Re: [LinuxBIOS] GEODE VSA II COMPILATION

2006-03-13 Thread Bari Ari
Ronald G Minnich wrote: we will of course not use source code from insyde web site, only that provided by AMD. The copyright on the VSA source files I've seen are all by National Semiconductor. Who is the legal contact at OLPC? They just need to get AMD to make this clear for everyone

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Gettys
On a teleconference on March 2, AMD said that we can have/use any of their code (e.g. VSA sources, as I understand it) that we need, and that that code could be incorporated into LinuxBIOS. What is more, they said that they had ensured that they owned all the IP associated with this code since

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Jim Gettys wrote: What is more, they said that they had ensured that they owned all the IP associated with this code since Geode's acquisition by AMD. they really do need to fix things so that all the stuff is at AMD, not insyde. It's confusing everyone. Or, we can host it at linuxbios.org,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RES: RES: Rumba target and AMD RDK THINCLIENT

2006-03-13 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 07:42 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok ollie, Very tahnk you for your excelent support. There is on thing i didn´t understand yet. The hardware i´ve done the test is GEODE GX + CS5535 + PC87364, while RUMBA is GEODE GX + CS5536 + W83627. So, i don´t

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RES: RES: Rumba target and AMD RDK THINCLIENT

2006-03-13 Thread jardel
Dear Li-ta Lo, I've acquired my jtag debugger direct from fs2: www.fs2.com Just for your rereference, the prices for two jtag debuggers were: 1 SNAV-GX-ETH USD 2.621,00 2 SUP-1YR-RUSD 371,00 3 GX-EXDI

Re: [LinuxBIOS] RES: RES: Rumba target and AMD RDK THINCLIENT

2006-03-13 Thread jardel
Dear, I'm sorry. These are the prices for ONE jtag debugger and not for TWO. Thanks. Jardel. jardel wrote: Dear Li-ta Lo, I've acquired my jtag debugger direct from fs2: www.fs2.com Just for your rereference, the prices for two jtag debuggers were: 1 SNAV-GX-ETH

[LinuxBIOS] Asus A7v600

2006-03-13 Thread Hugo MERCIER
Hi, Here is a patch against current 2191 SVN revision to add support for the ASUS A7V600 motherboard in the flashrom utility. It disables flash write protection and detects the Pm49fl002 flash chip. Concerning the port of LinuxBios to this board, I've just been able to add support for the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Old L440GX is it still bootable under LinuxBios

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Smith
On 3/12/06, ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll just have to get the LinuxBIOS v1 and try it. I don't know any more -- last 440GX I worked on was 5 years ago! I re-worked some of the memory detection routines for the 440BX. A lot of it came from the 440GX code that was in the tree

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Bari Ari
Jim, It's great that AMD stated that they have agreed to allow use of their VSA code during a teleconference. Can you ask David Wahl with AMD to release all the source to the VSA including XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO under GPL or similar license? -Bari Jim Gettys wrote: On a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:43 -0600, Bari Ari wrote: Jim, It's great that AMD stated that they have agreed to allow use of their VSA code during a teleconference. Can you ask David Wahl with AMD to release all the source to the VSA including XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO under GPL or

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:03 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:43 -0600, Bari Ari wrote: Jim, It's great that AMD stated that they have agreed to allow use of their VSA code during a teleconference. Can you ask David Wahl with AMD to release all the source to the VSA

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread jardel
Dear Sir, If you permit me answer, VSA (Virtual System Architecture) is an AMD technology that grants the compatibility of AMD GEODE with i386 systems. VSA is composed of various VSMs (Virtual Support Modules). XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO are VSMs. The following VSMs are described in

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:24 -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote: It for compatibility with the legacy VGA and Sound Blaster interface. Probably we don't need them since we will use the so called native drivers. Thanks. We will certainly use an fbdev driver on the OLPC system in production (we plan

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Ronald G Minnich
Jim Gettys wrote: Anyone familiar with hacking fbdev drivers? Ollie Lo. He wrote the sis-fbdev and many other sis video drivers. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 16:24 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: Jim Gettys wrote: Anyone familiar with hacking fbdev drivers? Ollie Lo. He wrote the sis-fbdev and many other sis video drivers. ron OK, the GX1 code is in the main Linux kernel. The LX code I gather is on the AMD web site,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Peter Stuge
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:21:11PM -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: while there is a fbdev driver for GX1 and LX, there isn't one yet for GX2 (ironic, isn't it; we have a driver for the older chip and the newer chip; sigh...). It is on the must implement list. A small word of warning, the durango

Re: [LinuxBIOS] OLPC hardware specification information

2006-03-13 Thread Richard Smith
(we plan various magic which requires it); unfortunately, while there is a fbdev driver for GX1 and LX, there isn't one yet for GX2 (ironic, isn't it; we have a driver for the older chip and the newer chip; sigh...). It is on the must implement list. Jim, A fb patch for the GX allready