When my dual-processor VIA motherboard blew up, I cast about for a quick replacement and ended up with a Jetway NC92-330-LF. This is similar to Steve's Intel D945GCLF2 board (not to be confused with Erik's supermicro X7SLA), but slightly more expensive. For the extra money you get extra expansion via Jetway-proprietary daughterboards, a normal sized heatsink compared to the Intel's very tall one, and a normal 20-pin atx power connector compared to the Intel's newer 24-pin one. Jetway NC91-330 is the same thing without the daughterboard connector.
Experiences: - sata disk and ide dvd/rw worked immediately with standard kernel - rtl8111c gigabit ethernet worked after adding a new Macv code to the driver (patch ether8169-rtl8111c submitted) - smp didn't work at first (crashed on boot) because the bios initialises the mp configuration table with rubbish - possibly due to confusion over hyperthreading, there are two processor entries in the mp table, but the bios stores CPUIDs for four entries, thus clobbering the following bus descriptor entries. This happens whether or not hyperthreading is enabled in the bios. As a workaround I just patch the correct bus entries back into the mp table - see contrib/miller/jetway-nc92-330/mp.c, which I will one day re-do more elegantly before submitting as a patch. - vesa works beautifully at 1600x1200x16, but only with *nomp=1. Luckily there's a pci slot for a vga card.
