The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is a BIOS/EFI alternative with optional BIOS/EFI backwards compatibility. Not only does coreboot enable extremely fast booting with well under one second spent inside coreboot, and total four second boot time from poweron to a working desktop, it also has superior reliability and realtime performance. Coreboot developers have embedded various operating systems, among them Linux and Plan 9, directly into onboard ROM chips yielding systems without moving parts and built-in network manageability. Virtualization is made easier by optionally embedding the KVM hypervisor into the ROM as well. Military strength encryption and access protection add-ons exist for environments where security is key. Its extended diagnostics in plain English are second to none. Of course, coreboot supports Windows XP/Vista/7 as well as Linux, *BSD and Plan 9.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
The developer guides are available at http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#chipset
More information about coreboot is available at http://www.coreboot.org/
Great. I will submit my code after this weekend.
I can't wait the coming of the new era.
Zheng.
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0200 From: c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net To: coreboot-announce@coreboot.org CC: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] AMD RS780 docs released, coreboot support coming
The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is a BIOS/EFI alternative with optional BIOS/EFI backwards compatibility. Not only does coreboot enable extremely fast booting with well under one second spent inside coreboot, and total four second boot time from poweron to a working desktop, it also has superior reliability and realtime performance. Coreboot developers have embedded various operating systems, among them Linux and Plan 9, directly into onboard ROM chips yielding systems without moving parts and built-in network manageability. Virtualization is made easier by optionally embedding the KVM hypervisor into the ROM as well. Military strength encryption and access protection add-ons exist for environments where security is key. Its extended diagnostics in plain English are second to none. Of course, coreboot supports Windows XP/Vista/7 as well as Linux, *BSD and Plan 9.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
The developer guides are available at http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#chipset
More information about coreboot is available at http://www.coreboot.org/
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On 17.08.2009 20:15, Harald Gutmann wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 11:43:20 Zheng Bao wrote:
Great. I will submit my code after this weekend.
I can't wait the coming of the new era.
Is there already something according to RS780 in the tree? Did you already commit your patch?
Not yet. It's complicated and we're working on getting that code released. It may take a bit longer than expected.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Oh, by the way, please add a 780 entry in the http://www.coreboot.org/Datasheets.
Thanks a lot.
Zheng
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0200 From: c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net To: coreboot-announce@coreboot.org CC: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] AMD RS780 docs released, coreboot support coming
The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is a BIOS/EFI alternative with optional BIOS/EFI backwards compatibility. Not only does coreboot enable extremely fast booting with well under one second spent inside coreboot, and total four second boot time from poweron to a working desktop, it also has superior reliability and realtime performance. Coreboot developers have embedded various operating systems, among them Linux and Plan 9, directly into onboard ROM chips yielding systems without moving parts and built-in network manageability. Virtualization is made easier by optionally embedding the KVM hypervisor into the ROM as well. Military strength encryption and access protection add-ons exist for environments where security is key. Its extended diagnostics in plain English are second to none. Of course, coreboot supports Windows XP/Vista/7 as well as Linux, *BSD and Plan 9.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
The developer guides are available at http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#chipset
More information about coreboot is available at http://www.coreboot.org/
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 09:46:22AM +0000, Zheng Bao wrote:
Oh, by the way, please add a 780 entry in the http://www.coreboot.org/Datasheets.
Done.
Many thanks! Ward.
I need to clarify that the main feature of the code was done in working time. What I did in my spare time is cleaning up and testing to make it stable.
Zheng
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0200 From: c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net To: coreboot-announce@coreboot.org CC: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] AMD RS780 docs released, coreboot support coming
The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems.
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
Coreboot is a BIOS/EFI alternative with optional BIOS/EFI backwards compatibility. Not only does coreboot enable extremely fast booting with well under one second spent inside coreboot, and total four second boot time from poweron to a working desktop, it also has superior reliability and realtime performance. Coreboot developers have embedded various operating systems, among them Linux and Plan 9, directly into onboard ROM chips yielding systems without moving parts and built-in network manageability. Virtualization is made easier by optionally embedding the KVM hypervisor into the ROM as well. Military strength encryption and access protection add-ons exist for environments where security is key. Its extended diagnostics in plain English are second to none. Of course, coreboot supports Windows XP/Vista/7 as well as Linux, *BSD and Plan 9.
Coreboot is open source, so every interested developer or user can modify, tweak and extend it to their heart's content.
An additional benefit of this documentation release is flashrom support for all AMD chipsets which enables users to reflash their BIOS/firmware/coreboot from within Linux and *BSD without rebooting.
Coreboot code for the SB700 and 780 chipset family is already being worked on by Zheng Bao at AMD in his spare time and the coreboot community is happy to work with him on finishing and integrating the code into the official coreboot codebase.
We'd like to thank Sharon Troia at AMD for making these documentation releases possible.
The developer guides are available at http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#chipset
More information about coreboot is available at http://www.coreboot.org/
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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Hi Zheng, AMD,
Zheng Bao wrote:
I need to clarify that the main feature of the code was done in working time. What I did in my spare time is cleaning up and testing to make it stable.
That is really fantastic. A big thank you to AMD, and to you, for the great contribution to coreboot!
//Peter
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:14:43 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
This new release once again demonstrates AMD's commitment to open standards and software that provides an improved user experience and Total Cost of Ownership for users in every walk of life. One cornerstone of this openness is the availability of documentation without NDA, enabling everyone to contribute.
I really love AMD for being so OpenSource friendly!
Can someone give a statement which chipsets/mainboards can be supported with that information what AMD published? Or which chipsets are in the "RS780 family"?
Kind regards, Harald
On 08.08.2009 13:12, Harald Gutmann wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:14:43 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
Can someone give a statement which chipsets/mainboards can be supported with that information what AMD published? Or which chipsets are in the "RS780 family"?
Sure. We now have docs for all AMD chipsets out there (except early ATI stuff like SB400 and the latest 785G), so any board with 690G/690V/740G/760G/770/780G/780M/780V/790FX/790GX/790X and SB600/SB700/SB710/SB750 is now supportable.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Saturday 08 August 2009 13:42:55 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 08.08.2009 13:12, Harald Gutmann wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:14:43 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards.
Can someone give a statement which chipsets/mainboards can be supported with that information what AMD published? Or which chipsets are in the "RS780 family"?
Sure. We now have docs for all AMD chipsets out there (except early ATI stuff like SB400 and the latest 785G), so any board with 690G/690V/740G/760G/770/780G/780M/780V/790FX/790GX/790X and
Does anyone know if 790FX is covered by the docs? As stated on Wikipedia [1] the codename for 790FX is RD790 and this one is not stated in the docs.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series#790FX
SB600/SB700/SB710/SB750 is now supportable.
Regards, Harald
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On 08.08.2009 14:53, Harald Gutmann wrote:
On Saturday 08 August 2009 13:42:55 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 08.08.2009 13:12, Harald Gutmann wrote:
Can someone give a statement which chipsets/mainboards can be supported with that information what AMD published? Or which chipsets are in the "RS780 family"?
Sure. We now have docs for all AMD chipsets out there (except early ATI stuff like SB400 and the latest 785G), so any board with 690G/690V/740G/760G/770/780G/780M/780V/790FX/790GX/790X and
Does anyone know if 790FX is covered by the docs? As stated on Wikipedia [1] the codename for 790FX is RD790 and this one is not stated in the docs.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series#790FX
Updated docs are available with a mapping from internal IDs to marketing names. Supported are: * RS780 (AMD 780G) * RS780C (AMD 780V) * RS780D (AMD 790GX) * RS780E (AMD 780E) * RS780M (AMD M780G) * RS780MC (AMD M780V) * RX781 (AMD M770)
This leaves 760G/770/790FX/790X unaccounted for (or the marketing names I saw have been modified by board manufacturers). Either way, I'm happy with the doc update.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
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