[coreboot] [PATCH] MS7135 fixes and updates

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:21:13 +0000, "Jonathan A. Kollasch"
> > <jakllsch at kollasch.net> wrote:
> > > Fix various issues on MSI MS7135 board.
> > > 
> > >  - enable floppy drive controller so that some legacy VGA ROMs will work
> > 
> > Little confused by this. Why does the floppy drive controller have to be
> > enabled for VGA??
> 
> I think this might be a 'feature' of the proprietary VGA ROM... Who knows
> why - there's no source...

Yeah, I found that a RV370 board I have was working when the
superio address was wrong, because the floppy controller
was in the power-on-reset state of enabled.  When I corrected
the superio address, and the FDC got disabled as instructed,
the VGA BIOS did weird things I don't exactly recall and
didn't work.  I then tried enabling the FDC again and
found that this made the VGA BIOS work again.  I have
no idea why it wants to touch the floppy controller,
but I have to let it or it won't work.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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