440BX

[Jeffrey Knight]

Some questions from a newbie ....

I have an Intel motherboard with PII and a MP440BX PCI chipset.
I know that I can do a software upgrade my BIOS using the iflash.exe
util from intel.  I'm trying to figure out if I can make linuxBios work.
The motherboard is listed as supported.

There's no docs under freebios\freebios\HOWTO\ for 440BX; is building for 
the 440BX analogous to building for the L440GX?  (I see the 
l440bx-test12.config file in the util directory.)

Thinking that steps for 440BX might be similar to those for L440GX, I 
followed the HOWTO for L440GX and grabbed a 2.4.0-test12 kernel.
But according to the HOWTO for L440GX, I need to patch the kernel with: 
freebios\src\kernel_patches\linux-2.4.0-test12-l440gx.patch
which doesn't exist.

Yet according to the HOWTO at \freebios\src\kernel_patches\HOWTO:
"For 440BX users: irq_route.diff is Tyson Sawyer's patch to properly handle 
LINUXBIOS kernels. It has been tested on 2.4.0-test6 kernels."
... so should I use a 2.4.0-test6 instead of a 2.4.0-test12 kernel, and 
patch it with irq_route.diff for a 440BX?

Thanks for your help!
Jeff

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jeffrey Knight wrote:
> There's no docs under freebios\freebios\HOWTO\ for 440BX; is building for 
> the 440BX analogous to building for the L440GX?  (I see the 
> l440bx-test12.config file in the util directory.)

yes, it is very similar.

I would welcome suggestions on how to write up a procedure that will work 
across all the motherboards. I'm stumped. Flowchart? now sure.
> followed the HOWTO for L440GX and grabbed a 2.4.0-test12 kernel.
> But according to the HOWTO for L440GX, I need to patch the kernel with: 
> freebios\src\kernel_patches\linux-2.4.0-test12-l440gx.patch
> which doesn't exist.

that's my fault, sorry. If you want just get a 2.4.20 kernel at 
cwlinux.com, it should work fine.
> Yet according to the HOWTO at \freebios\src\kernel_patches\HOWTO:
> "For 440BX users: irq_route.diff is Tyson Sawyer's patch to properly handle 
> LINUXBIOS kernels. It has been tested on 2.4.0-test6 kernels."
> ... so should I use a 2.4.0-test6 instead of a 2.4.0-test12 kernel, and 
> patch it with irq_route.diff for a 440BX?

I'm sorry those docs are so out of data. If you are willing to suffer 
through getting this going and can send me updated docs you would really 
be helping us out.

ron