Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D support status

[razor1394]

Hello

I'm really interested in putting Coreboot on my firmware chip but I'm not
entirely sure it will work. My motherboard is on the desktop candidates list
which is good news I presume.

I've attached output of some hardware info commands. Super I/O is ITE
IT8712F. The bios chip is removable and I have 5 spare. It says:

SST
49LF004B
0446053-C

Some questions...

Can you have bluetooth compiled inside the kernel of Coreboot? I was
thinking of using bluetooth keyboards to access firmware settings. This is
something that BIOS does not let me. Only thing that works on my computer is
PS/2 and USB.

Thanks.

[razor1394]

Some more info.
> From irc:

<uwe___> we'll need 'superiotool -dV' output, 'getpir' output (a file called
irq_table.c), 'mptable' output, maybe others

Done!

See attachments.

2008/10/12 razor1394
> Hello
>
> I'm really interested in putting Coreboot on my firmware chip but I'm not
> entirely sure it will work. My motherboard is on the desktop candidates list
> which is good news I presume.
>
> I've attached output of some hardware info commands. Super I/O is ITE
> IT8712F. The bios chip is removable and I have 5 spare. It says:
>
> SST
> 49LF004B
> 0446053-C
>
> Some questions...
>
> Can you have bluetooth compiled inside the kernel of Coreboot? I was
> thinking of using bluetooth keyboards to access firmware settings. This is
> something that BIOS does not let me. Only thing that works on my computer is
> PS/2 and USB.
>
> Thanks.

[razor1394]

Maybe this is of interest as well?

lspci -tvnn

See attachment.

2008/10/20 razor1394
> Some more info.
>
> From irc:
>
> <uwe___> we'll need 'superiotool -dV' output, 'getpir' output (a file
> called irq_table.c), 'mptable' output, maybe others
>
> Done!
>
> See attachments.
>
> 2008/10/12 razor1394
>
> Hello
> > I'm really interested in putting Coreboot on my firmware chip but I'm not
> > entirely sure it will work. My motherboard is on the desktop candidates list
> > which is good news I presume.
> >
> > I've attached output of some hardware info commands. Super I/O is ITE
> > IT8712F. The bios chip is removable and I have 5 spare. It says:
> >
> > SST
> > 49LF004B
> > 0446053-C
> >
> > Some questions...
> >
> > Can you have bluetooth compiled inside the kernel of Coreboot? I was
> > thinking of using bluetooth keyboards to access firmware settings. This is
> > something that BIOS does not let me. Only thing that works on my computer is
> > PS/2 and USB.
> >
> > Thanks.

[razor1394]

Is anyone working on this?

I'm more than ready to flash my secondary computer with the same board but
another bios and a different firmware chip . The information posted before
was generated from my primary computer (gemenon). I would like to skip that
one for now until I know that the flash will work ok as It's very tight in
that case with all the water-cooling and cables in case I need to swap
chips.

The firmware chip of the secondary computer (leonis) is a

PMC Flash
MGN59
0312
Pm49FL004T-33JC

Seems to be fully supported by flashrom according to the main site.

See attachments for info about leonis.

2008/10/20 razor1394
> Maybe this is of interest as well?
>
> lspci -tvnn
>
> See attachment.
>
> 2008/10/20 razor1394
>
> Some more info.
> > From irc:
> >
> > <uwe___> we'll need 'superiotool -dV' output, 'getpir' output (a file
> > called irq_table.c), 'mptable' output, maybe others
> >
> > Done!
> >
> > See attachments.
> >
> > 2008/10/12 razor1394
> >
> > Hello
> > > I'm really interested in putting Coreboot on my firmware chip but I'm not
> > > entirely sure it will work. My motherboard is on the desktop candidates list
> > > which is good news I presume.
> > >
> > > I've attached output of some hardware info commands. Super I/O is ITE
> > > IT8712F. The bios chip is removable and I have 5 spare. It says:
> > >
> > > SST
> > > 49LF004B
> > > 0446053-C
> > >
> > > Some questions...
> > >
> > > Can you have bluetooth compiled inside the kernel of Coreboot? I was
> > > thinking of using bluetooth keyboards to access firmware settings. This is
> > > something that BIOS does not let me. Only thing that works on my computer is
> > > PS/2 and USB.
> > >
> > > Thanks.

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 07:23:50PM +0200, razor1394 wrote:
> Is anyone working on this?

Yes, I'll post a patch soonish.
> I'm more than ready to flash my secondary computer with the same board but
> another bios and a different firmware chip . The information posted before
> was generated from my primary computer (gemenon). I would like to skip that
> one for now until I know that the flash will work ok as It's very tight in
> that case with all the water-cooling and cables in case I need to swap
> chips.

I'm not sure I got that right -- I'm currently preparing a patch for
your Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D.

Whether or not you flash your chip in that board, or in another
supported board (by flashrom), or in some external programmer doesn't
matter; you'll have to insert the flashed chip with coreboot into
the Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D either way, though.
> The firmware chip of the secondary computer (leonis) is a
>
> PMC Flash
> MGN59
> 0312
> Pm49FL004T-33JC
>
> Seems to be fully supported by flashrom according to the main site.

The chip itself, yes. This is not sufficient though, there could be
mainboard-specific hacking required for flashrom to work, and you cannot
find out unless you try writing an image on a chip _in_ that board.

IMPORTANT: Only do that with an _empty_ or otherwise unused ROM chip,
as this may "break" your chip if it does _not_ work properly.

Uwe.