Via EPIA - Success

Russell Gower russell at abc9986.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 7 06:11:01 CET 2003


Ok,
I now have my Via EPIA 5000 booting into Linux :-)

The Image from cwLinux wouldn't work for me.

After a couple of days and countless chip swaps I've got it working with
SDRAM detection using the code in borthbridge/via/vt8601/raminitspd.inc

I've tested it with 2 diffrent DIMMS one 128mb and one 256m. Its actually
reporting 9mb less, I think 8mb of that is SMA memory set aside for the
framebuffer ( which i'm not using ) the other 1mb i'm not sure but would
this be the memory from 0x00000000 -> 0x000a0000?

It's passed 7 passes of MEMTEST so i think it's pretty stable, for me at
least.

Any way it works for me so I can now concentrate on the rest of my
application, a car based MP3 player.

How do I submit my modification, assuming you wan't them of course!

Russell





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