[LinuxBIOS] Anybody working on a CK804 / MCP55 board?

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

there's been lots of talk about support for a modern and/or cheap desktop
board in the past.

I think our best bet at the moment is to support many K8+CK804 and
K8+MCP55 boards. Is anybody out there already (or still) working on such
a mainboard at the moment? Any preliminary patches? I'm thinking about
getting one such board, but I don't want to duplicate any work someone
else might already have put into writing code...

Thanks, Uwe.

[Quux]

Elitegroup KN3 with top hat flash may be worth considering. --Q

Uwe Hermann schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> there's been lots of talk about support for a modern and/or cheap desktop
> board in the past.
>
> I think our best bet at the moment is to support many K8+CK804 and
> K8+MCP55 boards. Is anybody out there already (or still) working on such
> a mainboard at the moment? Any preliminary patches? I'm thinking about
> getting one such board, but I don't want to duplicate any work someone
> else might already have put into writing code...
>
> Thanks, Uwe.

[Jeremy Jackson]

Hi,

I am working on Tyan S2865 (CK804 based).  Probably time I post a patch
to go into the tree.

Working:

single DIMM memory slot PC400 DDR ECC
1 of 4 PCI slots
PS/2 kerboard and mouse
both onboard NICs,
audio, 
usb, IDE
1 of 4 SATA ports (correcting mptable irq should bring up a 2nd port)
atyfb, 
serial port
all 3 PCI-e slots (2 x1 and one x16)
flashrom, has PLCC32 LPC flash, southbridge supports 4MB tops
i2c hardware monitor (DME1737 patch from lm-sensors mailing list)

Not working:

some sata ports, 
3 PCI slots don't generage interrupts (but work for matrox millenium II
PCI graphics card)
onboard firewire
hardware watchdog (DME1737 - i need to port driver for Linux)
MSI interrupts (uses INTx mode)
ACPI/PowerNow

Untested:

floppy
parallel
2nd serial

I agree it would be great to have a variety of single
processor/inexpensive/fairly modern boards supported.

Cheers,

Jeremy

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:38 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there's been lots of talk about support for a modern and/or cheap desktop
> board in the past.
>
> I think our best bet at the moment is to support many K8+CK804 and
> K8+MCP55 boards. Is anybody out there already (or still) working on such
> a mainboard at the moment? Any preliminary patches? I'm thinking about
> getting one such board, but I don't want to duplicate any work someone
> else might already have put into writing code...

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:09:54PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> I am working on Tyan S2865 (CK804 based).  Probably time I post a patch
> to go into the tree.

Yep, definately! The port seems to be quite usable already so we can
surely commit...
> I agree it would be great to have a variety of single
> processor/inexpensive/fairly modern boards supported.

I've now got an MSI K8N Neo4-F and an MSI K9N Neo shipping my way, so I
might have some initial code ready in 2-3 weeks or so...

Uwe.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Uwe Hermann  [070526 17:23]:
> I've now got an MSI K8N Neo4-F and an MSI K9N Neo shipping my way, so I
> might have some initial code ready in 2-3 weeks or so...

What's missing on the 440BX now, is it fully working? I have some
patches from Ceri Coburn in my inbox. Should we commit them?

Stefan

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:35:30PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Uwe Hermann  [070526 17:23]:
> > I've now got an MSI K8N Neo4-F and an MSI K9N Neo shipping my way, so I
> > might have some initial code ready in 2-3 weeks or so...
>
> What's missing on the 440BX now, is it fully working?

Nope, I'm currently stuck trying to convert one of the boards to CAR.
Will post a patch later, maybe someone can help...
> I have some
> patches from Ceri Coburn in my inbox. Should we commit them?

Oops, it seems I missed those. Will have a look...

Uwe.

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

btw, I've updated the list of potential recent mainboards which should
be relatively easy to support, see http://linuxbios.org/Desktops.

If anybody owns such a board or wants to work on a port, please let us
know!

Uwe.