Hello everyone,
I hope you're doing fine
I would like to do some trials to see if I may be able to support few boards I have cause they are aftermarket withoout EFI and without firmware updates and not working as I would like them to. (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1370496/cant-boot-latests-lives-for-install-...) I really would not like to throw them...
They are X58 chipset with ICH10 with Xeon Westmere on socket 1366 and SuperIO NCT5532D. (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/x58-express-chipset-datashee...) (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/io-controller-hub-10-family-...) (https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/1042365/novoTon/NCT5532D/1)
I have the tooling to backup and restore the flash and already done that few time. I have built latest coreboot (4.14 using lenovo x201 config) with EDK2 firmware as payload (edk2-stable202108 NOOPT) successfully but nothing is happening after flash swap and power on.
I have RS232 debug working at ttyS0 (at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A) From the original firmware, just after power on, even before any bip or display or keyboard light I see "Socket = 0" on serial, so the the original firmware is able to output to this serial very early.
I read quite a lot of literature about coreboot, but still, I am not sure how to pursue now.
Thanks in advance, Have a nice day, Best Regards, Mickaël.