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Stefan Reinauer | 6 Aug 2005 13:36
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Re: Eizo 630L thin client.

* Fco .J. Arias <javi@...> [050719 12:42]:
> Hello, I modified this thin client to run win98 or linux, it becomes
> with windows ce. But bios General software bios  is very bad for PNP,
> and usb, cs5530 udma, sound,acpi, .., don't work. At the moment xpress
> vga, serial, parallel, rs232, lan and other components works ok.
> 
> Can I flash bios of this  thinclient (now a useful simple computer, very
> quiet) with OPENBIOS?
> 
> Extract actual bios before?

LinuxBIOS has quite some success with CS5530 based systems. Please have
a look at their mailing list archive at
http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/

Once you have LinuxBIOS working, you can also try to add OpenBIOS on top
of it. We can assist you, if you want to try.

Note: it's quite some work to get video output working on the cs553x
since it uses hardware virtualization (vma) for that..  It's doable
though..

Stefan
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Stefan Reinauer | 6 Aug 2005 19:09
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Re: newbie

* Douglas Frank <frank@...> [050519 18:09]:
> Man!  You mean after ALL THESE YEARS, I finally thought of something
> useful?  ...wait, I gotta put my teeth back in... there that's better.
> 
> OK, I'd like some help then, a mentor maybe, to direct my studies in
> getting up to speed.  Feel free to reply off-list: what's the best way
> to start?  If I need to read 3.8MB of source, which are the important
> parts?

I've added a new task to the openbios issue tracking system regarding
this thing:
https://www.openbios.org/roundup/openbios/task12

First you should get a test machine so you can flash LinuxBIOS+OpenBIOS
and experiment with it.. 

Copying away memory is pretty close to the reset vector I guess. IIRC
LinuxBIOS unconditionally initializes the ram controller after a reset,
because it is so fast anyways..

Maybe it shouldn't?

Stefan
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Eric W. Biederman | 6 Aug 2005 20:06

Re: newbie

Stefan Reinauer <stepan@...> writes:

> * Douglas Frank <frank@...> [050519 18:09]:
>> Man!  You mean after ALL THESE YEARS, I finally thought of something
>> useful?  ...wait, I gotta put my teeth back in... there that's better.
>> 
>> OK, I'd like some help then, a mentor maybe, to direct my studies in
>> getting up to speed.  Feel free to reply off-list: what's the best way
>> to start?  If I need to read 3.8MB of source, which are the important
>> parts?
>
> I've added a new task to the openbios issue tracking system regarding
> this thing:
> https://www.openbios.org/roundup/openbios/task12
>
> First you should get a test machine so you can flash LinuxBIOS+OpenBIOS
> and experiment with it.. 
>
> Copying away memory is pretty close to the reset vector I guess. IIRC
> LinuxBIOS unconditionally initializes the ram controller after a reset,
> because it is so fast anyways..

And reinitializing the whole system makes for a very reliable reboot.
>
> Maybe it shouldn't?

An interesting question is how much of this overlaps with kexec-on-panic.
It could be that all we need to do is get the routing right nmi/panic button
to the kernel's kexec-on-panic handler.
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F. J. Arias | 6 Aug 2005 22:39
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Re: Eizo 630L thin client.


> LinuxBIOS has quite some success with CS5530 based systems. Please have
> a look at their mailing list archive at
> http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/

Well, In www.linuxbios.org motherboard of thin client do not appear. :)

Motherboard is Pinon Corporation pnc-xm geode GX1, 300MHZ
System boots from 1GB compact flash card in slot1. It's no posible
extract the bios for flash it. No hard drives, no floppy, no cd

> Once you have LinuxBIOS working, you can also try to add OpenBIOS on top
> of it. We can assist you, if you want to try.
> Note: it's quite some work to get video output working on the cs553x
> since it uses hardware virtualization (vma) for that..  It's doable
> though..
> 
> Stefan
> 
Any previous experience in this chipset, and bios (General Software
bios) ?

Only one opportunity if system crash:
eclient >> trash

Any tool to extract actual bios, simulate or something like this?
test to probe compatibility ?

Actually runs win98 and can boot linux.
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