Re: acpi error

2002-10-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* zhu shi song [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021009 15:56]: I compile acpi into the kernel. When the kernel booting, through doc , acpi error. When I boot it from bios , it's ok. I'm using cvs freebios, linux-2.4.18. who met the problem? LinuxBIOS does not provide ACPI tables at the moment.

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PPCBoot-users] PPCboot vs ARMboot or Blob and a Merge with LinuxBIOS]

2002-10-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021009 16:03]: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: LinuxBIOS was designed to use Linux to boot the OS of choice. So was PPCBoot, but without excluding the resto of the world. Neither does LinuxBIOS.. It can load plan9 and winCE afaik. It uses some

LinuxBIOS instead of Dell BIOS

2002-10-09 Thread Billy Mullins
Hi, I work with a couple small clusters of Dell PC's, and I'm wondering if someone would be able to give me an educated guess as to whether or not LinuxBIOS will work out of the box for these PC's. I've looked at the supported mb list, and they don't seem to be listed, but maybe...

LinuxBios support for Via Mini-ITX motherboard

2002-10-09 Thread Pierre-Yves Kerembellec
Hi all, I'm pretty sure this question has already been asked a thousand times, but I'd just like to know the status of the LinuxBios support on the VIA Mini-ITX motherboards (typically C3-based). I've seen things like mainboard/via/epia, src/northbridge/via/vt8601, src/southbridge/via/vt8231 or

Re: LinuxBios support for Via Mini-ITX motherboard

2002-10-09 Thread Justin Cormack
Hi all, I'm pretty sure this question has already been asked a thousand times, but I'd just like to know the status of the LinuxBios support on the VIA Mini-ITX motherboards (typically C3-based). I've seen things like mainboard/via/epia, src/northbridge/via/vt8601,

Re: LinuxBIOS instead of Dell BIOS

2002-10-09 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Billy Mullins wrote: What are the factors that play into whether or not you can use LinuxBIOS out of the box(maybe that is in a faq somewhere)? For example, just the chipset, strange motherboard quirks, etc... send me an lspci. Dell has not been helpful however. I

Re: LinuxBios support for Via Mini-ITX motherboard

2002-10-09 Thread Pierre-Yves Kerembellec
Justin, I'm pretty sure this question has already been asked a thousand times, but I'd just like to know the status of the LinuxBios support on the VIA Mini-ITX motherboards (typically C3-based). I've seen things like mainboard/via/epia, src/northbridge/via/vt8601,

Making IPL coding easier? (fwd)

2002-10-09 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Neil has a very interesting point, and it does bring up the cache as ram issue again. Neil, my only question is, did you test this MTRR approach on lots of CPUs. My impression is that it is not guaranteed to work. thanks ron -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002