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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Corey Osgood)
   2. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (yhlu)
   3. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Stefan Reinauer)
   4. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (Stefan Reinauer)
   5. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (echelon at free.fr)
   6. Re: GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server (yhlu)
   7. Re: Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r (Adam Talbot)
   8. Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (Richard Wei)
   9. Re: Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (yhlu)
  10. Re: Tyan S2885 memreset problem!! (Richard Wei)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:21:37 -0400
From: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r
To: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Cc: LinuxBIOS Mailing List <linuxbios at linuxbios.org>
Message-ID: <46ACDAB1.6080600 at gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> [070729 17:08]:
>   
>> It's fixed and booting very happily now, thanks!
>>     
>
> is that on a C7?
>
>   

Yes, c7, cn700, vt8237r. No video yet and USB is causing kernel
warnings, but I can log in and use the system through serial.

-Corey



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:23:54 -0700
From: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server
To: "Stefan Reinauer" <stepan at coresystems.de>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID:
	<2ea3fae10707291223t64ac98b3k3e78d058d3e13209 at mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/29/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> >> 2. I've lost cpu frequency control (no powernow-k8) so now both my
> >> CPUs are running flat out at 3000 MHz. Core temperatures are
> >> hovering just  below 70C (63C and 67C).
> >>
> >
> > I just had a look at arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c and
> > it currently depends on ACPI and the BIOS keeping a table of
> > parameters that it needs;
> >
> ...
> > Once the table has been initialized in the driver ACPI is not used
> > at all - the real work is done using rdmsr() and wrmsr().
> >
> > I think it would be easy enough to change the initialization so that
> > ACPI is not required.
> >
> >
> And it means the kernel driver has to maintain alll the tables for all
> CPU revisions and options.
>
>
> > AMD: Are these tables board dependent? Why not put the tables,
> > arranged by cpuid, into the powernow driver and do without ACPI?
> >
> >
>
> I am not AMD, but I guess it is preferred to do the efford once instead
> of once per OS.
>
> Fixing things that we do wrong in Linux is a bad thing. It will only
> help us with Linux and lock out all others. Did we do this whole free
> bios thing to make it easier to lock others out? Ouch.
>
that is not the point. you need to do implenmentation in DSDT for
chipset in a clean room.
current nvidia chipset dsdt is belonging to IBV...instead of nvidia. or AMD.

YH



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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:55:38 +0200
From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r
To: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
Cc: LinuxBIOS Mailing List <linuxbios at linuxbios.org>
Message-ID: <46ACFECA.3060809 at coresystems.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Corey Osgood wrote:
> Yes, c7, cn700, vt8237r. No video yet and USB is causing kernel
> warnings, but I can log in and use the system through serial.
>
> -Corey
>   

you rock!

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:00:02 +0200
From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server
To: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID: <20070729210002.GA18516 at coresystems.de>
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* yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> [070729 21:23]:
> > Fixing things that we do wrong in Linux is a bad thing. It will only
> > help us with Linux and lock out all others. Did we do this whole free
> > bios thing to make it easier to lock others out? Ouch.
>
> that is not the point. you need to do implenmentation in DSDT for
> chipset in a clean room.
> current nvidia chipset dsdt is belonging to IBV...instead of nvidia. or AMD.

Yes, that was what I was thinking. Such a clean room implementation is
not impossible though, is it?

Stefan

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:17:24 +0200
From: echelon at free.fr
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server
To: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID: <1185751044.46ad2004ae37c at imp.free.fr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

 Hi all,

 I suppose that by "clean room" you mean in fact the "Chinese wall technique"
(cf Wikipedia..)
 If we have to do that (including reverse engineering), what are the legal
issues? I know that here in Europe doing revers is permited if it is justified
by interoperability and/or security auditing. What about the other
countries/economic zones?
 Also what can be the "political" consequences (I mean by this the relationship
between the LB team and the hardware manufacturers like nvidia, amd or the
motherboard manufacturers..)? I know that having access to datasheets is a very
hot issue for the LB project.. Can we go to these IP owners with a straight face
 after having dissected the legacy bios, and ask them ingenously : "can we have
please access at your datasheets"? Oh, I know, Yinghai Lu has said that the
copyright owner is the IBV not AMD or nvidia, but can we be sure that the
hardware guys are really neutral on this topic?
 Again, my apologies for asking idiotic questions as a n00b..

 Kind regards,
  Florentin

Quoting Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>:

> * yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> [070729 21:23]:
> > > Fixing things that we do wrong in Linux is a bad thing. It will only
> > > help us with Linux and lock out all others. Did we do this whole free
> > > bios thing to make it easier to lock others out? Ouch.
> >
> > that is not the point. you need to do implenmentation in DSDT for
> > chipset in a clean room.
> > current nvidia chipset dsdt is belonging to IBV...instead of nvidia. or
> AMD.
>
> Yes, that was what I was thinking. Such a clean room implementation is
> not impossible though, is it?
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> coresystems GmbH ??? Brahmsstr. 16 ??? D-79104 Freiburg i. Br.
>       Tel.: +49 761 7668825 ??? Fax: +49 761 7664613
> Email: info at coresystems.de  ??? http://www.coresystems.de/
>
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:10:07 -0700
From: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI - Nvidia X Server
To: "Stefan Reinauer" <stepan at coresystems.de>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID:
	<2ea3fae10707291710n5ae25c7bk188f1863a6ddd646 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 7/29/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> * yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> [070729 21:23]:
> > > Fixing things that we do wrong in Linux is a bad thing. It will only
> > > help us with Linux and lock out all others. Did we do this whole free
> > > bios thing to make it easier to lock others out? Ouch.
> >
> > that is not the point. you need to do implenmentation in DSDT for
> > chipset in a clean room.
> > current nvidia chipset dsdt is belonging to IBV...instead of nvidia. or AMD.
>
> Yes, that was what I was thinking. Such a clean room implementation is
> not impossible though, is it?
you need to prove that code is done in a clean room...

YH



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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:38:21 -0700
From: Adam Talbot <talbotx at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Can't boot from IDE on vt8237r
To: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
Cc: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>,	LinuxBIOS Mailing List
	<linuxbios at linuxbios.org>
Message-ID: <46AD5D2D.4070800 at comcast.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Great to hear!
-Adam


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Corey Osgood wrote:
>   
>> Yes, c7, cn700, vt8237r. No video yet and USB is causing kernel
>> warnings, but I can log in and use the system through serial.
>>
>> -Corey
>>   
>>     
>
> you rock!
>
>   




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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Wei <outlander_wei at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan S2885 memreset problem!!
To: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID: <115468.45071.qm at web33508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I was trying to compile LinuxBIOSv2-2673 for Tyan S2885.
The EVB has only one CPU on board. 
Somehow, I got the following message from the console.
The system seems to hang right inside the memreset() function.
And the function seems only to toggle GPIO16 and GPIO17 on AMD8111.
Cound't figure out where the GPIOs are connected to and why it's memory reset?
The following comment is placed right in front of memreset().
/* And if necessary toggle the the reset on the dimms by hand */

Does anyone has the same experience with me and knows what's going on?
Please help! 

Richard Wei
======================================================================


LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
01 nodes initialized.
core0 started:
started ap apicid:
SBLink=02
NC node|link=00
        busn=40
NC node|link=02
ht reset -

LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
01 nodes initialized.
core0 started:
started ap apicid:
SBLink=02
NC node|link=00
        busn=40
NC node|link=02
Ram1.00
Ram2.00
Ram3


       
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:57:02 -0700
From: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan S2885 memreset problem!!
To: "Richard Wei" <outlander_wei at yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID:
	<2ea3fae10707300057q104f1ae7rf12eb5a4e36acd9c at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 7/30/07, Richard Wei <outlander_wei at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was trying to compile LinuxBIOSv2-2673 for Tyan S2885.
> The EVB has only one CPU on board.
> Somehow, I got the following message from the console.
> The system seems to hang right inside the memreset() function.
> And the function seems only to toggle GPIO16 and GPIO17 on AMD8111.
> Cound't figure out where the GPIOs are connected to and why it's memory reset?
> The following comment is placed right in front of memreset().
> /* And if necessary toggle the the reset on the dimms by hand */
>
> Does anyone has the same experience with me and knows what's going on?
> Please help!
>
> Richard Wei
> ======================================================================
>
>
> LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
> 01 nodes initialized.
> core0 started:
> started ap apicid:
> SBLink=02
> NC node|link=00
>         busn=40
> NC node|link=02
> ht reset -
>
> LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
> 01 nodes initialized.
> core0 started:
> started ap apicid:
> SBLink=02
> NC node|link=00
>         busn=40
> NC node|link=02
> Ram1.00
> Ram2.00
> Ram3
>
how about the system with two cpu installed?

YH



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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Wei <outlander_wei at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan S2885 memreset problem!!
To: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Message-ID: <816797.64363.qm at web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hmm... I only have one AMD Opteron. 
Do I have to configure or rewrite the code 
for Hypertransport configuration?

So appreciated for your rapid response.

----- Original Message ----
From: yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>
To: Richard Wei <outlander_wei at yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:57:02 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan S2885 memreset problem!!


On 7/30/07, Richard Wei <outlander_wei at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was trying to compile LinuxBIOSv2-2673 for Tyan S2885.
> The EVB has only one CPU on board.
> Somehow, I got the following message from the console.
> The system seems to hang right inside the memreset() function.
> And the function seems only to toggle GPIO16 and GPIO17 on AMD8111.
> Cound't figure out where the GPIOs are connected to and why it's memory reset?
> The following comment is placed right in front of memreset().
> /* And if necessary toggle the the reset on the dimms by hand */
>
> Does anyone has the same experience with me and knows what's going on?
> Please help!
>
> Richard Wei
> ======================================================================
>
>
> LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
> 01 nodes initialized.
> core0 started:
> started ap apicid:
> SBLink=02
> NC node|link=00
>         busn=40
> NC node|link=02
> ht reset -
>
> LinuxBIOS-2.0.0_s2885_Fallback Fri Jun  1 15:51:28 CST 2007 starting...
> 01 nodes initialized.
> core0 started:
> started ap apicid:
> SBLink=02
> NC node|link=00
>         busn=40
> NC node|link=02
> Ram1.00
> Ram2.00
> Ram3
>
how about the system with two cpu installed?

YH


       
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