Re: [coreboot] ASUS KFN4D16 - K8 FAM10

[thomas ward]

Thanks Myles!

Your reply is very helpfull to me (especailly the part about using v2 - I was unsure which of v2 or v3 was appropriate) and very clear. I will follow the "destructions" (probably not till August becasue busy in June and holiday most of July) and once I have blown up the board will post the results to this list.

regards,

Tom.

--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Myles Watson  wrote:
> From: Myles Watson 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] ASUS KFN4D16 - K8 FAM10
> To: "Thomas Ward" 
> Cc: "[e-mail]" 
> Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 5:13 PM
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM,
> Thomas Ward 
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I realise your list is very technical and this is probably
> a daft set of question so please forgive me if it is
> cluttering up your list but I couldn't find a more
> appropriate place to ask,..
>
> ... so here goes.
>
> 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.They should all work.
>
> My plan is to use a BIOS saviour and buy a second
> SST49LF080A chip  and then
> flash  coreboot for K8 (?) with flashrom to verify that
>
> coreboot works on this board
> flash  coreboot for fam10 (?) with flashrom
>
> does this sound like a good plan?Yes.
>
> I have a couple of other questions
>
> E. what sort of BIOS chip / bios saviour kit should I use
> with this board?RD1
>
> output from flashrom, superiotool and lspci appended
> below,
>
> many thanks for any help and good luck with your project,
>
> Tom Ward
>
> root@shed:/home/tom/coreboot/flashrom# ./flashrom
>
> flashrom v0.9.0-r555
>
> No coreboot table found.
>
> Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804", enabling flash
> write... OK.
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
>
> Found chip "SST SST49LF080A" (1024 KB) at
> physical address 0xfff00000.Hopefully this
> chip is socketed.
>
> superiotool r3695
>
> Found Winbond W83627THF/THG (id=0x82, rev=0x84) at
> 0x2eThis SuperIO is supported.
>
> 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory
> Controller (rev a4)
>
> This board is very similar to the
> tyan/s2892.
>
> If I were you, my first step would be to get the BIOS
> savior (or just use the pushpin method)
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual
>
> Once you can recover from a bad flash,
>
> check out the latest coreboot-v2
> mkdir src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16
> svn cp src/mainboard/tyan/s2892/*
> src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16/
> mkdir targets/asus/kfn4-d16
>
> svn cp targets/tyan/s2892/Config.lb targets/asus/kfn4-d16/
>
> edit src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16/Config.lb
>
> Enable devices that are in your lspci, disable any that
> don't show up.  Don't worry about cards that you
> plug in, they'll be found automatically.
>
> Change the SuperIO from chip superio/winbond/w83627hf to
> superio/winbond/w83627thf and change any settings there that
> you need to.
> Change socket_940 to socket_F
>
> (When you're ready to switch to fam10)
> Change amdk8 to amdfam10 everywhere (may need some other
> small fixups)
>
> edit targets/asus/kfn4-d16/Config.lb
> Change s2892 to kfn4-d16
> make sure ROM_SIZE matches the chip you're using.
>
> cd targets
>
> ./buildtarget asus/kfn4-d16
>
> make a payload (Maybe seabios)
> cp your_payload targets/asus/kfn4-d16/kfn4-d16/payload.elf
>
> make -C asus/kfn4-d16/kfn4-d16
>
> Last step is to send your patches to the list with a
> Signed-off-by: <your-email> line.
>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>
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