Dear GS Hunt,
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Am Dienstag, den 20.08.2013, 20:21 -0400 schrieb GS Hunt:
// http://ca.msi.com/product/mb/870S-G54.htmlBrief Descriptions
MSI 870S-G54 (MS-7599) Chipset*NorthBridge AMD870 Soutbridge 850** *CPU AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
That sounds promising. AMD chipsets are supported by code directly contributed by AMD.
lspci attached flashrom info attached. superiotool super io not detected super i/o info from dmesg -> f71882fg: Found f71889ed chip at 0x600, revision 16
Ok, to get serial output, you need to get the Super I/O working. Maybe it is similar to some chip already in the coreboot tree.
Supports dumping bios to USB device Will run bios from a USB device (no flashing required)
I guess that only works with the vendor BIOS and not coreboot.
Manufacture Website
Thanks for pasting this link.
How much time and money are you willing to invest. With no prior experience this is doable but to reach above 90 percent feature parity with the vendor BIOS it is going to be some effort.
First you need to find a way to easily recover. Easiest is an external programmer or to hot-swap the flash chip if it is socketed [2].
Then you probably need to add support for the Super I/O. Then you need a way to capture coreboot’s debugging output. Common methods are using the serial console or an USB debug dongle which Kyösti Mälkki currently adds support for as his Google Summer of Code project. Check out his blog posts [3] for more information.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette [2] http://flashrom.org/Technology [3] http://blogs.coreboot.org/