Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew Ip
Alexander, It works!!! I have checked in. Thanks. -Andrew On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:00:43PM +0300, Alexander Amelkin wrote: Hello ollie, This is the corrected version. The one I sent before contained an error in the raminit.inc patch and wasn't sent to the list.. However,

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: I guess this is me :). I'll try it and send the result back to the list. However, we should also think about other way to enable/disable devices without rebuilding LinuxBIOS. Is it possible to do it with cmos like normal bios? There are actually

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Andrew Ip
There are actually two cases. The first case is that you never want some feature enable because of the motherboard design. The second is that you want some features enabled/disabled. There are 3 pci slots on m758/m787. If I want to use all 3 slots, I need to disable audio/modem. However,

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: There are 3 pci slots on m758/m787. If I want to use all 3 slots, I need to disable audio/modem. However, some applications might not want to disable audio. Even storing IRQ assignment is also very useful for debugging purpose. Storing boot option is

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-19 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote: For most cases, it probably needs to be done before PCI probing. Besides, should we follow normal bios layout, or should we have our own. we should have our own, but follow the conventions established for, e.g., the supermicro boards. ron

Re[2]: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-18 Thread Spirit
Hello Ronald, Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 11:07:34 PM, you wrote: RGM can we get a second sis 630 person to test this? Just for double check. I also created another two patches: 1. Adds an IDE_SPINUP_DELAY option (defaults to 2 seconds, just as it is now). Good for IDE DiskOnModule (flash)

Re: SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

2003-03-18 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
can we get a second sis 630 person to test this? Just for double check. I don't have sis 630 any more :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios