[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Some more 440BX progress

roger roger at eskimo.com
Wed May 2 22:07:40 CEST 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:38 -0700, roger wrote: 
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:50 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > here's a first patch for the 440BX code and the Tyan S1846 and the 82371EB
> > southbridge which gets my Tyan S1846 a lot further in the boot process.
> > 
> > However, it cannot boot a payload, yet.
> > 
> > It seems the major problem was that I did ram_check() on the whole range
> > from 0 - 64 MB (in my case; I use a 64 MB DIMM for testing). This cannot
> > work of course, as the range from 640 KB - 1 MB is _not_ RAM but rather
> > reserved for all kinds of other stuff (thanks Stefan for pointing this out!).
> 
> Yup. I didn't even need to patch the latest svn version with the memory
> fix for DRAM to find my memory. 

Just curious, ill "v2_tyan_s1846_progress.patch" make it into the tree?

It looked good to me. 

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Wed May 2 12:40:43 PDT 2007





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