Hi Marc!
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:48:27PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
Hello LinuxBIOS Community,
My name is Marc Jones and I work for the AMD embedded group. Jordan Crouse and I have been working with Ron Minnich on a Geode LX LinuxBIOS implementation for the AMD Norwich development platform.
This is great news! Thanks a lot for your work!
Our implementation has been split into four patches: cpu, northbridge, southbridge, and mainboard. All four are required to build the Norwich platform. Ron and I expect this to break the current OLPC mainboards. We will work on fixing then soon (Note that OLPC went from GX to LX so an update was required regardless).
The LX-based OLPC should become another subdirectory of olpc/, just like rev_a and btest, right? I'd rather not touch the existing directories if the changes are that massive. This way we wouldn't break any targets (just add a new one), correct?
In addition to the patches you will need the Geode LX VSA binary that is located here:
http://www.amd.com/files/connectivitysolutions/geode/geode_lx/lx_vsa.36k.bin...
Where's the source code? SCNR :)
I assume the source is not publically available? That would sure be great! If not, what exact usage rights come with the binary?
Also, is the VSA binary needed for _any_ LinuxBIOS usage on the LX, or just to enable certain features? In other words, can we do _anything_ with the LX without the VSA binary?
Uwe.