port linuxbios(v1) to i845GV based MB

[Steven James]

Greetings,

It looks like it can run double or half depending on the board unless
register 0x24 bit 6 is set correctly. 0=24MHz clock, 1=48MHz clock.

G'day,
sjames

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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * zhu shi song <zhushisongzhu at yahoo.com> [040908 14:44]:
> > intel i845GV is very popular now.  I've got P4i45GV MB
> > based on i845GV(northbridge:i845GV,
> > southbridge:82801db, superio: winfast w83627hf ). I
> > try to port linuxbios(v1) to this board.  Today I have
> > built my first romimage for it.  There met one problem
> > when using it to boot. Serial output is unreadable
> > code.  I have checked the baud rate it's ok.  Maybe
> > setup_serial has some bug.
>
> Some mainboards need to do some magic for baud rate setting or otherwise
> the actual baud rate is only half of what is specified. If you see
> something at all you are almost there
>
> Stefan
>
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