Hi all, Ok I subscribed ;)
> For now, you should be fine without the K8T890 datasheet, as it's *just* > the PCI-Express controller. It has a V-Link registers too. (To support communication with VT8237). This seems to be compatible with CN400. I dont figured out yet what are the PCIe regs. > Your first problem will be supporting the > via 8237 southbridge, which, if you have all those docs, should be > fairly easy. Stephan wrote on IRC he might have time to do that too. I will keep with him in touch. (As for the docs ... hfr gur uvagf). I think I will start with it after 10th of April. > After that, you'll have to work out DRAM initialization, > which is done by the K8 (already supported in linuxbios). Once you've > done all that, PCI-Express will be your next step, but I don't know much > about that (I don't own any PCI-E stuff yet). Yep. Sounds as reasonable plan. I have seen in archive people asking for the kickstart stuff. I would like to ask too ;) I need to know how to fill in proper way the "root complex" structure for my board. Is there such information somewhere? Thanks. > I'm amazed that noone has gone and gotten vt8237 up and running yet, as > it seems that it's used on a lot of motherboards these days, from the > latest via epia-m's to cheaper C7, K7 and K8 boards. Just for the record, there are at least 3 PCI ids for the VT8237, so we might support all of them. I think just (I know because of i2c support for lm-sensors). And my last question, do you support (infrastucture) the clockchips and custom FSB/HTT/mem ratios? I have a bit overclocked system (255 instead of 200 freq - all other divisors set up to match original freq). I dont need to change voltages, so I think I need only to change the HTT link divisors, mem divisors and ClockChip at 0x69) Thanks, Rudolf -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
