Hi all,
On coreboot status page, I can see that M5A88-V status is unknown (EVO? M5A88-V seems not referenced in asus support page)
But when I search infos about it : https://github.com/DarkDefender/coreboot In coreboot official repo somes changes have been down recently.
So is this mainboard officialy supported with the lastest coreboot version and what does or does not work?
Best regards
SkollRC
Hi Robin, M5A88-V board is supported by coreboot, but nobody sent a board_status report for it - that's why its' status at this page is "unknown". So, to learn what is working and what isn't, you have to search through the coreboot mailing list archives and read the discussions under M5A88-V patches at review.coreboot.org . Hope you could share your findings here then, to save the time for others.
Best regards, Mike Banon
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 4:59 PM Robin C amisbievre@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Looks like as of this thread there were issues detecting any CPU newer than a K10: https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-April/069394.html
At some point someone tried to get family 15h to work as well, but ran into issues bringing up sata: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/3611 There are also issues there with usb and the GPU. Issues with the sata controller were mentioned previously here: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/2610
There is also an abandoned port that was based on this board: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/5551
And it was mentioned here: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/28225
Sincerely, -Matt
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 3:17 PM Mike Banon mikebdp2@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for all info. I wont try coreboot with this board... I hope that one day AMD mainboards will be much supported.
Recetly many security breaches had been descovered in Intel cpus. And I would like to fine an am3+ or even am4 Mobo compatible with coreboot.
Did you know if there is any?
R
Le sam. 18 mai 2019 22:56, Matt B matthewwbradley6@gmail.com a écrit :
Robin, if you already have this M5A88-V board, why not to try? ;-) AM3+ : if you'd go to a coreboot board status page [1] and search for AM3, there are 8 matches - some have a fresh board status and some of these AM3 may be AM3+, haven't checked yet. AM4 : no such boards, but maybe would appear in the future - see [2] - but we don't know if there would be a PSP inside these Chinese Zens.
If you are simply looking for a high performance AMD desktop motherboard, maybe you could consider looking at some of the other sockets? For example, A88XM-E FM2+ boards - which you could find used for 58 usd with free ship (e.g. AliExpress) and where you could install a powerful A10-6700 or A10-6800 APU (newer -7*** models may be not supported). Although A88XM-E boards are not officially supported by a coreboot yet, if you would look under a [2] patch review, aside from a few problems this board has a pretty good working status. There are also more powerful AMD boards like the (also libreboot-supported) ASUS KCMA-D8 / ASUS KFSN4-DRE and especially a prominent ASUS KGPE-D16 with two AMD Opterons . And there are less powerful ASUS AM1I-A and a few of other AM1 boards ( Athlon 5370 is the most powerful for this socket, but it's rare; more frequent is 5350 )
[1] https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hygon-Dhyana-Coreboo... [3] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/30987
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:45 PM Robin C amisbievre@gmail.com wrote:
Also Asus F2A85-M works now really good,
An Zen2 coreboot board with PSP Cleaner and working ECC would be a dream.
Am 21.05.19 um 15:23 schrieb Mike Banon:
Hi,
Just a quick question: did the ASUS KFSN4-DRE ever receive family 15h support, in addition to 10h? or was that only the KGPE boards?
Thanks, -Matt
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:16 PM Kinky Nekoboi kinky_nekoboi@nekoboi.moe wrote:
did the ASUS KFSN4-DRE ever receive family 15h support, in addition to 10h? or was that only the KGPE boards?
When I go to a "./src/mainboard/asus/kgpe-d16" or "./src/mainboard/asus/kcma-d8" and do this search: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n "15h" - there are multiple matches at their ./romstage.c and ./resourcemap.c , but when I'm doing the same at "./src/mainboard/asus/kfsn4-dre", there is only one match: ./romstage.c:42:#include <cpu/amd/family_10h-family_15h/init_cpus.h> , although there's the same single match for a "10h" search as well.
So it's a bit unclear if there's a "15h" support at KFSN4-DRE currently, and - if there is none - maybe this 15h code from KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8 could be somehow re-used for KFSN4-DRE. Hopefully, Timothy Pearson could help to reply to your question, since he is a maintainer for KFSN4-DRE board.
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