K8 northbridge f1 behaviour.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [040108 23:11]:

> > I got an S2880 up with VGA by using the ATI biosless patch for 2.4.x
> > done by some SGI guy. That is not really flexible, but it helped me to
> > see light for the first time in LinuxBIOS
> 
> The right solution. We're doing the wrong solution (running the VGA bios) 
> because VGA people won't let us do the right solution.

What VGA device are you using? The 2880 has the ATI Rage XL chip which
seems to be used in quite some AMD64 implementations.
I used this patch:
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/sgi/people/ppopov/aty_nobiosinit.patch

Best regards,
  Stefan Reinauer
  
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     Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
Teamleader Architecture Development