Quoting Dieter Bloms dieter@bloms.de:
Hi Joe,
thank you for the quick answer.
On Thu, May 17, joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
As far as the i855pm compatible to i855GME, should be compatable.
lspci give me lines like this, so I think it is compatible:
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
Intel likes to add letters on to the end of the chipsets for slight variations in the same chipset. As far as the southbridge, the i82801db src has some bugs, first the src refers to it as an ICH5 when it is an ICH4 chip (just text errors), also the PCI ID devices are not defined in pci_ids.h or they should just be hardcoded into the src drectly, and lastly it does not offer ethernet support. I have fixed all these bugs but have not submitted a patch yet because I have not been able to test it.
that sounds good to me, ethernet support is not needed for me to boot, I only want to boot from harddisk or cdrom.
I was told, that there were some kind of hardware sold, so I can savely flash my bios and restore to the old, if it fails. Does anybody know a link to such hardware ?
I want to buy it and then I'm willing to test your patches.
-- Gruß
Dieter
Hello, Your looking for a "bios savior" depending on what kind of package your bios chip is (PLCC32 possibly). Also make sure the bios savior you get supports a firmware hub (FWH), I am sure that is probibly what you have (most intel boards have firmware hubs).
Thanks - Joe