On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:13:54AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
Corey Osgood wrote:
Jørgen P. Tjernø wrote:
I've got an Epia M1000 that I use as a mediamachine (HTPC?), and I recently learnt of LinuxBIOS. Therefore, I was curious wether or not using LinuxBIOS would be to my advantage, e.g. to reduce boot-times. I see the main LinuxBIOS lists HTPC under example uses. :-)
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Sorry, but the Epia-M1000 uses the via vt8235 southbridge, which we do we do have support for in LBv2 (v3 is still in the early development stages), and the via cle266 northbridge, which we don't support yet.
Apologies, the cle266 is vt8623ce, which may work with the current vt8623 code. The only way to really find out if it works for you is to set up some sort of backup system (BIOS savior, spare BIOS chips, etc) and try it. And yes, using LinuxBIOS should reduce your boot time, although I don't know the exact amount of time you'll gain.
Unless someone's broken it LinuxBIOS v2 should support the EPIA-M1000 fine; I have a few dozen of these running SVN release 2357. My machines don't have the VGA BIOS, but I have tried it with success - you need version 1.13 rather than the latest 1.16 I believe.
J.