On 11/22/06, Corey Osgood corey_osgood@verizon.net wrote:
Uwe Hermann wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:31:12PM +0530, Abins Jose wrote:
I am planning to use Linux BIOS for a new x86 board consisting of VIA Eden processor with a VIA VT8251 southbridge.
The VT8251 doesn't seem to be supported, yet, see http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices
VIA datasheets aren't publically available usually (it seems), so I'm not sure this will happen anytime soon, either...
Uwe.
Via has a page to request a datasheet for their hardware... unfortunately, it also uses the 3-letter word: NDA. It couldn't hurt to email them and find out if there's an NDA attached to this datasheet or not. It does not seem that this datasheet is available anywhere for public download, at least not on their website or the first few pages of a google search.
-Corey
A few days back I had visited that page and requested for the datasheet... but still haven't recieved any reply from VIA. Btw, I went through the EPIA-M LinuxBIOS source code and in quite a few places its commented that "This is done because Award bios does it". I am curious to know how was this reverse engineering done? Can this be done in case of VT8251?
-Abins