Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Bari Ari wrote: ron minnich wrote: The two unknowable issues with IBM: - enable SPD - enable FLASH write they refuse to tell us. Was that with the T23? The T23 has a 830MP chipset and S3 graphics. What did they use for the keyboard controller/super I/O? that is

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread Bari Ari
ron minnich wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Bari Ari wrote: ron minnich wrote: The two unknowable issues with IBM: - enable SPD - enable FLASH write they refuse to tell us. Was that with the T23? The T23 has a 830MP chipset and S3 graphics. What did they use for the keyboard

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Bari Ari wrote: The few IBM's I've looked at mux all the SMBus and I2C lines that are used for SPD, smart battery, keyboard controller and DDC for CRT, etc, etc. The Flash ROM's and FWH write enables tend to be controlled through GPIO's on the Super I/O or

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread Bari Ari
ron minnich wrote: The two unknowable issues with IBM: - enable SPD - enable FLASH write they refuse to tell us. Was that with the T23? The T23 has a 830MP chipset and S3 graphics. What did they use for the keyboard controller/super I/O? Bari ___

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Stefan Reinauer wrote: There is not much you can do except gnireenigne esrever existing firmware Stefan That's it, gnireenigne esrever, perfectly legal in the US (Sony v Connectix) as long as the code is not encrypted for copy protection or content access protection (DMCA). Even then it is

RE: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Barr wrote: Ron, is the T23 running linuxbios? When I joined the list (though I later left) and was reading back-issues, I vaguely remember you as having said you couldn't get it on your lappy due to IBM's chipset detail stinginess; has any/all of that

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread Roger
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 19:07, ron minnich wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Bari Ari wrote: The IBM A22-M uses the Intel 440BX chipset with the ATI Mobility Rage M3 for graphics. The 440BX is supported by LinuxBIOS and the VideoBIOS can be extracted from the flash in the unit. Find out what

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: devbios generally knows how to do this for certain chipsets, including the 440. Unfortunately some mainboard vendors additionaly protect flash write with some undocumented GPIO circuit, so supporting the chipset alone is not enough. There is not

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030811 10:02]: The two unknowable issues with IBM: - enable SPD - enable FLASH write I thought the openbios/devbios code that i posted and made reference to had the corresponding addresses for enabling flash write for the i440bx chipset? (or is this another

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread YhLu
Why not try 64 bit? Yinghai Lu -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 200385 16:20 : YhLu : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Re: smp, newconfig, hdama On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, YhLu wrote: You need to change _RAMBASE to 0x4000. thank you, that did it. I now have an HDAMA running as a 2-cpu bproc

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-14 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, YhLu wrote: You need to change _RAMBASE to 0x4000. thank you, that did it. I now have an HDAMA running as a 2-cpu bproc slave node, in 32-bit mode, with an IBM T23 laptop as the master. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL

RE: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-11 Thread David Barr
Ron, is the T23 running linuxbios? When I joined the list (though I later left) and was reading back-issues, I vaguely remember you as having said you couldn't get it on your lappy due to IBM's chipset detail stinginess; has any/all of that changed, or am I perhaps hallucinating? I

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-10 Thread Adam Agnew
David Barr wrote: I have access to a fairly largish supply of A22-M series, and as president of my local student ACM chapter (named Beta Iota Tau, nerdily enough) am desparately searching for more projects for the upcoming semester/year. Also take a look at the flash. If it's

Re: smp, newconfig, hdama

2003-08-07 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, YhLu wrote: Why not try 64 bit? that's next. I am waiting for something. You'll see :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios