[LinuxBIOS] one last note
Adam Talbot
talbotx at comcast.net
Mon Jan 23 04:57:32 CET 2006
-Ron
LinuxBIOSv2-2158 can compile the epia, but I do not know it it boots,
have no such board to test on. If this helps any, here is my tree. The
epia-m does not compile.
http://www.batbuilds.com/webfolders/LinuxBIOSv2-2158.tar.bz2
-Adam
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>if anyone out there has a copy of a version of the v2 repo that can
>build a working via epia, hopefully recent, I'm willing to work with that.
>
>Current problem, btw, is that the via epia samuel 2 cpu hangs up in the
>mtrr init code. I suspect someone updated that, for -m or -m2, in such
>a way that it broke older cpus.
>
>if I comment out mtrr init, i.e.
>
>
>Index: src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c
>===================================================================
>--- src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (revision 2158)
>+++ src/cpu/via/model_centaur/model_centaur_init.c (working copy)
>@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
> {
> /* Turn on caching if we haven't already */
> x86_enable_cache();
>- x86_setup_mtrrs(36);
>+// x86_setup_mtrrs(36);
> x86_mtrr_check();
>
> /* Enable the local cpu apics */
>
>then it will come up -- with no working cache. And the enet problem then
>occurs.
>
>I could use some help and perspetive here. I know some of you have epias
>-- could you take a look?
>
>But I have other, newer things to do, and fixing an old CPU just can not
>take priority. Sorry.
>
>ron
>
>
>
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