Porting Linux BIOS

Hendricks David W. dwh at lanl.gov
Thu Jun 24 09:45:01 CEST 2004


The EPIA M2 is the best one that I know of. Dave Ashley is probably the 
best person to ask about the EPIA platform, he's done extensive work on 
it.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >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:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Ron,
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Michael Robinson
> >>mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
> >>www.fuzzymuzzle.com
> >>
> >>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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