Hi Jeremiah,
Jeremiah Holt wrote:
Mainboard
MSI PM8M3-V revision v4
CPU
? Supports Intel(R) Pentium 4 / Celeron D processors in LGA775 package.
..
Chipset
? VIA(R) P4M800CE Chipset
..
? VIA(R) VT8237R plus Chipset
..
step 2: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
step 3: winbond W83627EHG
step 4: PLCC soldered directly to board
The bad news is that your board is not currently supported by any version of coreboot.
The good news is that each component on the board and at least all newer P4 CPUs are supported already - but on other boards.
The key here is that CN700 and P4M800 are identical because they share the same PCI ID, and we have CN700 working with VIA C7 CPUs. However, it may not be evident how the P4M800 Host CPU Interface (D0F2, thanks Corey!) shall be programmed in order to work with Intel CPUs from any code we have - and we don't have any documentation for these aspects of Intel CPUs to my knowledge.
Quoting Corey on IRC just now:
Th2103 <c_ozzie> maybe we can just pull them from lspci, and plug away until something sticks? the suggested values should be in the bios porting update note, even harder to get then the datasheet
This would certainly be an interesting port, all the big pieces are in place, but a bit of glue is neccessary to fit everything together.
//Peter