I want to write a BIOS debugger.Can you give me some advice?

2002-11-05 Thread
hi , all, I am a postgraduate student of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( in china , Beijing). I want to write a BIOS debugger as my graduation article. My plan are as follow: 1. firstly I want to write a debug stub which is INDEPENDENT of

Re: I want to write a BIOS debugger.Can you give me some advice?

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Sulmicki
1. firstly I want to write a debug stub which is INDEPENDENT of specific Mainchips, and small enough. The stub can set up a basic environment ( such as RAM initialization, uart initialization). It can also communicate with the develop PC through Serial port,and excute the debug command

Re: DOC ATA Modules EPIA DOC

2002-11-05 Thread Justin Cormack
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:56, Peter Stuge wrote: Currently i am using CF w/ an ATA - IDE adapter. I have not found a way to write protect my CF data. Just cut the appropriate bus line? No, but you can buy CF with a write protect switch (with some difficulty). It cam up once before on

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 13:33, zhu shi song wrote: I got setclock from old mailing lists. Can you give more comments on the program? If I'll use it to boot 850Mhz celeron, what should i do ? zhu You can't use the program to boot to 850Mhz, you have to boot to linux, run the program with

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread zhu shi song
Do you have quick and clear solution of the problem? I hope I can use my celeron 850 asap. I don't know what parameter I should pass to setclock , and I can't find clock gen info from leadtek or sis website. Can you give me direct clues? thanks zhu --- ollie lho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, zhu shi song wrote: Do you have quick and clear solution of the problem? I hope I can use my celeron 850 asap. I don't know what parameter I should pass to setclock , and I can't find clock gen info from leadtek or sis website. Can you give me direct clues? I think we

Re: I want to write a BIOS debugger.Can you give me some advice?

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Jackson
I think this is an excellent idea. I have thought thought about this myself also. I was looking at taking kgdb kernel debugger stub and moving it from the Linux kernel into LinuxBIOS. It would have the advantage that it could trap some hardware events that cause a reset, which are currently

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread steven james
Greetings, That seems to be a good idea. It will be important to have a 'safemode' in case it gets set wrong. G'day, sjames On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, zhu shi song wrote: Do you have quick and clear solution of the problem? I hope I can use my

Geode sc1200

2002-11-05 Thread John Allen
To all, I have been assigned the task of building a bios for our geode sc1200 project using linuxbios. I have downloaded the current cvs snapshot, and read all the documents I could find. Unfortunately, I don't see any info on building it for the geode. Can anyone point me in the right

Re: Geode sc1200

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
we can help you but there's a price :-) would you be willing to send me a writeup on How I built for the Geode sc1200 if I tell you :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: DOC ATA Modules EPIA DOC

2002-11-05 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: Just cut the appropriate bus line? nope. then you can't write control registers. On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:35:28PM +, Justin Cormack wrote: Just cut the appropriate bus line? No, but you can buy CF with a write protect

Re: Geode sc1200

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Wong
try freebios/src/mainboard/nano Paul - Original Message - From: John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: Geode sc1200 To all, I have been assigned the task of building a bios for our geode sc1200 project using linuxbios. I

sbc8240 board bring up

2002-11-05 Thread Hammond, Jean-François
Hi Ron, I did not bring up the board with the linux bios, but I finally print a message on the serial port. I am beginning the linux bios porting now. I got some questions first : 1 - Does linux bios needs any special memory mapping, memory settings ? 2 - Do I need to use address translation

Re: sbc8240 board bring up

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Hammond, Jean-François wrote: 1 - Does linux bios needs any special memory mapping, memory settings ? no. 2 - Do I need to use address translation on the PCI ? I can't see why. 3 - Is there any special settings to use a video card ? (Yes, I got one.) 3D Blaster

Re: linuxbios can't identify celeron 850MHz

2002-11-05 Thread ollie lho
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 21:01, zhu shi song wrote: Do you have quick and clear solution of the problem? I hope I can use my celeron 850 asap. I don't know what parameter I should pass to setclock , and I can't find clock gen info from leadtek or sis website. Can you give me direct clues?

Re: I want to write a BIOS debugger.Can you give me some advice?

2002-11-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Íõº£Ã÷ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi , all, I am a postgraduate student of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( in china , Beijing). I want to write a BIOS debugger as my graduation article. My plan are as follow: 1. firstly I want to write a debug