VIA EDEN board-based unit

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 17 February 2008 07:49:14 pm Michael Proto wrote:
> 
> Karl Denninger wrote:
> > I was able to load it successfully off a CD.
> >
> > The PXE boot fails.  It loads the kernel, and then chokes.  No idea why.
> >
> > This is what the system identifies as:
> >
> > Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> >        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007
> >    root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > CPU: VIA/IDT Unknown (1196.92-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >  Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x6d0  Stepping = 0
> >
> 
> 
> Completely unrelated, but may save you a search later on. Your VIA C7's
> CPU ID is identical to mine (0x6d0), which the 6 and 7-series kernels
> don't detect as such (evident by the "VIA/IDT Unknown" CPU in your
> dmesg). If you want to use the padlock crypto features of the CPU you
> will need to patch the initcpu.c and identcpu.c files in /sys/i386/i386
> and build a new kernel. The patch below works under 6.3-RELEASE

Committed a variation (called it C7 Eden) to HEAD and will MFC in a few days.

-- 
John Baldwin