Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261734AbVEZUqI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 16:46:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbVEZUnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 16:43:19 -0400 Received: from mail.toyon.com ([65.160.147.241]:32744 "EHLO mail.toyon.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261734AbVEZUke (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 16:40:34 -0400 Message-ID: <022e01c56233$241e5930$1600a8c0@toyon.corp> From: "Peter J. Stieber" To: "Bill Davidsen" Cc: References: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C943142309F815A6@TYANWEB> <037801c5616a$b1be6600$1600a8c0@toyon.corp> <4295E9F1.6080304@tmr.com> Subject: Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:40:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1842 Lines: 46 YhLu>>> Don't always blame BIOS, if you like you could YhLu>>> use LinuxBIOS instead... PJS>> Just curious, but why isn't this project (LinuxBIOS) PJS>> mentioned on the Tyan web site, or is it and I PJS>> just missed it? PJS>> PJS>> You do work for Tyan, right? BD = Bill Davidsen BD> What has that to do with anything? I doubt that suggestions BD> about boot options are on the website or come from the BD> Tyan website, either. BD> BD> Note: I'm not endorsing LinuxBIOS for Opteron, I haven't BD> personally tried it. But the value of the suggestion depends BD> on how it works, not who makes it. There appear to be a BD> lot of reports of problems with Opteron lately, if the BIOS BD> isn't buggy then the documentation may have lost in BD> translation. I have been having the "memory.c bad pmds" with a Tyan S2885 motherboard. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-May/msg01690.html http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2005-Week-19/1397.html When Yhlu brought up the topic of LinuxBIOS, I thought he might be suggesting that this would prove there are no problems with the BIOS (i.e. the same problems would occur with LinuxBIOS as with the motherboards built-in BIOS). Looking at the LinuxBIOS web site, I got the impression (I may be wrong) that this was a Tyan supported effort. If that was the case I was wondering why Tyan didn't mention LinuxBIOS on their web site. It would make me more comfortable if this were a Tyan supported effort. That's why I asked the question. I'm just trying anything I can to get rid of the bad pmd messages. Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/