino

2013-12-10 Thread Gregg Levine
, 2013 at 6:16 PM, David Hubbard david.c.hubbard+coreb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! It is interesting. A number of weeks after Ron brought up the existence of this gadget, the site I track the availability of discussed

Re: [coreboot] Removing microcode updates from blobs

2013-12-14 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! What are we breaking? Tradition. Also reality. And probably a heck of a lot of rules and means and methods. Plus some physical laws regarding technology, that we won't know we've broken, until our new gadget works, and probably starts up and does everything properly, unlike its earlier boot

Re: [coreboot] #200: How Many Calories Are In A Hardees Bacon Egg And Cheese Biscuit

2013-12-23 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Take a look at that ticket someone. It seems someone is attempting to poke fun at our work. Besides I did think that the tracker was largely being shutdown. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:19

Re: [coreboot] Are any Chromebooks able to run fully libre?

2013-12-24 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! He's complaining about a missing memo regarding Coreboot and such like. I believe I missed a memo regarding the whole thread. Can we wrap this up? It's getting tedious. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013

Re: [coreboot] does coreboot support kvm WPCE775x other questions

2014-01-04 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Can you enable the KVM functions? Part of the problem with laptops is that there is a thing on them called an Embedded Controller, EC for short. Those devices do all of the housekeeping chores that the main system has delegated to them. For example certain functions are on it. To that end

Re: [coreboot] C720 swapparoo

2014-01-29 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Oddly enough Aaron the first one knew who my Google Mail address was, but did not know what page it was. Whereas your second one worked. Now the important one which is, what does this do? And do we need to worry? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time

Re: [coreboot] HP Chromebook 14 (Falco)

2014-02-08 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! For what's worth since at the moment I'm a spectator and sometimes comments maker, I agree. Once when trying to build a kernel that was closer to the term unique rather then the generic one that normally traveled with one of my systems, I came across references to certain items that had

Re: [coreboot] has intel been hacked?

2014-02-17 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Wasn't me. Chrome on seven worked perfectly. I am convinced that something might have happened. But given that it wasn't announced, we do not need to worry. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:29 PM,

[coreboot] Set Top Boxes and Linux?

2014-03-03 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I've not seen anything (so far) concerning the ideas of installing Core Boot, into a system originally designated as a Set Top box. Is the idea still an active one? Or did it go into hibernation? --- And I'm bringing this up, not just because of prior discussions, but because it happens I

Re: [coreboot] Set Top Boxes and Linux?

2014-03-03 Thread Gregg Levine
, time and again. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:02 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Those boxes are pretty old by now. What kind of CPU is in your STB? ron On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I've not seen anything (so far) concerning

Re: [coreboot] Set Top Boxes and Linux?

2014-03-03 Thread Gregg Levine
series here in the US. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Gregg, Am 04.03.2014 02:43 schrieb Gregg Levine: Hello! I've not seen

Re: [coreboot] Set Top Boxes and Linux?

2014-03-03 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Nah, not that one. Ron is stressing a point that if someone, myself, wants to try and get coreboot running on something, instead of a six and seven, even eight year old hardware, or even older in some cases, I should target one of the Chromebox family members. Back about the time the

Re: [coreboot] Friendly reminder: Please just send plain text messages to the list

2014-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Actually Corey, it's been not really a policy, but a request. And an almost constant one. For example the mailer for Google has a setting widget next to the trash can, every time I respond to a message that's written in useless HTML I promptly reset it to plain text. Now is it also

Re: [coreboot] Friendly reminder: Please just send plain text messages to the list

2014-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Feature creep even. It is indeed. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Corey Osgood wrote: Paul, Can you please point me to when this became policy on the

[coreboot] Following the instructions on the NXM page causes problems

2014-03-15 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I just tried to retrieve the latest NXM code via git. Instead of seeing the usual things happen when the tool started working, I saw instead an HTTP 502 error message. It translated it as bad gateway. And even trying to click on the link to bring it up in the browser (Chrome) caused that to

Re: [coreboot] Following the instructions on the NXM page causes problems

2014-03-15 Thread Gregg Levine
is done. We took it down last year. It's no longer available via coreboot.org If you're still interested in giving it a try, https://github.com/rminnich/NxM On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I just tried to retrieve the latest NXM code via

Re: [coreboot] Changes to the coreboot Project Structure

2014-03-23 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Please don't next time. Its considered to be rather rude, especially if the sender asked you to keep it off the list. I don't pretend to know what David H, was thinking, but I surmise he was indeed thinking of that. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time

Re: [coreboot] Request for Intel Haswell info

2014-07-02 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! What he said. Ron you are very right here. The rules were one to use, and one to ,ah, hack. Now I freely admit all I know about bringing Coreboot to the Chromebooks is what is discussed here. But I did indeed study and follow the earlier efforts, and doing these ports can be considered

Re: [coreboot] (no subject)

2014-07-07 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Partner, I normally do this off line but repeated attacks like this are changing my mind, your e-mail account has been hacked. Please change your password to something you remember that is more complicated. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars,

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! No I haven't. But I've known about the Intel Microcode update idea for about fifteen years. Turns out that the Linux Kernel 2.4.33.2 of course has it, and described the update process. The two responsible for that method have been out of business so to speak for a while now. But according

Re: [coreboot] microcode updates

2014-07-08 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Agreed on all points. Now Scott, I'm certainly no expert on Intel processors either, but in a word, Thank you!, regarding all of that searching and finding out where that stuff is based. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On

Re: [coreboot] Chromium Upstreaming / Introduction

2014-08-05 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Stefan, by what you posted there, (and correct me if I'm wrong) if I were to put together a system who would be running ChromeOS and of course using coreboot to bring it up, the OS would be constructed from the head of the entire Chromium set? Just checking. As of this moment I do not

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

2014-09-15 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! (Speaking as an observer, currently.) It couldn't hurt. And how difficult would it be to do that. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, John Lewis jle...@johnlewis.ie wrote: On 15/09/14 23:17,

Re: [coreboot] Suggested readings

2014-10-07 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I'll echo what you also said Aaron with this one on the X86 family as well: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-organization-Hardware-software-Gorsline/dp/0131652907/ref=cm_wl_huc_item That book happens to be extremely important to almost any programmer. It contains several sadly retired part

Re: [coreboot] Suggested readings

2014-10-07 Thread Gregg Levine
...@anche.no wrote: Hi Greg, On 2014-10-07 14:35, Gregg Levine wrote: [..] It contains several sadly retired part numbers in the book, and of course What do you mean with part numbers .. chapters? If so, does the whole sentence mean that this book has chapters on obsolete topics? the members

Re: [coreboot] Suggested readings

2014-10-08 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Very good Peter. Prasnik, the summary that Peter gave is even better then I could arrange for. But I will add to it anyway. The part numbers covered in that book are largely the ones that the Intel team behind the 8086 family were making and selling then. Its been a generation in people

[coreboot] List being treated as spam by Google Mail

2014-10-10 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Is there anything that can be done from everyone else's end to convince Google Mail to stop trapping nearly everything I'm receiving from the list as spam? All of sudden 85 percent of the list is showing up there with the outlandish claim that people are reporting the list contents as

Re: [coreboot] kt266b + vt8233a support

2014-11-29 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! And whose are those? You'll need to give us some specifics first. There is a Wiki who lists some boards. And some because of their parts may not be directly supported. To do so would require considerable work. For the KT266B one, please provide the specs also found on the Wiki. And for the

Re: [coreboot] coreboot code of conduct

2015-01-16 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! No problem here Marc. My Linux Users Group adopted similar terms after some decidedly revolting problems surfaced several years previously, and so far its been working. As a matter of fact we may have decided to use the exact same ones. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This

Re: [coreboot] dell sputnik

2015-02-11 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! How about you do us the favor of telling us more about your laptop? You will need to run certain programs or use specific Linux commands to tell us what the laptop wears. Please note that the majority of laptops wear specialty chips who are specifically configured to run those features

Re: [coreboot] On the subject of collaboration

2015-02-18 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Here's suggestion. Let's drop the whole business. Its taking over from the regular day to day business. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [coreboot] Phantom bounces and Coreboot list membership disabled – again!

2015-01-27 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I agree. I've been seeing them as well, and responding accordingly. And only on the one from Google Mail. Oddly enough I'm also seeing complaints from Google Mail concerning the way each message is delivered, which is why I'm surprised that this one didn't need to be retrieved from the

Re: [coreboot] QEMU x86_64 Q35 Automated Test Failure

2015-04-21 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! My thoughts exactly. Thank you sir. I suspect somehow it was supposed to be internal to hs outfit only. And something changed with regards to the logic behind how those annoying e-mail messages being sent to us. As for the test cases, they are extremely confusing to me. How many of us

Re: [coreboot] screwdriver 0.3.0 released

2015-10-20 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I'm impressed. In fact the wiki page is easy to understand. How well does the USB debug module perform? Also for setting up the board to do that, you should include a write up as well. Although I believe there was one earlier in the Wiki. (Writing as someone who's extremely familiar with

[coreboot] coreboot as a system startup device

2015-08-28 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Is Google using coreboot as a method to start and manage its systems? Especially since the open source gang at Facebook of all places is realizing that the bottleneck towards getting their systems to run capably happens to be its low level firmware. Of course the chap at the NYLUG meeting

[coreboot] Building ChromeOS from source

2016-02-26 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Let us suppose I want to build from source ChromeOS. What is involved in doing that? And the reason some of you will ask, it concerns the previous discussion on building a ROM image for a particular Intel chipset. If possible I might be able to obtain a board that's reasonably close to

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