[LinuxBIOS] Geode GX1 PCI, VGA and Sound configuration -- was Re: Televideo TC7020 successfully booted with LinuxBiosV2

Juergen Beisert juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de
Tue May 8 17:34:13 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:58, ron minnich wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Juergen Beisert <juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de> wrote:
> > Yes. With a working irq routing table and a (small) special Linux kernel
> > patch (only with this patch Linux is able to setup the IRQ routing
> > correctly. The patch was rejected in mainline, because it breaks other
> > systems. The current kernel implementation is wrong, as it permuts the
> > nibbles in the routing register. I have no idea how this could work on
> > the other systems...)
>
> This problem goes back six years. Fully half the GX1s on the planet
> have a broken PIRQ table. It's enough to drive you crazy.

:-))

Juergen




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