Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:52AM -0800, Pablo Sosa wrote:
Hope this is the right forum to ask. I was checking the list of supported motherboards in order to try linuxbios, I could find I can buy one of this motherboards which are similar but not the same to VIA that are mentioned on the page, i.e.
VIA EPIA-SP13000 Motherboard, Socket 370 Specs according to the vendor are:
Specifications:
- Processor: VIA C3 / VIA Eden EBGA processor
- Chipset: VIA CN400 North Bridge; VIA VT8237 South Bridge
[..]
So I'm a bit confused and wouldn't like to buy something that's unable to support linuxbios, I'll appreciate if someone can help me, or give me some advice
Your research is correct. The EPIA-SP boards use a lot of hardware different from the EPIA-MII and most of it is yet unsupported in LinuxBIOS.
It seems that this is a recurring problem with many boards.
Would it be possible to reduce dependencies, by having a minimal/blind CPU/memory bootstrapper with a kernel payload to discover the rest of the system?
Thanks!
-- Al