Arvind Seshadri wrote:
Hi, I am looking into building a personal workstation around the Tyan S2915 or the Tyan S2927 for LinuxBIOS hacking.
I have been following the mailing list since January when Yinghai Lu posted a huge patch with support for the Tyan S2912, among other boards.
From Tyan's webpage it seems that the S2927, like the S2912, uses the
nVIDIA MCP55 southbridge. However, the Super I/O chip on the S2927 is a SMSC SCH5017 and not the Winbond W83627HF found on the S2912.
The SuperI/O would have to be coded for, but after that should be fairly easy. You'd also have some board-specific coding to do, too. Why not just get an S2912? Too easy?
The S2915 uses the nVIDIA NFP3600 + NPF3050 as the southbridge and the SMSC 5307 Super I/O controller.
Afaik, that's not the same by any means.
-Corey