On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, jay wrote:
Is the list of motherboards on the linuxbios status page up to date? I am just curious, since it seems like a lot of mainstream boards (asus, abit, etc) are not listed there, but I would expect them to be. Also, with the K8 support, what motherboard is that on? I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 when the consumer-level chips come out, and I'd love to be able to try out linuxbios, if none of my motherboards are supported.
The goal here is to get to the point where vendors take on the responsibility for their own mainboards. I personally want out of this business of doing ports, I have a day job :-) The vendors should be able to do a good job with this, and our work would be assistance and testing.
So the mainboards on the list are proof-of-concept, and we hope vendors will pick up on this.
Note that Tyan is in fact a contributor, and they are offering linuxbios on several of their new K8 mainboards. You can ask for it with a mainboard.
I need to add a 'vendor-supplied linuxbios' web page.
ron