Hello Andrew,<div><br></div><div>AMD SB800-ish southbridges will only selectively fetch BIOS from LPC or SPI based on straps. Your board won&#39;t fetch from LPC unless you change the strap (which are unknown resistors on your board).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Your best option is SPI in-system programming, and you can just use the SPI header that is already in place. There are some cheap SPI wigglers supported by flashrom.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Andrew Bolster <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:me@andrewbolster.info">me@andrewbolster.info</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi folks; <div>I&#39;ve got a MSI350IA-E45 board, which is a AMD fam 14h board with a AMD SB700/800 southbridge. I&#39;d like to contribute by porting coreboot to the board, but I&#39;m not sure where to start; there&#39;s no LPC header!</div>


<div><br></div><div>I threw together a patch-cable for my secondary LPC bios, and the board doesn&#39;t explode when I use the cable (always a good sign) but it doesn&#39;t appear to effect the boot; I assume that the stock bios is refusing to let it take over. </div>


<div><br></div><div>There is an SPI header, but I don&#39;t have an SPI ROM emulator, so at this point, what are my options? Is there a way to force the board to look at the TPM/LPC socket?<br clear="all">Regards<br>Andrew Bolster<br>


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