Re: Support for Athlon 64 and nVIDIA nforce3

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Mayuresh Bakshi  [040115 09:15]:
> Hi,
>
> We've a custom board with AMD Athlon 64 processor
> and nVIDIA nforce3 as south bridge. Does linuxBIOS
> have support for these chipsets.

nvidia nforce3 is not supported. AFAIK nvidia has been kind of
restrictive wrt releasing any of their specs. Only AMD released
the complete range to their specifications and data sheets for
AMD64 chipsets.

Best regards,
  Stefan Reinauer

Support for Athlon 64 and nVIDIA nforce3

Stefan Reinauer  writes:
> Mayuresh Bakshi  [040115 09:15]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We've a custom board with AMD Athlon 64 processor
> > and nVIDIA nforce3 as south bridge. Does linuxBIOS
> > have support for these chipsets.
>
> nvidia nforce3 is not supported. AFAIK nvidia has been kind of
> restrictive wrt releasing any of their specs. Only AMD released
> the complete range to their specifications and data sheets for
> AMD64 chipsets.

The memory controller setup is part of processor.  So with
the documentation as it now stands there is a slim possibility
of getting it up and going.  The hard part is supported.

If you are building a board with the nforce3 you probably have
enough traction that you have a reasonable chance of
getting the needed docs.  It is worth asking anyway :)

Eric