[LinuxBIOS] Support for ASUS M2N32-WS Pro.

[Charles Hanum]

Hello

I am looking at using the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 for some servers that
we are setting up.  I have one reservation with this board - the lack
of any PCI-X slots,

Having PCI-X slots brings with it a lot of options such as ability to
use existing SCSI RAID cards.  Another possibiltiy is the Open
Graphics card Project, which I believe will be initially in PCI-X
format.

After some research I am led to  believe that the only AM2 motherboard
with PCI-X is the ASUS M2N32-WS Professional.

With the great work being done on the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, I am
wondering how applicable this would be for the ASUS M2N32-WS board.

The motherboard is a nVIDIA nForce 590
A serial port header
It has a socketed PLCC flash chip (Award BIOS).
(It has ASUS CrashFree recovery from a USB flash disk
  - if this is any use? )
For the additional $100 you get an extra GigE port, +3 SATA ports,
+1 IDE port & apparently with 590 you can use both PCIe slots at 16x.

Here are some websites:
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=82&l3=0&model=1207&modelmenu=1
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2093

So in summary I am just wondering if it would be possible to support a
consumer motherboard (AM2) with PCI-X slots.

Charles
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