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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi Alois,
On 23.06.2009 10:15, Alois Schlögl wrote:
I'm wondering whether coreboot will work in my machine. Here is requested information [...]
- System:
SAPPHIRE PI-AM2RS780G, AMDx86-64 QuadCore,
I have good and bad news for you. The good news is that your processor is supported pretty well (I think we're hunting down one strange interaction) and the 780G/SB700 combination is being worked on. The bad news is that we don't yet have a time estimate for when the 780G/SB700 code will be ready (it's blocked on some legal review inside AMD). Porting to any given board should be doable in a few weeks (or days, if we're really lucky) after the availability of 780G/SB700 code.
We'll make sure to send out an announcement once the 780G/SB700 code (or parts of it) has been released.
Judging from experience, the legal review happens faster if we can show more (or more interesting) reference customers, so if you plan to use coreboot on 780G/SB700 as part of university research, we'd tell AMD about this immediately.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
The reason for asking is the bug as described here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13573
The bug is affecting my research at the university. It was suggested that a Bios-update could solve the problem.
Cheers, Alois