[LinuxBIOS] How to start with a new mainboard (commel lv-671)

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi Dieter,

* Dieter Bloms <dieter at bloms.de> [070528 15:36]:
> I've tried to compile a bios for adl855pc, but it fails with:
> 
> --snip--
> gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o
> /usr/bin/ld: section .id [00000000fffdffce -> 00000000fffdffef] overlaps section .rom [00000000fffd663a -> 00000000fffe208f]
> /usr/bin/ld: linuxbios: section .id lma 0xfffdffce overlaps previous sections
> /usr/bin/ld: linuxbios: section .reset lma 0xfffdfff0 overlaps previous sections
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [linuxbios] Fehler 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/digitallogic/adl855pc/adl855pc/normal'
> make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Fehler 1
> video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/digitallogic/adl855pc/adl855pc#                                                      
 
Try setting ROM_SIZE in the mainboard Config.lb to your rom size (512k?)
and ROM_IMAGE_SIZE in the targets/ Config.lb to 0x16000 or 0x17000
instead of 0x10000 or whatever it is.

> so do I have a change to get linuxbios to work for my board ?
> Today I added the bios savior and now I can do some testing, but don't
> have any skills for programming :(
 
Yes, there is a good chance. It wont happen instantly though. Try the
above and try to get an image out of it. 

I am in the same process for another i855 board, but I dont get any
serial output yet. (In my case either the onboard microcontroller keeps
the machine in reset or the superio driver is not working yet)

If you have a little bit of patience and passion, we might try to get
this working together.

Stefan

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