I bought a Pansonic CF-25LJM8EAM notebook. All important chips on the mainboard are listed here:
http://www.miernik.ctnet.pl/linuxbios/CF-25LJM8EAM-chiplist
Bari, can you spot which one is the "keyboard controller" which you said is usually the critical problem on getting LinuxBIOS to a laptop?
The keyboard controller usually doesn't show up on lspci. You have to open the case and look at the board.
What are the chances of getting this to work?
I think the TX chipset is supported under version 1 (the old tree) of LinuxBIOS.
The BIOS flash is unfortunately soldered, but I thing of giving the mainboard to an electronics facility so they can desolder it and solder a socket there.
Interesting, the CPU is in a socket, so it might be possible to mount a AMD K6-2 350 MHz. It is possible on other Intel 430TX motherboards after binary patching the BIOS. Here is a site with binary patches for
such BIOSes in many motherboards:
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm
I'd have to dig back into the TX datasheets to see how the TX handled cpu changes. It may use pinstraps vs register settings or a combination of both.
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