Hello, I saw one of my old board is listed compatible on the CoreBoot wiki : https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/p5gc-mx but knowing the wiki is "being retired". I don't know if it is still supported by the latest version of CoreBoot.
Then the Status (as of commit 5bb27b7815) chart has broken colors. So it is hard to me to tell if everything is working fine or not.
Then my board is the P5GC-MX/1333 and not the P5GC-MX. I could attempt to flash the Coreboot BIOS to it, but I would want to know if it could bring me some advantages other than "it is free software". For example, the original manufacturer BIOS doesn't supports booting from USB, does CoreBoot supports it?
Hi,
The p5gc-mx is still supported (src/mainboard/asus/p5gc-mx in a git snapshot).
It seems the mainboard consists of i945GC northbridge and ICH7 southbridge (82801GX). Both are supported, in a fact I'm using a board with i945GM+ICH7 which is almost the same.
However there may be some outdated things. My board had incomplete devicetree and chipset initialization had a weird problem with cache preload few weeks ago. But it should be still possible to boot a linux system (or at least to report bugs ;-) ).
If you are planning to test it, make sure you will be able to flash back the original bios, or even better flash coreboot into a separate chip so you can hot swap it.
Having an RS232 adapter to see the logs is also extremely useful.
ad boot: Coreboot only initialize the hardware and starts the payload. The boot itself is made by one of the payloads, for example seabios. And yes seabios supports booting from USB OHCI/EHCI/XHCI controller.
Petr
Dne 11. 08. 22 v 16:44 Benoît Dufour napsal(a):
Hello, I saw one of my old board is listed compatible on the CoreBoot wiki : https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/p5gc-mx but knowing the wiki is "being retired". I don't know if it is still supported by the latest version of CoreBoot.
Then the Status (as of commit 5bb27b7815) chart has broken colors. So it is hard to me to tell if everything is working fine or not.
Then my board is the P5GC-MX/1333 and not the P5GC-MX. I could attempt to flash the Coreboot BIOS to it, but I would want to know if it could bring me some advantages other than "it is free software". For example, the original manufacturer BIOS doesn't supports booting from USB, does CoreBoot supports it? _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org
Seeing the success of running a P2B coreboot build on a P2B-B board (another legacy board), there could be a chance ;-)
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:47 PM Petr Cvek petrcvekcz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The p5gc-mx is still supported (src/mainboard/asus/p5gc-mx in a git snapshot).
It seems the mainboard consists of i945GC northbridge and ICH7 southbridge (82801GX). Both are supported, in a fact I'm using a board with i945GM+ICH7 which is almost the same.
However there may be some outdated things. My board had incomplete devicetree and chipset initialization had a weird problem with cache preload few weeks ago. But it should be still possible to boot a linux system (or at least to report bugs ;-) ).
If you are planning to test it, make sure you will be able to flash back the original bios, or even better flash coreboot into a separate chip so you can hot swap it.
Having an RS232 adapter to see the logs is also extremely useful.
ad boot: Coreboot only initialize the hardware and starts the payload. The boot itself is made by one of the payloads, for example seabios. And yes seabios supports booting from USB OHCI/EHCI/XHCI controller.
Petr
Dne 11. 08. 22 v 16:44 Benoît Dufour napsal(a):
Hello, I saw one of my old board is listed compatible on the CoreBoot wiki : https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/p5gc-mx but knowing the wiki is "being retired". I don't know if it is still supported by the latest version of CoreBoot.
Then the Status (as of commit 5bb27b7815) chart has broken colors. So it is hard to me to tell if everything is working fine or not.
Then my board is the P5GC-MX/1333 and not the P5GC-MX. I could attempt to flash the Coreboot BIOS to it, but I would want to know if it could bring me some advantages other than "it is free software". For example, the original manufacturer BIOS doesn't supports booting from USB, does CoreBoot supports it? _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org
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