On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:36:02 Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Thomas
My questions are about running coreboot on an ASUS KFN4-D16 with an NVIDIA CK804 chipset and a SST SST49LF080A (BIOS?) chip 33-4C-NHE 0631138-B I have 2 cpus one is a 65nm dual core opteron 2210, the second CPU is a quad core 45nm "Shanghai" opteron 2376 - this CPU isn't supported by the ASUS BIOS. My aim is to get the board to boot with the quad core CPU, I would be happy if it boots with support for all the RAM and at least one of the ethernet ports, I can live without PCI, SATA, USB etc.
Do you know if the board can physically support the CPU?
Do you want to run the board with a mixed setup of both CPUs? (i have no idea if that works, but i would bet on: NO)
A. does FAM10 refer to 45nm Opterons (eg 2376)
and to 65nm quad cores
C. It seems that support for the Shanghai processors is not complete but will probably be in the near future, is this correct?
Possible, it is unclear if the microcode patches are needed, but with them it does not work.
Is your shanghai a CPU from a store? (= no engineering sample)
D. I am slightly confused by North and South bridge, is the CK804 a southbridge?, do the opteron CPUs provide their own northbridge?
The terminology is that the northbridge is in the CPU and the chipset is the I/O hub.
Christian