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[Adam Bezanson]

Hi guys,

I've finally built linuxbios for my SC1200 based board.
I've written my own flash programming utility so I can program
the "romimage" file produced into my flash part from Linux command line.
This all seems to work fine. On my board, I have the ability (with a jumper)
to direct the ROMCS# signal to one of 3 chips on the board. One is a
Disk on Chip which currently has a DOS filesystem on it, one is a 2Mbit
flash chip which has the original Insyde BIOS, and the 3rd is a 16Mbit
flash part soldered on the board where I'm trying to put linuxbios.

This 3rd chip is at 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff, in order to enable this
addressing I must hit bit 2 in F0 offset 0x52 to enable the Upper ROM size
based on the ROM Mask at F0 offset 0x6e. This isn't enabled by default so
I think as the chip comes up only 0xfffc0000 - 0xffffffff is visible.
I'm not 100% sure, but I assume as the chip comes up it starts trying
to fetch instructions from 0xfffc0000, is this true?

My question is, where should I program the "romimage" file that comes
out of the build process? It would seem to me that the linuxbios.rom part
would have to
start at 0xfffc0000.

Other notes: I've set up my PMR and MCR registers correctly for my target. I
figured them
out by hand and then verified their values when I run with the Insyde BIOS.
So I'm 100% sure
the values I'm using are correct for my target.

I've set the SCx200_DOCCS_BASE to 0xffe00000 for the moment
and the CTRL to 0x070007ff
I'm not sure if the BASE value is correct due to the questions I pose above.

All of my efforts have resulted in nothing happening at startup. Nothing out
of the
serial port nor are the Port 80 codes moving after the board is reset.

Any ideas/help would be appreciated.

Thanks and have a happy new year.

Adam