[PATCH] geode: Add a VSA2 ID for General Software

Kushal Koolwal kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 13 14:19:41 EDT 2008


Jordan,

I tried the patch and this time lxfb does detect the device but then I am still seeing the green lines during the boot.

I am attaching my full dmesg output. Here is a relevant part of the output:
[    0.173435] GEODE: VSA SIG = 534d
[    0.173507] GEODE:  Read from VSA
[    0.178915] lxfb 0000:00:01.1: 32768 KB of video memory at 0xe0000000
[    0.199949] fb0: Geode LX frame buffer device

I still think there might be something else going on in addition to this because I can get the lxfb working just fine on a 2.6.24 Debian Kernel.

Thank you once again for your time. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in further debugging this issue.

Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/



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> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:20:17 -0600
> From: jordan.crouse at amd.com
> To: kushalkoolwal at hotmail.com
> CC: linux-geode at bombadil.infradead.org; dilinger at queued.net
> Subject: [PATCH] geode:  Add a VSA2 ID for General Software
> 
> So it turns out that GSW has a different VSA ID then the
> GeodeROM/Insyde version, which was causing some exciting
> fun for lxfb users in particular.  The attached patch checks 
> for both IDs, and should make everything better.  This is an
> urgent patch that needs to be sent to Linus ASAP, but I need 
> some testing on it first.  Anybody with a GSW board, give
> this patch a spin and make sure that geode_has_vsa2() returns
> true.
> 
> Jordan
> -- 
> Jordan Crouse
> Systems Software Development Engineer 
> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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