[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Common code base for Intel 440BX boards

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Oct 20 20:44:57 CEST 2007


Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's a patch which unifies all 440BX boards to use the same (board)
> code base, similar to what the GX1-base patch does (which I sent earlier).
>
> This code supports 4 boards right now, more will follow.
>
> The only v2 440BX board not yet supported is the Bitworks IMS. IMO we
> can drop it for now, AFAIK Richard is no longer working on it, it's
> not useful as reference anymore (as this new code works fine now),
> and AFAIK the v2 version of the IMS never worked anyway. It's also a
> special-purpose board (not generally available in stores) and in the
> case we still need it later, the history remains in svn, of course.
>
> Richard is CC'd. Please let us know if you intend to work on the board
> later, or whether we should drop it from v2 (it'll stay in v1).
>
>
> Thanks, Uwe.
>   
Please put generic 440 code in northbridge/, and not in mainboard/440-base/

Having two northbridge directories for the same northbridge sounds complex.


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