[coreboot] VIA VX800 patch

bari bari at onelabs.com
Wed May 27 20:14:55 CEST 2009


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 27.05.2009 02:44, ron minnich wrote:
>> I'd like to merge it as-is and then it up clean over time so we have a
>> baseline, which is the OLPC code, which we can back out to if we hit a
>> problem.
>>   
> 
> Given the sorry state of chipset vendor participation in coreboot right
> now, I think merging is the way forward even if the code is not really
> what we would merge immediately under better circumstances.

The rumor is that this code should be very portable to some newer 
chipsets in the same family. This means that this could support about 
100 new netbooks that will be released in the next year. Of course this 
all depends on which EC is used in the designs.

-Bari




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