Ivan Barrera A. wrote:
Patrick Georgi escribió:
Ivan Barrera A. schrieb:
Is it possible ? Or, do you have any other sugestions to keep trying ?
SerialICE might be an option: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot-announce/2009-June/000002.html
That way, the chip only has to be flashed once (at least until serialice works enough, but that's a much smaller problem to solve than getting coreboot to run), and then you can run coreboot or the vendor's BIOS from your host system, and even look at what they do.
Downside: it requires a serial port (though adding EHCI debug port support or something like that should be feasible - but "adding" requires some effort).
Aha... I did read about SerialICE, but didnt get anywhere because the laptop doesnt have serial ports. (and havent found one on the board, tho dmidecode names one) I'll get some flash chips and keep looking.
Area the minipci/minipcie diagnostic cards useful with coreboot/seabios ?
PS : Perhaps the vgarom doesnt work well because it is a PCIe card.
You won't see anything on VGA because the machine's RAM is not working. Which port did you use as a basis for a i965 port? i945? That one comes pretty close, but needs a _lot_ of changes, still, before it would come close to the point where you can start looking at enabling VGA..
If you want to experiment with supporting the i965 chipset, I suggest you do the following:
* Get a i965 based desktop board first and get that running. * Get an Artec LPC Dongle/FlexyICE and a Stuge LPC/PLCC converter. http://www.coreboot.org/Artecgroup_programmable_LPC_dongle * Get a USB debug device for console via USB http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
Best regards, Stefan