This: http://digitallogic.com/english/media/productinformation_detail.asp?ID=68
now boots into linux. No graphics yet, customer(s) did not need it or want it -- quite the opposite. Serial console was a must.
So they get to lose the useless VGA bios display, and get a nice serial console.
Thanks to Marc Jones, Jordan Crouse, and of course AMD for giving this project a solid, professional implementation of LinuxBIOS for the LX chip.
thanks
ron