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

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Jun 19 08:20:40 EDT 2008


* Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:

> We have learned from bitter experience that one of the Geode BIOS 
> vendors, General Software, uses a different ID for their VSA 
> implementation then the canonical version from AMD & Insyde.  This 
> patch adds the ID to the have_geode_vsa2() check, and should make lxfb 
> work again on many GSW platforms.  If Linus is planning another -rcX 
> revision it would be good to try and get this in, otherwise please 
> schedule this for the stable series and 2.6.27.

applied to tip/x86/urgent. Thanks,

	Ingo



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