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broke and stopped FILO from being able to boot. The fix is a simple one line change plus a comment to src/mainboard/via/epia/auto.c to write to the IDE configuration register 0x42 . This has always been done here, however at some point something broke it. The same register was also being set correctly in ide_init(), however for some reason this does not work. Possibly the register needs to be set before the IDE peripheral is enabled or maybe it is a timing issue. The section of code in ide_init() ( src/southbridge/via/vt8231/vt8231_ide.c ) that does write to register 0x42 has been commented out as it is superfluous and I have added a comment to indicate the reason, should someone at a future date wonder why. I have also changed the default COM speed from 19200 to 115200 in src/mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb There has been mention before about the EPIA board not being able to use 115200 but I have seen no such problems with my board. Signed-off-by: Ben Hewson <ben@hewson-venieri.com> This patch worked for me and allowed me to boot Debian kernel 2.5.16-4-486 on an epia 800 mhz system. It is able to consistently get through the initialization and start init now. However, after that it crashes at various points in the boot process. Acked-by: Alex Mauer <hawke@hawkesnest.net> Note from comitter: I am commiting this, although: 1. it's not the exact right way to fix it up, the chip.h for the sb should change 2. Alex reports problems, which are almost certainly memory issues. But it is as close as we've gotten. I can't test it. Ron Minnich git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2633 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxBIOS README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by LinuxBIOS. Examples include: * A Linux kernel * FILO (a simple bootloader with filesystem support) * GRUB2 (a free bootloader; support is in development) * OpenBIOS (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) * Open Firmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) * SmartFirmware (a free IEEE1275-1994 Open Firmware implementation) * GNUFI (a free, UEFI-compatible firmware) * Etherboot (for network booting and booting from raw IDE or FILO) * ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 or OpenBSD) * Plan 9 (a distributed operating system) * memtest86 (for testing your RAM) Supported Hardware ------------------ LinuxBIOS supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the LinuxBIOS website: http://www.linuxbios.org You can contact us directly on the LinuxBIOS mailing list: http://www.linuxbios.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on LinuxBIOS is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. LinuxBIOS is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files (mostly those derived from the Linux kernel) are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting LinuxBIOS images licensed under the GPL, version 2.