Re: Help with EPIA

2005-03-10 Thread mark . wilkinson
problems with it hanging reading the spd eprom on the dimm's. 3rd, I have a cleaned up version of the southbridge/via/vt8231/vt8231.c ready to commit after Ron checks it over, if you'd like to test it, I can email you the diff (plus a few changes to the Options.lb and Config.lb) Regards Mark

RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html

2005-03-01 Thread mark . wilkinson
Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios Regards Mark Wilkinson. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RE: new free software foundation crusade: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html

2005-03-01 Thread mark . wilkinson
not to be the case however. bye, andreas Regards Mark Wilkinson. ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Anybody having success with EPIA 800? (was Re: EPIA halting after vt8601 init?)

2005-01-21 Thread mark . wilkinson
Hi Al, Quoting Al Hooton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 09:45 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I'm quite certain it is memory, this is always the scenario with this type of output. I may still be wrong, but I doubt it. Certain problems occur over and over again, and this looks to be one

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . wilkinson
Quoting ebiederman@lnxi.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Bari, I have the plain old VIA EPIA (800/5000) working a good 80 % of the time. Not sure if my problems are buggy northbridge setup or buggy motherboard - it generates some spurious serial at power on, and sometimes hangs reading the smbus

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-19 Thread mark . wilkinson
Quoting Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov: for our tuturoials we found the EPIAs with linuxbios to boot 100% of the time, and this was several dozen of them. Hmmm, guess this means I have a problem here Was that V1 or V2 ? I don't remember having problems with V1 code. What version of gcc

Re: Small and fast systerm.

2005-01-18 Thread mark . wilkinson
Hi Bari, Quoting Bari Ari [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank wrote: Just FYI we're working on V2 for the CN400 (Epia-nano). -Bari The board looks very attractive for an application I'm thinking about. If I were to go out and buy an Epia board tomorrow, which one should I get if I want to use V2... Anyone

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-06 Thread mark . wilkinson
Hi Ron, Luc, Quoting Ronald G. Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: Here is the output from lspci on my board *00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread mark . wilkinson
is empty vt8601 is done that's it. I tried changing the DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL but when I do that the resulting rom stops at Slot 00 is SDRAM 0400 bytes x2. well we need to ping mark wilkinson, as he just committed a bunch of fixes ... Mark? ron

devices/pci_devices.c

2004-12-02 Thread mark . wilkinson
message will always be displayed even if the setting was successful. I've included a diff that should fix the masks. Regards Mark Wilkinson. This message was sent using ISPMailNow.com Index: freebios2/src/devices/pci_device.c

CVS Commit

2004-12-01 Thread mark . wilkinson
to handle changes on re-written routine. Regards Mark Wilkinson. This message was sent using ISPMailNow.com ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman

Patch for V2 new config

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Wilkinson
the value set in config/Optins.lb (which has ROM_SIZE set to NONE) or should the command be 'default OPTION=value' in which case, alter the line for 'rule defaultC: ...' to read rule defaultC: DEFAULT ID EQ value {{ if(C): mbdefault(ID,value) }} Regards Mark Wilkinson. PS. Hope to burn

Re: UK supplier of Bios Saviour or SST39SF020A 70-4C-NH Flash Part

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Wilkinson
Hi James, You can get a BIOS Saviour from a company called SCAN in the UK (www.scan.co.uk) It's hidden away on the overclocking products page. Regards Mark. On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 18:59, James Weir wrote: Does anyone now of suppliers for either of the above ( see subject ) ?

Re: Do I need to make Makefile.conf for myself?

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Wilkinson
If you haven't build the mkelfImage yet, the first step it to run the configure program provided so that it can work out how to compile the mkelfImage program. in the directory you untar'd mkelfImage type the following ./configure it should then give a long output checking for various

Re: EPIA Howto Update

2003-07-18 Thread Mark Wilkinson
Hi Sone, Thanks for the comments, looks like an update to the update will be on it's way shortly ! On Friday 18 Jul 2003 05:56, SONE Takeshi wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:29:48AM +0100, Mark Wilkinson wrote: Just a quick note to say that I've updated my EPIA howto to include

Re: Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

2003-07-11 Thread Mark Wilkinson
, Mark Wilkinson wrote: Hi David, If you mean has anyone managed to boot a Via EPIA using etherboot as the payload, and loading the kernel via (no pun) tftp, then yes but then I wrote it all down in the EPIA howto :-) oops, hit the wrong key there... what seems

Re: Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 23:20, Mark Wilkinson wrote: Hi David, If you mean has anyone managed to boot a Via EPIA using etherboot as the payload, and loading the kernel via (no pun) tftp, then yes but then I wrote it all down in the EPIA howto :-) oops, hit the wrong key

Re: [epia] Unknown bootloader class

2003-03-23 Thread Mark Wilkinson
= 0x08 5b-5f,56,57 = 0x10 as these are what the original BIOS set for my memory module. Andrew Ip may be able to tell you more on this. The one document I've not seen is the BIOS porting guide. Just can't seem to find it freely available on the web. Regards Mark Wilkinson

Re: [epia] Unknown bootloader class

2003-03-21 Thread Mark Wilkinson
information across. Can you forward the Config file that you used to build the etherboot payload ? Regards Mark Wilkinson. ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [epia] Unknown bootloader class

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Wilkinson
the kernel working, I'd also disable sound support. I've also finally managed to track down the 'Unknown bootloader class' message to the mkelfimage utility (elf32-i386/convert_params.c). Perhaps Eric Biederman can comment more on the problem. Regards Mark Wilkinson

Re: [epia] Unknown bootloader class

2003-03-19 Thread Mark Wilkinson
a stock kernel image ? Can you supply more information on the image you are loading ? What kernel version, configuration info etc. Regards Mark Wilkinson

Re: flash_rom.c

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Wilkinson
Hi Ron, I've updated the patch slightly to add a routine to enable flash writes on the epia mainboard with out the need for the seperate setpci command. Mark On Friday 28 Feb 2003 22:13, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: thanks for the patch! I'll try to get it in today or monday. ron ---

flash_rom.c

2003-02-28 Thread Mark Wilkinson
the Config file under src/arch/i386/lib. I've notice that it has two copies of the 'object c_start.S' line. Is there a reason for this ? I've noticed that the NLBConfig.py script generates warnings about re-defining the object. Regards Mark Wilkinson --- orig/util/flash_and_burn/flash_rom.c