[coreboot] LBv2: asus A8NE - Filling 2 pci slots --> no VGA/boot

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 23:37:10 CET 2008


On Feb 12, 2008 4:40 AM, Torsten Duwe <duwe at lst.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Corey Osgood wrote:
>
> > > I think there was a change committed that allows just the VGA ROM to
> > > be executed and ignores the ATA card ROM. Does anyone else remember?
>
> > I don't think Luc Verhaegan's patch ever got in,  so just set
> > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE but not CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN. The VGA rom will still
> run.
>
> No, that was the old behaviour. Luc had a valid point, so equivalent
> changes
> did go in.
>
> Set CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN, but not CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN in this case now.
>
>        Torsten
>

I'll agree that he did have a valid point, but his changes never went in
(according to svn log). He's working on a native framebuffer driver for via
hardware, and doesn't want any roms run even if CONFIG_VGA is set.

-Corey
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