[Voyage-linux] Problem with ALIX 2C0 / kernel version

[Hofer, Hermann]

Hi,

please look at ALIX BIOS v0.99, there is an option in BIOS setup to
de-/activate MFGPT workaround. For voyage 0.4.1 (kernel 2.6.20) you have
to activate this, for voyage experimental 2.6.23 (and current I belive)
you have to deactivate this option.

This option is available since BIOS v0.98d. For informations about BIOS
update please see: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2.htm and
http://www.pcengines.ch/freedos.htm


Regards,
 Hermann


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Hi Punky,

Kim-man 'Punky' Tse napsal(a):
> Hi Cool,
>
> Voyage 0.4.1 never comes with 2.6.23 kernel.  Are you using 
> voyage-current?
yes, it was voyage-current
>
> 2.6.23+ kernel requires a very old bios to boot ALIX.  See below 
> message for more info.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk/msg01598.html.
now i understand, why it doesn't work...
Are any news about developing new tinyBIOS with fix the bug or from 
kernel.org about some kernel jink?

And one questions on end, can you add some distinction for alix 1C (with

PCI, audio, vga...) and others (2cX / 3cX)?
Because this alix doesn't have audio and you must disable it in 
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Bye Cool...


<http://slovnik.seznam.cz/?q=distinction&lang=en_cz>
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> Cool/Explosion wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i try stable voyage (0.4.1) on Alix 2C0 LX700/2L 128MB RAM and it 
>> works fine, but when i try current voyage so it stop when booting...
>>
>> root (hd0,0)
>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38400n8
>>   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2800, size=0x1454b8]
>> initrd /initrd.img
>>   [Linux-initrd @ 0x7e03000, 0x1ece54 bytes]
>>
>> Linux version 2.6.23-486-voyage (2.6.23-2) (root at punknix-uml) (gcc 
>> version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debi7
>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>> 128MB LOWMEM available.
>> Zone PFN ranges:
>>  DMA             0 ->     4096
>>  Normal       4096 ->    32768
>> Movable zone start PFN for each node
>> early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
>>    0:        0 ->    32768
>> DMI not present or invalid.
>> Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap:
08000000:f7f00000)
>> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order.  Total pages: 32512
>> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38400n8
>> No local APIC present or hardware disabled
>> Initializing CPU#0
>> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
>> Detected 431.648 MHz processor.
>> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
>> console [ttyS0] enabled
>> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
>> Memory: 124752k/131072k available (1756k kernel code, 5844k reserved,

>> 628k data, 160k init, 0k highmem)
>> virtual kernel memory layout:
>>    fixmap  : 0xfffb9000 - 0xfffff000   ( 280 kB)
>>    vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xfffb7000   ( 887 MB)
>>    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000   ( 128 MB)
>>      .init : 0xc0358000 - 0xc0380000   ( 160 kB)
>>      .data : 0xc02b70d9 - 0xc035419c   ( 628 kB)
>>      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02b70d9   (1756 kB)
>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor 
>> mode... Ok.
>> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 864.21 BogoMIPS 
>> (lpj=432106)
>> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
>> CPU: L2 Cache: 128K (32 bytes/line)
>> Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
>> CPU: AMD Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping 02
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>> NET: Registered protocol family 16
>>
>>
>> Any ideas???
>>
>>
>> Bye Cool...
>>
>>
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