September 2007 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

[LinuxBIOS] Add initial support for intel i855gme northbridge
by Jon Dufresne Jan. 20, 2009

Jan. 20, 2009

Add initial support for i855gme. This is a work in progress and I don't expect it to work on all boards, or even any besides mine. This is based heavily on i855pm. Signed off by Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne(a)gmail.com>

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[LinuxBIOS] A8N5X port
by Robert Millan Nov. 21, 2008

Nov. 21, 2008

This patch includes config files for the asus/a8n5x port. It is the same as asus/a8n_e with a different pnp layout, so I used #include's whenever possible. System boots and is usable with usb keyboard. works: - serial port - vga (old pci card) - memtest86+ succeeds, but only with Rudolf's patch for unbuffered dimms in K8. Otherwise you get spurious memory corruption. - ide disk - usb doesn't: - ps/2 keyboard - onboard ethernet - vga pci-e card (??) - any other pci card I tried wasn't tested: - sata - game port - onboard audio (not supported by alsa anyway) - ps/2 mouse -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)

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[LinuxBIOS] W39V040BPZ or vt8237. Flashing problems.
by Adam Talbot March 4, 2008

March 4, 2008

Have three motherboards running cn700, VT8237 chips set. All three boards have W39V040BPZ bios chips. I can not program them with flashrom. Flashrom see the chip as W39V040B. Flashrom start on the flash and just sits there. When flashed with the -V option I can see the memory address is not changing. But, big problem is the fact that the chip does get a bit flashed, as, I can no longer boot. So there is something happening. Looking at the data sheet for the W39V040B, all the PZ gives me is the PLCC package and lead free. So, is this a problem with the vt8237 south bridge? Where should I go to start debugging? -Adam

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[LinuxBIOS] [Fwd: Re: AMD 690G chipset support in LinuxBIOS v2]
by Marc Jones Jan. 22, 2008

Jan. 22, 2008

Meant to send this to the list. Marc -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD 690G chipset support in LinuxBIOS v2 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:05:47 -0600 From: Marc Jones <Marc.Jones(a)AMD.com> To: Darmawan Salihun <darmawan.salihun(a)gmail.com> References: <46893e740709101937j32a4f32bu6dc296a628d36dc6(a)mail.gmail.com> Darmawan Salihun wrote: > Hi all, > I've grepped through the source code last night but haven't found > code for board that uses this chipset. Is there any support coming > down the road? I'm planning to buy a new system for BIOS experiments > in the next few days. This chipset is a candidate for me. I want a > chipset with onboard video and K8 processor. > I choose K8 because the datasheet for the memory controller is > readily available. I'm open for any suggestion(s). Basically, I just > want a system that can run Vista, support multicore processor and can > be used for LinuxBIOS experiments (preferably without soldering stuff > needed). > Anyway, one further question: hot-flashing can be done on SPI > chips as well, right? > > > Regards, > > Darmawan Salihun > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -= Human knowledge belongs to the world =- Hi Darmawan, Currently there is no support in LinuxBIOS for any ATI(now AMD) chipsets. We do plan to work on this in the next six months but I don't have a specific release date. == Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:Marc.Jones@amd.com http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:Marc.Jones@amd.com http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] different versions of the GA-M57SLI-S4 (PLCC vs SPI)
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Jan. 11, 2008

Jan. 11, 2008

On 23.09.2007 23:16, echelon(a)free.fr wrote: > Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006(a)gmx.net>: >> OK, I have the 0.2 and 0.3 datasheet of IT8716F and I can't find any >> difference in interfaces between the datasheets. Please be more specific >> what you think has been replaced (including page numbers). > Simply the pinout.. (please compare the pin-out diagram btw the 2 version of > the DS). I did. Pages 7-23 (Pin configuration) are exactly the same for 0.2 and 0.3. Please tell me the page number where you see any differences. > In fact, there could be another explanation : I talked about this issue with a > hardware specialist at my work (he has worked into the IC design..) and his > hypothesis is that the component which is actually used on this motherboard is a > "custom" revision especially crafted by ITE for Gigabyte.. (yes, they had > "volume" so they could afford to make a deal for a custom revision..) Maybe. I still want to find out why your data sheet seems to differ from mine. Regards, Carl-Daniel

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[LinuxBIOS] Flashrom add EON EN29F002NT
by Markus Boas Dec. 31, 2007

Dec. 31, 2007

I send a patch to add support for the EON EN29F002NT Write, read works. Signed-off-by: Markus Boas <ryven(a)ryven.de>

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[LinuxBIOS] [RFC] i82801 generic patch
by Corey Osgood Dec. 30, 2007

Dec. 30, 2007

The attached patch is a unified version of the current ports of the i82801 series currently in LinuxBIOS. Since most of the ports are nearly identical, I've taken for each file and chosen the cleanest or best version of the code, then checked over the datasheets to *some* of the series, including the aa, ba, ca, and db, to make sure that it would work. I've also made some changes here and there, mostly cleanup and clarification. The only things left to look at are the huge difference between this version's lpc init and the i82801er's, finding a better way to select which chip is present on the board, and gpl headers in all files. Anyways, comments, suggestions, even flames are welcome ;) Testing on other chips can be done at this point as well, this is tested and working on one model, the i82801aa. -Corey

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[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Remove Bitworks IMS
by Corey Osgood Dec. 1, 2007

Dec. 1, 2007

Well, as there seems to be a lot of cleaning up going on lately, might as well add this to the docket. The attached patch removes the Bitworks IMS, as 1) there's no video support for it, 2) no one objected when this was discussed previously, and 3) no one seems to have one, and they aren't readily available. Any comments are welcome. Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood <corey_osgood(a)verizon.net>

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[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] LAR verison field
by Alex Beregszaszi Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

Hi, this adds a 32bit version field after the magic. I choose 200709061 as a starting version, where the last 1 is a counter ranging to 9, thus there can be 9 different version per day (lol). It is not going to try any backward compatibility or workaround based on version, just bail out or skip when a different version than we are running is encountered. It might be a better idea grouping len and offset fields after or before version field, and make then fixed by design, so we can do correct skipping instead the 16-byte aligned walking. Note: the "/* NOTE -- This and the user-mode lar.h are NOT IN SYNC. Be careful. */" message (which is present both in include/lar.h and utils/lar/lar.h) is not valid anymore. -- Alex

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[LinuxBIOS] License header missing in util/flashrom/layout.c
by Alex Beregszaszi Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Hi, the subject says it all. The missing header in udelay.c was added a few days ago, this should not be missed. -- Alex

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