NS Geode GX1 + CS5530 +PC 97317 superio

[Brian G. Rhodes]

They have to still support the chips they sold.  They have stopped selling
anything other than d3 gx1 processors as of june this year, but the dealer
market is still flooded with older ones.  what, what am I talking about.
national never had support even when they said they had support.  they're
the sigma designs of cpu makers.

Brian G Rhodes
bgr at linespeed.net
+1 612-741-1191


On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
> Perhaps. But NSC's webpage insists that they have indeed sold the
> entire line to AMD, and that presumably included software tools, and
> even development support. Meaning anyone who had bought a board the
> week before the event took place, would find themselves working with a
> different group. As for your claims, I don't know, I'm just commenting
> on the webpage. I can tell you, that it was badly laid out, and looked
> like something done by someone who was just starting out in that
> business, a far cry from all of the other things that they display
> online. Also, it did confirm what Brian brought our attention a while
> ago.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> > admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:09 PM
> > To: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> > Subject: Re: NS Geode GX1 + CS5530 +PC 97317 superio
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM +0530, amits at myrealbox.com wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > How do I extract the VGA BIOS from the Insyde ExpressROM??the same
> way as
> > in
> > > case of the EPIA will work? ANd in that case ... how can we find
> out IF it
> > > uses some calls that are implemented in the underlying XpressROM
> BIOS ??
> >
> > XpressROM is a minimalist BIOS sold by Insyde.
> >
> > XpressLOADER is another name for the BLDT, available from either
> Insyde or
> > NSC. (I believe it's still NSC.)
> >
> > BLDT is the Boot Loader Development Toolkit and contains some
> building
> > blocks for making a BIOS similar to the XpressROM but lacking a few
> features
> > that may or may not be critical. ACPI and various legacy BIOS
> services e.g.
> >
> > The BLDT is (was) available free of charge and IIRC you're even
> allowed to
> > develop open source software after reading it. Don't take my word
> for this
> > though.
> >
> > See if you can get hold of the BLDT, I think it'll make things a lot
> easier
> > than dealing with XpressROM, especially when what you really want to
> do is
> > run LinuxBIOS. :)
> >
> >
> > //Peter
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