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
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Ramesh Chhaba wrote:
Hi All ,
I was just trying to make a linuxBIOS for epic.
at last step it gives error .
././buildrom linuxbios.strip linuxbios.rom
../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi 0x1 0x2
../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi: No such file or
directory
it
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote:
Ok, thanks again for educating me!
so, peter, you want to accumulate the Glossary for us :-)
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Justin C. Darby wrote:
I seem to remember LinuxBIOS having a few PC-Chips motherboards supported, but
there is currently no mention of it on the page.
Is this not in v2?
It is not in v2.
Are any of the supported PC-Chips motherboards still in production or
use that
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Justin C. Darby wrote:
If someone can point me in the right direction (in the source, I'd guess) to
find all of the configuration options without descriptions I can setup a page
dedicated to explaining them one at a time.
src/config/Options.lb
What's nice is the
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
Thats a good idea. What about adding a description section where
this info is filled out. Then the config tool would generate some
sort of text file in the target directory describing all the options
that are set.
Makefile.settings
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using FILO with nVidia reference board with a CK804. I've got
LinuxBIOS to load FILO and FILO sees the IDE controller but not the
drive. I thought FILO was device independent, but could the IDE
controllers on the CK804 require FILO changes?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote:
Why not try Etherboot at first? That would be easier.
we've never found it to be easier, but that is a point of disagreement
between several places :-)
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for shadow ram, you need to enable writes to go to ram. Later on, when you
are done with a region, you need to enable reads.
So the way you do this: figure out which one is for 0xf. Enable writes
(2). At the end of the process, you need to set (3) for the area.
And, somebody will have
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote:
--
I2C - Inter-Integrated-Circuit, a bidirectional 2-wire bus for efficient
inter-IC control. See 'http://www.esacademy.com/faq/i2c/index.htm' for more
info.
this is fine.
And as someone else mentioned that
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, YhLu wrote:
Anyone tried LinuxBIOS with freeBSD?
I talked to freebsd guys about it. Freebsd makes BIOS calls, so that would
need to be fixed.
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote:
Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed.
making region read/write
nope. you need to make it write-only,
Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf...failed,
then copy
The make it read-write.
Could it be that f is mapped to
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Ron does this sound like something you would be willing to look at?
by all means!
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Markus Wolters wrote:
Is it possible to use a 2.6 kernel?
yes
Is it possible to use the original bios chip?
DON'T DO THAT. if you don't have a backup chip, don't try it.
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote:
Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed.
making region read/write
nope. you need to make it write-only,
arg, I'm not thinking, we are running out of high memory and then RAM.
So
I was talking to ASUS at one point but the conversation faltered. I can
try again. Pick a mobo you really want to see it done for.
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote:
Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
If you want it please describe why do you want it.
it would sure make it easier to do full-up sims of linuxbios-equipped
systems.
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote:
So, you don't need it for production systems, only for development,
do you?
I would say so.
How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from
V1 to V2?
easy. Been done. Ask Richard Smith.
It seems to me that supporting a new SIO
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
Yep. not to bad. I've got the beginnings of the port already done. I
got hung up on getting my dump_spd routine to return somthing else
besides zero. Its really wierd. I can actually see the data on the
SMbus happening but I don't ever seem to
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The next piece to investigate is how we plan on publishing and
committing changes. The bread and butter of a version control system.
Ron are you far enough along in playing with arch that you are ready for
that piece of the conversation?
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
We could either use pqm or add ssh keys for each commiter. How many are
there currently?
I think maybe 8 or so active.
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote:
Can we put the server in US instead of EU?
I'm afraid to ask this question, but why does it matter? EU patent issues?
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we need a 'controlled shutdown' of the cvs project so we can do a clean
cut over to tla.
Can we pick a day and time? midnight this saturday or some such? Do we all
trust tla enough to go for it?
What stepan could do is an import, and at the same time we shut down
commits to the cvs.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, YhLu wrote:
why does the Linux kernel use bitkeeper?
because it is really really good. Xen uses it too.
IBM uses it extensively and they were trying to convince us to use it for
linuxbios.
But Larry's 'rules of engagement' for free use of the software are not
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
How does closing the tree work? We can also tag it and leave it sitting
there with a notice that it is obsolete.
I am not sure how to close it. Possibly remove all developers this
weekend.
And, no commits post-midnight of this sunday.
Something
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, ramesh bios wrote:
So what do you guys think I should do? Do you agree
with my assessment above? The easiest thing to do
would be to add a linux kernel boot parameter that'll
allow LinuxBIOS to tell filo to tell the kernel
exactly where in sdram the uncompressed PIRQ
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, yhlu wrote:
if remove FreeBSD's dependence on BIOS calls. can we move pci bus
routine from Linux Kernel to them?
Is any license problem with that?
yes.
But I think freebsd would work fine without bios calls, when I looked it
was informational calls they made such as
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1st, what settings do you have in the Config.lb for enabling the IDE
controllers
- they should be in compatibility mode (I think).
yes, and they are not. I did notice that.
2nd, I'm curious to know how stable your raminit appears to be, I've
I'd still like to find an elan board that:
- has removable flash part
- flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP.
- has a working bios.
This combination seems to be really hard to find!
Any pointers?
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Dave, this is *exactly* what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks
like this:
Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was invented.
Sorry.
Anyone who wants to put this in the FAQ, be my guest :-)
ron
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Josiah England wrote:
As Ron said, there are no such settings. How do I set them in
compatibility mode?
Josiah, let's you, me, and Ollie sit down tomorrow and walk this code. I
think it will be pretty easy.
thanks
That problem has reared up a few times. Quite odd
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
Done. How do I identify the BIOS chip on my mainboard?
ah, I love the wiki.
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote:
Is there any interest in adding
this to the linuxBIOS wiki?
yes, this is a great start at a common glossary.
Wonderful! thanks!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the new mailing list. I will shut the old one
down in a day or two. Hope you call get this.
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Thomas Wehrspann wrote:
You need a DiskOnChip Millenium (no 2000). Those were only available with 8MB
and aren't produced anymore.
ONLY if you're going to use DoC-only with no bios flash.
If you're going to use DoC in addition to bios flash, any DoC will do, I
think.
I hope nobody minds the spam but os hacker jobs can be hard to find, as
opposed to java web applet hackers.
If you go to the LANL job site, and look at job #209754, that is to work
for me on OS stuff. Go ahead and apply if interested.
US citizenship is best.
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
Do we need to move ourselves over or will the existing list of subscribers be
moved?
gets moved automagically, (i.e. stefan) but you should be getting dup mail
emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In a very short time, possibly today, this list will stop. All traffic
should now be on the openbios version of this list.
thanks
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Just how hard is it to render these things unreadable, or even
unusable by normal methods?
sometimes I've had them just die on me. I wonder if that's what happened
to you.
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Markus Wolters wrote:
I have compiled and build freebios and everything went ok. The romimage is
at /usr/src/freebios/build.
My mainboard is a K7SEM. When I do flash_rom, this error message appears :
2f is 0xfd
EEPROM not found
What type of flash part is it
ron
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:54:17 + (GMT), Ramesh Chhaba
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Yes Sir ,
u was right that I was missing that payload = line in configuration :)
So I have aded that line
and also enabled STD_FLASH
and ELF_BOOT
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Richard Smith wrote:
think I would still make v1 people ask so we can tell them not to use
v1.
ah, good point. Hey richard, previous letter, question is:
Q. Should I use V1?
A. Your previous letter
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, William J Beksi wrote:
Has anyone ported or working on porting the National Semicondutor sc1100 cpu?
is that an x86? intel has an 1100 too ... it's an ARM.
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Dave Mills wrote:
Chipset Intel 430TX
try the digitallogic/ p5 target in freebios 1.
same north.
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just a note, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] from here on out. I will
give this transition a few more days. Please fix your address books!
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
* Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [050329 23:32]:
just a note, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] from here on out. I will
linuxbios@openbios.org
ah, sorry, tired fingers
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Alexey wrote:
My goal is to see the whole boot process on display.
you mean linuxbios messages too?
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, YhLu wrote:
in the wiki, you said
At LANL, we are building a new 'no moving parts' 16-node cluster to
demonstrate this capability.
only linuxbios + bproc there?
what's MB?
probably amd sc520 based
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Huang-Jen Wang wrote:
Hi All,
I tried to build a linuxbios for Arima Hdama, but the rom can't work
I use a debug card , and it shows post code fe
what dose it mean?
that's I thought the last code before jumping to payload.
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Tobias Erichsen wrote:
Has there been any success to get any of those going
with LinuxBIOS?
no, as Intel does not want it to happen. They are determined to ensure
that no future Intel hardware can run linuxbios. They have stated as much
to me directly. I am hoping this
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Huang-Jen Wang wrote:
my phthon version is 2.2.2, and my linux is Red Hat 9.0
hmm. Can you try something a little more modern?
I don't understand the error you are seeing.
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lots of people are interested in this, I'm trying to find out who to talk
to at amd.
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, William J Beksi wrote:
I have the source files (cpu setup, southbridge, northbridge) for the NSC
Geode GX1/GX2 orginally written by Christer Weinigel. I'm not sure, but it may
have been in the Linuxbios cvs a long time ago?
it's been in v1 for years.
I have it
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Seb James wrote:
Great. Would LILO also function as a payload for LinuxBIOS?
no. LILO makes bios calls. Sorry :-(
Use FILO!
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what version of python do you have on your machine? what distro is this?
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I strongly recommend filo for people trying to boot off ide. It just plain
works for me and etherboot, though it is wonderful, has not been as
reliable.
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, beneo wrote:
Does filo support ext3 file system? the intruduction say it supports ext2,
but didn't say anything about ext3. If it doesn't support ext3, does it mean
I have to re-install Linux to ext2?
IIRC read-only ext3 can almost always be read by ext2 file system
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