[LinuxBIOS] Support for IEI Nova4899R [1]

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Nov 10 00:12:15 CET 2006


* Luis Correia <lfcorreia at lfcorreia.dyndns.org> [061107 10:39]:
> We can see thatthe 32k vga bios is copied to the correct place, but
> nothing is done to the VSA portion, it is true that this VSA code
> does not have the standard BIOS start values (0x55aa).
 
Yes, vsa is not an option rom, hence no 55aa. 

VSA needs to be called in 16bit mode, GX2 and LX do that in
northbridge.c

Check out src/cpu/amd/model_gx2/vsmsetup.c

Stefan

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