http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial#Before_you_begi... "The fact that the BIOS is soldered onto the board complicates matters considerably, because it means that one flash of a faulty image will render your board unusable (it will be 'bricked')."
Can anyone please list if the BIOS is soldered or non-soldered for each board at http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards ?
If you don't do this, then I have to do this by my self in my own research for coreboot supported boards so please answer.
I also suggest that you make a contact link or a email address visible on the page. Can you do that?
I'm looking forward to use coreboot so thank you for bringin up this fine piece of software to the community.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:19 AM, David Englund dbe@gnu.org wrote:
"The fact that the BIOS is soldered onto the board complicates matters considerably, because it means that one flash of a faulty image will render your board unusable (it will be 'bricked')."
Can anyone please list if the BIOS is soldered or non-soldered for each board at http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards ?
Be careful with that kind of information, I think some motherboards have different revisions with sometimes soldered and sometimes socketed flash chips.
If you don't do this, then I have to do this by my self in my own research for coreboot supported boards so please answer.
If you do this, please try to be very specific about mobo / PCB version.
I also suggest that you make a contact link or a email address visible on the page. Can you do that?
There are links to personal pages in the status column for some motherboards, and sometimes the best email adress you should use for that kind of questions is the ML...
I'm looking forward to use coreboot so thank you for bringin up this fine piece of software to the community.
Idem
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:19:45AM +0200, David Englund wrote:
http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial#Before_you_begi... "The fact that the BIOS is soldered onto the board complicates matters considerably, because it means that one flash of a faulty image will render your board unusable (it will be 'bricked')."
Can anyone please list if the BIOS is soldered or non-soldered for each board at http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards ?
This information is contained in the vendor cooperation scorecard.
We don't have many yet, but there is one for the m57sli:
http://www.coreboot.org/Gigabyte_m57sli_Vendor_Cooperation_Score
People should pick boards with the most hares.
If you don't do this, then I have to do this by my self in my own research for coreboot supported boards so please answer.
If you do, send us what you find.
I also suggest that you make a contact link or a email address visible on the page. Can you do that?
This e-mail list is your main point of contact. That's way more efficient than listing a single developer's address.
Thanks, Ward.
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