Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 06:03]: 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. Many vendors

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-02 Thread sherlock
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 13:38, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 06:03]: 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

Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables

2005-03-02 Thread Ian Smith
Ramesh, At 04:02 02/03/2005, ramesh bios wrote: 1. Shadow RAM I guess I would need to find a way to tell the northbridge to enable shadow RAM for some range around f. I looked through the CS5530A datasheet and see shadow registers but no mention of shadowing RAM. Nor in the GX1 datasheet

HP Pavillion ZV5000 (Laptop)

2005-03-02 Thread David Hendricks
Here's the info on the ZV5000 I promised earlier (To Yhlu IIRC) in case you're still interested in K8 laptops. HP Pavillion ZV5000 :00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d1 (rev a4) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+

Re: wiki.linuxbios.org

2005-03-02 Thread Martin Ley
Hi all, I am reading the linuxbios list for about 4 month, looking forward to use linuxbios on my Epia M1. I am not sure, if I build everything allright. Maybe with the complete update of the website, there could be ready-made ROM images available to download. I want to boot from hda, which

error in making bios

2005-03-02 Thread Ramesh Chhaba
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 make[1]: *** [linuxbios.rom] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving

Re: wiki.linuxbios.org

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Martin Ley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 11:30]: The next thing is, how do I get the ROM image to the flash? The flash is a SST39SF020A. The best solution would be that I use a second flash to play with linuxbios, but I can't find a distributor in germany willing to sell small quantities. You

Re: error in making bios

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Ramesh Chhaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 12:19]: 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 Can

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly. Ok, thanks. I've seen this discussed on this list; dependent on size of flash mem. I'm not sure I agree that the bar must be

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 13:31]: Ok, it's just that I have an intel m/b (i875-based) and from what I've gathered there's no support for any newer intel chips than the 440xX, so a hack like that would perhaps enable me to experiment (me play to ;-). Of course I need to get

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: error in making bios

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

[wiki] v2 PC-Chips support

2005-03-02 Thread Justin C. Darby
Hi all, 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? Are any of the supported PC-Chips motherboards still in production or use that should be in the documentation? Thanks, Justin

Re: [wiki] v2 PC-Chips support

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Smith
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:05:06 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: Ok, thanks again for educating me! so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-) A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Justin C. Darby
Richard Smith wrote: A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need is a listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on. I compiled part of a list for V1 and

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:28]: A tehnical glossary would be nice but one thing we _really_ need is a listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on.

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Justin C. Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:34]: 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. freebios2/src/config/Options.lb

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Smith
listing of all config options and what they do. This was (and still is) one of the largest hurdles for me. And its one of the things that Google won't find much on. Should this be generated automatically out of Options.lb? There is a lot of description in that file already. Thats a

FAQ question fixup

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Smith
I've been adding selected info from my V1 FAQ up into the wiki. The following is some info I compiled up on V1 start up. If someone(s) would update this for V2 and post it t the wiki I think it would be very useful. Help! I'm a newbie and I'm completely lost

Re: FAQ question fixup

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 17:00]: I've been adding selected info from my V1 FAQ up into the wiki. The following is some info I compiled up on V1 start up. If someone(s) would update this for V2 and post it t the wiki I think it would be very useful. I have an old writeup on

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

documentation page on wiki

2005-03-02 Thread Jamie Rollins
So I'm trying to put together a Documentation page on the new site. However, since I don't actually know how to do any of this stuff myself (which is why I'm very excited about the new page), I'm just culling documentation from where ever I can find it. The only official things I'm finding right

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Justin C. Darby
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: 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

Re: HP Pavillion ZV5000 (Laptop)

2005-03-02 Thread yhlu
Cool. Anyone has ASUS z80k or Z81k, that one has 5 USB port. YH On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:03:27 -0700, David Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the info on the ZV5000 I promised earlier (To Yhlu IIRC) in case you're still interested in K8 laptops. HP Pavillion ZV5000 :00:00.0 Host

FILO dependencies

2005-03-02 Thread Stephen.Kimball
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? Thanks. Steve --- serial

Re: FILO dependencies

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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?

Re: FILO dependencies

2005-03-02 Thread yhlu
Why not try Etherboot at first? That would be easier. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:06:40 +0100, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 19:40]: I'm using FILO with nVidia reference board with a CK804. I've got LinuxBIOS to load FILO and FILO sees

Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]

2005-03-02 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:41, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Justin C. Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 16:34]: 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

Re: FILO dependencies

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

RE: FILO dependencies

2005-03-02 Thread Stephen.Kimball
I'm using FILO 0.4.2 and have PCI_BRUTE_SCAN=1. I found it to be too brute, so I changed it to only scan buses 0,1,2. No need to scan 256 buses. FILO finds the IDE controller, but the IDE_BASE0 and IDE_BASE1 in FILO's ide.c point to the wrong place. These are PCI addresses? Does FILO assume

Re: FAQ question fixup

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 17:04]: * Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050302 17:00]: I've been adding selected info from my V1 FAQ up into the wiki. The following is some info I compiled up on V1 start up. If someone(s) would update this for V2 and post it t the wiki I

Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables

2005-03-02 Thread ramesh bios
Hi, Thanks for the hint. I see the BC_XMAP registers touched in nsc/gx1/gx_setup.inc. .long BC_XMAP_1, 0x60 .long BC_XMAP_2, 0 .long BC_XMAP_3, 0 And from the gx1 spec: --- GX_BASE+800Ch-800Fh BC_XMAP_3 Register (R/W) Default Value = h 19:16 F0 F0

Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables

2005-03-02 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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