Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Feb 24 04:28:01 CET 2005


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 sherlock at vsnl.com wrote:

> Detection of size and speed?. Suppose we freeze on a particular ram 
> type only for starters.

good plan. 

> I was hoping that by comparing some other similiar via chipset bios with
> this one I could probably make a guess (with plenty of hand holding from
> you guys) of important events. Then use that as a template to get things
> going. I am presuming that the current crop of devices wont be wildly
> different.

It's worth a try, it sometimes works, sometimes fails to do it this way. I 
failed on the Intel 855GME but that was partly a lack-of-time issue.

ron



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