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Hardware

[Ville Jutvik]

Hi everyone

I understand that the project is in need of hardware in purpose of testing. I would just like to make everyone aware of that I happend to own an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I know that lm_sensors destroys the Thinpad's EPROM if run (due to a broken hardware-standard implementation, right?). However, if there is someone who wants to test something on it I can do that for him/her (or just give the person in question a SSH account) as long as I don't have to replace my motherboard :)

Best regards,
Ville Jutvik,
ville.jutvik@home.se

Hardware

[phil]

Thank you for your offer!  We may ask you to test some detection code 
(detecting your laptop, not the eeprom).  That should be safe, and it 
would allow us to confirm that we can detect at least your laptop.


Phil

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:14:38PM +0200, Ville Jutvik wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I understand that the project is in need of hardware in purpose of testing. I would just like to make everyone aware of that I happend to own an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I know that lm_sensors destroys the Thinpad's EPROM if run (due to a broken hardware-standard implementation, right?). However, if there is someone who wants to test something on it I can do that for him/her (or just give the person in question a SSH account) as long as I don't have to replace my motherboard :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Ville Jutvik,
> ville.jutvik@home.se

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[Jean Delvare]

> I understand that the project is in need of hardware in purpose of
> testing. I would just like to make everyone aware of that I happend to
> own an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I know that lm_sensors destroys the
> Thinpad's EPROM if run (due to a broken hardware-standard
> implementation, right?). However, if there is someone who wants to
> test something on it I can do that for him/her (or just give the
> person in question a SSH account) as long as I don't have to replace
> my motherboard :)

I finished the detection code in sensors-detect. It would be great if we
were able to test it on your system.

The idea is: get lm_sensors from CVS and install it; run sensors-detect
as root.
You don't risk anything. If the detection works as I think it should,
sensors-detect will refuse to continue. If not, you just press CTRL+C.
In both cases, you let us know what happened.

Everyone:

There still is a problem: we can't run dmidecode if we are not root. And
the problem is the same if we do what dmidecode does directly in perl,
since we still need read access to /dev/mem. So, my question is: can we
break a thinkpad without being root? If yes, we are facing a serious
problem, and I have no idea how to solve it.

BTW, you are all invited to test the new sensors-detect and report any
problem that occurs. My policy has been:
1* If we aren't root or can't run dmidecode or dmidecode doesn't work
the way we expect: display the good old IBM warning;
2* If we detect a non-IBM system, no warning at all.
3* If we detect an IBM system, explain and exit.
4* If we detect a blank system vendor, same as 1*.
If someone has any objection, please let me know.

Good night everyone :)

-- 
Jean "Khali" Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/

Hardware

[Mark D. Studebaker]

Well, you can't load modules unless you're root.
The assumption is that all troublesome systems have a
PIIX4. i2c-piix4 won't load if it's an IBM.
If a) the problem is something not on a piix4 bus,
and b) the user compiled-in those modules or loaded the modules
before, then there could be a problem.



Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > I understand that the project is in need of hardware in purpose of
> > testing. I would just like to make everyone aware of that I happend to
> > own an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I know that lm_sensors destroys the
> > Thinpad's EPROM if run (due to a broken hardware-standard
> > implementation, right?). However, if there is someone who wants to
> > test something on it I can do that for him/her (or just give the
> > person in question a SSH account) as long as I don't have to replace
> > my motherboard :)
> 
> I finished the detection code in sensors-detect. It would be great if we
> were able to test it on your system.
> 
> The idea is: get lm_sensors from CVS and install it; run sensors-detect
> as root.
> You don't risk anything. If the detection works as I think it should,
> sensors-detect will refuse to continue. If not, you just press CTRL+C.
> In both cases, you let us know what happened.
> 
> Everyone:
> 
> There still is a problem: we can't run dmidecode if we are not root. And
> the problem is the same if we do what dmidecode does directly in perl,
> since we still need read access to /dev/mem. So, my question is: can we
> break a thinkpad without being root? If yes, we are facing a serious
> problem, and I have no idea how to solve it.
> 
> BTW, you are all invited to test the new sensors-detect and report any
> problem that occurs. My policy has been:
> 1* If we aren't root or can't run dmidecode or dmidecode doesn't work
> the way we expect: display the good old IBM warning;
> 2* If we detect a non-IBM system, no warning at all.
> 3* If we detect an IBM system, explain and exit.
> 4* If we detect a blank system vendor, same as 1*.
> If someone has any objection, please let me know.
> 
> Good night everyone :)
> 
> --
> Jean "Khali" Delvare
> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/

hardware

[Ferenc Havasi]

Dear All,

Until now we was developed JFFS2 without real flash - only using
emulators (mtdram and nandsim). Now we decided to buy a real stuff.

Please suggest us some development board (or similar thing) which have
good linux and mtd support and uses NAND flash.

Thanks,
Ferenc

Re: hardware

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:59 +0200, Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Until now we was developed JFFS2 without real flash - only using
> emulators (mtdram and nandsim). Now we decided to buy a real stuff.
> 
> Please suggest us some development board (or similar thing) which have
> good linux and mtd support and uses NAND flash.

The Bamboo board from AMCC has support for it in the mainline kernels
now.  It contains a PPC 440EP processor and two different size Samsung
NAND chips.  It also has some NOR chips on it.

There is an MTD driver for both the NAND and the NOR floating around
somewhere.  I asked the author to send it to the list, but I haven't
seen it yet.

Not sure what your price range is though.  These boards are close to
2000 US dollars if I remember correctly.  They're an overall eval board,
so they come with all kinds of other stuff as well (USB, SATA, ethernet,
etc).

josh

Re: hardware

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:59 +0200, Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> Please suggest us some development board (or similar thing) which have
> good linux and mtd support and uses NAND flash.

A DiskOnChip in a PCI evaluation board is quite useful for testing.

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[Kyle McMartin]

I've got a load of hardware I don't really anticipate energizing again
that anyone who is doing work on Linux is welcome to... I'll make a
list, but I have random bits of everything parisc related (PCI
storage/network/misc, memory, disks, arrays, etc.)

I'm willing to itemize it and offer to ship it for the cost of postage,
so if any of you want some of it (or machines) make a list of what you
need and I'll sift through boxes and let you know what I've got.

(Mostly J6XXX class machine bits and A500 bits probably a couple earlier
models as well.)

--Kyle

hardware

[hce]

Hi,

I am going to buy a TV turner card Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS Dual HD
Tuner for a linux box, but I could not find what chip set in that
card. Could anyone advice if that card is supported by v4l or not?

Thank you.

Kind Regards.

jupiter

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