Problems with newer revision

[Klaus Stammermann]

Hi

I tried to use coreboot on VIA EPIA ME6000G. With revision 2184 system
starts but with newest revision there are some problems.

Because of changing path to repository in past a diff on my sandbox
doesn't work. Could anyone explain why there are changes so my board
starts only with an old revision?

I know you can't test new revisions with all boards, but there where about
1300 new one. Does no one use this board or is there no development for
ME6000G anymore?

Some information would be nice to see what I am going to do on my project.

Greetings
Klaus

[Peter Stuge]

Hi Klaus,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:07:29PM +0200, Klaus Stammermann wrote:
> I tried to use coreboot on VIA EPIA ME6000G. With revision 2184
> system starts but with newest revision there are some problems.

What problems?
> I know you can't test new revisions with all boards,

Actually there is infrastructure to do just that, but it's not super
easy to integrate with yet.
> but there where about 1300 new one. Does no one use this board or
> is there no development for ME6000G anymore?

I think both those statements are true. It's a rather old board. I
had an EPIA-MII, but the caps blew and I haven't been able to source
new ones easily enough.
> Some information would be nice to see what I am going to do on my
> project.

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Maybe it's
acceptable for you to keep using the old revision? If not you'll of
course have to rebase your local patch and help find the problem with
newer revs on the board. Could you send your changes to the mailing
list?

And - what if any output do you get from running newer revisions on
your board?

//Peter

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Klaus Stammermann
 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to use coreboot on VIA EPIA ME6000G. With revision 2184 system
> starts but with newest revision there are some problems.
>
> Because of changing path to repository in past a diff on my sandbox
> doesn't work. Could anyone explain why there are changes so my board
> starts only with an old revision?
>
> I know you can't test new revisions with all boards, but there where about
> 1300 new one. Does no one use this board or is there no development for
> ME6000G anymore?

unless you have a need for a new rev on an old board, just stick with
the old rev. It's not possible to keep all new revs compatible with
all old boards. Sometimes a chipset bug requires a fix on a new board
that breaks an old board and there is no way to verify the breakage.

ron