Hi linuxbios developers,
I am new to this list and BIOS concepts in general. However I have worked with Linux for over 10 years, but I am sure you can learn me something new anyhow:-)
I have a motherboard which gives me the following output from lspci: ------- 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7501 Memory Controller Hub (rev 01) 0000:00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Host RASUM Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 01) 0000:00:02.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B RASUM Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 82) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) 0000:02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) 0000:02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) 0000:02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) 0000:03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 0000:03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 0000:03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 0000:03:03.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) 0000:03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01) --------
The superIO chip is NSC PC87417 which don't seen to be supported, but I only need access to one of the serial ports in BIOS. Is this possible?
I can see that my base should be freebios2 and not freebios. Which motherboard/configuration would be my best starting point?
I would like to flash a linux kernel 2.4.x in BIOS which later on could boot a linux 2.6.x from either harddisk or net. How does the one kernel hand over the control to the other?
Regards,
There is a tyan that is a 7501 board. It is easy to write new superio code in V2. Your board should probably be a straightforward port. Who makes it?
ron
On Torsdag 13 januar 2005 16:05, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
There is a tyan that is a 7501 board. It is easy to write new superio code in V2. Your board should probably be a straightforward port. Who makes it?
The board is from SBS. It's a variant of the CT9 card. I guess that a BIOS configuration for the CT9 card would be almost identical.
I am looking at the tyan7501 configuration now. First I will try to get the PCI-bus configuration correct in Config.lb That should be possible from the input from lspci and lspci -t alone? Hint on what's needed for support for the PC87417 superio is appreciated.
Regards,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Andreas Bach Aaen (AH/TED) wrote:
That should be possible from the input from lspci and lspci -t alone?
es.
Hint on what's needed for support for the PC87417 superio is appreciated.
start by getting manual at the web site, the manuals are pretty good.
Find a chip that has similar register setup, they are all pretty similar. Then, I think it will all be pretty easy.
ron
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