On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 06:10:45 am Nasa wrote:
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IBASE MB899 Intel 945GM Chipset GMCH: 82945GM 1466-pin Micro-FCBGA ICH7M:82801GBM 652-pin MBGA.
I just looked in our tree and I see src/mainboard/mb899. Anyone know how well it's supported?
While I am very capable of building software out of SVN (been doing that for mythtv, openmobile, etc) and linux kernel, I have not played with pulling individual chips, like a BIOS. So I don't know anything about acquiring and/or replacing one. But I can be somewhat adventureous...
Is the following your board? http://www.ibase.com.tw/MB899_500.jpg
If so, the bios chip might be the SST thing near the white connector in the bottom left quadrant of the board. I think it's an LPC style chip. Having another chip to flash instead of that one would mean that you could keep your oringinal untouched. I think that usually those types of chips just pull right out.
Also, having an external flasher would be really useful in case you flash a bad image onto your chip and need to fix it.
wt