PC Engines ALIX.1C Vendor Cooperation Score: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
(→Score) |
||
Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
| style="background:lime" | 59 | | style="background:lime" | 59 | ||
| 80 | | 80 | ||
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" | |||
| '''[[#Hackability]]''' | |||
| style="background:yellow" | 9 | |||
| 24 | |||
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" | |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" | ||
Line 25: | Line 30: | ||
| style="background:yellow" | 0 | | style="background:yellow" | 0 | ||
| 10 | | 10 | ||
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee" | |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" | ||
Line 37: | Line 37: | ||
|} | |} | ||
== Documentation == | == Documentation == |
Revision as of 21:28, 19 August 2008
Availability
PC Engines ALIX.1C is widely available as of August 2008.
Score
Item | Points | Max |
---|---|---|
#Documentation | 59 | 80 |
#Hackability | 9 | 24 |
#Vendor participation | 0 | 10 |
#Example and support code | 0 | 10 |
Total | 68 | 124 |
Documentation
Score: 59/80
Item | Availability | Points |
---|---|---|
CPU (Geode LX) | ||
Datasheet / register set | Freely available [1] | 10 |
BIOS programming guide | NDA allowing GPL'd code | 3 |
Errata | NDA allowing GPL'd code | 3 |
Chipset (CS5536) | ||
Datasheet / register set | Freely available [2] | 10 |
BIOS programming guide | NDA allowing GPL'd code | 3 |
Errata | Freely available [3] | 10 |
Super I/O | ||
Datasheet / register set | Freely available [4] | 10 |
Mainboard | ||
Schematics | Freely available [5] | 10 |
Vendor participation
PC Engines does not directly take part in the project. Score: 0/10.
Item | Status | Points |
---|---|---|
Vendor participation | No direct vendor participation | 0 |
Example and support code
Pascal Dornier, the person behind PC Engines, has supplied developers with sample code and documentation and is very responsive via e-mail.
Hackability
Score: 9/24. No soldering required to recover from a bad flash, but an LPC dongle or LPC pod is required.
Item | Status | Points |
---|---|---|
Rom chip | Soldered | 0 |
LPC header | Available, can be used for secondary rom chip | 9 |
JTAG header | No | 0 |
Background on our rating system
See the Rating System for more information.