[LinuxBIOS] Issues with Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4

[Bhavitavya Bhadviya]

Hi to all LinuxBIOS guys,
         I just needed to about any issues that are seen with Gigabyte
GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard (are they serious?). The Supported motherboard(page
of LinuxBIOS) lists this board but with yellow flag and code (WIP). I would
like to know in particular what are the troubling issues with it.
      Also if some one can suggest me a supported High end Desktop
motherboard(with socketed BIOS), I would really be obliged.

Thanks for the help.
Bhavitavya.

[Ward Vandewege]

Hi there,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:45:02PM +0530, Bhavitavya Bhadviya wrote:
>      I just needed to about any issues that are seen with Gigabyte
>
> GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard (are they serious?). The Supported motherboard(page of
> LinuxBIOS) lists this board but with yellow flag and code (WIP). I would like
> to know in particular what are the troubling issues with it.

Basically, it works, but there is no ACPI support, and the I2C setup seems to
still be lacking somewhat. See the build tutorial here

http://linuxbios.org/M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial
>   Also if some one can suggest me a supported High end Desktop motherboard
>
> (with socketed BIOS), I would really be obliged.

This board has a soldered BIOS chip, at least the ones we got do. There seems
to be another version out there with socketed chip.

Thanks,
Ward.