2007/5/14, roger roger@eskimo.com:
Would it help any if I made a list of items needed for proper Intel northbridge (and possibly southbridge/smbus) initialization?
This is helpful.
I think 440bx might be a good mainboard to start learning linuxbios ? Datasheets of Intel mainboards are relatively easier to obtain and 440bx is easy to get.
There have been some tutorial to start, which are mainly on server boards. Server boards are more expensive and it seems their datasheets are more diffucult to obtain. I feel much more comfort while reading code if I have some hardware documentation to refer to. Maybe some day we could have a tutorial on widely used and well-documented desktop mainboard ?
Just some humble opinion. Correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.