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On 12-02-11 08:03, xdrudis wrote:
My setup is similar to yours, I bought it trying to get easy coreboot support (easy, not immediate, and also some features), I've spent some 6 months trying to "install coreboot" and it still does not boot. But I'm not experienced in low level programming and I don't have that much spare time to experiment. So don't count on me as a volunteer. It's also not something I'd like to do on ssh. You have to do a lot of trying and exchange one chip for another, and it's already slighty tiresome if you're there physically, let alone having to wait for someone on IRC... There's also some risk of breaking something that I wouldn't like to take.
This ain’t good news :( Will a bounty of 100 Euro help to get the coreboot working with the needed features on this motherboard in less then 3 months?
Does your board have a serial port (RS232)? The photos look a lot like my board. Mine has one but I don't see it in yours
Yes, there is a COM1 header for the serial port.
Try to see the marking on the EPROM chip.
(see attachment) (imagebin was down) Winbond 25X80AVA17 0903
My board still doesn't boot though. It currently gets to ram stage and hangs while enabling pci devices. It's similar to a problem I found in romstage and I worked around it with a patch that wasn't probably the right approach (it wasn't commited). This time I'll have to see what's causing it (likely that I have an RX781, not an RS780, it's more or less the same without graphics, but I may have to tweak something somehow).
- ECC Memory support
Not sure this works
Does somebody know if ECC DDR2 and DDR3 works with coreboot? It's essential for my systems to countermeasure bitflips issues.
I got two M4A78 PRO motherboards that I would like to give new life by getting coreboot on them.
New life ? They are not so old as to have died yet... There're similar boards already that might work: src/mainboard/asus/m4a785-m src/mainboard/asus/m4a78-em
The M4A78 PRO are not being soled any-more, I switched to expensive server motherboards from intel and supermicro to have serial console redirection. I use alix motherboards for all network appliances (I will add coreboot to the alix systems soon)
For my customer-grade server motherboards I'm now using: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H [1] Asus M4A89GTD PRO [2] [1] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=Gdf0vtpVf72LTYgs [2] http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3516#sp
If it is better to donate one of these motherboards to an coreboot developer please tell me where to send one and what would be a reasonable ETA (in months) for a working coreboot system?
Thanks in advance,
With kind regards,
Jelle de Jong
