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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

www.tomshardware.com

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Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

www.tomshardware.com

alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago
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‘From the schematic and PCB to the chipset,’ all built from scratch. Design uses an FPGA for the chipset, bring your own i486.
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    Good news! On the firmware side there is some serius work being done to support it!

    https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2025/01/amd-opensil.html?m=1 is AMDs work to opensource hardware intialzation

    https://opensourcefirmware.foundation/projects/ Has a good list of mostly BIOS/UEFI replacements.

    Idk about memory, Usb, sata or PCIe controllers though. (something else?)

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