Anybody work on Intel 5000P and ESB2 chipset ?

[Jensen Qin]

Hi,
I have some board with Intel 5000P and ESB2 chipset. The superio chip is
PC8374L of National Semiconductor. It support Intel 5000 series CPU. I'd
like to try booting coreboot at this board, when I'm looking for the
supported chipset list, nothing was founded.

So, I wonder is there anybody working on porting this board?

I'd like to try some porting, but I'm confused about coreboot V2 and V3, so
I can't decide which version is best to start.

Thanks.

Best Regards.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

On 26.06.2008 12:15, Jensen Qin wrote:
> I have some board with Intel 5000P and ESB2 chipset.

Short clarification: ESB2 is 631xESB/632xESB which is related to ICH6
(according to Wikipedia). We have support for the 6300ESB in our tree
and it might be possible to adapt the code to the 631xESB</632xESB.
I don't know whether someone is working on that.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Jensen Qin]

mm, OK, I'd like to try porting coreboot v2 to this board, some detail
information about this board
http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/x6250/specs.xml

And some specs:
Intel(R) 5000P/5000V/5000Z Chipset Memory Controller Hub (MCH) - Datasheet
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313071.htm

Intel(R) 6400/6402 Advanced Memory Buffer Datasheet
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313072.htm

Intel(R) 631xESB/632xESB I/O Controller Hub Datasheet
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313082.htm

PC8374 series datasheets
http://194.67.26.35/datasheets/datasheet-pdf/National-Semiconductor/PC8374.h...

About the mainboard, I think I can refer some e7501 code, but I'm not expect
too much, these two boards are so much different.
The same with the northbridge, maybe some e75xx code as reference.
About the southbridge, I wish I can refer esb6300's code.
The PC8374 superIO chip have already ported by someone.

And, does anybody have other advice about this?

Thanks.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 26.06.2008 12:15, Jensen Qin wrote:
> > I have some board with Intel 5000P and ESB2 chipset.
>
> Short clarification: ESB2 is 631xESB/632xESB which is related to ICH6
> (according to Wikipedia). We have support for the 6300ESB in our tree
> and it might be possible to adapt the code to the 631xESB</632xESB.
> I don't know whether someone is working on that.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel

[Joseph Smith]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:41:08 +0800, "Jensen Qin" 
wrote:
> mm, OK, I'd like to try porting coreboot v2 to this board, some detail
> information about this board
> http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/x6250/specs.xml
>
> And some specs:
> Intel(R) 5000P/5000V/5000Z Chipset Memory Controller Hub (MCH) -

Datasheet
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313071.htm
>
> Intel(R) 6400/6402 Advanced Memory Buffer Datasheet
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313072.htm
>
> Intel(R) 631xESB/632xESB I/O Controller Hub Datasheet
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313082.htm
>
> PC8374 series datasheets

http://194.67.26.35/datasheets/datasheet-pdf/National-Semiconductor/PC8374.h...
> About the mainboard, I think I can refer some e7501 code, but I'm not
> expect
> too much, these two boards are so much different.
> The same with the northbridge, maybe some e75xx code as reference.
> About the southbridge, I wish I can refer esb6300's code.
> The PC8374 superIO chip have already ported by someone.
>
> And, does anybody have other advice about this?

I think that is the newest Intel chiset we have support for, so that code
may be the place to start. I beleive the 3100 base code started out as
e7501, and the 3100 code is much more updated. The Intel 3100 is supported
by Ed Swierk, he is a really smart guy, and may be able to offer some help
if you have any questions, as well as any if us on the mailing list :-)