Hello,
I just started looking into adding support for the dell r610. This is mostly because you can get them really cheap and they perform well for my type of workloads. However looking at the wiki it looks like I have my work cut out for me if I am able to do this at all. From the following dump it looks like I have a currently unsupported chipset, cpu, and superIO.
$ root@plex-8316f3de71:~# dmidecode -t 2 # dmidecode 3.1 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.6 present.
Handle 0x0200, DMI type 2, 9 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: 0K399H Version: A03 Serial Number: ..CN697029680164. Asset Tag: Not Specified
$ root@plex-8316f3de71:~# superiotool -d superiotool r6637 Found SMSC EMC2700LPC (id=0x67, rev=0x01) at 0x2e No dump available for this Super I/O
$ root@plex-8316f3de71:~# inteltool CPU: ID 0x106a5, Processor Type 0x0, Family 0x6, Model 0x1a, Stepping 0x5 Northbridge: 8086:3403 (unknown) Southbridge: 8086:2918 (ICH9)
It looks like I will have to contact SMSC which was acquired by microchip in 2012 so hopefully they are still able to give me the datasheet. Additionally I will need to get the datasheet from intel for CPU north/south bridge which from the docs sounds like it might take a while if they will even give it to me at all.
Does this seem like a good place to start? I wasn't able to find much outside of https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual so figured I would ask for a little bit of help getting started on the mailing list first.
Thanks for looking