On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
Peter Stuge wrote:
I think we need to make it configurable.
I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct
microcode update for your CPU to be present, no matter what CPU you
put in a socket.
(Actually
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:59:17AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
If you want yes for all unspecified options:
make oldconfig /usr/bin/yes
Now, Uwe, we just came full circle. I said something like that a
few messages ago and Jordan yelled at me :-)
So will oldconfig read from stdin also for
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:13:31PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
So will oldconfig read from stdin also for options specified in
.config ? If so, this is still no the winner.
nope. oldconfig only asks options not available in .config
Then this should work: while :;do echo;done|make oldconfig
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:01:22PM -0800, Andon Tschauschev wrote:
info: creating device #8 AweSim Processor
FixIt: Error: Unable to allocate processor model memory.
Aborted
..
mmap(0x54, 2147483648,
PROT_NONE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = -1
ENOMEM
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:27:48PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
note that on V3, we have the neat ability to put microcode in LAR,
and find it there on boot.
So we might have another top level directory: /microcode
And then you can figure out, long after the bios is built, which
microcode
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:52:49PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008 5:11 PM, Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:44:55PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
NOT finding a file should be efficient.
Yes.
Where do the delay come from? Can anyone measure the LPC
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:16:16PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
It seems we can't support any flash chip bigger than 512 kByte on a
board using IT8716F SPI translation without a LOT of effort.
Please explain further?
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:04:43AM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
Actually, if you're interested in SMT soldering, check out this
'101' video:
http://www.curiousinventor.com/guides/Surface_Mount_Soldering/101
There is some very helpful information in there!
Indeed! I definately recommend
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:31:31AM +0100, Harald Gutmann wrote:
The switch mod can be simplified to use existing pads and no pins
have to be lifted from the flash chips anymore.
1. Remove R509.
2. Populate R89 and R130 with 10k or 100k pull-up 0402 resistors.
3. Solder the switch
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:18:14PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
it really should be a feature that kconfig offers.
It's make defconfig in Linux.
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
How many different cores could you put in even the most popular
socket, three?
LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about).
Using some rough math, I get a rounded-down size of 186KB (really
is quite a bit
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:07:11AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
In practice, the marker is the most efficient method, but it is a
bit of an abomination IMO. :p
Big question: Is v3 a matter of pride or speed or userfriendliness?
I haven't decided yet. ;-)
All of the above, to me at
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:00:11PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
Actually, if you all want to commit this, I can try it on the sis
board this week.
I think it looks good, please try it on hardware.
My alix and LPC dongle was stolen in Berlin otherwise I'd help test.
(Yes, laptop too.)
//Peter
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
If you do a svn co svn:// it tries to do a dns lookup, which fails
behind a proxy server :-(. I have not been able to find any info
on setting svn up to use a proxy when doing svn:// type checkouts.
svn:// is a plain TCP
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Index: LinuxBIOSv3/lib/console.c
===
--- LinuxBIOSv3.orig/lib/console.c2008-01-08 16:32:28.0 -0700
+++ LinuxBIOSv3/lib/console.c 2008-01-08 16
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:44:55PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
NOT finding a file should be efficient.
Yes.
Where do the delay come from? Can anyone measure the LPC?
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:10:54AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author: duwe
Date: 2008-01-06 02:10:54 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 3034
What about all the boards that this affects?
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:59:54PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
I am wondering about making it part of v3 tree. Just make an
emptypayload directory. This would make testing easier.
I don't know, comments?
It will eventually become the panic room, right? ;)
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:27:40AM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:
What about all the boards that this affects?
All boards that might have CONSOLE_VGA and not PCI_ROM_RUN
currently wouldn't compile, so all compiling boards have both, or no
VGA console.
Right, thanks for clarifying.
//Peter
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:30:06AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
Add the ability to extend CFLAGS as needed for several new distros
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Index: targets/buildtarget
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:12:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So how did the Lightning talk at FSCONS 2007 in Gothenburg go?
The talk went pretty well, but it took a little bit longer than it
should have. The demo did not work at first. I suspect the cable
length between my LPC dongle and
Hello Kiran,
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:24:06PM +0530, Kiran Patil wrote:
We have MSI K9N Neo and MSI K9N Ultra mother boards with socketed
bios.
What is best way to learn and implement fast.
- First fix LinuxBios v3 to run qemu on our hardware
- Second to start of with understanding the
Hi Cimino,
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:24:07PM +0100, Cimino Vittorio wrote:
LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 ven dic 21 20:47:26 CET 2007 starting...
v1 is really old, and not supported any more.
I suggest working with v2 instead.
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:49:32PM +0800, aaron lwe wrote:
I've configured the via cn700 dram controller
..
Unexpected Exception: 6 @ 10:1bfee821 - Halting
..
can I say ram is initialized right?
No. ram_check() is a useless metric.
Until you can successfully run memtest86 as a payload and it
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:34:15PM +0800, aaron lwe wrote:
//Until you can successfully run memtest86 as a payload and it reports
//zero errors, RAM has not yet been configured correctly.
OK, I get it. Thanks.
Memtest86 reports errors at memory address
1MB, 5MB, 9MB, 13MB, 17MB, ... not
Hej Lars!
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:52:31PM +0100, Lars Randers wrote:
I've been dabbling with this board and the writeups for about a
week to little avail, so I'd like to hear from anyone who have this
board running stable with LB, and preferably with VGA enabled.
I have a 6k which was
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:03:51PM -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote:
The bits I'm most interested in at this time are the ones that
payloads such as FILO, etherboot may depend upon. Anybody have
any clues?
Sorry, best to just dig into the code. At least FILO is easy to grep.
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:53:44AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
So I leave it to the community - which solution do we prefer?
I like fixing it in LB.
We already know Config.lb is not optimal, but I don't think it will
ever be replaced in v2 so may as well carry on with it.
//Peter
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote:
Because of a need to be compatible with other systems I'm seeing a
requirement to support SMBIOS tables. I did some quick searching
and didn't find much regarding this subject on the LinuxBIOS web
site or the source code.
LB does
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:55:35PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
That would work, but this brings up a rather interesting point.
What are we todo about all the other Distros?
At some point (if not already) they will also face a similar issue.
As Uwe hinted, this of course has nothing to do with
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:21:28PM -0600, Jason Green wrote:
I am new to LinuxBIOS mailing list. I have a few old boards I want
to try out. I dunno if it's compatible with this or not.
http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/tigercub100.html
Maybe it's similar enough to the s1846 that
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:00:43PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
Support a return from disable_car is a very difficult proposition.
Aye.
The intent is that I can do this:
ret = execute_in_place(archive, normal/initram/segment0, main_ram_working);
or similar and thus chain from initram to the
Hi Matthew,
(are you subscribed to the list or should we always cc you and
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:19:26PM -0600, Simpson, Matthew wrote:
Is this supported?
No. But I guess it is rather similar to a few other LX800 boards that
are supported.
What target do I choose?
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:34:48AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
I also didn't understand why the type change from uint32_t to
u32 was important.
Just trying to follow the LB guidelines. Maybe I should have left
it alone.
no, you did the right thing.
Would be great to split this up
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:46:32PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
well, is the banner enough to flush all the fifo's? I thought they
got pretty big nowadays. Anyone know?
16550 and compatible still only have 14/16/18/whatever bytes.
EHCI debug port is unbuffered.
.. are there more?
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:26:21AM -0800, Baski wrote:
I have a tiny kernel (not linux) and GRUB in a floppy disk. How can
I make it to boot using linuxbios?
A few things need to be considered:
* How does the kernel try to find the system information that is
usually exported by the
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:51:30PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
-HOST_CFLAGS=
+HOST_CFLAGS=$(STACKPROTECT)
With quotes around $(STACKPROTECT), lzma finishes, but mkelfimage
fails:
Why is mkelfImage called wtih $HOST_CFLAGS or any other CFLAGS?
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:15:45PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
As far as I can tell, 'flashrom' would need to read some register
(DIVIL_BALLS - see AMD document 3328G_cs5536_db.pdf page 365)
..
Is the LinuxBIOS 'flashrom' currently incapable of doing this
Well, it doesn't do it. But it
Hi, Michael.
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:35:40PM -0800, Michael Ost wrote:
We are considering building a product around Intel's Little Valley
mini-ITX motherboard, model D201GLY. Would we be able to use
linuxbios on it?
SiS662+SiS964L - neither have existing support.
The southbridge SiS966 is
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:35:34AM +0100, Dijk, Michiel van [FDS] wrote:
Yep, let's do it. Does the board have a socketed BIOS so you can
hot-swap it to have a backup chip stored away safely?
The BIOS is a socketed chip yes (a PLCC, don't know what type).
I need a replacement chip first
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:07:38PM +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote:
Hi all,
Adding ACPI support which should at least do poweroff properly or
deliver power button event is
quite simple. Maybe I can write some howto to wiki?
Please do.
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:17:19PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
The alix.2/3 manual mentions that port J11/J16 can be used for an
alternate flash rom via an LPC adapter. The alix.1 manual describes
the same on port J16.
The PC Engines adapter LPC.1A is mentioned in this context, but I
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:24:25AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
GND 9 10 VCC3 in
441103-alix1c:
1-13 2-3 3-5 4-7 5-9 6-11 8-1 9-2/4/6/8/10/12/17 10-nc -15/18
Note that the above cable can supply power to the LPC dongle.
Note that it can not. Sorry. I am too tired.
I left 10
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:00:48PM +0100, Heino Goldenstein wrote:
I like to play with an ASUS P3B-F lingering around.
Cool!
Neither the original (M29F002) nor an replacement Flashchip
(39SF020A) is recognized. According the documentation this should
be supported.
..
The result of
in Qemu.
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:30:16AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
util/lar/lar.h was accidentially changed to point to the wrong
other header.
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This would qualify as trivial. :)
Acked-by: Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
//Peter
Hello Jun,
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:54:42PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
If I use the original QEMU BIOS, at least biosdecode reports BIOS32
Service Dir + PCI IRQ table + ACPI.
So why LinuxBIOS removes those information?
This is on purpose.
One motivation for LB is that most if not all
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
SCSI: Symbios LSI 53C876 (on-board)
You'd have to extract the original option rom from the bios for
this, then prepend it to linuxbios. Explore around the wiki a bit,
there's a build guide for another board with a SCSI option
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:15:37AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
There just isn't any good way to change v2 config files without
lots of pain
Not that we really have a great story for v3 either,
..
really a generic way to override config without editing text files
would be the most ideal.
How
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:41:11AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
How about one environment variable that points to another file
with options?
Oh, I like it. Lets make this happen.
See mainboard() at line 1333 in util/newconfig/config.g.
Does buildrom want to replace/amend Options.lb as
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:39:58AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
- ret = execute_in_place(archive, normal/initram.o/segment0);
+ ret = execute_in_place(archive, normal/initram/segment0);
This seems to have snuck in from another patch?
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:04:53PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
BTW: Is this patch associated with the thread about qemu and the
compilers?
No, that thread is all about v3 growing pains.
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:46:14PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
CS# from the IT8716F is routed up to R509 which is a zero ohm
resistor.
If this resistor is in place then CS is hardwired to CS# on U5
which is the SPI chip that's loaded. If you pull R509 then the CS#
to both chips are free to
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:53:03PM -0500, Marc Karasek wrote:
When I try to compile v2 with a filo.elf payload I get the :
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
The linker plain crashes.
Try vanilla upstream gcc and binutils packages.
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:55:30AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Space reservation? What is this about?
No-one will ever need more than 64 bytes.
If we add a field header size we know how many bytes we have to
skip without the need to know how to parse all of the header.
Yep, this is
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:14:08PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
If I can I'd also like to upgrade the SPI flash part to as big as
the chipset will support and if thats still not big enough to hold
my kernel+rootfs then change to a USB nand drive.
I'm waiting for sales information for 32Mbit
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:16:16AM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
Peter and I talked to the friendly folks at #etherboot. They were
interested in re-adding LinuxBIOS support but are a bit short of
time. If someone wants to help out, that would be great;
As far as adding support for LB-specific
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:41:52PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Alex, can you repost an updated patch? I want to verify that patch
against a suggestion of Peter Stuge from
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:06:50 +0200
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What is that suggestion?
http
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:43:51AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Together with reserving space at the end of the header.
Space reservation? What is this about?
Some extra bytes for future use, the more bytes the longer before we
need to change the format. I think 64 would be more than
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:34:51AM -, Alan Alexander wrote:
Do you think it's worth changing the code to perform the entire
chip erase via a sequence of block erases instead
Yes, definately.
This e-mail (including any attachments) is intended only for the
recipient(s) named above. It
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:23:07PM -0800, Russell Whitaker wrote:
It's not libpci.a, it's a missing zlib package. It contains libz
and libz.so. In the Makefile the flags passed to the linker are
-lpci -lz
Does the zlib package really contain a file called libz ? Where?
Anyway, libz.so is the
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:49:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a patch against LinuxBIOS to allow the Serengeti-Cheetah platform
to come up on its emulated self in the SimNow simulator.
Should this go into LB proper?
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:34:18AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
I'm relatively sure the dual-bios solution will not work in this
case, as it's software-controlled (but other may have more
information).
Correct, any BIOS failsafe in software is out of play once LB is in
the flash chip.
IIRC
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:33:51AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Convert stage2 handling from binary blob to multi-segment LAR
which is created by parsing the ELF file linuxbios.stage2.o.
I can't believe this is the workaround for not being able to put a
jmp _entry in front of the code.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:38:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As added benefit, we obsolete a lot of code without introducing
new code.
This is sweet.
It would be great to get rid of that obsolete code sooner rather than
later now that it isn't needed anymore, when it's fresh in memory.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:02:02AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
+++ mainboard/pcengines/alix1c/stage1.c (working copy)
+#define SERIAL_DEV W83627HF_SP1
+#define SERIAL_IOBASE 0x3f8
+++ mainboard/pcengines/alix1c/dts(working copy)
@@ -37,5 +37,9 @@
pcipath =
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:33:29AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
So call it what it is - a useful option to LAR to cut out the
objcopy middleman. Which is fine. I'm happy with that.
It's even a bit better since the objcopy would destroy the entry
point.
Also, I would abandon the use of .o
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:44:18AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
For the filename, we could figure out a good way to add it to the
.comment section of the ELF - that could open up a new world of
passing information to LAR via the .o without the command line.
Or am I super double guilty for
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:24:15AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
.. banner
Could this be made more generic/common for more boards?
+/**
+ * Halt and Catch Fire. Print an error, then loop, sending NULLs on serial
port,
+ * to ensure the message is visible.
+ *
+ */
+
+void hcf(void)
+{
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Shocky wrote:
Thanks, I knew there had to be a command that would do this. This
just deepens the mystery further. nm tells me that within
/usr/lib/libpci.a access.o defines the external symbol
0760 T pci_alloc. So if nm can see it, why can't ld see
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 07:37:42PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
it's a beautiful board and this is really pretty exciting!
Very nice board indeed!
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:53:51PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
I would appreciate comments on this,
I like this very much.
and I wonder if we shouldn't just drop the binary blob initram
immediately. I don't see a need for it at this point.
Go for it.
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:02:00PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
comments welcome.
I would very much like this file to have the codes in chronological
order. Maybe put global stuff like FATAL_ERROR first?
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:31:14PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
What 440bx based boards now work?
tyan/s1846
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:17:55PM +, Uwe Hermann wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:07:42PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
try again.
Yep, works now. Committed as r521 with some coding style fixes etc.
I will give this a go before FSCONS. I want to demo v3 for sure.
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:49:01PM +0100, Wander Winkelhorst wrote:
I have a VIA SP13000 motherboard that wasn't listed and doesn't
have the debug port capability:
lspci -n:
:00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
I hope this helps!
Thanks, I added this to the wiki.
One big reason for the
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:57:51PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
OK, can we decide on what should be (not) allowed, preferably as
regexp for the diff?
Please don't over-engineer this.
I am with Uwe. Let's use common sense
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:39:33PM -0800, Vlad wrote:
There are at least two super-BIOS implementations that rely on a
tiny Linux kernel loaded from Flash ROM:
Good point.
For LAB I believe Stefan wants to include more drivers in order to
avoid having to rebuild/reflash the BIOS when the SCSI
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:44:50PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
The board shows the POST for about a second and then powers off.
take the jumper off the power pins, It is delivered with the jumper
on.
Hahaha! Lovely! =) Thanks.
I did not think about this at all because it does not behave the
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:14:46PM -0500, Tom Sylla wrote:
Does anyone know what can be done to appease the hardware into
_not_ shutting down even though pwrbtn is held pressed from boot?
See this:
http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-October/025978.html
and its thread.
Limited success.
LinuxBIOS-2.0.0.0Fallback Fri Nov 16 05:46:41 CET 2007 booting...
I added a POST code and a while(1) near the end of hardwaremain.c
after this message. The board shows the POST for about a second and
then powers off.
If I move the while(1) to after init_timer() it pauses on
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:05:57AM +0800, Feng, Libo wrote:
A simple question:
But a very good one!
when talking about IRQ, you mean one of the 256 interrupt vectors
within x86,
No, these are never called IRQs, but they are often called
interrupts, and IRQs are also often called
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:20:47PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
Add support for the Advantech PCM-5820.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks good. If you tested and it works:
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:22:44PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
Various small fixes to make the Tyan S1846 match the format of
the other boards in this patch series.
No reason to hold this up. One comment below, but otherwise:
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- device pci_domain 0
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:03:43AM +0800, Morgan Tsai /SiS wrote:
Here is the resent patch as attachment.
Looks good to me to! Will you commit Carl-Daniel?
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Hey!
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:48:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wanted to say good luck to you Peter at FSCONS 2007
Thanks! I think it will be fun.
I'll demo the alix and hope to have some time for v3 hacking before
the event - I would love to show v3 on hardware. :)
On another
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:11:07AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
http://fscons.org/node/138
They're getting a brief intro and bio from me for that page.
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:08:45PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Fix ATMEL 29C020 detection with flashrom.
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:47:07PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
Drop the unfinished, non-working Bitworks IMS board.
Richard? Ok with you?
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:45:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ if (buf[7] != 0x22) {
+ printf(Enabling Geode MSR to write to flash.\n);
+ buf[7] = 0x22;
I don't know. Maybe I'm just reading the data book wrong. Please hit
me over the head again in that case.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:40:44AM -0800, Rams Rambo wrote:
I would be interested to know if your supporting for my Intel
mother board?
Unfortunately we do not. Not yet at least.
If none of these support will there be new version would be
released which could possibly support Intel 865 GBF
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:46:39PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
I would guess that all the we need do are extend the IRQ tables.
Some of the ball muxing probably changed a bit too. Do you correspond
with Pascal?
We're still fighting irq issues on the alix 1.c, I am on travel
but will try again
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:53:25PM -0800, Baski wrote:
I used mkElfImage ver 2.7 to create a single bootable elf image
with this syntax
sudo mkelfImage --command-line=ro root=/dev/hd1 quiet splash console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200n8 --kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:31:49AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
Grub/grub2 relies on the bios' USB support, it doesn't have its own
drivers.
Maybe we should try to change that. Does anyone know if GRUB has
block drivers at all? It must - for IDE at least, yes?
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
This adds the same line (uses CONFIG_PRECOMPRESSED_PAYLOAD) to every
Options.lb file that already had a uses
CONFIG_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_LZMA line in it.
If I understood correctly there should be a corresponding
default
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:55:25AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
bios compatibility
I would like any BIOS compatibility to be opt-in, and to be
uninteresting because of new shinyness offered by LB and
understood by all. :)
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Yeah. Too bad I no longer have the T43p. :(
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=20958
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