National Semiconductor Geode GX1 ?
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at suse.de
Fri Nov 29 15:25:01 CET 2002
* Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> [021129 18:44]:
> Christer Weinigel wrote:
>
> ><cut'n'paste>
> > There is no video support in LinuxBIOS itself, so you won't get
> > any video until you have loaded the NatSemi Geode Linux
> > framebuffer driver (can be found at www.linux4.tv under the
> > heading SP1SC10 Platform Image).
> >
> > There is no SMM/VSA support at all, this means that anything
> > relying on it won't work. What this means is that Audio won't
> > work.
> >
> >Other than that everything works fine, IDE in PIO mode, the PCI bus.
> ></cut'n'paste>
> >
> Has anyone tried to load the SMM/VSA as a binary using the Xpressloader
> source with LinuxBIOS to have SMM/VSA working?
I've looked at it but did not follow it further. Seems like VSA1 has
some 16bit interface, but i am not sure about vsa2. so basically one
would have to find a proper place during system bootup and just jump
into the binary, taking the structure of vsa binaries into regard.
any hints on known pitfalls? Christer?
Best regards,
Stefan Reinauer
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