[LinuxBIOS] is this motherboard supported? VIA EPIA-SP13000

Al Boldi a1426z at gawab.com
Wed Feb 14 13:11:56 CET 2007


Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:52AM -0800, Pablo Sosa wrote:
> > Hope this is the right forum to ask. I was checking the list of
> > supported motherboards in order to try linuxbios, I could find I
> > can buy one of this motherboards which are similar but not the same
> > to VIA that are mentioned on the page, i.e.
> >
> > VIA EPIA-SP13000 Motherboard, Socket 370
> > Specs according to the vendor are:
> >
> > Specifications:
> >
> >  - Processor: VIA C3 / VIA Eden  EBGA processor
> >  - Chipset: VIA CN400 North Bridge; VIA VT8237 South Bridge
>
> [..]
>
> > So I'm a bit confused and wouldn't like to buy something that's
> > unable to support linuxbios, I'll appreciate if someone can help
> > me, or give me some advice
>
> Your research is correct. The EPIA-SP boards use a lot of hardware
> different from the EPIA-MII and most of it is yet unsupported in
> LinuxBIOS.

It seems that this is a recurring problem with many boards.

Would it be possible to reduce dependencies, by having a minimal/blind 
CPU/memory bootstrapper with a kernel payload to discover the rest of the 
system?


Thanks!

--
Al





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