> Hi Andrew, > > I am interested in getting coreboot running on the Wyse S50, and am also > wondering if the VSA for the LX will work on these devices. Have you > actually found source code for the GX2? Or only a compiled VSA? >
Hi Jamie, I haven't found any different source code I'm afraid, I tried and then gave up getting the geode toolchain working. I reasoned that all GX BIOS's must use a VSA, the BIOS on the Wyse Sx0 is XpressROM or XpressLoader by Insyde. I couldn't find any of the tools to work with these so I looked for alternatives. I reckon most of the boards developed will follow the AMD GX2 development kit fairly closely, although I'm not sure that matters here? So I searched the web and found the closest matched specification industrial board with an Award BIOS - the IEI Wafer-GX. I downloaded the BIOS update, then used bios_extract to pull the vsa2.bin out. I know this is frowned-upon and I don't know whether it will work! It's a different size to the one Fijam used and sofar I can't get it to boot, although I think that's my fault configuring Coreboot wrong. > Following Fijam's blog, and doing a lot of searching, I have managed to > piece together the strange/old toolchain for making the VSA. Very > detailed instructions are in my post: > > http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-January/076992.html > I saw your post only after I gave up on the toolchain, thanks for detailing your steps, it's very helpful and I may go back and try to get the toolchain working. > I can succesfully build the VSA, but haven't come as far as actually > flashing a device and testing it out. > > Is this the same toolchain that you use? > > I hope you can keep us up to date with your progress, I know there are a > few people who would love to get coreboot on their wyse devices. > Personally, I plan to run NanoBSD on them, but am plagued with pci bus > hangs under boot - a problem caused by the factory BIOS. > > -Jamie > > P.S. I also have a few spare S10 devices, so hopefully I can start > testing soon as well The toolchain I was talking about below was the coreboot reference toolchain, not the VSA one. Although the OLPC uses the LX, the geode-vsa sources seem to be for all the geode CPU's and it includes the CS5536 as well? Would you be willing to send me a copy of the VSA you compiled so I can see if that works? I think all the Sx0-02L versions are the same so hopefully it should work on any of them. Thanks, Andrew > > On 16-02-2014 20:08, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm fairly new at this and I'm trying to get coreboot and SeaBIOS >> working >> on a Wyse S10 and I've hit a problem and wondered if anyone can help. >> >> I've compiled the reference toolchain and used that with the latest Git >> version and the one mentioned in Fijam's blog >> (http://fijam.eu.org/blog/how-to-put-coreboot-on-wyse-s30s50/) but they >> both stop at the same place. >> >> I've obtained a copy of the GX2 VSA (through methods I probably can't >> mention here), but it's a different size to the one Fijam used? >> Is this a fault with the VSA or have I made a rookie mistake somewhere? >> >> .config and bootlog attached. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
