Amithlon supported hardware list?

[fishy_fiz]

Probably no secret to some people that Im a big amithlon fan/user, but with a little persistance it's possible to get amithlon working well on reasonably modern gear. The problem i guess with stuff from the last few years is that pci slots are limited, and to my knowledge its not yet possible to run any pci express cards in anything but vesa modes. I tried a pcx 5300, which is effectively a gf5200 on a pci express interface, and while the agp and pci versions of a 5200 will work, the pcx 5300 didnt.
Seeing as how Im using a core2duo based system, I have no agp slots, so Im using a matrox g550 pci card (along with a pci sb audigy and a pci 3com nic). Unfortunately sata is more hit than miss from my experiences, you might get lucky, but pata (or a pci scsi card + scsi hdd) is much more likely.

Feel free to ask if you want any more details on supported gear, but a basic list:

gfx: martrox g200/400/500/550 (full 2d acceleration),
     nvidia: tnt/tnt2/gf1/gf2/gf2mx/gf3/gf4/gf4 mx/gf5200/5500/5600/some 5700's/5800/59x0 (full acceleration),
     from ati: rage up until radeon9700/9800 I believe has partial 2d  acceleration as well.
Having said that though there's an open pci radeon driver being worked on at the moment that has full hardware acceleration (not just fb) which looks very cool

snd: some ac97 codes, some intel hd codecs (I think), sb audigy, sblive

nic: 3com, rtl8029, rtl8039, others through linux side drivers but Ive never used them

For cpus pretty much anything from a p2, p3, p4, core2 and inbetween for intel, and probably from k6-2 through to pheom2's for amd, although Ive got no experience with amithlon on amd stuff beyond an athlon64. I say it a fair bit on a few different sites it seems, but Im a big fan of socket775 stuff for x86 based "amiga" machines. They, by mostly luck ended up a good balance between modern enough to have some nice grunt, but old enough to have some decent support.
Having said that though if you was mostly just interested in getting the machine youve mentioned up and running I cant imagine you'll have too many problems. There's a patch for p4's for fpu emulation though, just make sure you apply it (it's part of the amithlonupdates).

[fishy_fiz]

@Rodomoc

I actually used to use a similar board with amithlon, so its pretty likely you'll have some success with it. Two pci slots could potentially make things trickier, but if you can get either sound or networking supported through linux side drivers, or find a suitable pci riser card you'll be good to go.

@shaf
Unfortunately Amithlon only really supports up to 1.5gig of RAM, anything beyond that will stop it working. More realistically 1gig, but there are rare occasions where a person can get 1.25 or 1.5 supported. It's definately worth using kernel3.x  or 4.x though too, although an athlonxp is old enough that you'll probably get away with 2.x and earlier kernels.

@thread
To clarify things, at the moment amithlon has no 3d hardware acceleration. There is wazp3d, but for amithlon it's only software rendered, which while looking pretty, is varying degrees of slower (depending on amount of eye candy enabled). In the future this may change, as Ratte has been working on an openpci driver for radeon cards (up to semi modern cards) that has full2d acceleration (already shown working, a few videos are on youtube), and I believe he's also planning on adding 3d support as well, which would be awesome I dont have any "insider info" on this by the way, just what he's said, and what Ive asked on public forums like eab.