Eric BENARD wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I've been looking at LinuxBios for a few weeks and now have decided to try
> it. With a friend, we are actually trying to build a home MP3/audio cd
> player/encoder/burner. (non uptodate site here
> : http://omm.sourceforge.net/ ).
> Actually we are running on a standard mother board with an IDE FlashDisk
> for the system.
> I think linuxbios could allow us to put all our soft directly in a
> DiskonChip in the place of the bios's e2prom & hae the whole system
> starting very fast.
>
Actually we (SiS) have done that partially. We demostrated mp3play on ALS.
It will not that hard to add the cdplay etc to it.
> 1- I ve got one little "problem" to begin : I need to choose the right
> motherboard & the right DOC (as we dont have to much money to be able to
> make a mistakeon this point ;-)).
>
> >From the SiS website, I've selected a few motherboards and would like to
> know which one would you recommend to me (I'm in France so it would be
> great if I could find this MB at least in Europe). So do you have any
> experience with the following motherboards ?
>
> manufacturer : model : chipset+I/O+bios package
> Leadtek : Winfast 6300 : 630+950+DIP Bios : seems not to be distributed in
> France (don't know in Europe)
> Elite : P6SSM : 630+950+DIP Bios (modem seems to be supported by PCT0211
> module : http://linnix.com)
> Chaintech : CT 6SFV : 630+950+DIP Bios
> Soyo : SY-7SWM : 630+???+DIP Bios
> GVC : DR725 : 630+950+seems to have PLCC Bios, 3com LAN ?
>
You need to have any M/B with 630 + 950 + 32 DIP.
> Same question for the DOC (we will need between 4 & 8 Mb of space for the
> OS & software). Are there only DIP package DOC ? Is there any other DOC
> manufacturer than M-System ?
>
DoC is avaliable in 32DIP and 32 TSOP. TSOP means not for your hacking
stuff.
As far as I know, there is no other company making stuff like DoC.
> 2- Which are the peripherals of these motherboard which are running fine
> under linux ? In our project, we need LAN, Audio in/out and eventually
> modem.
>
I just did some test that we can support every device on 630 and 950.
(yes, LAN, VGA, Audio, IDE, Floppy, Com, LPT etc. etc. you name it).
Ollie
