Re: [LinuxBIOS] Advantech SOM GX5333 commited

Dear,

What about vsa legal questions ?
Are you using the source code available from insyde site ?
Has amd licensed VSA under GPL ?

Thanks.

Jardel.
> > I just committed the support for the the SOM-2354 CPU board running on
> > a SOM-DB2301 base board.
> >
> > MSR 20000018 was from the rumba setup which didn't work on this board.
> >  Current value was ripped from how XpressROM set it.  Other than that
> > all I had to change was the superIO.
>
> I have better version of programming MSR 20000018 around. I will try
> to commit it next week. Does your board have SPD?
> > The unit boots jumps to linubios and looks for the vsabin which it
> > can't find since its not there.
> >
> > What's next?
>
> Put your VSAINIT.BIN+SYSMGR.BIN at the bottom of your flash (like what
> we did with VGA BIOS). Point the address where vsmsetup want to look
> for VSM to the bottom of your flash. It sould be able to find the
> vsa. BTW, the code on the current SVN has some serious bug (forget to
> call setup_realmode_idt() before vsmsetup()) so it will crash soon
> after jump into VSA. I will commit it fix next week.
>
> I think there are still one or two MSR we have to program and probably
> we need big real mode instead of the real mode for VSA to work. I will
> dig into it more with the JTAG debugger later.
> > I have also made a little bit of progress on compiling the VSA.
> > OpenWatcom has a 16-bit compiler and I've been hacking the makefile(s)
> > to get it to work.  OWC has a cl compability mode but IFAICT its 32bit
> > only.  I've attemped to translate the switches.
> >
> > I'm currently at the point of trying to figure out how to feed the OWC
> > linker all the object files.
>
> Did you try to find on MSVC on ebay? BTW, by googleing the net
> I found some VC/MASM are freely avaliable through MSDN. Do you
> want to try it too?
>
> Ollie