On 27.10.2007 00:51, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:29:23AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: > >> I think it's time we put an lguest kernel in flash, and show the world >> how free software does virtualization. >> > > Yes! >
Indeed. >> I want to buy a kick-ass(TM) mainboard which >> runs LB, is supported by buildrom, and will support 2MB flash parts. I >> want to buy the package from (e.g.) newegg. This will be a wiki entry >> when I'm done. >> >> So: >> - what board? >> > > How about that new mini-dtx gigabyte board that the SIS folks contributed > code for? > Not sure whether it supports SATA2. The board is not released yet and the barebone Shuttle SS21T (same chipset, different board) got less than stellar reviews for VGA output quality. > Alternatively, the gigabyte m57sli-s4; but as Torsten pointed out today there > are some issues still with PCI and PCI-E (interrupts) on that board. No acpi > yet either. But it's not so hard to add a second SOIC/SPI chip on the free > pads on the board - we have verified instructions (thanks Peter!). We can > burn SPI chips now on this board thanks to Carl-Daniels work. The board is > really very nice with 6 SATA ports and lots of bells and whistles. > AFAIK there are even more pitfalls like Firewire etc. I should verify my list of issues with the current M57SLI code and go over each one to see it's fixed. >> - any favorite video card? Cheap is better. >> > > Any $30 or so ATI card should be fine if you're not interested in super > graphics performance; the free accelerated drivers should appear sometime > soon-ish... > We are talking about 6+ months from now for a well-working 3D driver for R5xx cards according to sources in the Xorg camp. 3D drivers for earlier cards are still further away. And $30 cards probably won't be R5xx. > Didn't that mini-dtx board have onboard vga? Even cheap discrete video cards > draw way too much power for my taste these days, if you're not interested in > 3D acceleration. > I'd like a board with onboard DVI connector. That gives you nice graphics quality and can do both analog and digital monitor connections. Unfortunately, all chipsets supporting that (Nvidia Geforce/ AMD SB600) are unsupported under LB. For the Nvidia chipset, that is unlikely to change because the number of persons with access to the docs hovers around 1 and none of them (ha!) has time to work on it. For the AMD chipset, we can be sure AMD has access to its own data sheets. ;-) There are some really silent (read: no chipset fan required) and affordable (sub €60) mainboards with AMD 690G/SB600 and a nice feature set on the market. We'll see what gets supported in the future. Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
