On 04/14/2018 06:45 PM, CarlosGonzalez via coreboot wrote:
Hello: coreboot team I am look for help on coreboot install, I have issues to get work coreboot on my side, so I have many questions to understand this field.
- I have asrockB75Pro3m with !7 k serie. this will wok with coreboot?
The board no - I have no idea what chipset that is so you would have to check yourself if it is supported. If you want more information from me you need to do what the wiki suggests and include dmesg, lspci -vv etc.
- will coreboot work without ME intel?
Yeah you can use me cleaner to nerf (but not disable which is impossible) ME.
- When i use -E from flashrom this erase regions including ME intel?
The ME region is locked and must be modified with an external flash.
If yes can I put ME intel back using flashrom?
Yeah.
- what command to use on flash coreboot in asrockB75Pro3m?
- Is nesesary do layout to get coreboot work? if yes how I do a correct layout?
The info is on the wiki, the layout is extracted from the OEM firmware.
You would be better off time and money wise by just buying a board that already supports what you want - porting takes months for an expert firmware programmer or tens of thousands to pay someone else to do it.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:00:25PM -0400, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 04/14/2018 06:45 PM, CarlosGonzalez via coreboot wrote:
Hello: coreboot team I am look for help on coreboot install, I have issues to get work coreboot on my side, so I have many questions to understand this field.
- I have asrockB75Pro3m with !7 k serie. this will wok with coreboot?
The board no - I have no idea what chipset that is so you would have to check yourself if it is supported.
Well, the board *is* listed on the Supported Motherboards page[1], and has a half-recent board_status entry.
Jonathan Neuschäfer
[1]: https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Desktops_.2F_Workstations
Hi Taiidan,
On 17.04.2018 22:00, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 04/14/2018 06:45 PM, CarlosGonzalez via coreboot wrote:
Hello: coreboot team I am look for help on coreboot install, I have issues to get work coreboot on my side, so I have many questions to understand this field.
- I have asrockB75Pro3m with !7 k serie. this will wok with coreboot?
...
You would be better off time and money wise by just buying a board that already supports what you want - porting takes months for an expert firmware programmer or tens of thousands to pay someone else to do it.
even if the board wasn't supported yet: Thanks to the complete open- source code for Sandy/Ivy Bridge and best coreboot code quality, it usually takes about 1 day for a lucky expert to port one of these boards. 1 or 2 weeks for an unlucky one.
It might not be your intention, but you are spreading a lot of FUD against coreboot.
I have to admit that it's not always that easy. Only few people still care about code quality and the porting experience. An FSP port easily takes some weeks extra. But there are still some easy to port cherries in the tree.
Nico
On 04/17/2018 06:11 PM, Nico Huber wrote:
even if the board wasn't supported yet: Thanks to the complete open- source code for Sandy/Ivy Bridge and best coreboot code quality, it usually takes about 1 day for a lucky expert to port one of these boards. 1 or 2 weeks for an unlucky one.
Do you mean an expert as in someone who is a decent programmer without coreboot experience (ex: type of person that asks if board X is supported) or an expert as in someone like timothy pearson or kyosti malkki firmware extraordinaires?
It might not be your intention, but you are spreading a lot of FUD against coreboot.
It is what I was told by a few people, and what I saw here. https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual#How_to_support_a_new_board "This can take from an hour of time to a few months based upon your coding skills and hardware issues." Maybe you should update that page?
Hi,
your message was weird, I added some quotes back in. Somehow you dropped them and then asked for context?
On 18.04.2018 06:06, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 04/17/2018 06:11 PM, Nico Huber wrote:
On 17.04.2018 22:00, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 04/14/2018 06:45 PM, CarlosGonzalez via coreboot wrote:
Hello: coreboot team I am look for help on coreboot install, I have issues to get work coreboot on my side, so I have many questions to understand this field.
- I have asrockB75Pro3m with !7 k serie. this will wok with coreboot?
...
You would be better off time and money wise by just buying a board that already supports what you want - porting takes months for an expert firmware programmer or tens of thousands to pay someone else to do it.
even if the board wasn't supported yet: Thanks to the complete open- source code for Sandy/Ivy Bridge and best coreboot code quality, it usually takes about 1 day for a lucky expert to port one of these boards. 1 or 2 weeks for an unlucky one.
Do you mean an expert as in someone who is a decent programmer without coreboot experience (ex: type of person that asks if board X is supported) or an expert as in someone like timothy pearson or kyosti malkki firmware extraordinaires?
I meant an expert firmware programmer, like you named it (in the quote you dropped). Kyösti would definitely count as one. Also anybody who already did a pre-blob Intel port (and understood what he was doing) would likely succeed fast.
It might not be your intention, but you are spreading a lot of FUD against coreboot.
It is what I was told by a few people, and what I saw here. https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual#How_to_support_a_new_board "This can take from an hour of time to a few months based upon your coding skills and hardware issues."
This is not working out, I'll paste the quote you dropped back in... The wiki says "[...] an hour of time to a few months [...]", you said "[...] months for an expert [...]". Don't you see the difference? The upper end is the same, but on the lower end both statements are off by two orders of magnitude (plus you were explicitly talking about "an expert firmware programmer"). Your statement is biased. Skipping the part that porting is not always a multi-month PITA spreads FUD, IMO.
Maybe you should update that page?
Why? it says about the same as I did. Just I picked one of the most easy porting targets as an example and the wiki talks generally about core- boot.
Nico
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