ADLO for EPIA

Adam Sulmicki adam at cfar.umd.edu
Tue Mar 11 09:40:01 CET 2003


it possibly may be bochs. Are both keyboard and mouse plugged in?

does it work without ADLO/BOCHS BIOS? ie can you run linux from LinuxBIOS
stanalone?

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 hcyun at etri.re.kr wrote:

> I tested ADLO on EPIA but it failed on the first try.
>
> I grapped vgabios using your Makefile target and  modified loader.s to
> enable
> shadow ram control registers of EPIA.
> However,  it hang around post code 0x96 and nothing is shown on the CRT.
>
> Do you have any idea what 0x96 post code means.
> Is it a bochs post code or vgabios postcode?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adam Sulmicki [mailto:adam at cfar.umd.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:13 AM
> > To: hcyun at etri.re.kr
> > Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> > Subject: Re: ADLO for EPIA
> >
> >
> > > I'm trying to bring up VGA on EPIA board.
> > > >From the list, EPIA board is supported and I've tested
> > with Angrew's image.
> > > However, due to full support of VGA is necessary, I'm
> > trying to figure out
> > > ADLO to run binary only
> > > VGABIOS rom image.
> > > Can I acomplish this with ADLO?. If yes, how much extra
> > work will be needed
> > > you think?
> >
> > I'm not familar with EPIA. Wasn't that the motherboard that
> > had all this
> > video emulation code (whatever you would call it). what's the gfx card
> > anyway?
> >
> > anyway. if you can separate out the vga bios from rest of the
> > bios (and it
> > can function standalone), then there's no reason why it would
> > not work.
> >
> > as for "how much extra work" depends on what you want to use
> > it for. for
> > example IDE code in bochs-bios could use some more work (last time I
> > looked at it).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Adam Sulmicki
> > http://www.eax.com 	The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers
> >
>


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