Guinness is actually the code name of the Tyan Thunder K7. Tiger came later.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 6:31 AM To: Jeremy Jackson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommended dual Athlon motherboards Greetings, Guiness is AKA TigerMP. I expect that the comparisons will be helpful, I just haven't had the time to finish that yet. The datasheets are available from AMD which is also a help. The Northbridge is the same for 760 and 760MPX chipset. Serial comes up only on the first boot of LinuxBIOS (after OEM BIOS has done some setup). I don't expect too much trouble fixing that. The rest will be reletivly easy after that. An ICE should not be required (which is good since I don't have one), but extra flash chips will be essential. G'day, sjames Quoting Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Thanks for the info. I've been looking at the Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466). > What is Guiness referring to? > > Might a comparison of PCI config registers or MSRs after OEM BIOS init > and cold boot reveal something? Power management actually helps, since > all registers must be read/write (as opposed to write only - like VGA > Pallette snoop) so PM can save context on suspend. Does LinuxBIOS go > far enough to get the serial port working? > > I'm going to buy a board, is there any chance it can be done without an > ICE? > > Regards, > > Jeremy > > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 18:10, Steven James wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > 760MPX is promising. I have found that the Tyan/Guiness LinuxBIOS can > nearly do > > it. There will need to be some mods to the initialization though. It > gets all > > the way through LinuxBIOS only right after booting from the OEM BIOS. > > > > I haven't seen anything else for dual Athlon. > > G'day, > > sjames > > > > > > Quoting Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Are there any recommended motherboards that work might work with a > bit > > > of effort? I'm thinking 760MPX, are there other chipsets? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jeremy > > ----------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs LinuxBIOS Cluster Solutions 230 peachtree st nw ste 2705 High-Speed Colocation, Hosting, atlanta.ga.us 30303 Linux Hardware, Development & Support http://www.linuxlabs.com * Visit us at SuperComputing 2002, Booth 1441 * office/fax 404.577.7747/3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
