Dear Ross,
thank you for your message. First three off-topic things.
1. Please send just plain text messages and no HTML. This is covered in the netiquette [1]. 2. When pasting stuff please turn off line wrapping. This is not possible with the Google Mail Web interface as far as I know. So either attach this stuff as text files or use a good mail user agent like Thunderbird/Iceweasel, Mutt, …. 3. The project name is spelled all lower case: coreboot.
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 18:51 +0200 schrieb Ross McDonald:
Hello! I would like to use CoreBoot on my laptop. It is an HP Compaq NC6320. The board vendor is HP.
Ok, this a laptop for everyone.
It is a HP 30AA motherboard with an Intel 945GM Chipset (ICH7-M southbridge and i945 northbridge). The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600. It has a SMSC LPC47N217 SuperIO chip (that is the output of SuperIOTool).
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If I am not mistaken, this is the same chipset as for example used in the Lenovo X60 or T60 and 986LCD-M/mITX [2].
So make sure you have a way to recover. Easiest way is when the flash chip is socketed to get some spare flash chips. Since this is a laptop you probably need to solder a socket or an adapter to the board like was done with the X60 or T60 [3][4].
You also need to find out if an embedded controller is used and how it works. Lastly you also need the laptop board schematics I think to set everything up. Then you should be able to do the port pretty easily I think. Look at the commits for the X60 and T60.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette [2] http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/69354 [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios.flashrom/575