On 11/22/06, Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uwe Hermann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:31:12PM +0530, Abins Jose wrote: > > > >> I am planning to use Linux BIOS for a new x86 board consisting of VIA > >> Eden processor with a VIA VT8251 southbridge. > >> > > > > The VT8251 doesn't seem to be supported, yet, see > > http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices > > > > VIA datasheets aren't publically available usually (it seems), so I'm > > not sure this will happen anytime soon, either... > > > > > > Uwe. > > > > Via has a page to request a datasheet for their hardware... > unfortunately, it also uses the 3-letter word: NDA. It couldn't hurt to > email them and find out if there's an NDA attached to this datasheet or > not. It does not seem that this datasheet is available anywhere for > public download, at least not on their website or the first few pages of > a google search. > > -Corey > A few days back I had visited that page and requested for the datasheet... but still haven't recieved any reply from VIA. Btw, I went through the EPIA-M LinuxBIOS source code and in quite a few places its commented that "This is done because Award bios does it". I am curious to know how was this reverse engineering done? Can this be done in case of VT8251?
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