[LinuxBIOS] Old L440GX is it still bootable under LinuxBios

[Nicolas HACHET]

Hello everyone on the list,

My name is Nicolas and I'm wondering about booting an old Intel L440GX
with dual PIII-850 and 2 Gb RAM off a USB Key ?

I guess I'm a little outdated but I got the hardware working and this
is just for me the occasion to get a use for the old pal.

Thanks for any answer,

Nico.

[ron minnich]

You'll just have to get the LinuxBIOS v1 and try it. I don't know any more
-- last 440GX I worked on was
5 years ago!

ron

[Richard Smith]

On 3/12/06, ron minnich  wrote:
> You'll just have to get the LinuxBIOS v1 and try it. I don't know any more
> -- last 440GX I worked on was
>  5 years ago!

I re-worked some of the memory detection routines for the 440BX.  A
lot of it came from the 440GX code that was in the tree when I
started.  IIRC there were some bit polarity issues when talking to the
smbus controller.  I've never looked at a GX datasheet so I don't know
if it was a bug or if they switched things for the BX.

The v1 code may work but if it dosen't you might want to compare the
routines with the code in the bitworks mainboard directory and give
them a try.

Somewhere in that compile chain I think there is problem with newer
gcc's so if it chokes then you may have to tweak the makefiles to use
gcc-2.95.  (or fix the code)