Porting Linux BIOS

[Michael Robinson]

David,

Are all Via EPIA motherboards fairly well supported or just the EPIA 
M2?  I would assume since the EPIA M2 uses the:

- VIA CLE266 North Bridge
- VIA VT8235 South Bridge

that any of there other EPIA motherboards that use this chipset should 
be fairly compatible.  Am I correct in this assumption or are there 
other important factors that can't be easily fixed?

Thanks,
Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
www.fuzzymuzzle.com


Hendricks David W. wrote:

>Right now I'd have to say the best supported mainboards currently are VIA 
>EPIA M2 and Opteron mainboards using the AMD8111 southbridge. Asus does weird 
>things with their SMbus and hasn't been very cooperative in the past with 
>documentation, so I would not recommend that you risk money on them.
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>Though if you have a high threshold for pain, you can try one of the newer 
>VIA chipsets like the KT400 and hope they're generous enough with 
>documentation to complete a port. Some other VIA stuff is supported, so 
>that might help with a new port.
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>On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:
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>>Ron,
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>>I'm not sure what mobo I'm going to use yet, before I buy one I want to 
>>make sure it's at least reasonably possible to get LinuxBIOS running on 
>>it.  I've heard that the Asus SiS mobos won't work because of the flash 
>>chip.  Is this just because of the pinout or is it because of actual 
>>software compatibility.  I can always solder my own socket onto the 
>>board if necessary.  I've been looking at the Asus boards and most of 
>>the compatible boards on your site seem to use the SiS chipset that many 
>>of the Asus's do.  Can you give me any insight on the chip compatibility 
>>problem?  Most of the SiS chips in the Asus boards seem very close in 
>>model number to the ones you guys have got working.
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>>Thanks,
>>Michael Robinson
>>mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
>>www.fuzzymuzzle.com
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>>ron minnich wrote:
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>>>it depends on the chipset type. Can you give us some lspci output and we 
>>>can see what is possible?
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