Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter J. Stieber" <> | Subject | Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports | Date | Thu, 26 May 2005 13:40:20 -0700 |
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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
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