[LinuxBIOS] What geode board?

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Thu Feb 2 07:20:30 CET 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 19:57 -0800, Adam Talbot wrote:
> How is it on boot time?  How long does linuxbios take before it gets to 
> the payload?
> -Adam
> 

Nobody has a working LinuxBIOS for GX2 yet.

> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> > Adam Talbot wrote:
> >
> >> What geode board are you working with?  The GX2 board? Price?
> >
> >
> > we're working with the lippert fastrunner here.
> >
> > The GX2 is not without problems. They really rely heavily on SMI mode. 
> > I don't much like this. For example, Ollie just told me that PCI 
> > config accesses (cf8/cfc) are trapped into SMI mode and emulated.
> >
> > ron
> >
> >
> 
> 
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Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov>
Los Alamos National Lab





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