hello,
I've been watching an reading a lot in this interesting adventure...
I've been trying to get Linuxbios work first on a SiS530 but through mailing list, tree docs, and surroundings i didn't find out enough support on this. So i decide to switch to another board that have been greatly tested.
I am willing now to make LinuxBios work on a Apollo PLE133 mainboard, this is a VIA EPIA chipset based motherboard (http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_mini_itx_spec.jsp?motherboardId=21) 00.0 Host bridge: VIA 0601 (rev5) 01.0 PCI bridge : VIA 8601 11.0 ISA bridge : VIA 8231 11.1 IDE interf : VT82C586 (rev6) 11.2 USB interf : VT82C586B (rev 1e) 11.3 USB interf : VT82C586B (rev 1e) 11.4 Bridge : VIA 8235 (rev10) 11.5 audio : VIA 3058 (rev 40) 12.0 Ethernet : VIA 3065 (rev51) 1:00.0 VGA Trident: 8500(rev 6a) on a via C3 CPU working kernel 2.4.18
I'am looking for a kernel patch for VIA Epia on this kernel but couldn't find one. Would it mean it needn't a fix ? Also wandering on a "easiest" way to get my config work : on v1 or in v2 (I got to take care of the portability with v1-v2 issues?) Knowing that at the end (of this adventure:) I will make it boot on a M-DoC 2000... yet firstly I'll burn a bios chip and boot a IDE HD... step by step :)
This is a RFC, so anything helpful on my methods, developpement risk, wayouts, adviced other docs are very welcome
Thanks.
Mathieu Deschamps,