Re: K8 northbridge f1 behaviour.

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Do these registers maybe want an LDTSTOP_L or a reset asserted to become
> significant?

ouch. maybe.
> Are you sure your other operations do access the VGA ports at all and
> don't operate on the graphics device directly?

These are operations that access 0x3cc and other legacy vga stuff, and 
they're not getting to vga ...
> I got an S2880 up with VGA by using the ATI biosless patch for 2.4.x
> done by some SGI guy. That is not really flexible, but it helped me to
> see light for the first time in LinuxBIOS

The right solution. We're doing the wrong solution (running the VGA bios) 
because VGA people won't let us do the right solution.

ron