OK, I downloaded linuxbios but I dont have a supported board/chipset (an older acer aspire with an ALI chipset). And of course, acerlabs makes it a policy not to give away their specs.
But there still might be hope. Award bios's exist for other boards with the same chipset (take a look at http://www.wimsbios.com/index.htm?/numbers.shtml for a cross reference).
I got one of those bios files and loaded it in awdbedit. awdbedit lists the chipset registers, or so it seems (click Recognized Items->System BIOS->"Chipset Registers" tab, as well as the "Setup Menu" tab.) Could that be enough info to get a board up and running? The tables look kinda raw, ie no distinction between northbridge/southbdride etc. The "Setup Menu" tab gives a little more detialed description for some registers. Are there any chipset experts out there who could comment on this?
just knowning the register values is helpful but not enough. The sequence of writing them is important.
ron
Bryan E. Chafy wrote:
I got one of those bios files and loaded it in awdbedit. awdbedit lists the chipset registers, or so it seems (click Recognized Items->System BIOS->"Chipset Registers" tab, as well as the "Setup Menu" tab.) Could that be enough info to get a board up and running?
It may get you closer or fill in some blanks. I haven't seen awdbedit list all the registers and their settings, only some. Maybe some later version will list all the register settings and the order they are executed or maybe the current version already does this, only not with the binaries I've seen.
-Bari
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