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.
Sounds like some sort of reference board for workstations/servers.
i840+SDRAM means this board has one or two MTHs. This is going to be epic.
(No I won't be able to attempt it - I still have 440BX and SIS630ET in my pipeline.)
Regards Keith
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:01:28 -0400, Keith Hui buurin@gmail.com 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.
Sounds like some sort of reference board for workstations/servers.
i840+SDRAM means this board has one or two MTHs. This is going to be
epic.
Yes it should be interesting :-)
(No I won't be able to attempt it - I still have 440BX and SIS630ET in my pipeline.)
That's OK Keith. I actually have allot of other i8xx boards that are a higher priority than this one. I knew I was not going to be able to get to it for a while that is why I am offering up my 3 spare boards for free so others could hack along if they want.
I am actually suprised no one has jumped for the oppritunity to get a free motherboard.
I do have a few SIS 630's kicking around so I will be looking forward to your work on that :-)
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Joseph Smith -
Keith Hui