On 23-07-11 12:56, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently eyeing the ASUS E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD Hudson M1 Micro AT over at newegg and was wondering if any coreboot compatibility is known.
I saw in the supported motherboards section that the asrock (the budget section of asus?) does have a E350 based board that is supported, so hopes are good for now :)
I am kindof working on it, but so far memory initialization fails most of the time (as in: I had two or three boots that reached the payload so far). The (apparently) same failure has been observed with the ASRock board as well: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-July/065795.html
As such, I am actually currently not really working on it, but rather waiting for Frank Vibrans to have a closer look at the AGESA debug output the board generates before it stops.
Recently amd announced they'd support all future CPU's starting with .. I forgot, but how well is this setup to be supported in, say a year from now?
I'm experienced with linux, and not scared of flashing, compiling and testing. I (will soon) have jtag and other flashing capabilities using bus-pirate and bus-blaster boards. I don't know if this board has dual bios or swapable bios, as the only swapable chip is a little 8 leggeded chip (doubt that's the 32MB flash). The current
It's 32 Mb/4 MB, but that's the BIOS flash, indeed.
Well with the replaceable bios-chip; that's awesome. Getting a spare of those shouldn't be to hard, to experiment with.
bios is UEFI based though.
... and horribly broken, yes.
as always I suppose :(
Any thoughts/idea's?
Well, I can provide you with what's necessary to get the serial port going, but currently there isn't much to do unless you are familiar with AMD CPU and chipset initialization, I guess.
Florian
I'm not that technical I'm affraid :) But didn't AMD say they'd support coreboot 'better'? Any way they'd be of help in that regard?