On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:04:32PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:37:04AM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote: > > Is there any support coming down the road? > > I haven't seen it mentioned.
See Marc's post, they're working on it (which is great!) > > I'm planning to buy a new system for BIOS experiments in the next > > few days. This chipset is a candidate for me. I want a chipset with > > onboard video and K8 processor. > > I guess you want a Tyan board then. But I think they're mostly server > class boards so a bit expensive. Other alternatives, which are not quite there yet, but good candidates for the future: ASUS A8N-E ASUS A8NE-FM/S ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe maybe others And if you're willing to invest some more work to add support for a completely new board, check this list for good candidates: http://linuxbios.org/Desktops > > I'm open for any suggestion(s). Basically, I just want a system > > that can run Vista, support multicore processor and can be used for > > LinuxBIOS experiments (preferably without soldering stuff needed). > > You'll almost always > need to solder today. Not many boards ship with socketed flash, > especially not in the desktop segment. Nah, I wouldn't say that. Check http://linuxbios.org/Desktops, almost all boards listed there seem to have a socketed BIOS (judging from PCB photos I found on the web). > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:20:07AM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote: > > I am thinking along the same lines. My primary candidate is NForce > > 430 since MCP55 is already supported. But that could of course mean > > absolutely nothing at all. Just because there is working code for > > one NVidia chipset it doesn't mean that code will be easy to adapt > > th the 430. > > The current support for NVIDIA was written by Yinghai while at AMD > where he had access to all the neccessary data sheets. I'm not sure > if he's still got access to good docs from NV? Dunno either, but my guess is that _without_ those docs you cannot easily adapt the MCP55 (or CK804) code to another NVIDIA chipset. But feel free to correct me if it's easier than I think... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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