First of all I am new to the concept of mailing lists
I first heard about LinuxBios at Fosdem 2007 I missed the talk, but i watched the video afterwards
I have a Asus K8N-DL mainboard.and i was wondering if I could run LinuxBios on it, its not listed on the wiki, but most parts are
it has a Winbond W83627THF-A Super I/O chip which according to the wiki is supported it has a PMC 49FL004T (-33JC) Bios Flash chip which is also supported it has a Nvidia Crush K8-04 Professional Bridge which i also think is supported
I have 2 AMD 64 Opteron 248 2,2 Ghz Processors i have a PCI-Express Gainward GeForce6600 GT 128 MB DDR 3 Video Card I have 2x 1 GiB of registered ECC ram installed (for my first cpu, so no NUMA)
I use it as a High-End Desktop and i want to get the most out of it. I would like to put LinuxBiosh on it, has anyone tried this ? is it safe for me to experiment if this board has Crashfree BIOS 2 ?
Pieter Vande Wyngaerde wrote:
First of all I am new to the concept of mailing lists
I first heard about LinuxBios at Fosdem 2007 I missed the talk, but i watched the video afterwards
I have a Asus K8N-DL mainboard.and i was wondering if I could run LinuxBios on it, its not listed on the wiki, but most parts are
it has a Winbond W83627THF-A Super I/O chip which according to the wiki is supported it has a PMC 49FL004T (-33JC) Bios Flash chip which is also supported it has a Nvidia Crush K8-04 Professional Bridge which i also think is supported
Yep, all your parts seem to be supported (Crush K8-04=ck804, in lb). Don't count on your backup bios though, unless there's a physical switch on the motherboard for jumping to the backup. I think you'll find that the backup bios is triggered by the boot block of the primary bios, which linuxbios overwrites.
You'll need to write a target for this also. I'd suggest starting with the tyan s2892 code, as that board is the same chipset and dual k8 cpus, and then modify it to fit your needs. You'll probably need to write your own acpi tables, there's a half-decent howto on this in the archives (you can search them on gmane), or else mptable.c and pirq_table.c, which can both be generated with utilities in the utils directory (whether or not they work right is another story). There's a patch on Trac for the mptable util, apply that first as it fixes a few little issues that otherwise need to be patched up afterwards.
Best of luck, and post back if you have any more questions.
-Corey
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