[Voyage-linux] Problem with ALIX 2C0 / kernel version
Bastian Blywis
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Fri Jan 25 16:32:25 HKT 2008
Hi,
unfortunately this does not fix the problem :-(
Regards,
inffu
Am Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008 21:24:34 schrieb 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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