Dne 23.10.2012 10:48, Paul Menzel napsal(a):
Dear František,
Am Dienstag, den 23.10.2012, 09:52 +0200 schrieb František Kučera:
I am interested in building high performance workstation completely based on free software -- beside free GNU/Linux distribution I want to use Coreboot.
welcome!
Please note, although strange in some languages that coreboot is spelled all lowercase.
OK, coreboot :-)
Important for me is virtualization support including IOMMU/VT-d. Both Intel and AMD are good form me, but AMD seems to be a better choice, isn't it?
AMD directly contributes code.
I want to build this computer for myself and later may be offer same model to others. The ASUS M5A88-V looks good and, according to wiki, is supported, but this board is discontinued and even if I can buy one somewhere, the availability is problem. Could you please recommend me some more modern board good for experimenting with Coreboot? What about some board with AMD 990FX e.g. ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0? I have seen that it is supported by Flashrom, so the first step is done.
Please take a look at the *whole* thread »F2A85-V PRO as good target?« on the coreboot list [1]. If you want to reply to it, make sure to import the mbox of the archive from [2] to keep the threading.
Thanks for the link, I found here some inspiration. I am thinking about AMD FX-8350, so I need an AM3+ board. According to some pictures I found, Sabertooth 990 FX seems to have ITE IT8721F, which should be - al least partially - supported: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-September/066483.html (but I didn't find it in Supported Chipsets and Devices in wiki)
Thanks,
Paul
Also thanks. I will probably buy this board (if I don't find better one) and post more info about it.
František
[1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-October/071705.html [2] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/