Uwe Hermann wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:45:22AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
Please scratch the patch I submitted. vt82c686a and b are the same, the docs lied (and this is the first time I've looked at it on the machines, stupid me). I'm reworking a few things and cleaning up a few more things, and I'll submit a working, tested patch this weekend, if all goes well.
OK, great!
So, this weekend just happened to be both the super bowl and my 21st birthday, so I didn't get as much as I'd hoped to done. What I did get means that either my serial setup on the monitoring PC is messed up (very possible) or else this quick hack from vt8231 isn't going to work, and I need to go back and work from v1, which I can only assume to be working. I make no more promises, it will be done when it's done (duke nukem forever anyone?)
On a related note, does anyone know if any northbridge init is required to bring up the southbridge (and in this case also superio)? And is the rcn dc1100s from v1 working or not? I couldn't get it to run (no serial or video output at all) on the tyan s2507, which seems to be the same hardware.
I guess you need the northbridge (RAM init) for anything else to work. I have a K7T Turbo which has a VIA VT82C686B southbridge, but unfortunately the northbridge is a VIA Apollo KT133A (VT8363A) which is not supported, and I don't have VIA data sheets...
The vt82c686b datasheet is here (I also found an older version on some obscure page of via's site, but can't find it now): http://www.datasheets.org.uk/search.php?q=VT82C686B&sType=part As for the 8363a, rom.by has the datasheet for both it and my 694x (and ALi chipsets!), but I can't be sure if they're, well, supposed to or not, so I'm avoiding touching them.
-Corey