Corey has C7D+CN700+8237 support posted but not committed yet.
It's 99% there.
The mainboard in the Wal-mart/Everext PC is a VIA Mfg. NO: PC2500E: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/empowered/pc2500_platform/index.jsp
ClubIT Price: $59.99: http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001
The cpu is a 1.5GHz VIA C7-D: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7-d/index.jsp 32 bit 400MHz FSB sixteen pipeline stages MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 128KB full-speed exclusive L2 cache
The chipset is a VIA CN700: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/c-series/cn700/index.jsp and supports up to 2GB of DDR2 533/400 with a maximum memory bandwidth of 4.2GB/s.
-Bari
tw3k wrote:
Greetings list,
I see from the wiki that there are several variants of Via supported. http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
Has anyone tried LinuxBIOS with the Via CN700 + VT8237R plus? This would also be know as the $200 walmart gPC TC2502.
Many Thanks Forest