On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 12:58 -0500 schrieb Kevin O'Connor: > > I have recently put together a basic implementation of a vgabios for > > use with displays that are initialized by coreboot. > > awesome news! > > > I've run some basic tests on this version of SeaVGABIOS on my > > hardware. However, I don't have one of the boards where coreboot > > supports native vga init. It would be great if someone with the > > hardware (looks like stout, x60, and maybe others) could run tests. > > Thanks to Luc, the VIA K8x890 based boards like Asus M2V-MX SE have had > native graphics init for a long time. > > commit aeb6c9870f0b1af8c0b55b2034f881da6757c4a4 > Author: Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Jul 23 16:04:58 2009 +0000 > > sb/via/k8t890: add vga textmode code for k8m890 chrome igp. > > Add initialisation for the VIA Chrome 9 IGP on the k8m890 through > native code > and through the general vga infrastructure i committed a month or > two ago. > Add videoram_size option for k8m890 and the Asus M2V-MX SE. > > Looking through the output of > > $ git grep k8t890 src/mainboard/ > > the boards Asus A8V-E Deluxe, Asus A8V-E SE, Asus K8V-X, Asus M2V-MX SE > and Asus M2V should theoretically support that.
Okay. The SeaVGABIOS implementation is expecting a coreboot table (LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER). So, as long as that is present it should work. > I’ll try to test it on the Asus M2V-MX SE. Hopefully some other owner is > quicker than me. Thanks. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
