Re: [coreboot] MSI 890-GXM-G65 (MS-7642) support / any interested users?

[QingPei Wang]

hi,
  just take a look at the patch which i just send, it's ASUS M5A88-V, much
the same as yours

Best wishes
Wang Qing Pei
Phone: 86+018930528086

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Harald Gutmann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently bought the above mentionend mainboard and it is used in my new
> desktop computer.
>
> As I used bevore the Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 I'd really like to see coreboot
> support again on my new mainboard.
>
> Actually I'm not fully up to date with the shape of coreboot and it
> supported
> components but I think it should be possible to get this board working with
> coreboot.
>
> Matthias Mattsson asked for coreboot support of this mainboard some while
> ago,
> but these days the SB880 was supported. I think now this platform should be
> supported.
>
> The recent flashrom version finds the following:
> Probing for Winbond W25Q16, 2048 kB: probe_spi_rdid_generic: id1 0xef, id2
> 0x4015
> Chip status register is 00
> Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16" (2048 kB, SPI) at physical address
> 0xffe00000.
>
> Therefore I guess that flashrom support should be fine, but it is as of now
> untested.
>
> lspci gives the following components:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI
> bridge
> (int gfx)
> 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
> (PCIE
> port 1)
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
> (PCIE
> port 2)
> 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA
> Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40)
> 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
> Controller
> 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
> Controller
> 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
> Controller
> 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
> Controller
> 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
> 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host
> controller
> (rev 40)
> 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
> 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2
> Controller
> 00:15.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 PCI to PCI bridge
> (PCIE
> port 0)
> 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0
> Controller
> 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI
> Controller
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
> HyperTransport Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
> Address
> Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM
> Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
> Miscellaneous Control
> 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link
> Control
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD
> 4290]
> 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD
> 4200]
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI
> Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
> (rev
> 03)
> 04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24]
> PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)
> 05:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller
>
> This should be an RS880/RS890 northbridge. The processor is fam10h.
>
> Can anyone give me a statement if there is already a similar board working
> or
> which board would be the best starting point to look at?
>
> Any hints and recommendations are welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
> Harald Gutmann