I spoke with carldani in #coreboot about running coreboot on my MSI K9AGM3-F. Details below. The first problem is that the BIOS is soldered to the board. However, there is SPI access[1][2]. I understand the code is not perfect, but should be usable. I'm no expert, but where I can I'd like to help.
Page [2] builds an external programmer using a parallel port. Unfortunately, I do not have such a port sitting around. I do have a serial port. I'd be very pleased if someone could help me build a programmer for it. I can't make schematics, but I can solder.
At the end of the day, my board needs to be usable. It's not doing anything mission-critical, but I can't make this an eternal project, either. I am willing to invest time and effort, perform tests where I can, provide feedback, that sort of thing.
Board details: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2300 NB: AMD 960V SB: ATI SB600 MB: MSI K9AGM3-F lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3) 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) 00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) 00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) 00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) 03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) end lspci Super IO: Fintek F71882FG BIOS chip type: SOIC8 (also see [1]) URL: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=1346&mainca...
[1] http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9302/dsc00351lo.jpg [2] http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/spi/msi_spi.html