Support for ASUS M2A-VM with AMD 690G chipset

[Paul Menzel]

Dear readers,

the online shop sent me an ASUS M2A-VM instead of an ASUS M2V-MX SE [1].
They said it is “better”.

Anyway, since it has a VGA- and DVI-port and 4 S-ATA connectors, I was
wondering to keep it this way. But I think the Flash-chip is *not*
socketed.

Any new news on when the AMD 690G will be supported [2]?

Otherwise I will just send it back to the shop.

Since the board is lying on the table. Are pictures of the board needed
as Rudolf put some online for the ASUS M2V-MX SE? Could those pictures
be licensed under the GPL and uploaded to the wiki?

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-April/033144.html
[2] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-January/029599.html

[Uwe Hermann]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:21:35PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> the online shop sent me an ASUS M2A-VM instead of an ASUS M2V-MX SE [1].
> They said it is “better”.
>
> Anyway, since it has a VGA- and DVI-port and 4 S-ATA connectors, I was
> wondering to keep it this way. But I think the Flash-chip is *not*
> socketed.

Yep, I've seen an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI in real life which also had a
soldered-on PLCC ROM.
> Any new news on when the AMD 690G will be supported [2]?

See
http://www.coreboot.org/images/6/60/Coreboot_summit_08.pdf

There will be "M690/SB600 support in May", not sure how similar that
is to 690G and/or if it will be supported too.

Uwe.

[Marc Jones]

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Any new news on when the AMD 690G will be supported [2]?

Paul,

This was officially announced at the coreboot summit .

http://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_Symposium_2008

We are working on 690/600 support and hope to an initial release in May.

Marc

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 14.04.2008 20:19, Marc Jones wrote:
> Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Any new news on when the AMD 690G will be supported [2]?
>
> Paul,
>
> This was officially announced at the coreboot summit .
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_Symposium_2008
>
> We are working on 690/600 support and hope to an initial release in May.

And that's great because it means we probably can demo a AMD690/SB600
board at LinuxTag 2008 (end of May).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel