Guinness is actually the code name of the Tyan Thunder K7. Tiger came later.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven James [mailto:pyro@linuxlabs.com] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 6:31 AM To: Jeremy Jackson Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Re: Recommended dual Athlon motherboards
Greetings,
Guiness is AKA TigerMP. I expect that the comparisons will be helpful, I just haven't had the time to finish that yet. The datasheets are available from AMD which is also a help. The Northbridge is the same for 760 and 760MPX chipset.
Serial comes up only on the first boot of LinuxBIOS (after OEM BIOS has done some setup). I don't expect too much trouble fixing that. The rest will be reletivly easy after that.
An ICE should not be required (which is good since I don't have one), but extra flash chips will be essential.
G'day, sjames
Quoting Jeremy Jackson jerj@coplanar.net:
Hi,
Thanks for the info. I've been looking at the Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466). What is Guiness referring to?
Might a comparison of PCI config registers or MSRs after OEM BIOS init and cold boot reveal something? Power management actually helps, since all registers must be read/write (as opposed to write only - like VGA Pallette snoop) so PM can save context on suspend. Does LinuxBIOS go far enough to get the serial port working?
I'm going to buy a board, is there any chance it can be done without an ICE?
Regards,
Jeremy
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 18:10, Steven James wrote:
Greetings,
760MPX is promising. I have found that the Tyan/Guiness LinuxBIOS can
nearly do
it. There will need to be some mods to the initialization though. It
gets all
the way through LinuxBIOS only right after booting from the OEM BIOS.
I haven't seen anything else for dual Athlon. G'day, sjames
Quoting Jeremy Jackson jerj@coplanar.net:
Are there any recommended motherboards that work might work with a
bit
of effort? I'm thinking 760MPX, are there other chipsets?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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