Hi,
Hello everyone: I had a MSI K9VGM-V
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspec&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=260
based on VIA K8M890CE/8237A which shoud similar to ASUS M2V-VM except super I/O(W83627EHG vs ITE8712).
How could I port Coreboot to it??
Well you need to do some basic adjustments described bit http://assembler.cz/FOSDEM/porting.pdf
And is it possible to make K10(i.e. Athlon II X2/Athlon II X4 which consume less than 95W) to work with it?? Thanks!!
If it fit to the socket then in theory yes, but not sure what changes must be made to CPU init.
However there is still one quite big obstacle, the SB VT8237A is not VT8237S or VT8237R compatible, i have the datasheet under NDA, but it would mean to check all register settings to see if this chipset implements this same way.
It looks like you will need to treat the VT8237A as "S" variant - all PCI ids should be fixed, it could work I can check it in the evening.
I can check all settings but it takes time and you must promise me that you will do the port ;)
Rudolf
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Hi,
I somehow automated the checks for differences between VT8237S and VT8237A. They look very very similar. I even hacked a coreboot for you. If we are VERY lucky it can boot linux ;)
I'm attaching the patch. I put for you whole tree on assembler.cz/coreboot-K9VGM-V.tgz
You now have to use the board M2V-MX SE, it contains already changed serial.
I generated the image for a flash in build/coreboot.rom
It contains an image with SeaBIOS and needs a serial line on 115200 bauds connected to see something.
Please try. Be sure you can recover if your image does not work!!!! (like from bad flash of BIOS) Handy would be second flash and hot swap and burn to new one (so you can use orig bios as backup solution ;)
Please can you post
lspci -xxx -vvv
Because I'm just unsure about one settings of LPC bridge. Maybe you will need to change the 0x58 register to some other value then 0x43 see the comment in the patch.
SATA may or may not work don't know. Otherwise it looks promissing, but from now treat the stuff like nothing works and a lot of things may work ;)
Rudolf
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