[LinuxBIOS] RES: RES: Rumba target and AMD RDK THINCLIENT
Li-Ta Lo
ollie at lanl.gov
Fri Mar 10 18:07:38 CET 2006
> Dear Mr. Li-Ta Lo,
>
>
> I've tried, but id didn't see any bytes on serial port 0 of the
> CS5535.
> What is the hardware description of rumba target ? I'm trying it
> on the AMD RDK THINCLIENT based on GEODE GX2.
I think our board is the thinclient RDK with the winbond superio duaght
board. Did you get the lastest code? Does it compile?
> What are you doing about VSA ? I didn't see any binary with it in
> the LinuxBiosv2 source tree.
I haven't got that far yet. Probably somethin very similar to how we deal
VGA bios on Via.
> So, Can systems based ond GEODE (GX1, GX2 or LX) work without VSA
> initialization ?
>
My first impression is it can be done but the more I know about Geode and
VSA, the more I doubt it. One serious problem is there is basically no PCI
system in the Geode GX. All PCI configuration space registers are emulated
by VSA. It is possible to have a heavily modified driver to access the MSR
register space than the emulated PCI space but it requires a lot of work.
BTW, VSA is supposed to do some other magic device init too.
Ollie
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