#167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)

[coreboot]

#167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
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    Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…             
        Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new                  
    Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:                       
   Component:  coreboot               |       Keywords:  NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus 
Dependencies:                         |   Patch Status:  there is no patch    
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 I have read that the ION platform is not supported because nVidia doesn't
 release the datasheets in public, however, a new ION2 platform is
 availabl, having an Intel NM10 north/south-bridge combo with open datashet
 at:
 http://www.intel.com/products/Internet_Device/Chipsets/NM10/NM10-technicaldo...

The motherboard of my interest is this one (Probably many others too):
 http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iIZKMXSj0jZKiebE&templete=2

[Anders Jenbo]

It looks to mé like it is only a grafic card ón that board. If that  
is the case then yes you should be able to port the board to corboot  
using the intel docs. But you will still need the nvidia x.org driver  
in the end.

Mvh Anders

Den 21/07/2010 kl. 08.52 skrev "coreboot" :
> #167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
>
> +-------------------------------------
>    Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…
>        Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new
>    Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:
>   Component:  coreboot               |       Keywords:   
> NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus
> Dependencies:                         |   Patch Status:  there is no  
> patch
>
> +-------------------------------------
> I have read that the ION platform is not supported because nVidia  
> doesn't
> release the datasheets in public, however, a new ION2 platform is
> availabl, having an Intel NM10 north/south-bridge combo with open  
> datashet
> at:
> http://www.intel.com/products/Internet_Device/Chipsets/NM10/NM10-technicaldo...
>
> The motherboard of my interest is this one (Probably many others too):
> http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iIZKMXSj0jZKiebE&templete=2

[Corey Osgood]

This is my current project, Intel Atom D410/510 cpu and NM10
southbridge support. There's 2 different IONs, one is a full chipset,
the other is just a graphics chip. Supporting the graphics chip/card
isn't very difficult, just load the vendor bios, it's the chipset that
we can't do without any docs.

niklas, do you own the Asus board you linked to?

-Corey

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Anders Jenbo  wrote:
> It looks to mé like it is only a grafic card ón that board. If that is the
> case then yes you should be able to port the board to corboot using the
> intel docs. But you will still need the nvidia x.org driver in the end.
>
> Mvh Anders
>
> Den 21/07/2010 kl. 08.52 skrev "coreboot" :
> > #167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
> >
> > --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
> >   Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…
> >       Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new
> >   Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:
> >  Component:  coreboot               |       Keywords:
> >  NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus
> > Dependencies:                         |   Patch Status:  there is no patch
> >
> > --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
> > I have read that the ION platform is not supported because nVidia doesn't
> > release the datasheets in public, however, a new ION2 platform is
> > availabl, having an Intel NM10 north/south-bridge combo with open datashet
> > at:
> >
> > http://www.intel.com/products/Internet_Device/Chipsets/NM10/NM10-technicaldo...
> >
> > The motherboard of my interest is this one (Probably many others too):
> > http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iIZKMXSj0jZKiebE&templete=2

[Corey Osgood]

For some reason I can't update the ticket, it keeps giving me a
reCAPTCHA error but I don't see a recaptcha box. Anyways, here's a
link to the board I'm working on:

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-nm10-b-e-atom-d510-1-66-ghz-dual-core-mini-itx...

The package I bought (from Newegg) has the built-in NM-10 video
onboard, and also includes a PCI-E 1x ION graphics card. I will try to
get both working.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Corey Osgood  wrote:
> This is my current project, Intel Atom D410/510 cpu and NM10
> southbridge support. There's 2 different IONs, one is a full chipset,
> the other is just a graphics chip. Supporting the graphics chip/card
> isn't very difficult, just load the vendor bios, it's the chipset that
> we can't do without any docs.
>
> niklas, do you own the Asus board you linked to?
>
> -Corey
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Anders Jenbo  wrote:
> > It looks to mé like it is only a grafic card ón that board. If that is the
> > case then yes you should be able to port the board to corboot using the
> > intel docs. But you will still need the nvidia x.org driver in the end.
> >
> > Mvh Anders
> >
> > Den 21/07/2010 kl. 08.52 skrev "coreboot" :
> > > #167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
> > >   Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…
> > >       Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new
> > >   Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:
> > >  Component:  coreboot               |       Keywords:
> > >  NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus
> > > Dependencies:                         |   Patch Status:  there is no patch
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
> > > I have read that the ION platform is not supported because nVidia doesn't
> > > release the datasheets in public, however, a new ION2 platform is
> > > availabl, having an Intel NM10 north/south-bridge combo with open datashet
> > > at:
> > >
> > > http://www.intel.com/products/Internet_Device/Chipsets/NM10/NM10-technicaldo...
> > >
> > > The motherboard of my interest is this one (Probably many others too):
> > > http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iIZKMXSj0jZKiebE&templete=2

[Joseph Smith]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:37:27 -0700, Corey Osgood 
wrote:
> Anyways, here's a
> link to the board I'm working on:

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-nm10-b-e-atom-d510-1-66-ghz-dual-core-mini-itx...
> The package I bought (from Newegg) has the built-in NM-10 video
> onboard, and also includes a PCI-E 1x ION graphics card. I will try to
> get both working.

Sweet! Good Luck Corey :-)

[coreboot]

#167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
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    Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…             
        Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new                  
    Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:                       
   Component:  coreboot               |     Resolution:                       
    Keywords:  NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus   |   Dependencies:                       
Patch Status:  there is no patch      |  
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Comment (by anonymous):

It's quite unlikely to happen as the public datasheets are usually not
 enough for RAM initialization. If there's a considerable use case for
 someone with the documentation and knowledge, the port will eventually pop
 up in the repository, but no need to keep a bug open for this.

[coreboot]

#167: Support for new ION2 (Intel NM10 chipset)
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    Reporter:  niklas.lonn@…          |          Owner:  stepan@…             
        Type:  defect                 |         Status:  closed               
    Priority:  major                  |      Milestone:                       
   Component:  coreboot               |     Resolution:  invalid              
    Keywords:  NM10,ION2,Intel,Asus   |   Dependencies:                       
Patch Status:  there is no patch      |  
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Changes (by stepan):

* status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid