Re: [SeaBIOS] GeodeVGA is not initialized during SeaBIOS execution

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0300, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> Awesome suggestion, turns out that the PCI_COMMAND_IO is not set.
> Removing the check entirely would lead to an incomplete PCI
> initialization but placing VGA ROM to vgaroms/seavgabios.rom could do
> the trick.

So, out of curiosity, does Geode SeaVGABIOS work on this board if one
of the above is done?  I haven't seen a recent confirmation that Geode
SeaVGABIOS still works.

-Kevin

GeodeVGA is not initialized during SeaBIOS execution

[Andrey Korolyov]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0300, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> > Awesome suggestion, turns out that the PCI_COMMAND_IO is not set.
> > Removing the check entirely would lead to an incomplete PCI
> > initialization but placing VGA ROM to vgaroms/seavgabios.rom could do
> > the trick.
>
> So, out of curiosity, does Geode SeaVGABIOS work on this board if one
> of the above is done?  I haven't seen a recent confirmation that Geode
> SeaVGABIOS still works.
>
> -Kevin

Yes, with the (im)proper location in CBFS SeaBIOS-produced rom does
its job. There is something wrong with the register setup in coreboot,
but I hadn`t time yet to take a close look on northbridge/lx.