Arvind Seshadri wrote: > Hi, > I am looking into building a personal workstation around the Tyan S2915 > or the Tyan S2927 for LinuxBIOS hacking. > > I have been following the mailing list since January when Yinghai Lu > posted a huge patch with support for the Tyan S2912, among other boards. >>From Tyan's webpage it seems that the S2927, like the S2912, uses the > nVIDIA MCP55 southbridge. However, the Super I/O chip on the S2927 is a > SMSC SCH5017 and not the Winbond W83627HF found on the S2912.
The SuperI/O would have to be coded for, but after that should be fairly easy. You'd also have some board-specific coding to do, too. Why not just get an S2912? Too easy? > The S2915 > uses the nVIDIA NFP3600 + NPF3050 as the southbridge and the SMSC 5307 > Super I/O controller. > Afaik, that wouldn't work with Yinghai's patch. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios