Porting Linux BIOS
Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
Wed Jun 23 18:42:00 CEST 2004
David,
Are all Via EPIA motherboards fairly well supported or just the EPIA
M2? I would assume since the EPIA M2 uses the:
- VIA CLE266 North Bridge
- VIA VT8235 South Bridge
that any of there other EPIA motherboards that use this chipset should
be fairly compatible. Am I correct in this assumption or are there
other important factors that can't be easily fixed?
Thanks,
Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
www.fuzzymuzzle.com
Hendricks David W. wrote:
>Right now I'd have to say the best supported mainboards currently are VIA
>EPIA M2 and Opteron mainboards using the AMD8111 southbridge. Asus does weird
>things with their SMbus and hasn't been very cooperative in the past with
>documentation, so I would not recommend that you risk money on them.
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>Though if you have a high threshold for pain, you can try one of the newer
>VIA chipsets like the KT400 and hope they're generous enough with
>documentation to complete a port. Some other VIA stuff is supported, so
>that might help with a new port.
>
>On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:
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>>Ron,
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>>I'm not sure what mobo I'm going to use yet, before I buy one I want to
>>make sure it's at least reasonably possible to get LinuxBIOS running on
>>it. I've heard that the Asus SiS mobos won't work because of the flash
>>chip. Is this just because of the pinout or is it because of actual
>>software compatibility. I can always solder my own socket onto the
>>board if necessary. I've been looking at the Asus boards and most of
>>the compatible boards on your site seem to use the SiS chipset that many
>>of the Asus's do. Can you give me any insight on the chip compatibility
>>problem? Most of the SiS chips in the Asus boards seem very close in
>>model number to the ones you guys have got working.
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>>Thanks,
>>Michael Robinson
>>mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
>>www.fuzzymuzzle.com
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>>ron minnich wrote:
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>>>it depends on the chipset type. Can you give us some lspci output and we
>>>can see what is possible?
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>>>ron
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