What do I need ...

[Denis Pilon]

What do I need to get started with linuxbios on a new motherboard ?

I am trying to get linuxbios working on a Supermicro X5DPE-G2.

But don't know where to start.

Denis

[Adam Agnew]

The output of
# lspci
helps tell you which parts of the motherboard are already supported by
LinuxBIOS.

On 10 Apr 2003, Denis Pilon wrote:
> What do I need to get started with linuxbios on a new motherboard ?
>
> I am trying to get linuxbios working on a Supermicro X5DPE-G2.
>
> But don't know where to start.
>
> Denis

What does one derive from lspci -x -x

[Deepak Kotian]

Hi ,

What does one derive from lspci -v -v  and lspci -x , lspci -x gives the
    hexdump, is this hexdump helpfull for me to use this data for the
    chipset which is not implement in linuxbios, if someone can share
    some more details on it, it would be great.

Definitely, lspci gives out the chip information and one scan
    the linuxbios tree to see if the chipset is supported or not.
    But lspci -x is not very clear to me yet.

Thanks and Regards
Deepak

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Agnew" 
To: "Denis Pilon" 
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: What do I need ...
> The output of
> # lspci
> helps tell you which parts of the motherboard are already supported by
> LinuxBIOS.
>
> On 10 Apr 2003, Denis Pilon wrote:
> > What do I need to get started with linuxbios on a new motherboard ?
> >
> > I am trying to get linuxbios working on a Supermicro X5DPE-G2.
> >
> > But don't know where to start.
> >
> > Denis
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[ron minnich]

On 10 Apr 2003, Denis Pilon wrote:
> I am trying to get linuxbios working on a Supermicro X5DPE-G2.

do an lspci and find a very similar motherboard. Then make a 
src/mainboard/supermicro/x5dpe-g2 directory and populate it with files 
from the similar board.  The modify to suit.

ron

[steven james]

Greetings,

intel/Clearwater533 will be quite similar. Note that the e7501 code has
reported problems with 533MHz CPUs. It looks like there are just a few
registers in the northbridge that will need to be tweaked. I need to get a
pair of CPUs to fix that unless someone beats me to it (patches greatfully
accepted :-)

G'day,
sjames

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, ron minnich wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2003, Denis Pilon wrote:
> > I am trying to get linuxbios working on a Supermicro X5DPE-G2.
>
> do an lspci and find a very similar motherboard. Then make a 
> src/mainboard/supermicro/x5dpe-g2 directory and populate it with files 
> from the similar board.  The modify to suit.
>
> ron
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, steven james wrote:
> intel/Clearwater533 will be quite similar. Note that the e7501 code has
> reported problems with 533MHz CPUs. It looks like there are just a few
> registers in the northbridge that will need to be tweaked. I need to get a
> pair of CPUs to fix that unless someone beats me to it (patches greatfully
> accepted :-)

I called Intel yesterday about this 533 Mhz. issue and the lack of 
accurate docs. The person I talked to said he will try to help.

ron

[steven james]

Greetings,

Excellent! Perhaps that will help. Meanwhile, I've ordered a pair of 533
FSB CPUs for my board. If all else fails, trial and error (and error and
error) will provide the answers.
> From there, it's just a minor matter of coding.

G'day,
sjames

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, steven james wrote:
> > intel/Clearwater533 will be quite similar. Note that the e7501 code has
> > reported problems with 533MHz CPUs. It looks like there are just a few
> > registers in the northbridge that will need to be tweaked. I need to get a
> > pair of CPUs to fix that unless someone beats me to it (patches greatfully
> > accepted :-)
>
> I called Intel yesterday about this 533 Mhz. issue and the lack of 
> accurate docs. The person I talked to said he will try to help.
>
> ron
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios