Tom Sylla wrote: > On 12/19/06, Marc-André Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What about the other two chipsets I mentioned: Intel 945GM and AMD LX800 >> Is the AMD LX800 booting properly? >> > > AMD LX is working for Indrek Kruusa on one model board. (see the mail > archive) His last mail to me said he had quite a few changes in his > tree, and they are missing from the LB tree since they are not > generic.
I can provide our source for Geode LX if needed. VSA should be obtained from AMD. And I still have the plan to merge our changes with mainline.... > LX also requires the VSA binary blob for your platform, which > is, in general, not available. For VGA your need the VGA ROM from AMD. If you can live without bootsplash and run Xorg at the end then you can omit VGA/VESA support. Xorg has Geode LX native driver in separate git tree. cheers, Indrek > If you are intending to create a > commercial LX platform with LB, you need to solve that problem. A > partial GX VSA was open-sourced for OLPC. LX VSA source is not > available. > > >> I know, this question is not of great interest. Is it possible right now >> to boot an old Operating System like Windows XP using ADLO and >> effectively use it afterwards (except of the ACPI)? >> > > No, this is not working right now. There is lots of lore about this, > but I haven't seen evidence of anyone ever booting XP from LinuxBIOS. > 2k and earlier, maybe, but that is all. > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
