[coreboot] FILO loads image but, Linux doesnt boot

Marc Jones Marc.Jones at AMD.com
Thu Mar 6 17:59:42 CET 2008


ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:47:27PM -0800, Phani Babu Giddi wrote:
>>  > Let me recheck if the geodelx frame buffer is already patched or
>>  > not. I think it was patched because X was working for with the
>>  > commerial BIOS.
>>
>>  X could be using the VESA driver. There is also an Xorg driver for
>>  the geodelx. Neither depend on kernel framebuffer.
>>     
>
>
> can someone remind me:do we need a special VSA to make the Linux geode
> lx framebuffer driver work?
>
> Phani, do you want my .config that works with linux and brings up the
> frame buffer? it is for 2.6.24.2
>
> ron
>
>   

Ron,
You need VSA with LX. Not a special VSA. Just the same old one that 
buildrom will pull in for Geode platforms.
Marc

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