Re: First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTEM57SLI-S4

[James Simmons]

Quick question. Can this board initialize more than one graphics card?

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Brandon Howard wrote:

> Oops, forgot to include the relevant links in the previous email:
> 
> [1]
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2287
> [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128014	
> [3] http://linuxbios.org/Download_LinuxBIOS
> [4] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
> 
> --- Brandon Howard <brandon_waldgrave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard
> > supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer
> > Yinghai
> > Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art
> > motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's
> > latest Socket AM2. It contains tons of advanced features such as:
> > 
> > Support for AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processors
> > 2X PCI Express x16 slots
> > 3X PCI Express x1 slots
> > 2X PCI slots
> > 3X 1394a (FireWire) ports
> > 10X USB 2.0
> > 16GB maximum memory
> > SATA RAID
> > 6X SATA 3Gb/s slots.
> > 
> > This motherboard can be obtained today from many retail and online
> > stores [2] and the source code for the BIOS can be downloaded from
> > the
> > LinuxBIOS SVN server [3]. 
> > 
> > This is a huge victory in the quest for a completely Free & Open
> > Source general-purpose computer that enables users to have full
> > control over their own hardware. The Free Software Foundation has
> > made
> > the campaign for a Free BIOS a top priority because it is a key
> > component in the software stack of personal computers [4]. The need
> > for a Free BIOS is even more pressing since DRM and Treacherous
> > Computing have found their way into some proprietary BIOSes and EFI.
> > From a practical perspective, LinuxBIOS removes the need for ugly
> > hacks and workarounds in the kernel that compensate for buggy BIOSes
> > ?
> > we can now fix the BIOS ourselves.
> > 
> > I encourage everyone upgrading their desktop computers to consider
> > getting this motherboard or another one that is supported by
> > LinuxBIOS.
> > 
> > -Brandon
> 
> 
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