[commit] Support for Intel se7501cw2

[Bari Ari]

Justin Cormack wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:30, steven james wrote:
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>>Greetings,
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>>I've just committed support for the 533MHz FSB version of Intel
>>Clearwater and the E7501 northbridge.
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>>It's not well tested yet, but it does etherboot the kernel.
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>How similar is E7505? Does anyone have the docs? There are now much
>cheaper, actual ATX form factor E7505  eg
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The 7505 is very similar to the 7501 with 533 MHz system bus and also 
features 8x AGP.... a missing feature from recent Xeon chipsets.

And according to the Digitimes 
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/02/20&pages=PR&seq=206
the 800MHz system bus with DDR400 chips (i865, i875) are due out next 
quarter.

We should work on having LinuxBIOS ready and publicly posted for 
chipsets the moment they are released. This would be a nice step towards 
having LinuxBIOS ready months before release as legacy BIOS vendors have 
always done.

Bari