Soyo SY-6BA+ III

[Andrew Morgan]

Hi,

Here is the output of 'lspci -tvnn', 'superiotool -dV', 'getpir', and 
'mptable' run on the (beautifully named) Soyo SY-6BA+ III motherboard.

[PATCH] Add support for the Soyo SY-6BA+ III board

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> Here is the output of 'lspci -tvnn', 'superiotool -dV', 'getpir',
> and 'mptable' run on the (beautifully named) Soyo SY-6BA+ III
> motherboard.

Thanks, please see attached patch for a first attempt at a coreboot
port. The board is (of course) similar to all other 440BX boards in
svn. I used 256 KB as ROM chip size, is that correct for your board?

Also, the Realtek NIC is onboard I assume? Or is it PCI? I assumed
onboard for now.

Apply the patch like this to an svn checkout:
---------------------------------------------
patch -p0 < v2_soyo_board.patch

Building:
---------
cd targets
./buildtarget soyo/sy-6ba-plus-iii
cd soyo/sy-6ba-plus-iii/sy-6ba-plus-iii
cp ~/filo.elf payload.elf
make

The coreboot.rom file (256 KB) which is generated is what you want to
flash using flashrom (see http://coreboot.org/Flashrom).
Make sure you only attempt this if you know flashrom supports your board
and if you have a working spare backup chip. Join us on IRC for help
with this, if needed.

The filo.elf is the payload which you choose, see wiki.

Then, insert exactly one (64 MB or bigger) DIMM into slot 0, attach a
null-modem cable to COM1 and some other box where you use minicom
(115200 8n1) to view serial debug output which you'll hopefully get.

If you insert a PCI graphics card and are lucky, it might also get
initialized correctly, but serial is probably the safer bet for the
first test.

Godd luck, Uwe.

[PATCH] Add support for the Soyo SY-6BA+ III board

[Andrew Morgan]

Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> > Here is the output of 'lspci -tvnn', 'superiotool -dV', 'getpir',
> > and 'mptable' run on the (beautifully named) Soyo SY-6BA+ III
> > motherboard.
>
> Thanks, please see attached patch for a first attempt at a coreboot
> port. The board is (of course) similar to all other 440BX boards in
> svn. I used 256 KB as ROM chip size, is that correct for your board?
>
> Also, the Realtek NIC is onboard I assume? Or is it PCI? I assumed
> onboard for now.

Hi,
Thanks! I'm looking forward to trying this later on tonight (UK time). 
The NIC and video card are both plug-in cards, sorry I should have 
removed them from the lspci list, I didn't think about it. From what I 
remember the ROM is 256 KB, but I have no way of checking from here at 
the moment.

[PATCH] Add support for the Soyo SY-6BA+ III board

[Andrew Morgan]

Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:34:24AM +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> > Here is the output of 'lspci -tvnn', 'superiotool -dV', 'getpir',
> > and 'mptable' run on the (beautifully named) Soyo SY-6BA+ III
> > motherboard.
>
> Thanks, please see attached patch for a first attempt at a coreboot
> port. The board is (of course) similar to all other 440BX boards in
> svn. I used 256 KB as ROM chip size, is that correct for your board?
>
> Also, the Realtek NIC is onboard I assume? Or is it PCI? I assumed
> onboard for now.

Acked-by: Andrew Morgan

It boots FILO > Linux!

ROM size is correct.
NIC is not on-board, it is a PCI card.
FILO was too large for a 256 KB ROM to be included with both "normal" 
and "fallback" images, only tested with "fallback".

[PATCH] Add support for the Soyo SY-6BA+ III board

[Uwe Hermann]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:25:51AM +0100, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> Acked-by: Andrew Morgan
>
> It boots FILO > Linux!
>
> ROM size is correct.
> NIC is not on-board, it is a PCI card.
> FILO was too large for a 256 KB ROM to be included with both
> "normal" and "fallback" images, only tested with "fallback".

Thanks, committed in r4369.

NIC is removed from Config.lb, normal/fallback is now commented
for easier changing in targets/.../Config.lb.

Uwe.