Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Lu, Yinghai]

Please check it you are happy with

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?P
roductID=2287&ModelName=GA-M57SLI-S4

I got one, and work well with LinuxBIOS.

YH

[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Vlad C.]

--- "Lu, Yinghai"  wrote:
> Please check it you are happy with

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?P
> roductID=2287&ModelName=GA-M57SLI-S4
>
> I got one, and work well with LinuxBIOS.
>
> YH

This is really great, thank you very much! The only thing I would
point out is that GA-M57SLI-S4 is based on nForce 570-SLI as opposed
to plain nForce 570. SLI allows having two NVIDIA graphic cards to
work simultaneously and adds on about $25 to the cost of the
motherboard. Unfortunately, SLI doesn’t work well with Linux even with
NVIDIA’s closed source drivers. Not to mention that you have to buy
two NVIDIA graphics cards to get any benefit from SLI even in Windows.
So the extra $25 might not be worth it if you are going to run Linux.

Any chance you could port LinuxBIOS to a motherboard based on plain
nForce 570 or nForce 590 without SLI?

Thanks,

Vlad

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[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Please check it you are happy with
>
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?P
> roductID=2287&ModelName=GA-M57SLI-S4

This is a bit difficult to get here in Germany.
> I got one, and work well with LinuxBIOS.

Great! When will the code be released?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Ed Swierk]

On 12/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger  wrote:
> Great! When will the code be released?

Well, we're now up to 2 different implementations of support for
nVidia MCP55 chipsets (Yinghai's and mine), both of which await the
blessing of nVidia's legal department, because they were developed
using nVidia's confidential datasheets.

I suggest that anyone who wants to use LinuxBIOS on an MCP55-based
motherboard have a chat with an nVidia representative and explain the
situation in terms they understand, i.e. no LinuxBIOS == no sale.

--Ed

[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Ed Swierk]

I hate to behave like a marketing droid, but sometimes this is the
only way to get attention:

Could anyone who is interested in running LinuxBIOS on an nVidia MCP55
(nForce 570/590) or other recent nVidia chipset please contact me with
the name of your organization and the contact name and email address
(if other than yourself). If you manage a cluster of machines or are a
reseller, feel free to include any impressive-sounding data like
number of nodes.

--Ed

[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

[Vlad C.]

--- Ed Swierk  wrote:
> I hate to behave like a marketing droid, but sometimes this is the
> only way to get attention:
>
> Could anyone who is interested in running LinuxBIOS on an nVidia
> MCP55
> (nForce 570/590) or other recent nVidia chipset please contact me
> with
> the name of your organization and the contact name and email address
> (if other than yourself). If you manage a cluster of machines or are
> a
> reseller, feel free to include any impressive-sounding data like
> number of nodes.

We might also ask VIA about supporting LinuxBIOS on motherboards
containing VIA K8T89 / VIA 8237A chipsets: these work with the latest
generation AMD desktop processors (Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64 FX/Athlon
64/Sempron).

Two motherboards using these chipsets are ASRock AM2V890-VSTA and ASUS
M2V.

Vlad

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