[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: Hello, I have a problem to put the linuxbios on my mainboard ms6163.

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Nov 6 12:00:11 CET 2006


* Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> [061106 11:53]:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > * Li Haiqiang <haiqiang2linux at yahoo.com> [061106 05:45]:
> >> I write the 'ls -xxx' results  to the  PCI  config registers.
> >> Can it work?
> > 
> > As a first step this is worth a try, yes. 
> > 
> > But you need to find out which are relevant, and the order plays a big
> > role. Grab yourself a datasheet for the 440BX northbridge... Otherwise
> > it will break as soon as you put in another DIMM module.
> 
> I think there is slightly more than zero chance this will work.  The ram
> init routines in that code are for VIA.  None of the ram commands are
> correct.

Ah, I understood he wants to omit the ram init code and just poke the
lspci -xxx values into the northbridge. This might work for a start,
right? At least thats how we started working on the k8 port 

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