Hello Uwe,
I would bring this topic "up" again and kindly ask you, if had some time looking at the A8N-E board.
Is there any way forward planned on your side for this board yet?
I am honestly waiting for a running coreboot on A8N-E since ~two years. A lot of little (or better big) steps were made to get each component of the board running. But unfortunately no "breakthrough" so far... meaning I can't use it for daily work yet.
Please don't get me wrong - I know that you and all the other devs are doing difficult and time intensive work on the whole coreboot project.
So I want to thank all of you for this hard work!
Salutations, Andy
Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de Fri May 8 13:26:10 CEST 2009
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Hi,
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:37:15AM +0200, Andy Jakobs wrote:
I also have this board and a NVIDIA 7600GT PCI-E card.
I tested the latest revision a few days ago. Unfortunately there was still no output on the screen after a power-off. So it is no real alternative/replacement for the legacy bios of the board yet.
But console output works.
I have the board here, maybe I find the time to look into it. The issue stems very likely from an incorrect IRQ routing setup, however fixing that is not always trivial unfortunately (and board documentation/datasheets are not available of course).
Uwe.
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