[LinuxBIOS] [IMPORT] GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK

Morgan Tsai my_tsai at sis.com
Fri Oct 5 13:10:16 CEST 2007


Dear Carl-Daniel,

SiS966L has 2 SATA port (1.5G), and only 10/100 Ethernet MAC
SiS966 has 4 SATA port (1.5G), and Gigabit Ethernet MAC

'L' means 'Lite'
Other specifications are identical.


Morgan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
To: "Morgan Tsai" <my_tsai at sis.com>
Cc: "'Dennis Chang /SiS'" <ktchang at sis.com>; "Eric Lin" <ericlin at sis.com>; 
<linuxbios at linuxbios.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [IMPORT] GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK


> Dear Morgan, dear Dennis,
>
> On 05.10.2007 05:03, Morgan Tsai wrote:
>> Dear Carl-Daniel,
>>
>> You got it, the board in our lab is REV:0.2.
>> It doesn't have VGA connector on board, so I have to make a "special"
>> vga external connector cable due to its 12-pin vga con aside PCI slot.
>> (D-sub VGA connector has 15 pins)
>>
>> SiS966 southbridge provides 4 SATA connectors, the other two is
>> provided by SiS187
>>
>>
>> Dear Dennis Chang (SiS),
>>
>> For Uwe's question, any idea?
>>> Are there any existing mainstream boards which can use this code
>>> already? Stuff you can buy in computer shops, not prototype boards?
>
> I found one, but the Southbridge is SiS966L instead of SiS966. Is there
> any difference between SiS966L and SiS966?
>
> http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SS21T.asp
> Socket AM2
> SiS 761GX and SiS 966L Chipset
> PCI Express x16
>
> Carl-Daniel
>
>>
>>
>> Morgan
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
>> To: "Morgan Tsai" <my_tsai at sis.com>
>> Cc: <linuxbios at linuxbios.org>; "'Dennis Chang /SiS'" <ktchang at sis.com>;
>> "Eric Lin" <ericlin at sis.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [IMPORT] GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK
>>
>>
>>> Dear Morgan,
>>>
>>> This is great!
>>>
>>> On 03.10.2007 09:15, Morgan Tsai wrote:
>>>> Copyright (C) 2007 Morgan Tsai <my_tsai at sis.com>
>>>> Copyright (C) 2007 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)
>>>>
>>>> Change Log:
>>>>
>>>> Newly support GIGABYTE GA-2761GXDK
>>> This is a DTX board, right? I found an image of it at
>>> http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?menu=browser&article_id=601554&image_id=655235&show=original
>>>
>>>> CPU type: AMD AM2 socket
>>>> Northbridge: SiS 761GX
>>>> Southbridge: SiS 966
>>>> SuperIO: ITE8716F
>>> 1 PCIe x1 slot
>>> 1 PCI slot
>>> 6 SATA connectors (1 external)
>>>
>>>> The board is still under testing sample. When we finish test without
>>>> major problems, this sample will soon become marketing board.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Morgan Tsai <my_tsai at sis.com>
>>> Thank you very much for this contribution. We will work with you to get
>>> it included in main LinuxBIOS.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Carl-Daniel
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> http://www.hailfinger.org/ 





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