On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:07:34AM +1000, Charles Hanum wrote:
With the great work being done on the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, I am wondering how applicable this would be for the ASUS M2N32-WS board.
The motherboard is a nVIDIA nForce 590
590 is a variation of MCP55, sometimes called MCP55XE it seems. I would guess that the mcp55 code in the tree works. The revF CPUs are also supported. It might be really easy to create a port if ASUS haven't made strange things on the board.
A serial port header
..this is nice to have for early debugging when creating a new port. :)
It has a socketed PLCC flash chip (Award BIOS).
Also useful.
(It has ASUS CrashFree recovery from a USB flash disk
- if this is any use? )
No, this is a software feature of the factory BIOS.
So in summary I am just wondering if it would be possible to support a consumer motherboard (AM2) with PCI-X slots.
Certainly, but it will need some work. If you want to make a go at it I suggest to copy one of the mcp55 boards and try it out. If you're really lucky most things will work immediately. :)
//Peter