[coreboot] Laptop with PN800 chipset

yannis le gal yannis.lg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 08:44:41 CET 2008


I found a technical documentation on the web :
http://lekouillosite.free.fr/blackdragon/8965-customer.pdf
it talks about all chips used and also the mini pci debug card ...
at the end , there is some names , maybe it can help ;)

2008/3/11, Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net>:
>
> Hello!
> First of all I can safely say that you have provided one important detail.
> The lspci output. This is a good thing; it tells us what your system is
> wearing.
>
> However it also confirms one annoying detail, that it uses the VIA series
> of
> chips, that family isn't as well documented towards such things as what we
> do, and they have been rather reluctant in the past to cooperate. So all
> work done on motherboards that are built around related chips were done by
> careful exploration, and not from supplied data.
>
> And now the really bad news, as one of our other members will confirm,
> laptops are not yet a viable target, except for one, because they use
> special chips to control special features that are found only on a laptop
> designed system, and normally these are not at all documented.
>
> Ron, have I left anything out?
>
> --
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
> "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
>
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