Hello, I want to propose a "coreboot challenge" to first port coreboot to the i840 chpset, second port coreboot to support a very rare i840 dual cpu board, third instead of RAMBUS (which i840 is designed for) this board uses SDRAM. I think this would be a very interesting port for coreboot.
The board is a AMI Megatrends MegaDual. The user manual can be found here: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaDual_mb_man.PDF
I have four of these rare boards and am willing to donate three of them (one person each, less shipping costs of course) to anyone who is willing to take on this challenge. Let me know if your interested.
P.S.: the first person to boot to a Linux command line gets the grand prize, a big fat cookie :-)
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:13:41 -0400, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
Hello, I want to propose a "coreboot challenge" to first port coreboot to the i840 chpset, second port coreboot to support a very rare i840 dual cpu board, third instead of RAMBUS (which i840 is designed for) this board uses SDRAM. I think this would be a very interesting port for coreboot.
The board is a AMI Megatrends MegaDual. The user manual can be found here: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaDual_mb_man.PDF
I have four of these rare boards and am willing to donate three of them (one person each, less shipping costs of course) to anyone who is willing to take on this challenge. Let me know if your interested.
P.S.: the first person to boot to a Linux command line gets the grand prize, a big fat cookie :-)
Attached is a pic of the board, in case your curious.
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 08:43 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:13:41 -0400, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
Hello, I want to propose a "coreboot challenge" to first port coreboot to the i840 chpset, second port coreboot to support a very rare i840 dual cpu board, third instead of RAMBUS (which i840 is designed for) this board uses SDRAM. I think this would be a very interesting port for coreboot.
The board is a AMI Megatrends MegaDual. The user manual can be found here: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaDual_mb_man.PDF
I have four of these rare boards and am willing to donate three of them (one person each, less shipping costs of course) to anyone who is willing to take on this challenge. Let me know if your interested.
P.S.: the first person to boot to a Linux command line gets the grand prize, a big fat cookie :-)
Attached is a pic of the board, in case your curious.
-- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Hi Joe,
It it still offer valid? I could give it a try since next month, but I also need a CPU(or two?). I think I still have some SDRAM somewhere, and I think I have the rest of the components...
It really looks like great fun.
Regards, Cristi
On 06/08/2010 02:35 PM, Cristi Magherusan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 08:43 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:13:41 -0400, Joseph Smithjoe@settoplinux.org wrote:
Hello, I want to propose a "coreboot challenge" to first port coreboot to the i840 chpset, second port coreboot to support a very rare i840 dual cpu board, third instead of RAMBUS (which i840 is designed for) this board uses SDRAM. I think this would be a very interesting port for coreboot.
The board is a AMI Megatrends MegaDual. The user manual can be found here: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaDual_mb_man.PDF
I have four of these rare boards and am willing to donate three of them (one person each, less shipping costs of course) to anyone who is willing to take on this challenge. Let me know if your interested.
P.S.: the first person to boot to a Linux command line gets the grand prize, a big fat cookie :-)
Attached is a pic of the board, in case your curious.
-- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Hi Joe,
It it still offer valid? I could give it a try since next month, but I also need a CPU(or two?). I think I still have some SDRAM somewhere, and I think I have the rest of the components...
It really looks like great fun.
Hello Cristi, Yes I still have a board available for you. I might even have some processors around to throw in. Send me an email offlist and we will figure out the shipping stuff. Looking forward to coreboot on this board :-)
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