Re: sis550 datasheet

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 00:40, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble finding the datasheet for the sis 550.  Can
> someone point me to the right link?
> 

The real techinical stuff is only available under NDA. Other not so
serious stuff can be found in

	ftp://sis55X:sis55x <at> ftp3.sis.com.tw

Ollie

Re: Linuxbios in the field

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 22:39, Tyson D Sawyer wrote:
> I can personally confirm its running linuxbios. 
> 
> Cheers!
> Ty
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/afghan_robots_2
> 
> http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2002/0731/p01s03-usmi.html
> 

Hmm... When will I see RoboCop running LinuxBIOS ??

Ollie

Re: Linuxbios in the field

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 22:39, Tyson D Sawyer wrote:
> I can personally confirm its running linuxbios. 
> 
> Cheers!
> Ty
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/afghan_robots_2
> 
> http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2002/0731/p01s03-usmi.html
> 

Hmm... When will I see RoboCop running LinuxBIOS ??

Ollie

Re: OpenGL support [was Re: mkelfImage]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 04:28, Nick French wrote:
> Don't want this thread to go cold so I'll just carry on banging the drum.
> 
> Ollie is it really the case that on the PC CHIPS LMR810 there is nothing to
> do with the SIS chipset to turn off the internal AGP an turn on the External
> AGP port? You have been quite quiet on this one or is it the fact we are
> trying to use a non SIS graphics card ;)
> 

You can turn off the onboard VGA by disable HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER option. I
forgot if there is anything we have to do to "turn on" the AGP slot (I
don't think we have to).

Ollie

Re: mkelfImage]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 05:50, Nick French wrote:
> Ollie
> 
> Is there any chance of getting some code to enable an external AGP card on
> the PCCHIPS 810LMR
> this would be really useful as we would like to use as board that supports
> LinuxBIOS but also we need OpenGL based card.
> 

I don't have much idea about (standalong) AGP cards. Doesn't lspci show
the card ??

Ollie

Re: mkelfImage]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 06:02, Nick French wrote:
> It seems that lspci sees SiS630 in 1:0:0 do we not need to program the
> chipset to disable the onboard AGP and enable the External AGP I guess
> unlike PCI you can only have one AGP item enabled at any one time?
> 

O.K. then you only have to disable the internal VGA support by
disable HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER option.

Ollie

Re: sis550 datasheet

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 02:06, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> > Try asking Ollie
> > 
> > ollie <at> sis.com.tw
> > 
> > We have it under NDA with SiS and I haven't noticed it on the public SiS 
> > site.
> 
> Hmmm.. NDA.. Yuck.  Whats the linuxbios support roadmap looklike if
> its only available under NDA?  I thought SIS was pitching the 550
> with great linux support.  
> 

It is now an official company policy to require NDA to get any register
level spec. Once you signed the NDA, you will get all the register spec
under my (linuxbios) jurisdiction (e.g. non-VGA stuff).

> > We have some PC/104+ SiS55x designs due out very shortly if you're 
> > interested.
> 
> Interested in the chip, but we will be designing/building our own
> boards. Thanks for the info though.
> 

Actually you can download many board level design guide from the ftp
site I mentioned.

Ollie

Re: sis550 datasheet

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 02:06, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> > Try asking Ollie
> > 
> > ollie <at> sis.com.tw
> > 
> > We have it under NDA with SiS and I haven't noticed it on the public SiS 
> > site.
> 
> Hmmm.. NDA.. Yuck.  Whats the linuxbios support roadmap looklike if
> its only available under NDA?  I thought SIS was pitching the 550
> with great linux support.  
> 

It is now an official company policy to require NDA to get any register
level spec. Once you signed the NDA, you will get all the register spec
under my (linuxbios) jurisdiction (e.g. non-VGA stuff).

> > We have some PC/104+ SiS55x designs due out very shortly if you're 
> > interested.
> 
> Interested in the chip, but we will be designing/building our own
> boards. Thanks for the info though.
> 

Actually you can download many board level design guide from the ftp
site I mentioned.

Ollie

Re: OpenGL support [was Re: mkelfImage]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 04:28, Nick French wrote:
> Don't want this thread to go cold so I'll just carry on banging the drum.
> 
> Ollie is it really the case that on the PC CHIPS LMR810 there is nothing to
> do with the SIS chipset to turn off the internal AGP an turn on the External
> AGP port? You have been quite quiet on this one or is it the fact we are
> trying to use a non SIS graphics card ;)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That does not matter, you already paied to cost when you buy the 
"integrated chipset".

Ollie

Unusual error whilst making an image--see script attachment

Hello from Gregg C Levine
The title says it all. While attempting to make an image for the 440gx
chipset, I came across an error message that I thought was fixed. It's
my guess, that my version of the GNU assembler of 2.9.10.1 is too old to
properly resolve the symbols being created. But I'd like a different
opinion. Any of them. I am working from a tarball downloaded from Eric's
site. That is from the ftp site maintained by Eric W. Beiderman, and it
concerns itself with the l440gx board setup. It is named
l440gx-buld-13-nov-2001.tar.gz. I suspect it was created for a specific
design as it has an image made up for an Intel network card, one of
their better ones. I am simply interested in opinions here folks on my
problems. I am going to grab a newer version of the binary utilities for
Slackware, and continue from there. As you know now, I am using
Slackware Linux for this, and its their working collection between 7.1
and 8.0.
-------------------
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon <at> worldnet.att.net
------------------------------------------------------------
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Script started on Thu Aug  1 20:19:18 2002
root <at> spock:/usr/src/lobos/work/l440gx-build# make
make -C ./build phlash_floppy
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/lobos/work/l440gx-build/build'
objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S /usr/src/linux-2.2.18/vmlinux vmlinux.bin