[LinuxBIOS] mmx problems on VIA EPIA-SP resolved

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:28 -0700, Doug Bell wrote:
> 
> We are working on VIA EPIA-SP with C3-2 processsor and have resolved
> problems related to the use of the mmx as seen in the
> auto.inc. The code was hanging unless we used -mno-mmx in Config.lb. 
> 
> We then modified /src/cpu/via/model_centaur_init.c cpu_table[] to
> include 
> {X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR, 0698},   // VIA C3 Nehemiah
> 
> If anyone else is doing work on this board please let us know! Our code
> isn't far enough along to check in.
> 
> 
> 
> Some questions remain:
> 
> 
> 1) Is the C3-2 supported yet? What's needed to add? 
> 
> 2) Which if any of the LinuxBIOS v2 via boards ( epia, epia-m ) in
> subversion are building AND booting?  Has anyone done DRAM init using
> SPD under v2? 
> 

EPIA should use SPD in V2. It is not very stable for some unknown 
reason.

-- 
Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov>
Los Alamos National Lab