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authorAngel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>2020-02-12 22:59:40 +0100
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2020-03-04 15:46:44 +0000
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It somehow creeps into `make clean`, but is not used at all. Since no VIA platform remains in coreboot, drop the utility as well. Change-Id: Ia7e11379a6db650b5190a056226a9101c2be7dec Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/38853 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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-viatool is a utility for extracting useful for extracting certain configuration
-bits on VIA chipsets and CPUs. It is a fork of inteltool.
-
-viatool is currently focused on "quirks". Quirks are device configurations that
-cannot be accessed directly. They are implemented as hierarchical configurations
-in the PCI or memory address spaces (index/data register pairs). Such
-configurations refer to hardware parameters that are board specific. Those
-parameters would otherwise be difficult to extract from a system running the
-vendor's firmware.
-
-viatool also preserves inteltool's MSR dumps. VIA CPU and Intel CPU MSRs are
-nearly identical.