Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [060829 23:06]:
Yes, he is. This has the potential to get quite a lot of people started and getting any output at all is a major motivation factor even if the rest of the code for bringup has yet to be written.
Definitely. Uwe, can you (or someone else) have a look what SuperIOs boards usually use, so we can try to support an as large as possible set of boards theoretically. (thinking mainstream)
The FSF has a campaign (http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html) we could use for sampling which SuperIOs are used in commonly sold boards. Their "how can you help" section could state prominently that we need a list of boards with matching SuperIOs.
Suggested text follows: "The LinuxBIOS project needs your help to make LinuxBIOS work on your mainboard. A first important step is to know which SuperIO your mainboard uses. This information can be obtained easily following the directions on <some LinuxBIOS wiki page>. Once that is known, you can download a matching experimental BIOS image and test the code."
The LinuxBIOS wiki page could read as follows: "How to find the SuperIO on your mainboard? There are two ways to do it: 1. Find the chip on the board (usually a bigger chip with ITE, NSC, SMSC, VIA or Winbond written on it). See <photo> and <photo> for reference. 2. Find the chip with sensors-detect and look for something named SuperIO. See <sample output> for reference. Equipped with that information, you may also want to find out if that chip is really soldered on your board. Please add this your findings to the wiki so others can verify and profit from it.
<example board> <example superio> <link to bios image> <example board> <example superio> <link to bios image>"
What do you think?
Regards, Carl-Daniel