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| author | Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> | 2020-02-12 22:59:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2020-03-04 15:46:44 +0000 |
| commit | 446e4dc238d13ecf22e4aa05d15bf5173f9f547c (patch) | |
| tree | 79546ddb990f53bc985101cb5f78a32c5cd86f5d /util/viatool/README | |
| parent | 761dbe228d023984efa1d2761a1611e567c26927 (diff) | |
util: Remove viatool
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'util/viatool/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | util/viatool/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/util/viatool/README b/util/viatool/README deleted file mode 100644 index 5a007be3db..0000000000 --- a/util/viatool/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -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. |