Re: 855gme chip set support

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Bari Ari wrote: Odd how this is happening with Intel since they have an entire division dedicated to embedded computing and Linux support yet they cripple open source BIOS development. See tianocore.org. Intel's goal with BIOS is to IMPROVE the ability of vendors to

Re: 855gme chip set support

2005-01-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: That is an issue. AMD is very friendly, but some third parties (Nvidia, ServerWorks) are very unfriendly. It remains to be seen whether the idea of an open source BIOS is viable, in the face of such opposition from the chipset vendors. How

Re: 855gme chip set support

2005-01-11 Thread Bari Ari
Peter Karlsson wrote: How 'friendly' is VIA? I've found VIA to be great to work with if it is a volume project. VIA also has their embedded chipsets (like the Twister) that they tend to be easier to deal with on smaller run projects. -Bari ___

Re: 855gme chip set support

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Peter Karlsson wrote: How 'friendly' is VIA? At times they are very very helpful, and their docs can be used to build a linuxbios. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org

855gme chip set support

2005-01-10 Thread Adam Talbot
Just pulled down freebios2 and found that there is now 855pm and i855pm chips in the northbridge. Is the 855gme supported by any of those chips?? Working on getting a Pentium M board running with linuxbios. Can any one give me a quick status report on the 855gme chipset. -Adam