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

[Cool/Explosion]

Hi,
maybe was in kernel fixed the our problem look on this:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=667984d9e481e43a930a478c588dced98cb61fea

Bye CoolEx...

Bastian Blywis napsal(a):
> 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 does only  work if you compile with i386 as processor type. Compiling 
> with "Geode LX" leads to an unbootable kernel like mentioned by  
> Cool/Explosion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> inffu
> 
> 
> 
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ---
>> 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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