| Alexandru Gagniuc | 67f556c | 2012-08-10 03:55:42 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | viatool is a utility for extracting useful for extracting certain configuration |
| 2 | bits on VIA chipsets and CPUs. It is a fork of inteltool. |
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| 4 | viatool is currently focused on "quirks". Quirks are device configurations that |
| 5 | cannot be accessed directly. They are implemented as hierarchical configurations |
| 6 | in the PCI or memory address spaces (index/data register pairs). Such |
| 7 | configurations refer to hardware parameters that are board specific. Those |
| 8 | parameters would otherwise be difficult to extract from a system running the |
| 9 | vendor's firmware. |
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| 11 | viatool also preserves inteltool's MSR dumps. VIA CPU and Intel CPU MSRs are |
| 12 | nearly identical. |