Hello Zahra,
On 9/24/18 2:51 PM, zahra rahimkhani wrote:
I am trying to use coreboot for a motherboard that have cpu of Xeon x5570.
TLDR; it won't work. coreboot needs to be adapted to every mainboard, and, in this case, even to the processor and chipset. Without docu- mentation from Intel (that we don't have), it might take an experienced coreboot developer 1 or 2 years to support this processor.
I searched about similar motherboards that coreboot support them . It is a motherboard from supermicro that is X7DB8 and support Intel Xeon™ 5000 series that were 5400/5300. but I do not know about 5500. It was in this list https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards/old
Xeon 5400 and 5500 are very different. The older one still used FSB and had the memory controller (two channel DDR2, I guess) in the north- bridge, the newer uses QPI and has the memory controller integrated (three channel DDR3, a much different beast). There is still not a single platform with QPI supported in coreboot and the memory control- ler is likely not close to any supported one either.
I would be grateful if you let me know about your experiences for this cpu. Do coreboot work with 5500 or not?
No, it doesn't.
Can I change model of motherboard ?
Not sure, what your question is. You can use a different (supported) motherboard. But not with this CPU.
Nico
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Nico Huber