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: 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: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bryan E. Chafy wrote: Although one gotcha would be anything that's timing related. Memory/IO access proxied through the serial port would also be orders of magnatude slower. When the DRAM test completes, we'll all be dead :) Also, rom bios code memory references would have to

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-03-01 Thread sherlock
Hi all, Just recieved the spec sheet for ProSavageDDR P4M266 VT8751 P4 DDR SMA North Bridge. Bad news is that I am not supposed to disclose it without permission (as per the Copyright notice). At this point I have recieved the manual without any NDA although the manual says Confidential NDA

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-28 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:02:29AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: 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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-28 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-28 Thread sherlock
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:42, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: 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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-28 Thread Bryan E. Chafy
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.)

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-24 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-24 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-23 Thread sherlock
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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-23 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-23 Thread Adam Sulmicki
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. As a first step, yes. But you want dynamic detection of dram and other things. By looking at a picture you can't see which line

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-23 Thread sherlock
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:32, Stefan Reinauer wrote: As a first step, yes. But you want dynamic detection of dram and Detection of size and speed?. Suppose we freeze on a particular ram type only for starters. other things. By looking at a picture you can't see which line was

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-23 Thread sherlock
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 23:37, Adam Sulmicki wrote: well if you are determined and/or have funding there might be two other ways. 1) I recall Ron describing rom-as-ram trick to get the emu86 running and get the memory setting this way. Slow as molasses I'm told. Any pointers? my mail

Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-22 Thread sherlock
Hi all I ve been lurking on this list for some time. Has linuxbios been ported to the Via p4m266A mobo? (vt8633, vt8235, IT8705) If not can i do it?. Basically i would like to boot from a usb thumb drive (transcend 512Mb). The problem is that the bios recognizes the usb only as a floppy and if

Re: Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
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