Panasonic CF-25LJM8EAM Toughbook - what are the chances?

[Bari Ari]

Miernik wrote:
> I bought a Pansonic CF-25LJM8EAM notebook. 
> All important chips on the mainboard are listed here:
> 
> http://www.miernik.ctnet.pl/linuxbios/CF-25LJM8EAM-chiplist
> 
> Bari, can you spot which one is the "keyboard controller" which you 
> said is usually the critical problem on getting LinuxBIOS to a laptop?

The keyboard controller usually doesn't show up on lspci. You have to 
open the case and look at the board.

> 
> What are the chances of getting this to work?

I think the TX chipset is supported under version 1 (the old tree) of 
LinuxBIOS.

> The BIOS flash is unfortunately soldered, but I thing of giving the 
> mainboard to an electronics facility so they can desolder it and 
> solder a socket there.
> 
> Interesting, the CPU is in a socket, so it might be possible to mount 
> a AMD K6-2 350 MHz. It is possible on other Intel 430TX motherboards 
> after binary patching the BIOS. Here is a site with binary patches for
> such BIOSes in many motherboards:
> http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm
> 

I'd have to dig back into the TX datasheets to see how the TX handled 
cpu changes. It may use pinstraps vs register settings or a combination 
of both.

-Bari