[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

Vlad C. vladc6 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 15 18:26:34 CET 2006


--- "Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu at amd.com> wrote:

> Please check it you are happy with 
> 
>
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?P
> roductID=2287&ModelName=GA-M57SLI-S4
> 
> I got one, and work well with LinuxBIOS.
> 
> YH


This is really great, thank you very much! The only thing I would
point out is that GA-M57SLI-S4 is based on nForce 570-SLI as opposed
to plain nForce 570. SLI allows having two NVIDIA graphic cards to
work simultaneously and adds on about $25 to the cost of the
motherboard. Unfortunately, SLI doesn’t work well with Linux even with
NVIDIA’s closed source drivers. Not to mention that you have to buy
two NVIDIA graphics cards to get any benefit from SLI even in Windows.
So the extra $25 might not be worth it if you are going to run Linux.

Any chance you could port LinuxBIOS to a motherboard based on plain
nForce 570 or nForce 590 without SLI?

Thanks,

Vlad


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