On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 06:25:26PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
Where are we with that board?
I don't think anyone got around to it.
It's cheap and on the face of it should be fairly easy to port - MCP55 chipset, etc. There was some concern about the ehternet card?
For LB purposes the NIC is not likely to cause problems, I think the uncertainty was about a Linux driver for it. drivers/net/forcedeth.c does support the relevant PCI IDs (PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_14/15, 0x0372/0x0373) according to the FreeBSD nfe driver.
I think I'll get this board or perhaps one of the Abit KN9 ones that are very similar to the Gigabyte M57SLI-S4. All have a PLCC socket which is a big plus.
If anyone has been working on these boards give me a shout - I'd like to put some work into adding support for one of these.
I don't know if Carl-Daniel got a response from the desktop BIOS people at MSI, I got the impression we'd be able to get some help from them if we needed it, but I suppose it would be easier for them to answer specific questions.
//Peter