Will coreboot work on GIGABYTE I945 chipset?

[Dimitri Pekarovsky]

Hi, dear ALL.

Could anyone say me if coreboot will work on my GIGABYTE
GA-945GCM-S2L, 945GC / Socket 775?

Data, as described in Wiki, is below.

//W.respect. D.P.

[Dimitri Pekarovsky]

Sorry, for double post.
I forgotten to attach listings.

Could anyone say me if coreboot will work on my GIGABYTE
GA-945GCM-S2L, 945GC / Socket 775?
Data, as described in Wiki, is below.
//W.respect. D.P.

motherboard page:
http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=266...

Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2180  @ 2.00GHz stepping 0d

# flashrom
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "Macronix MX25L4005" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.

$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory
Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 04.04.2009 14:11 Uhr, Dimitri Pekarovsky wrote:
> Sorry, for double post.
> I forgotten to attach listings.
>
> Could anyone say me if coreboot will work on my GIGABYTE
> GA-945GCM-S2L, 945GC / Socket 775?
> Data, as described in Wiki, is below.
> //W.respect. D.P.
>
> motherboard page:
> http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=266...
>
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2180  @ 2.00GHz stepping 0d

You might run into trouble because the i945 code has only been running
on mobile chipsets so far (FSB 667 vs FSB 1066).

It shouldn't be a big deal to get this working, but you should
definitely make sure you have an SPI writer (such as the dediprog sf100)
around in case something goes wrong. Alternatively you can try to put a
socket or a second bios chip on the board, see
http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial#SOIC_hardware_h...
for more details.

Stefan

[ron minnich]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dimitri Pekarovsky
 wrote:
> Hi, dear ALL.
>
> Could anyone say me if coreboot will work on my GIGABYTE
> GA-945GCM-S2L, 945GC / Socket 775?

It looks like it ought to work.

ron