[LinuxBIOS] Added mainboard commell/lv671 and compile works, but ...

Joseph Smith joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Tue Jun 5 09:08:08 CEST 2007


Quoting Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>:

> Dieter Bloms wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 04, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is your SuperIO a Winbond W83627HF? (Search the board for a chip close
>>> to bios chip and the ports)
>>>
>>
>> from the manual it is a winbond W83627HF-AW, but I can't find any chip
>> with those characters on it.
>> I found two chips, which may be a superio controller:
>>
>> "AL0655 4C229T1 5012D" and "ICS UA 831293 0436 950211BF"
>>
>
> Neither of these are it, the first one I think you meant "ALC", which is
> an audio controller, and the other is a p4 timing chip. Keep looking,
> here's some popular manufacturers of Super IOs (which would be named on
> the chip):
>
> Winbond
> SMSC
> ITE
> NSC
> Fintek
>
> These are just the ones with support in LBv2 and are very common, but
> there are more out there.
>
> -Corey
>
Most likely it is eithor a Winbond or SMSC, I have found these are the  
most popular on Intel P4 boards.

Thanks - Joe




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