Hi, I have been talking to vendors about this board, including the 12v power supply people (car batt == ups).
Global economy being what it is, and the need for a cheap business box extreme, I am wondering out loud if VIA might be a political target for the VgaBIOS ??
Also, lightweight cheapo boards only make sense if they support legacy keyboards and mice for emerging markets, and much of the USA. If memory serves correctly, the board only wants USB.
For clusters they make sense w/ serial, gigabit ethernet, DoC and lots of memory and nothing else.
On that topic, politically again, if the global VGA standard might be extended to XVGA, 800X600. I will be talking to UNESCO soon, they have 60,000,000 USD to blow on our toys. Maybe they can create a unified technology effort to bootstrap the global economy, LinuxBIOS at the core of it.
I am going try to sway VIA your way through (via??) their distributors.
Please send comments -- if you have any -- or suggestions for other boards/makers that I should target w/ good advice (or political arm twisting or whatever)
On behalf of the plane Earth I think I can say, great work.
John
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Ip wrote:
Sounds great. Just send the patch to the list. I can put that in the cvs. Thanks. Good work.
-Andrew
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:29:11AM -0000, Russell Gower wrote:
Ok, I now have my Via EPIA 5000 booting into Linux :-)
The Image from cwLinux wouldn't work for me.
After a couple of days and countless chip swaps I've got it working with SDRAM detection using the code in borthbridge/via/vt8601/raminitspd.inc
I've tested it with 2 diffrent DIMMS one 128mb and one 256m. Its actually reporting 9mb less, I think 8mb of that is SMA memory set aside for the framebuffer ( which i'm not using ) the other 1mb i'm not sure but would this be the memory from 0x00000000 -> 0x000a0000?
It's passed 7 passes of MEMTEST so i think it's pretty stable, for me at least.
Any way it works for me so I can now concentrate on the rest of my application, a car based MP3 player.
How do I submit my modification, assuming you wan't them of course!
Russell
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