On Sat, Feb 19 2011, Alex G. wrote:
On 02/19/2011 06:58 PM, sharad wrote:
I wanted general purpose regular desktop for programming, internet, GNU/Linux with common servers dovecote, tomcat, apache etc
Probably a socket AM2+ board will be best for you if you want to run coreboot.
The Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is the only AM3 board supported. Someone recently had a problem getting it to run, but at worst, it needs a bit of tweaking. It has a COM port header, so we can use that to debug if something may not be working. It doesn't include the adapter for the com port, but that should be cheap to get.
http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
The board has 4 hardware versions, so you may encounter issues depending on which version you get. I'd definitely suggest AM3 versus the older AM2/AM2+.
You can also pick your favorite board and port it (which we'd all love :p ).
Alex
On Fri, Mar 04 2011, bari wrote:
Sharad wrote:
So I wanted to know if I have to purchase `GIGABYTE_GA-MA785GMT-US2H' as `GIGABYTE_GA-MA785GMT-UD2H' is not available, Could it be easy to get coreboot in it as `GIGABYTE_GA-MA785GMT-UD2H' have been already supported, might be it is a newer version of `GIGABYTE_GA-MA785GMT-UD2H'? Either board works with coreboot with minor tweaking. Compare the
chipset, memory type and super IO on boards. If coreboot supports the devices then most of the work is already done. Gigabyte boards usually have the dual BIOS device circuit that make flash programming a bit more complicated. You might have to check if Flashrom ever was patched to support it. -Bari
Little more query as these are newer boards in market
GA-880GA-UD3H GA-880GMA-UD2H GA-880GM-UD2H
As GA-MA785GMT-UD2H already supported, Could its support would be helpful for easily porting above 880 boards for me, if they have something in common with GA-MA785GMT-UD2H.
Thanks