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== Hackability ==
== Hackability ==


Score: 9/24. No soldering required to recover from a bad flash, but an LPC dongle or LPC pod are required.
Score: 9/24. No soldering required to recover from a bad flash, but an LPC dongle or LPC pod is required.


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Revision as of 21:06, 19 August 2008

PC Engines ALIX.1C is widely available.

Documentation

Score: 59/80

Item Availability Points
CPU (Geode LX)
Datasheet / register set Freely available [1] 10
BIOS programming guide NDA allowing GPL'd code 3
Errata NDA allowing GPL'd code 3
Chipset (CS5536)
Datasheet / register set Freely available [2] 10
BIOS programming guide NDA allowing GPL'd code 3
Errata Freely available [3] 10
Super I/O
Datasheet / register set Freely available [4] 10
Mainboard
Schematics Freely available [5] 10

Vendor participation

PC Engines has no direct vendor participation in the project. Score: 0/10.

Item Status Points
Vendor participation No direct vendor participation 0

Example and support code

Pascal Dornier, the person behind PC Engines, has supplied developers with sample code and documentation and is very responsive via e-mail.

Hackability

Score: 9/24. No soldering required to recover from a bad flash, but an LPC dongle or LPC pod is required.

Item Status Points
Rom chip Soldered 0
LPC header Available, can be used for secondary rom chip 9
JTAG header No 0

Background on our rating system

See the Rating System for more information.