Recommended dual Athlon motherboards
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Sun Jan 5 00:20:01 CET 2003
Jeremy Jackson <jerj at coplanar.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the info. I've been looking at the Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466).
> What is Guiness referring to?
It was a code name of the Tyan S2462.
> Might a comparison of PCI config registers or MSRs after OEM BIOS init
> and cold boot reveal something? Power management actually helps, since
> all registers must be read/write (as opposed to write only - like VGA
> Pallette snoop) so PM can save context on suspend. Does LinuxBIOS go
> far enough to get the serial port working?
>
I suspect more than anything the warm reboot case is more luck than
anything else. I remember there are some checks in the code that will
skip a practically all of the early setup in assembly if the machine
is already operational.
> I'm going to buy a board, is there any chance it can be done without an
> ICE?
I haven't used one yet...
And we currently have a mostly working port, though I don't
know where we are on the release cycle for that.
>From what I have seen of it the differences are almost totally due to the
different southbridge. The AMD2466 vs AMD2468.
Eric
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