Excerpts from Alan Cox's message of jeu mai 05 09:38:37 -0400 2011:

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I've looked at that, and the board doesn't support DMI. Elements we have
are the processor (i.e. AMD ElanSC520), the BIOS, maybe the memory and
PCI bus layouts...

Well the CPU is a big help that cuts it down a lot. PCI bridge
subvendor/dev can be a good way to identify boards as well if they
manufacturers have actually bothered to set them properly.

In a first step, I now check the CPU and the Ethernet chip which are
relevant devices of TS-5xxx boards. The only problem comes from the
TS-5300 board which has a different Ethernet chip, using the ISA bus.
I can't find other relevant device information about this board. So, is
the CPU detection (AMD Elan SC520) enough? Or should I add a module
parameter to specify the board model and avoid this pre-detection?

Thanks,
Vivien.