Russell Gower wrote:
>
> I have been struggling to find a suitable board here in the uk, with a
> disastrous attempt using an asus board I have now found a sis 630 based
> board made my a company called Jetway ( i suspect this to be PCCHIPS board)
> which worked straght out of the box with the matsonic etherboot rom. After
> carefully examining the board it became apparent that a small mod would be
> required to use a 512kb rom.
> This was quite an easy task of moving one surface mount link, boy are these
> small.
>
> Any way I now seam to have a working system, I just have 3 questions.
>
> 1. The board uses a Winbond W83697HF superio chip and not the SIS 950.
> Should I change anything, The meaning of register 24 is different
> beetween the two (It deals with the flash chip
> the CLKSEL frequency), if so how to i go about the code and the source
> tree.
>
Do you have datasheet of the Winbond superio ??
> 2. I am unable to program the flash chip on board using Ollies flash_rom
> even after i make the above mods to the
> program. Could some one please explain ( or point me at the data sheet )
> for the sis 630 register settings in
> flash_rom.
>
The comment in flash_on.c should be clear enough. You can get the data
sheet
at
http://www.sis.com.tw/ftp/Databook/
> 3. I havn't done anything with regard to irq routing the board appears to be
> fully functional ( well the lan works as
> does the audio, the serial and the parallel ports), is there any tests
> to conferm this.
>
There is no software way to test/proof your irq routing table. If it is
wrong,
you will know it eventually. Actually, if you can test your irq table in
software,
you can generate it by software without a table. (This is probably the
famous
"halt" problem in real life).
Ollie
