[LinuxBIOS] #6: Add support for 10 cheap, mainstream motherboards

LinuxBIOS svn at openbios.org
Wed Feb 21 12:58:24 CET 2007


#6: Add support for 10 cheap, mainstream motherboards
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    Reporter:  uwe    |         Owner:  somebody         
        Type:  task   |        Status:  new              
    Priority:  major  |     Milestone:  Going mainstream 
   Component:  code   |       Version:  v2               
  Resolution:         |      Keywords:                   
Dependencies:         |   Patchstatus:  there is no patch
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Changes (by uwe):

  * patchstatus:  => there is no patch

Old description:

> It would be nice to have LinuxBIOS support a bunch of easily available,
> mainstream (Desktop) motherboards in the price range of 30-80
> Euros/Dollars. Some popular vendors seem to be ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte,
> ASRock.
>
> This should greatly increase the number of user who will try out
> LinuxBIOS, and even more important it will quite likely increase the
> number of contributors and developers who get involved...

New description:

 It would be nice to have LinuxBIOS support a bunch of easily available,
 mainstream (Desktop) motherboards in the price range of 30-80
 Euros/Dollars. Some popular vendors seem to be ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte,
 ASRock.

 This should greatly increase the number of user who will try out
 LinuxBIOS, and even more important it will quite likely increase the
 number of contributors and developers who get involved...

 Please also send lspci output to the mailing list or attach it to trac...

Comment:

 I read that the board has an "MCP55-Ultra" chipset. I honestly don't know
 whether it's the same as the MCP55 support we have now...

 The Winbond W83627EHG should work, i.e. you should be able to get serial
 debugging output if you were inclined to help with debugging/developing.

 What northbridge is on the board? Is it an NVIDIA one or an AMD K8
 (probably has another "marketing" name, I don't know)...

 If you have an AMD K8 northbridge and the MCP55 is the one we support it
 should be doable to add support for your board if you're willing to help
 by trying some patches we create...

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Ticket URL: <http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/ticket/6#comment:6>
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