PC Engines ALIX.1C Vendor Cooperation Score

The wiki is being retired!

Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

Availability

PC Engines ALIX.1C is widely available as of August 2008.

Vendor Cooperation Score

Item	Points	Max	Rating
#Documentation	59	80
#Hackability	9	24
#Vendor participation	0	10
#Example and support code	7	10
Total	75	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

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

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. Score: 7/10

Item	Status	Points
Example and support code	Vendor provides code via e-mail, no NDA/license agreement required.	7

Background on our rating system

See the Rating System page for more information.