2009/10/21 Uwe Hermann <[email protected]> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:34:16PM +0200, Paweł Stawicki wrote: > > Acked-by: Paweł Stawicki <[email protected]> > > the patch is working correct. > > Thanks, r4820. > > > > My linux distribution boots very fast :) > > the only problem is that the vga bios is not booting. > > I'm trying investigate. > > As this is onboard VGA (not a PCI plugin-card) I assume, you need to > add the VGA BIOS image to coreboot.rom. > > This can be done by adding a line like this to targets/.../Config.lb: > > pci_rom /tmp/vga.bin vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x27a2 >
yes i added this line and it seems that i need also add: uses CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN default CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN = 1 to the Options.lb file, without this it doesn't work. I needed also this patch: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-July/050497.html The console is turning on when the linux is starting (not at the FILO start) > (in kconfig it's a bit simpler, but I'm not sure if your board works > fine with kconfig already) > > You need to adapt the vga.bin path/filename, and the PCI vendor/device ID > (you can do a test-boot and coreboot will tell you which ID it tries to > find on the serial console). > > You can get vga.bin (filename may differ) using the phnxdeco, amideco, > awardeco, or bios_extract utilities. > > For PCI graphics cards it's simpler, they should usually work out of the > box, but let us know if that's not the case. > the e-Vectra has no additional slots on board , therefor it has only an onboard vga card. > I'll make a superiotool patch for your Super I/O so we can dump the > register contents and fix the Super I/O setup a bit. > sounds great. > Can you tell us how big the ROM chip is in the board (so we can fix the > default Kconfig file)b? the bios size is 512KB - really :-) the vga bios size is 32KB it has also an ethernet bios inside the bios (size 58880B) > Also, if you have some time to test all available > hardware components with coreboot let us know the results. It would be > nice if we could make a wiki status page for your board, such as this > one for example: > > http://www.coreboot.org/MSI_MS-6178 > ok, I will try to make the tests tomorrow. > > Uwe. > -- > http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.randomprojects.org > http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org > Thanks a lot. Paweł
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