[LinuxBIOS] iWill KA266 m/b

Please advise on suitability for the latest LinuxBIOS.  The current BIOS
says net boot is possible, would like to use in LinuxBIOS.  (Yes two
sound devices, m/b plus a PCI card.)

Thanks - very nice work you do

iWill KA266 motherboard (ATX) (*not* KA266-R variant)
CPU = AMD Athlon 1333 MHz Socket 462
North Bridge = ALi M1647
South Bridge = ALi 1535D+
Current BIOS = Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG circa 2001

OEM Manual (PDF)
http://support.iwill.net/supports/manual/ka266.pdf

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 /
MobileMAGiK 1] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV]
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:00:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:00:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC]
83c170 EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 08)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
(rev 07)
0000:00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game
Port (rev 07)
0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
(rev 10)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller
[PMU]
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20
[GeForce3] (rev a3)

[Corey Osgood]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Please advise on suitability for the latest LinuxBIOS.  The current BIOS
> says net boot is possible, would like to use in LinuxBIOS.  (Yes two
> sound devices, m/b plus a PCI card.)
>
> Thanks - very nice work you do
>
> iWill KA266 motherboard (ATX) (*not* KA266-R variant)
> CPU = AMD Athlon 1333 MHz Socket 462
> North Bridge = ALi M1647
> South Bridge = ALi 1535D+

<snip>

LinuxBIOS doesn't currently support any ALi chipsets, most likely due to
the lack of documentation from the manufacturer.

-Corey

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:31:07PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Please advise on suitability for the latest LinuxBIOS.  The current BIOS
> > says net boot is possible, would like to use in LinuxBIOS.  (Yes two
> > sound devices, m/b plus a PCI card.)
> >
> > Thanks - very nice work you do
> >
> > iWill KA266 motherboard (ATX) (*not* KA266-R variant)
> > CPU = AMD Athlon 1333 MHz Socket 462
> > North Bridge = ALi M1647
> > South Bridge = ALi 1535D+
>
> <snip>
>
> LinuxBIOS doesn't currently support any ALi chipsets, most likely due to
> the lack of documentation from the manufacturer.

Yep, I couldn't find a public datasheet for these. We _do_ have some
support for ALi/Acer chipsets in v1, though:

- m1631
- m1535
- m1543

I don't know whether or not the code actually works, though.

Uwe.