* Amp Man corey_osgood@verizon.net [070113 11:41]:
I've gotten the vt82c686 working, but at the moment HP still has my laptop, and I don't have a laptop->ide hard drive adapter. Anyways, you'd need to modify all of the pci ids in the 8231 code to match the 686. I also had to remove the usb and nic support to get the code to compile, and there may have been a couple other little changes, I can't remember atm. As far as the northbridge goes, if you're lucky, it's just the same procedure, modify the device ids from the 8601 code.
For the vt82c686 it is worth looking at the LinuxBIOS v1 code, it supports that component.
Stefan