Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:52AM -0800, Pablo Sosa wrote: > > Hope this is the right forum to ask. I was checking the list of > > supported motherboards in order to try linuxbios, I could find I > > can buy one of this motherboards which are similar but not the same > > to VIA that are mentioned on the page, i.e. > > > > VIA EPIA-SP13000 Motherboard, Socket 370 > > Specs according to the vendor are: > > > > Specifications: > > > > - Processor: VIA C3 / VIA Eden EBGA processor > > - Chipset: VIA CN400 North Bridge; VIA VT8237 South Bridge > > [..] > > > So I'm a bit confused and wouldn't like to buy something that's > > unable to support linuxbios, I'll appreciate if someone can help > > me, or give me some advice > > Your research is correct. The EPIA-SP boards use a lot of hardware > different from the EPIA-MII and most of it is yet unsupported in > LinuxBIOS.
It seems that this is a recurring problem with many boards. Would it be possible to reduce dependencies, by having a minimal/blind CPU/memory bootstrapper with a kernel payload to discover the rest of the system? Thanks! -- Al -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
