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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">> Actually, can you please make sure that the ID is correct? We have a concern<br>> that GSW didn't implement the register, and that we're getting back random<br>> bytes.<br><br>Not sure if this is helpful than whatever information we have out so far:<br><br>We have two different boards (products) built on LX800 platform. Both of them have General Software BIOS with a different versions. Both of them are spitting out "534d" as the VSA2 ID.<br></div><br>Kushal Koolwal<br><br>I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/<br><br><br><br>______________________<br><table style="height: 24px; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Tahoma,san-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 153, 204);"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><img style="border-style: none;" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w2/ltr/i_charity.gif" alt="i'm"></a> EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD</td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:06:24 -0600<br>> From: jordan.crouse@amd.com<br>> To: mart.raudsepp@artecdesign.ee<br>> CC: kushalkoolwal@hotmail.com; linux-geode@bombadil.infradead.org; dilinger@queued.net<br>> Subject: Re: geode: Add a VSA2 ID for General Software<br>> <br>> On 13/06/08 02:02 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:<br>> > > So it turns out that GSW has a different VSA ID then the<br>> > > GeodeROM/Insyde version, which was causing some exciting<br>> > > fun for lxfb users in particular. The attached patch checks<br>> > > for both IDs, and should make everything better. This is an<br>> > > urgent patch that needs to be sent to Linus ASAP, but I need<br>> > > some testing on it first. Anybody with a GSW board, give<br>> > > this patch a spin and make sure that geode_has_vsa2() returns<br>> > > true.<br>> > <br>> > It appears to work for me on our General Software BIOS without the patch,<br>> > as it turned out I was simply missing CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE in the<br>> > problematic kernels configuration, as pointed out further in this thread.<br>> > So I doubt testing the patch by me with our GSW BIOS will give any useful<br>> > information.<br>> > Thanks for inadvertently finding my embarrassing kernel misconfiguration<br>> > in the process of the discussion.<br>> <br>> Actually, can you please make sure that the ID is correct? We have a concern<br>> that GSW didn't implement the register, and that we're getting back random<br>> bytes.<br>> <br>> Jordan<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Jordan Crouse<br>> Systems Software Development Engineer <br>> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.<br>> <br></body>
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