Barcelona Support Supermicro H8DMR-i2

[Kevin Connelly]

Hi all,

I noticed that there has been some work on Barcelona support.

Are there any plans to implement this support into the Supermicro H8DMR-i2?

Thanks,

Kevin

[Marc Jones]

Kevin Connelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that there has been some work on Barcelona support.
>
> Are there any plans to implement this support into the Supermicro H8DMR-i2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Barcelona (family 10) support is in coreboot. The example mainboard is 
amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10. There hasn't been a port of a commercially 
available board yet. Someone would need to port the H8DMR platform to 
family 10. I can assist whomever takes up the challenge.

Marc

[Kevin Connelly]

Marc Jones wrote:
> Kevin Connelly wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I noticed that there has been some work on Barcelona support.
> >
> > Are there any plans to implement this support into the Supermicro 
> > H8DMR-i2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kevin
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Barcelona (family 10) support is in coreboot. The example mainboard is 
> amd/serengeti_cheetah_fam10. There hasn't been a port of a commercially 
> available board yet. Someone would need to port the H8DMR platform to 
> family 10. I can assist whomever takes up the challenge.
>
> Marc

Marc,

Is this the sort of thing we can work out on an example machine that I 
have, or would you need contact with Supermicro?

Kevin

[Marc Jones]

Kevin Connelly wrote:
> Marc,
>
> Is this the sort of thing we can work out on an example machine that I 
> have, or would you need contact with Supermicro?
>
> Kevin

Kevin,

Since there is already a H8DMR mainboard, I think that the port should 
be relatively easy. It would be helpful to have access to the schematic 
but wouldn't be required if the revf code is correct.

Marc

[Kevin Connelly]

Marc Jones wrote:
> Kevin Connelly wrote:
> > Marc,
> >
> > Is this the sort of thing we can work out on an example machine that I 
> > have, or would you need contact with Supermicro?
> >
> > Kevin
>
> Kevin,
>
> Since there is already a H8DMR mainboard, I think that the port should 
> be relatively easy. It would be helpful to have access to the schematic 
> but wouldn't be required if the revf code is correct.
>
> Marc

Marc,

I'd really like to get this working. I've got the hardware, but no 
particular expertise in BIOS programming. I'm more than willing to test 
as well.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Marc Jones]

Kevin Connelly wrote:
> I'd really like to get this working. I've got the hardware, but no 
> particular expertise in BIOS programming. I'm more than willing to test 
> as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin

Kevin,

Since no one has volunteered to do the work I have a board ordered and 
can work on it in a few weeks.

Marc

[ron minnich]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Marc Jones  wrote:
> Since no one has volunteered to do the work I have a board ordered and
> can work on it in a few weeks.

I'm happy to volunteer for work on this but only for v3, FWIW.

ron

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 20.05.2008 20:25, ron minnich wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Marc Jones  wrote:
> > Since no one has volunteered to do the work I have a board ordered and
> > can work on it in a few weeks.
>
> I'm happy to volunteer for work on this but only for v3, FWIW.

Similar here. A nice first step would be K8 bringup for v3. I have
entered that as a task for our hackontest participation at
http://hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail%2836%29 . You
are encouraged to register there and vote (and maybe agree to implement)
for K8 on coreboot v3. If you can't come to Zurich on Sept. 24/25, you
can still vote and participate in the task via IRC/mail/svn. Please also
make sure to vote against the "coreboot on eeepc" proposal (totally
unrealistic for the given 24 hour timeframe).

If you want to propose another feature, feel free to do so. The only
constraint is that it has to be implementable in 24 hours with a team of
3 people on-site and an unlimited number of contributors via the net.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Ward Vandewege]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:06:08PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
> Kevin Connelly wrote:
> > I'd really like to get this working. I've got the hardware, but no 
> > particular expertise in BIOS programming. I'm more than willing to test 
> > as well.
>
> Since no one has volunteered to do the work I have a board ordered and 
> can work on it in a few weeks.

Great! I'm interested too; I've got a bunch of these machines in production
but no quad-core cpus for them yet, nor a machine for testing. Still; I can
probably test at some point.

Thanks,
Ward.