Hi,
following up on my blog post at http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/google-sponsors-the-linuxbios-project (which appeared on http://planet.debian.org) I learned that at least one or two Debian developers already own or are interested in the following mainboards:
* ASUS M2NPV-VM http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1138&l1=3&am...
* ASUS V2-AH2 http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1159&l1=1&am...
(see also http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=86)
They are based on the NVIDIA nForce 430 and the NVIDIA MCP51 (I remember there was some talks about this recently -- what's the current status?).
Can they be supported with a reasonable amount of work?
Uwe.
I have finished the porting for mcp55. and like to spend one day to port one mcp55+AM2 based MB.
Abit KN9 Ultra MSI K9N Platinum
YH
yhlu wrote:
I have finished the porting for mcp55. and like to spend one day to port one mcp55+AM2 based MB.
Abit KN9 Ultra
Abit KN9 Ultra has NO serial port! This makes debugging really hard.
MSI K9N Platinum
Good, but expensive.
Could you port to the MSI K9N Neo 4F instead? It is much cheaper and will help LinuxBIOS adoption.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On 11/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
yhlu wrote:
I have finished the porting for mcp55. and like to spend one day to port one mcp55+AM2 based MB.
MSI K9N Platinum
Good, but expensive.
Could you port to the MSI K9N Neo 4F instead? It is much cheaper and will help LinuxBIOS adoption.
K9N4 Ultra-F isn't widely available yet as far as I know; K9N Neo is less than $75 and available at most major vendors.
Having said that, =any= mcp55 / am2 board should get us fired up pretty quickly -- the only differences on a lot of these are the number of PCI / PCI-e slots.
When we get these similarly named MSI desktop boards into the tree, it will probably make more sense to refer to them as K9N Neo (ms-7260), K9N4 Ultra-F (ms-7310), etc.
-dhbarr.
On 11/18/06, David H. Barr dhbarr@gozelle.com wrote:
On 11/18/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
When we get these similarly named MSI desktop boards into the tree, it will probably make more sense to refer to them as K9N Neo (ms-7260), K9N4 Ultra-F (ms-7310), etc.
Mea culpa; somebody beat me to it: "K9SD Master-S2R (MS-9185)"
-dhbarr.
On 11/18/06, yhlu yinghailu@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatn3400b_spec.html
On 11/18/06, yhlu yinghailu@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/MCP55/H8SMA-2.cfm
Are you letting me know that not all single-socket AM2 boards are virtually identical, or that $150 USD isn't too bad compared to other prices? Either way, I stand corrected <grin>.
-dhbarr.
* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [061119 01:52]:
Abit KN9 Ultra has NO serial port! This makes debugging really hard.
Does it have a USB2 port with debug capability?
Stefan
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:33:00PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [061119 01:52]:
Abit KN9 Ultra has NO serial port! This makes debugging really hard.
Does it have a USB2 port with debug capability?
Please run
lspci -vs $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ') lspci -ns $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ')
on a board with the MCP55 and send the output to me, the list or add it to the wiki page http://linuxbios.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
//Peter
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:33:00PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [061119 01:52]:
Abit KN9 Ultra has NO serial port! This makes debugging really hard.
Does it have a USB2 port with debug capability?
Please run
lspci -vs $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ') lspci -ns $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ')
on a board with the MCP55 and send the output to me, the list or add it to the wiki page http://linuxbios.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
There is an lspci dump from a K9N ultra at: http://www.phoronix.com/lch/?k=entry&l=291&t=Abit%20KN9%20Ultra
It looks like the MCP55 has an EHCI with debug port:
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 1c24 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58 Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [44] Debug port Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:04:01AM -0500, Tom Sylla wrote:
Peter Stuge wrote:
Please run
lspci -vs $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ') lspci -ns $(lspci|grep EHCI|cut -f1 -d' ')
There is an lspci dump from a K9N ultra at: http://www.phoronix.com/lch/?k=entry&l=291&t=Abit%20KN9%20Ultra
It looks like the MCP55 has an EHCI with debug port:
Indeed. I'd like to also add the PCI ids though. Can anyone with such a board help?
//Peter
On 11/19/06, Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org wrote:
Indeed. I'd like to also add the PCI ids though. Can anyone with such a board help?
The PCI ID for the MCP55 EHCI USB controller is 10de:036b; I've added this to the EHCI Debug Port page.
As for motherboards, the DFI LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G has a header for an RS232 serial port (connected to a separate SuperIO, not to the MCP55):
http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=471...
--Ed
even there is no 9-pin header on the MB? If yes, it can be connected out to bracket.
YH
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:04:36AM -0800, yhlu wrote:
even there is no 9-pin header on the MB? If yes, it can be connected out to bracket.
The EHCI debug port is part of the USB spec, one special USB port can be used to send and receive USB packets with only PCI config accesses and one BAR set up, so can be used without a full USB stack and without DRAM. Some brief information and links to the specifications is available at http://linuxbios.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
//Peter
yhlu wrote:
even there is no 9-pin header on the MB? If yes, it can be connected out to bracket.
No 9-pin header for serial on the MB. I just verified it. And the board is advertised as legacy-free.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
OK, I will forget about this MB.
YH
On 11/19/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
yhlu wrote:
even there is no 9-pin header on the MB? If yes, it can be connected out to bracket.
No 9-pin header for serial on the MB. I just verified it. And the board is advertised as legacy-free.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:43:57PM -0800, yhlu wrote:
OK, I will forget about this MB.
I'll work on support for the debug port but unfortunately I have no time until in December. If someone beats me to it that would be great of course!
When it's working legacy-free boards such as this can be picked up again.
//Peter
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