Dear Tanguy,
Am Donnerstag, den 18.08.2011, 10:35 +0200 schrieb Tanguy Ortolo:
Following your comment on my blog post [1], I am contacting you I am now looking for more information in order to try that.
[1] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article22/efi-boot
great that I could arouse your interest in coreboot. Just to clear things up I am no developer so please post specific questions to the list.
If I want to try coreboot safely, I need a new DIP8 flash chip, do you know where I could buy one? Is this common electronic material, that can be found in a local store? I am not really fond of electronics so I do not know much on that subject. :-)
There is an entry in the FAQ [1] and I also posted a message to the list [2] for people to share their experiences. According to Rudolf [3] http://bios-repair.co.uk/ is a good pick to order from if you live in Europe.
Tanguy, I guess you live in France. Hopefully someone can recommend a store there or you could try to go into an electronics store in your city and ask them.
Now, the current UEFI firmware from ASRock provides an interface for configuring some mainboard settings such as the SATA mode. What does that become with coreboot?
Coreboot only initializes the hardware and gives control afterward to a so called payload. Unfortunately there does not exist a payload yet to let you configure such setting as far as I know.
There are certain settings stored in NVRAM you can configure/set using `nvramtool` if I am not mistaken. But I am not sure what exact settings are stored in NVRAM for ASRock E350M1/USB3. So the hard way is to change the settings in the source and rebuild the image and flash it to the chip.
Finally, in order to use coreboot I shall need to configure it for my board, then compile it and flash it: can that be done in place with flashrom?
Yes, flashrom was originally developed to be able to flash a coreboot image to the flash chip under GNU/Linux.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Where_can_I_buy_BIOS_chips_.28empty_or_pre-flash... [2] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-August/066205.html [3] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-August/066207.html [4] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/perso/pages/accueil/