Well, we're getting serial out now.
coreboot-2.0.0-r.0Fallback Fri Sep 18 16:51:15 PDT 2009 starting... PCI: 00:00.00 PCI: 00:10.00 PCI: 0f:00.00 PCI: 0f:10.00 SMBus controller enabled
so we own it. There's a missing smbus controller, a few more bits to work out, but given that we support this chipset, I've only bricked 6 nodes, there are 4500 left to go, this ought to be doable.
I can't wait to get rid of this factory bios. There is just so much it does wrong ...
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