I’m sorry but I don’t understand
your reply. Too late for what exactly?
Simon Labrecque
From: Lu, Yinghai
[mailto:yinghai.lu@amd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:56 PM
To: Simon Labrecque; linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop
CPU
Too late.
YH
From: Simon Labrecque
[mailto:agarwal@videotron.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:49 PM
To: Lu, Yinghai; linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop
CPU
Does it *need* a serial
port? Can’t one be added via a PCI card, for instance?
Simon Labrecque
From: Lu, Yinghai
[mailto:yinghai.lu@amd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:25 PM
To: Simon Labrecque; linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop
CPU
The MB doesn’t have serial port.
YH
From: Simon Labrecque
[mailto:agarwal@videotron.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:51 AM
To: Lu, Yinghai; linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop
CPU
Would that board be OK
(MCP55-Ultra)?
If so, it would be a good choice
I think.
Simon Labrecque
From: Lu, Yinghai
[mailto:yinghai.lu@amd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:05 PM
To: Simon Labrecque; linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop
CPU
If you select one AM2 + MCP55 MB, It would only take me one or two
hours to get it done.
If so, I’d like to do that for free.
YH
From:
linuxbios-bounces+yinghai.lu=amd.com@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces+yinghai.lu=amd.com@linuxbios.org]
On Behalf Of Simon Labrecque
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:34 AM
To: linuxbios@linuxbios.org
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU
Hi,
We’re starting development of
a (pretty much high-end) PVR/MediaCenter which will of course run linux. Now,
one of the avenue we’re looking at is using standard x86 hardware (as opposed
to custom built embedded hardware). Since the product will need a lot of
processing power (since if we’re using x86 hardware, we’ll do most processing
in software), we would like to use a dual-core CPU, something powerful. But it
must also be low power/low heat, as you can’t have a 12” fan running at
8000rpm to cool your CPU in the living now…
The device should also feel
“appliance-like”. That means that it must boot very quickly, at least
displaying some nice animated loading screen within 5 seconds. And that’s where
LinuxBIOS comes into play.
Are there any supported
board/CPU combo that would fit our needs? For an AMD board, something with an
AM2 socket would be ideal as it’s a recent chipset and will stay longer on the
market than say socket 939, but it’s not a requirement per se. We would need
standard stuff on the board: USB, IDE, ideally PCI-E and pci and maybe onboard
sound and video (although that’s more optional than anything).
If no such board/cpu combo is
supported by LinuxBIOS currently, we would be willing to evaluate the
possibility of hiring someone to port LinuxBIOS to the chosen platform. Do you
know of any individual/company that would do such work and an idea of how much
such work might cost?
Thanks a lot.
Simon Labrecque