Hello Merlin,
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.
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).
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?
(If support for the superio chip is not yet available I could try adding support for the chip to coreboot but this is not something I have done before.)
(I live in the Enschede, the Netherlands so shipping charges should not be a problem)
Greetings, Renze Nicolai
On do, 2016-12-15 at 20:34 -0500, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
It *appears* to support IOMMU, and the AM3+ higher end procs (8350) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_800_chipset_series#890FX http://www.overclock.net/t/730776/official-gigabyte-ga-890fxa-ud5-ud7 -owners-thread-club/4040 The 7xx chipset that coreboot currently supports does not do IOMMU (artificial market separations)
What would be really swell is a port to a nice 9xx series motherboard, both are quite old but the 8xx is even older.
9xx is the last best x86-64 boards that are able to boot without any kind of supervisor processor (ME/PSP) and that have coreboot do the real work (intel FSP boards make coreboot just shimboot doing 10% of the work
- entirely bogus - making most of the boot process a black box.)
On 12/15/2016 07:36 AM, Merlin Büge wrote:
Hey all,
I have a nice Gigabyte mainboard which I don't need/use anymore: A Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 2.0 or 2.1)
http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3519
Since I like libre-friendly computing hardware, I'd find it nice to see libreboot running on it. I'm not sure, but from what I see, it should be libreboot compatible? Could someone more knowledged than me confirm this?
If someone is interested in porting this board to coreboot, and if there are no big foreseeable obstacles to porting it to lireboot, I'd be happy donating that board together with a Phenom II 965 and 4G RAM, preferrable to someone in Germany or within the EU (shipping costs).
Regards,
Merlin