[LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2N-E (Non-SLI) Motherboard MCP55 - Support? - newbie.

[Jonathan King]

On 5/22/07, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:13:26AM -0500, Jonathan King wrote:
> > Hello I just joined the list and I am truly excited to hear that Nvidia
> is
> > cooperating with the MCP55 chipset.  I have an ASUS M2N-E motherboard
> and
> > here are my stats.
>
> That's not supported yet, unfortunately. As it uses mostly already
> supported
> components (the MCP55 for example) it should be doable pretty quickly,
> though. Are you able and willing to test patches on your hardware if we
> create some?
>
>
> > The BIOS is socketed.
>
> This is a good thing!
>
>
> > Please forgive me if I haven't
> > followed protocol here - newbie.  Are there pre-built packages/payloads
> for
> > me?  I want the full LinuxBIOS and plan to buy a larger EEPROM of at
> least
> > 2MB in size.
> >


I  took the time to research the BIOS Savior I need and I will be ordering
the 4MB PMC4.  I can really start at anytime since I have a second M2N-E to
recover from in the meantime.

> Google has been of little help to me.  I am glad to see support for the
> > Gigabyte board and I am looking into possibly getting one later for
> another
> > machine.
>
> > Also, what about support for the G stepping AM2 CPU's?
>
> I don't know. Someone else has to answer this question.
>
>
> What Super I/O is on your board? (look for ITE, Winbond, or something
> similar, see http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices).
>
> Do you have a null-modem cable for serial debugging output?
>
>
> Uwe.
> --
> http://www.hermann-uwe.de  | http://www.holsham-traders.de
> http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFGUsUHXdVoV3jWIbQRAvAqAJkBberi4LBh0WAIns9OvmVfF67HZQCdFhEq
> gKuukmnhxlVw7Ho5sMsxZRc=
> =JEKB
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/attachments/20070524/91c89473/attachment.html>