[OpenBIOS] Re: Information on TIARA project

[Ollie Lho]

"Larry G. Linde" wrote:
> 
> We are working on a 540 design at present and need to start porting to the
> 540/950 chipset.
> 
> However we have not been able to find any off the shelf MB's with the 540
> yet. If you could get
> Us the name of a existing 540 MB with the 950 that we could buy that would
> help a lot. Also
> And code/doc info in setup that required on the 540/950 would help as well.
> 
> If you would like I will be in TW in about 2 weeks. I can stop by and say
> hello and show you
> What we are doing.
> 
> -larry

First of all, it is amazing (from our point of view) that without official
support you could do such chip init stuff so clean, how did you do this ??

As you know we are working with FreeBIOS/LinuxBIOS project, we are also
intrested in any similiar projects too. We will provide any support we
can, we will provide you the necessary documents, BIOS source/pseudo code
and hardware demo boards. As posted by Jeff Garzik et. al. on freebios
list we think there is possibility to cooperate/merge these free bios
projects.

For 540+950 issue, there are two things to note. First is that, from
business point of view, it seems that 540 chipset will not in mass
production in the near future so it would be very difficult to find
a 540 M/B in the market. We are rather focusing on 630 and the upcomming
730 series. As far as I know there is only WinFast 5400MA avaliable in
Taiwan market.

The second is that, of course we want our whole product line fully supported.
I am personally planing to have full support (i.e. boot from cold power up
without BIOS) for the following combination in the end of August (possible ??)

	630/540 single chip + 950 LPC
	620/530 north + 5595 sourth + 6801 SuperIO

so we need somebody to "port" or try the current implementation on these 
different platforms.

Finally, it glad that you are going to visit Taiwan. If you have time,
please arrange to visit SiS and demo your work. We can show you how/what
we have done on LinuxBIOS side.

Ollie
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