Subject: Re: [RFC] Embedded X86 systems Was: [PATCH][RFC] AMD Elan patch
To: wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:45:25 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, robert@schwebel.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        jason@mugwump.taiga.com, anders@alarsen.net, rkaiser@sysgo.de
In-Reply-To: <20020102010727.E0BEC36F9F@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se> from "Christer Weinigel" at Jan 02, 2002 02:07:27 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> There is the basic Cx5530 chipset, which could have support in the
> Linux kernel (IDE, graphics and sound).

It already does. Has done for ages. The non SB emulation mode of the audio
is not supported but that I don't think matters.

> for all chips, some are specific for a variant, such as the video
> input port and graphics overlay/genlock.

X11

In general if we want to support lots of weird crap then the ARM folks have
a very nice model and a lot of weird crap to have developed their ideas
against. Personal preference

	Type of system	(PC, Embedded)

then for PC leave as is, for embedded
	
	Board type (blah, blah , blah)
	Firmware (PC BIOS, LinuxBIOS, RedBoot)
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