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viatool is a utility for extracting useful for extracting certain configuration
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bits on VIA chipsets and CPUs. It is a fork of inteltool.
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viatool is currently focused on "quirks". Quirks are device configurations that
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cannot be accessed directly. They are implemented as hierarchical configurations
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in the PCI or memory address spaces (index/data register pairs). Such
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configurations refer to hardware parameters that are board specific. Those
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parameters would otherwise be difficult to extract from a system running the
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vendor's firmware.
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viatool also preserves inteltool's MSR dumps. VIA CPU and Intel CPU MSRs are
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nearly identical.
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