I am looking at this motherboard for a future purchase (the contender being the currently supported K8WE). could anyone tell me if there are any chances to see that board supported ?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
could anyone tell me if there are any chances to see that board supported ?
Someone else likes it too: http://www.k9we.com/
There is support for Rev F in the tree and MCP55 is underway if not already done.
The specs list some other chips though: Chipset nVIDIA NFP3600 + NPF3050 NEC nPD720404 PCI-X tunnel SMSC Super I/O
(Is MCP55 slang for the 3600+3050?)
The NEC PCI-X chip is not supported but maybe it doesn't require any special support. (Ie. HT/PCI config is enough.)
8Mbit flash is nice, you will probably want a Linux kernel so you can boot from the nice SAS controller.
Possibly the chipset can decode 16Mbit in which case you'll fit Linux without effort. 8 will require some care in building the kernel but it's quite doable.
//Peter
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
could anyone tell me if there are any chances to see that board supported ?
Someone else likes it too: http://www.k9we.com/
heh, thanks for the link
There is support for Rev F in the tree and MCP55 is underway if not already done.
good news
The specs list some other chips though: Chipset nVIDIA NFP3600 + NPF3050 NEC nPD720404 PCI-X tunnel SMSC Super I/O
(Is MCP55 slang for the 3600+3050?)
The NEC PCI-X chip is not supported but maybe it doesn't require any special support. (Ie. HT/PCI config is enough.)
8Mbit flash is nice, you will probably want a Linux kernel so you can boot from the nice SAS controller.
hmm.. I wasn't planning on getting the one with the sas controller... the idea was to get a nice areca raid controller for the 16 disks that I'll be able to fit in my Chenbro 41416B case ;D I only need a could sata drives (raid 1) to fit the OS...
Possibly the chipset can decode 16Mbit in which case you'll fit Linux without effort. 8 will require some care in building the kernel but it's quite doable.
right
do they make bios saviors for that size memory ?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:34:13AM +0100, raphael Jacquot wrote:
hmm.. I wasn't planning on getting the one with the sas controller... the idea was to get a nice areca raid controller for the 16 disks that I'll be able to fit in my Chenbro 41416B case ;D I only need a could sata drives (raid 1) to fit the OS...
Oh, ok. If you're OK with booting off a single drive (and not the RAID volume) you could even get away with FILO then. But Linux would be nice so booting from a degraded RAID-1 works too.
Possibly the chipset can decode 16Mbit in which case you'll fit Linux without effort. 8 will require some care in building the kernel but it's quite doable.
right
do they make bios saviors for that size memory ?
No, but you can put any size LPC flash ROM in a LPC BIOS savior. The important question is whether the chipset can access all of 2Mbyte of flash.
//Peter
the chipset MCP55 is done. and waiting for approval from both legal to release code.
s2915 may need serveal hours because all support code for CPU/chipset/SuperIO are there.
YH
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:37:40AM -0800, yhlu wrote:
the chipset MCP55 is done. and waiting for approval from both legal to release code.
Great!
Btw, did you receive an answer upon the request to legal regarding this: http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-October/016516.html
Thanks, Uwe.
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