Subject: Re: No PCI-X / PCI-E cards ...
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:58:18 +0100
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On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 08:01 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > It looks like if the board has been flashed with the wrong bios (the
>  > dmidecode info isn't consistent with what I see on the board).
>  > Is there a way to workaround that in the kernel ?
> 
> Wrong BIOS is pretty fundamental -- the BIOS could have messed up many
> undocumented (and possibly write-once) register settings etc.  The
> kernel can work around slighly broken ACPI tables or things like that,
> but if, say, undocumented write-only north bridge registers are wrong,
> not much we can do about that.
> 
> Really you better just get the right BIOS on the board.

Well, after a bit of googling and searching in tyan.com (ftp and http),
it seems I'm out of luck: it's an OEM mobo, unsupported by Tyan. BIOS is
nowhere to be found.
As it looks like some other (supported) board has the same components
(S5211 for the curious), maybe I'll try to flash its BIOS if I get
bored.

Thanks, happy $CELEBRATION,

	Xav


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