P965/ICH8 support revisited

[Yuval Adam]

The P965/ICH8 combo is suspiciously lacking from the coreboot supported chipsets.
I have a motherboard that might be fit for development on these chipsets (Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3) and I'm curious about taking a stab at this.
However, I've never done any coreboot development nor do I have the proper insight on how to go about this.
I've see this issue was mentioned previously [1] but went unnoticed.
Any feedback on this idea would be much appreciated.

- Yuval

[1] - http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-June/070247.html

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Yuval,

someone who has experience porting chipsets could add support for this
i965 chipset with maybe 6-12 months of fulltime work. This is of course
under the (unlikely) assumption that full documentation is available. If
you're doing it as a hobby and have to learn firmware development first,
I expect 4 years of spare time, maybe more.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

Am 05.04.2014 01:24 schrieb Yuval Adam:
> The P965/ICH8 combo is suspiciously lacking from the coreboot supported chipsets.
> However, I've never done any coreboot development nor do I have the proper insight on how to go about this.
> [...]
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-June/070247.html

[Idwer Vollering]

2014-04-05 1:24 GMT+02:00 Yuval Adam :
> The P965/ICH8 combo is suspiciously lacking from the coreboot supported
> chipsets.

Who knows how similar i945 is to i965 ;)
> I have a motherboard that might be fit for development on these chipsets
> (Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3) and I'm curious about taking a stab at this.
> However, I've never done any coreboot development nor do I have the proper
> insight on how to go about this.

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