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diff --git a/util/viatool/README b/util/viatool/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5a007be3db --- /dev/null +++ b/util/viatool/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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. |