Hi,
Taiidan and Renze, thank you for your responses.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:46:07 +0100 Renze Nicolai renze@rnplus.nl wrote:
I am interested in porting Coreboot to your GA-890FXA-UD5. A month ago I succesfully ported coreboot to my MS-7721 (FM2-A75MA-E35) motherboard and having a go at porting another AMD board to coreboot would be a good opportunity for me to learn more about coreboot.
That sounds good. I'd love to try it myself, but at the moment I don't feel like I have enough time for it. I'm also quite new to coreboot and have plenty to learn about it, so I guess I should start somewhere else.
Since I can not guarantee that I will succeed. Therefore I propose that in case of failure the provided hardware will be returned to you so that you can find someone else to give it a go.
If you want me to work on porting coreboot to your board we should work out the details privately. Please contact me directly (renze@rnplus.nl).
Sure! I'll write you an email today.
Can someone more experienced please confirm that coreboot has support for the AMD 890FX northbridge, the AMD SB850 southbridge and the ITE IT8720 superio chip?
I'm not sure, but I found this: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:amd/south_station ... which according to https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards/old has a SB850 and seems to be supported by coreboot.
I could not find any further info on that board though...
By the way, the Gigabyte mainboard has a "Dual BIOS" setup: https://www.coreboot.org/Gigabyte_Dual_bios
I guess this could impose obstacles.
It seems that there has been done work about it already: https://www.mail-archive.com/coreboot@coreboot.org/msg23613.html https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxbios@linuxbios.org/msg05929.html
(Taiidan:)
What would be really swell is a port to a nice 9xx series motherboard, both are quite old but the 8xx is even older.
Heh, when I read specs on those, they both still sound absolutely high-end to me :P I find it strenuous to keep up with current tech trends...
Thanks,
Merlin