Hi everybody,
i still am a proud user of one of the old msi wind netbooks from back in the day when the still sold the linux versions... and would be very interested in running coreboot on it :-)
the outputs of the log utilities mentioned on the laptop page are attached in the logs.zip. i can send some schematics of the ms-n011 mainboard i found (but mainly containing pin-configurations and so on) and a few versions of the vendors bios (i've read somewhere the ECs rom are the first 64 bit of the bios-file) if anyone is interested in those. (i didn't want to spam the whole mailinglist with them)
in the sourcecode of git i saw that there is already a board using the atom 230 (same cpuid), and also the 945GME and 82801GBM (ICH7-M) chipsets seem to be supported, so that part shouldn't pose a big problem, right?
now, as the flash-chip seems to be behind the ENE KB3310 EC-Controller ( i haven't taken apart the netbook yet, but the Laptop-page states the flashchip is a SST MX25L8005 8 Mb chip), i guess that will be the bigger problem correct? will there be a way around that or does that mean that my netbook can't use coreboot?
my skills in pure c are bad and my assembly-kung-fu is really *****!#"$& so i think i cannot do this on my own, especially since i haven't done any development near the hardware-level yet. but i'm willing to learn ;-)
currently i'm still using my netbook for work, so i won't risc bricking it right now at the moment, but in 2-3 months i plan to replace it with something else. until then i'd only be able to do qemu testing on it.
cheers
tammo
PS: i know, offtopic here, but there is a build error if you select filo in the payloads menu and leave the standard version 0.6.0 (instead of selecting master): conflicting types cbfs_find_file in cbfs.c and libpayload/include/cbfs_core.h didn't see that on the issue-tracker, is this a known problem or should i open a bug for that?