Via MVP4

[Jonas Meyer]

Hi
I've got this K6-2 that i haven'T used in months and would like to put linuxbios on. Chipset seems to be a MVP4 (vt8501) which i found some files for in the linuxbios source directory. But i'm still not sure if it is worth trying to replace the BIOS.
I'd rather want to change the BIOS of my dual-P3 on a 440BX board, but as this is my primary machine i want to first do it on another. all the other Boards i have are intel FX Boards, which seem absolutely unsupported.
I'd appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks in advance
Jonas Meyer

A problem, a machine stalls after usage of the PCI board.(seems IRQs)

[Deepak Kotian]

Hi,

The  LinuxBIOS with etherboot boots Linux properly, and
    gets on the network with both the internet interface up and seems to
asigns the IRQ
    correctly in LinuxBIOS. ping.etc is OK.

But, when I use the Multimedia card(encoder)card on this on a PCI slot
and start encoding.
    The machine just comes to a halt and network is also out and there is
    no Output on the Serial console.
    I have assigned IRQ 12 to this PCI slot. Would it matter with different
IRQ numbers, if
    IRQ 5 is assigned, the results are  a bit different. But still does
remain come network later
    once the encoding starts.

I doubt whether the IRQ still has a problem with this.

Could someone give any suggestions on this one.

Also, if there is a good methodolgy/literature of this whole IRQ
business
    with LinuxBIOS and would like to share. It would be great as well.

Regards
Deepak

[Jonas Meyer]

On Thu, 22 May 2003 16:42:17 +0200
Jonas Meyer  wrote:
> Hi
> I've got this K6-2 that i haven'T used in months and would like to put linuxbios on. Chipset seems to be a MVP4 (vt8501) which i found some files for in the linuxbios source directory. But i'm still not sure if it is worth trying to replace the BIOS.
> I'd rather want to change the BIOS of my dual-P3 on a 440BX board, but as this is my primary machine i want to first do it on another. all the other Boards i have are intel FX Boards, which seem absolutely unsupported.
> I'd appreciate any help you can give.
> Thanks in advance
> Jonas Meyer

This board hasn't got a bios anyways. Needed the chip some time ago. So i wouldn't care if it worked bad, but i really would love to give it a try if any of you said there are chances that i at least get an output on the serial line. So what do you say, is there any chance the current linuxbios will do anything on this board? i'd want to run etherboot if it is possible, but don't want to try something that never had a chance to work.
Jonas