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Gregg C Levine | 2 Jun 2005 01:54
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Questions regarding the TV IN functions for one of the boards that were used

Hello from Gregg C Levine
I've got a new project being created. It concerns a system that uses a
rather specialized, and unfortunately not open sourced protocol for
talking to external hardware. However the software that does speak to
the device is. It's the One-Wire protocol, and the OWFS software,
http://owfs.sf.net 

Basically the hardware would be communicating with other items that
would eventually create a video signal. For development purposes I've
chosen to, ah, do things here, and I'd be using a specific tuner card,
name on request. But I'd eventually like to move to a Linux BIOS
solution. Here's an e-mail message that Google found for me that
concerns itself with one of the EPIA family boards:
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Mini-PCI TV Tuners with hardware encoding
Posted by tekmage (andrew <at> plumb.org) on 12-22-2004 09:29:33
What mini-pci TV Tuners have people had success using in Linux based
systems? Follow-up questions would be what chipsets do they use (i.e.
which device drivers are they compatible with) and from whom can I buy
small quantities?
I have plans for a Kontron X-board based system, and VIA's upcoming
EPIA N board will also have a mini-pci slot, opening up options for a
lot of people.
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Calvin Kendall | 1 Jun 2005 07:12
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Might a Thunder K8WE Support LinuxBios too?

 
 
 
    Being a very interested but very raw newbie to the whole "world of" LinuxBIOS, please excuse me.
 
    The Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) is listed at linuxbios.org as a supported motherboard. Although not listed itself, would the new ("New" as per the Tyan website.) K8WE (S2895) also be a supported motherboard? The reason I venture to speculate is that the S2895 appears to be an "updated" version of the similar S2885.
 
    Thank you for your precious time and valuable undivided attention.
 
 
 
Later,
Calvin E. Kendall, S.F.O.
 
 
 
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Gregg C Levine | 3 Jun 2005 02:28
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Questions regarding the TV IN functions for one of the boards that were used

(Resending message. I think the original got lost someplace. Apologies
to all if it did get there.)

Hello from Gregg C Levine
I've got a new project being created. It concerns a system that uses a
rather specialized, and unfortunately not open sourced protocol for
talking to external hardware. However the software that does speak to
the device is. It's the One-Wire protocol, and the OWFS software,
http://owfs.sf.net 

Basically the hardware would be communicating with other items that
would eventually create a video signal. For development purposes I've
chosen to, ah, do things here, and I'd be using a specific tuner card,
name on request. But I'd eventually like to move to a Linux BIOS
solution. Here's an e-mail message that Google found for me that
concerns itself with one of the EPIA family boards:
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Embedded Linux Forum
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Original Topic:
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Mini-PCI TV Tuners with hardware encoding
Posted by tekmage (andrew <at> plumb.org) on 12-22-2004 09:29:33
What mini-pci TV Tuners have people had success using in Linux based
systems? Follow-up questions would be what chipsets do they use (i.e.
which device drivers are they compatible with) and from whom can I buy
small quantities?
I have plans for a Kontron X-board based system, and VIA's upcoming
EPIA N board will also have a mini-pci slot, opening up options for a
lot of people.

Thanks!

Andrew.
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It came from a forum which lives somewhere on the Linux Devices site,
or did, I do not know if the forum is still active.

I do remember that one of the EPIA boards did support composite video
out, but I do not recall which one, nor do I have access to my local
archives.

And Ron, if this is really not on topic for anything currently being
discussed, even though I do plan on my board design becoming a Linux
BIOS platform, I shall discontinue discussing it, with this message.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon <at> worldnet.att.net
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"Remember, the Force will be with you... Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Ronald G. Minnich | 3 Jun 2005 06:47

testing


ron
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Hugo MERCIER | 1 Jun 2005 19:33
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Pm49FL002 Flash

Hi,

  I'm new to this list and to the project. I'd like to add support for
the Asus A7V600 motherboard (VT8237 and KT600 based). I don't have many
time, I'am not very familiar with chipset low level programming, but ...
I found LinuxBios is an interesting project ;)

  Until now, I spend my time gathering informations (manuals and
datasheet - with a request to VIA) and looking to the linuxbios code.

  I just wanted to add flash support to the flash_rom util to start
something. My motherboard is using the Pm49FL002 flash memory. It's the
same as the Pm49FL004 with 2Mb instead of 4Mb.

  With respect to the Pm49FL002 datasheet, it seems to act as Jedec. So,
I added this to flash_rom.c:
        {"Pm49FL002",   PMC_ID,         PMC_49FL002,    NULL, 256, 16 *
1024,
         probe_jedec,   erase_chip_jedec, NULL,NULL},
and to flash_rom.h:
#define PMC_49FL002       0x6D  /* PMC 49FL002 device code      */

  I just wanted to test the probing (No erasing or programming yet).
And ... it fails. flash_rom doesn't find anything : the reported IDs
bytes are the same as those reported without the probing memory cycles
(0x555,0xAAA, ...)

  So ... what am I doing wrong ? Do I have to set some bit in the
Northbridge registers ?
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Eric W. Biederman | 3 Jun 2005 07:19

FYI: AMD support for cache as ram.


Check out the new BIOS and Kernel Developers Guide.

Eric
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YhLu | 2 Jun 2005 20:22

RE: AMD dual core support and four rank dimm support

Note:
Some MB doesn't support dual core, So if you enable it, you could blow off
your VRM or MB...
So you need to check with your HW vendor to see if HW is dual core ready.

It seems that list linuxbios <at> openbios.org is broken, Stefan, can you check
it?

YH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu 
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:12 AM
> To: 'Ronald G. Minnich'; 'ebiederman <at> lnxi.com'; 'Stefan 
> Reinauer'; 'Li-Ta Lo'
> Cc: 'linuxbios <at> openbios.org'
> Subject: AMD dual core support and four rank dimm support
> 
> Just commited.
> 
> Hope it is not broken.
> 
> AMD D0/E0 Opteron new mem mapping support AMD E Opteron dual 
> core support AMD E Opteron mem hole support AMD K8 Four Ranks 
> DIMM support
> 
> 
> YH
>
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Ronald G. Minnich | 3 Jun 2005 06:21

RE: AMD dual core support and four rank dimm support


On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, YhLu wrote:

> It seems that list linuxbios <at> openbios.org is broken, Stefan, can you check
> it?

I am hearing similar complaints. Anything busted?

ron
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YhLu | 1 Jun 2005 18:39

RE: Might a Thunder K8WE Support LinuxBios too?

It's already supported, and the code is in the public tree two weeks ago.
 
YH

From: Calvin Kendall [mailto:calvinkendall <at> shaw.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:13 PM
To: YhLu
Cc: linuxbios <at> openbios.org
Subject: Might a Thunder K8WE Support LinuxBios too?

 
 
 
    Being a very interested but very raw newbie to the whole "world of" LinuxBIOS, please excuse me.
 
    The Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) is listed at linuxbios.org as a supported motherboard. Although not listed itself, would the new ("New" as per the Tyan website.) K8WE (S2895) also be a supported motherboard? The reason I venture to speculate is that the S2895 appears to be an "updated" version of the similar S2885.
 
    Thank you for your precious time and valuable undivided attention.
 
 
 
Later,
Calvin E. Kendall, S.F.O.
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
LinuxBIOS mailing list
LinuxBIOS <at> openbios.org
http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
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Eric W. Biederman | 3 Jun 2005 07:18

Re: [BULK] How is 'arch' working for you?

"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich <at> lanl.gov> writes:

> Are folks getting along with 'arch' ok? 
So far so good.

I should be finish the merge I started long ago in the next week
or which will make a very good test...
After that it should be much easier to keep in sync.

> Are you able to download as needed? 
No problem yet...

>  How does it compare to CVS? 
It is distributed and has real branches how can that be bad :)

> Is there a different SCM you would like to see used?

We should probably keep an eye on git as whatever is the long term winner
with revision control is likely to come out that camp.  If nothing
else we should begin to see interoperability between version control
systems.  But that is after the dust has settled.

Eric
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