SC1200 and framebuffer under 2.4.22 without having vga-bios or VSA-bios is up

[Bernd Mödeker]

Hi list,

after several hours we did it.

- Linuxbios-1.0.0
- Linux 2.4.22 with geode patches
- framebuffer driver v2.77

If anyone is interested please mail me.
Bernd

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Bernd Mödeker  [031014 14:56]:
> Hi list,
>
> after several hours we did it.
> Linuxbios-1.0.0
> Linux 2.4.22 with geode patches
> framebuffer driver v2.77
>
> If anyone is interested please mail me.
> Bernd

This sounds indeed very interesting. Can you give some pointers
what is needed to get the above combination to work?

Stefan

[gizara]

Congratulations, Bernd!

In about a month or so, when we get our hardware in-hand, we'd like to do
something like this also.

We may eventually wish to migrate to kernal 2.6 shortly thereafter.

Having just started on this, I have downloaded the source tree as directed
by:

http://www.linuxbios.org/faq/

(scrolling all the way down to...)
How do I set GEODE video?
> From [e-mail] Wed Nov 27 07:47:17 2002

"...look at the freebios/src/mainboard/nano/nano
directory and make a copy of it..."

Which looks mostly complete, although it sounds like you may recently have
gone a bit further.

"Alan Cox' 2.5 kernel also has support for doing DMA on the SC1200 IDE"

which may may benefit our application...

So if you will, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

thanks!
Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Mödeker" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:56 AM
Subject: SC1200 and framebuffer under 2.4.22 without having vga-bios or
VSA-bios is up
> Hi list,
>
> after several hours we did it.
> Linuxbios-1.0.0
> Linux 2.4.22 with geode patches
> framebuffer driver v2.77
>
> If anyone is interested please mail me.
> Bernd
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[Brian G. Rhodes]

There is support for IDE DMA on the geode in 2.4.19+.  National also has a
patch for 2.4.17 which I believe I have tried on 2.4.17-2.4.21.  Though
with the national driver you cannot do DMA with the 66mhz bus speed.

Brian G Rhodes
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[phone]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, gizara wrote:
> Congratulations, Bernd!
>
> In about a month or so, when we get our hardware in-hand, we'd like to do
> something like this also.
>
> We may eventually wish to migrate to kernal 2.6 shortly thereafter.
>
> Having just started on this, I have downloaded the source tree as directed
> by:
>
> http://www.linuxbios.org/faq/
>
> (scrolling all the way down to...)
> How do I set GEODE video?
> > From [e-mail] Wed Nov 27 07:47:17 2002
>
> "...look at the freebios/src/mainboard/nano/nano
> directory and make a copy of it..."
>
> Which looks mostly complete, although it sounds like you may recently have
> gone a bit further.
>
> "Alan Cox' 2.5 kernel also has support for doing DMA on the SC1200 IDE"
>
> which may may benefit our application...
>
> So if you will, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> thanks!
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd Mödeker" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:56 AM
> Subject: SC1200 and framebuffer under 2.4.22 without having vga-bios or
> VSA-bios is up
> > Hi list,
> >
> > after several hours we did it.
> > Linuxbios-1.0.0
> > Linux 2.4.22 with geode patches
> > framebuffer driver v2.77
> >
> > If anyone is interested please mail me.
> > Bernd
> >
> > Linuxbios mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[Bari Ari]

Just heard that AMD is doing away with the VSA nonsense on all the 
Geodes and opening up all the register specs for what used to be only 
controlled via the VSA binaries.

-Bari

Brian G. Rhodes wrote:
> There is support for IDE DMA on the geode in 2.4.19+.  National also has a
> patch for 2.4.17 which I believe I have tried on 2.4.17-2.4.21.  Though
> with the national driver you cannot do DMA with the 66mhz bus speed.
>
> Brian G Rhodes
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> [phone]

[Vincent Touquet]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Just heard that AMD is doing away with the VSA nonsense on all the 
> Geodes and opening up all the register specs for what used to be only 
> controlled via the VSA binaries.

That would be good news :)

v

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
> Just heard that AMD is doing away with the VSA nonsense on all the 
> Geodes and opening up all the register specs for what used to be only 
> controlled via the VSA binaries.

Excellent!

Even if they're doing it only on new Geodes the information could still be
useful for older ones, since many parts are probably still the same.

//Peter

[Amit Shirodkar]

Hello Bernd,

Congratulations to you for doing the LinuxBIOS on the Geode.I am looking
for some info. on doing a LinuxBIOS on a geode based thin client that i
have...could you send me some info/pointers?

Thanks in advance,

Amit Shirodkar,
[e-mail]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003
14:56:50 +0200 Bernd Mödeker  wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> after several hours we did it.
> Linuxbios-1.0.0
> Linux 2.4.22 with geode patches
> framebuffer driver v2.77
>
> If anyone is interested please mail me.
> Bernd
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios