[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios on commel lv671 board with ICH4 chipset ?

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting Dieter Bloms <dieter at bloms.de>:

> Hi Joe,
>
> thank you for the quick answer.
>
> On Thu, May 17, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>
>> As far as the i855pm compatible to i855GME, should be compatable.
>
> lspci give me lines like this, so I think it is compatible:
>
> 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
>
>> Intel likes to add letters on to the end of the chipsets for slight
>> variations in the same chipset. As far as the southbridge, the
>> i82801db src has some bugs, first the src refers to it as an ICH5 when
>> it is an ICH4 chip (just text errors), also the PCI ID devices are not
>> defined in pci_ids.h or they should just be hardcoded into the src
>> drectly, and lastly it does not offer ethernet support. I have fixed
>> all these bugs but have not submitted a patch yet because I have not
>> been able to test it.
>
> that sounds good to me, ethernet support is not needed for me to boot,
> I only want to boot from harddisk or cdrom.
>
> I was told, that there were some kind of hardware sold, so I can savely
> flash my bios and restore to the old, if it fails.
> Does anybody know a link to such hardware ?
>
> I want to buy it and then I'm willing to test your patches.
>
>
> --
> Gruß
>
>   Dieter
>
Hello,
Your looking for a "bios savior" depending on what kind of package  
your bios chip is (PLCC32 possibly). Also make sure the bios savior  
you get supports a firmware hub (FWH), I am sure that is probibly what  
you have (most intel boards have firmware hubs).

Thanks - Joe