Geode in Wyse Winterms

[Hamish Guthrie Maillists]

Hi there,

Has anyone looked at getting LinuxBIOS running in Wyse Winterms - I have a
huge number of these devices (WT3350 and WT3360's) which are now virtually
paperweights, but with Linux should still be very usable.

Thanks in advance

Hamish

[Bari Ari]

Hamish Guthrie Maillists wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Has anyone looked at getting LinuxBIOS running in Wyse Winterms - I have a
> huge number of these devices (WT3350 and WT3360's) which are now virtually
> paperweights, but with Linux should still be very usable.

From what I recall they are pretty straighforward Geode designs that 
weren't that different from some of the reference schematics.

There are some on eBay for $25. Pop the case open and see what Geode, 
chipset and super I/O they have.

-Bari

[Hamish Guthrie Maillists]

The 2350 I believe was the original design from Wyse including water
cooling - I am serious about that - they have a huge aluminum plate on the
CPU with an aluminum pipe to another flange connected to a HUGE heatsink -
as a result I am not able to see which particular Geode it has in it, but,
it certainly has the Cyrix CX5530 companion as well as the NS PC97307
super-io chip, so therefore I guess it looks pretty much like the original
NS ref designs.

The 3360 was a bit more modern and that has the Geode GXLV-233B processor in
conjunction with the CX5530 and the NS PC97307 super-io (I believe
categorised in the GX1 family).

The only thing that worries me is that there are a few GAL's on the board
and I am just hoping that they have not played with the addressing too much.
It does have a plcc socketed NOR flash device (in both cases and ATMEL
AT29C020) and then also a Toshiba TC58V64FT NAND flash device (8Mbyte).

Both devices include 16Mb RAM on an SODIMM.

Any comment would be appreciated,

Regards

Hamish

-----Original Message-----
From: Bari Ari [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: 17 January 2005 06:06
To: Hamish Guthrie Maillists
Cc: Linuxbios
Subject: Re: Geode in Wyse Winterms

Hamish Guthrie Maillists wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Has anyone looked at getting LinuxBIOS running in Wyse Winterms - I have a
> huge number of these devices (WT3350 and WT3360's) which are now virtually
> paperweights, but with Linux should still be very usable.

From what I recall they are pretty straighforward Geode designs that
weren't that different from some of the reference schematics.

There are some on eBay for $25. Pop the case open and see what Geode,
chipset and super I/O they have.

-Bari

[Bari Ari]

Hamish Guthrie Maillists wrote:
> The 2350 I believe was the original design from Wyse including water
> cooling - I am serious about that - they have a huge aluminum plate on the
> CPU with an aluminum pipe to another flange connected to a HUGE heatsink -
> as a result I am not able to see which particular Geode it has in it, but,
> it certainly has the Cyrix CX5530 companion as well as the NS PC97307
> super-io chip, so therefore I guess it looks pretty much like the original
> NS ref designs.
>
> The 3360 was a bit more modern and that has the Geode GXLV-233B processor in
> conjunction with the CX5530 and the NS PC97307 super-io (I believe
> categorised in the GX1 family).
>
> The only thing that worries me is that there are a few GAL's on the board
> and I am just hoping that they have not played with the addressing too much.
> It does have a plcc socketed NOR flash device (in both cases and ATMEL
> AT29C020) and then also a Toshiba TC58V64FT NAND flash device (8Mbyte).
>
> Both devices include 16Mb RAM on an SODIMM.
>
> Any comment would be appreciated,

The only problem with the Geodes was getting sound up since they use VSA 
(virtual system arch.) rather than actual hardware. Power management 
info. was also not released from NSC. Anyone know the status on this? 
Anyone ever get the VSA ROM to work with LinuxBIOS?

-Bari

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:19:47AM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Anyone ever get the VSA ROM to work with LinuxBIOS?

I don't think so. I had a document describing how to set up VSA that
I acquired outside of NDA (download from NSC website) with which one
could have made a VSM loader for LinuxBIOS, but we don't really like
binary proprietary, plus the PDF is on a hard drive that doesn't
start. :(

//Peter