[OT] Phoenix Developing DRM-Equipped BIOS

David Hendricks sc at flagen.com
Fri Sep 5 02:02:00 CEST 2003


Yeah, that whole via-rhine (Or via_rhine, more like) issue is somewhat
bizarre, but is an issue for another thread :)

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
>
>> Well actually, my beef is about not releasing datasheets. AFAIK we still
>> do not have the direct register VGA working for EPIA-800, due to some
>> hidden enable of some kind or another.  And in this case, we have the
>> datasheet, so it probably undocumented.  But the other EPIAs, with the
>> CLE266, the datasheet is not available to my knowledge.
>
> as of today, David Hendriks built a BIOS for EPIA with SONE's freebios
> source tree, and the VGA is working fine. I think there's literally one
> bit left to find.
>
> We are now trying to see why our latest CVS does not work, but we're very
> close with this. It's going to turn into a diff -r.
>
> Hang in there.
>
> ron
> p.s. Next we try to get via-rhine to boot the node in less than 3 minutes
> ...
>
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