Maybe this will be a candidate for LinuxBIOS laptop: http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2430.html
This laptop is probably produced by a Linux company (LC stands for Linux Certified I presume), so they might be interested in cooperation. It has been recently Debian certified.
The chipsets are: http://www.linuxcertified.com/specs_lc2430.html Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge
There are some datasheets for this here: http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/845/
lspci optput is here: http://www.linuxcertified.com/test-reports/lc2430-report/debian-info.epl.htm...
There has been one post on the LinuxBIOS list, from someone who says that he has done some Intel 845 work: http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2002-September/000239.html