[LinuxBIOS] Linux Bios on Gigabyte K8VNXP

Corey Osgood corey_osgood at verizon.net
Wed May 9 00:13:46 CEST 2007


Lukasz Skraburski wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if Linux Bios would run on Gigabyte K8VNXP with Athlon 64 2800+
> 
> Bellow is lscpi print from my PC
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host
> Bridge (rev 01)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
> [K8T800/K8T890 South]
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 81)
> 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
> [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
> 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
> 00:14.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b
> Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
> [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GS (rev a2)
> 
> Regards,
> Lukasz
> 

Right now, no. I'll make a patch soon of the vt8237r stuff, but the
vt8385 still isn't supported. I think in this situation the only thing
the vt8385 really does is act as the AGP controller though, so working
on it shouldn't be too hard. The other problem is the BIOS, is the bios
chip socketed or sodiered on? BTW, your dualbios is useless for linuxbios.

Just for curiosity's sake, can you send the output of "lspci -s 0:0.0
-xxx", run as root?

-Corey




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