Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 motherboard data and question.

[Sasha Medvedev]

Hi, all. I found " You can help out Coreboot! " thread on ubuntu forums,
in witch somebody "uid313" tell that the following info will be useful
for you(in attachments):
dmidecode.txt
lspci-tvnn.txt
irq_tables.c
mptable.txt
dmidecode-dump.txt
lshw.txt
superiotool-dV.txt.
This is info of my GA-P965-S3 motherboard and system.
I found, coreboot is a great project. So I'd like to investigate
information in wiki and try to do something to bring coreboot on my
system. I have a little skill in programming ( C/C++ and asm courses in
the university). So I have some questions. 
1)Is this hard to port code from i945 to i965P? Could we get support
of i965P, for example, next year? I found in mail lists somebody try to
work with i965PM chip-set.
2)Is there any method to boot bios image without flashing it to board?
Or i need to bay another bios chip and experiment with it? I heard
about lobos project, but can't found source code.
3)How can I help? I suppose I was useless as programmer, may be there
is some howtos how to adopt existing part's code. Probably I can support
developers with this motherboard, if it brings really result. Or it
will be easier to change my platform(for example on amd)?

[ron minnich]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Sasha Medvedev  wrote:
> 3)How can I help? I suppose I was useless as programmer, may be there
> is some howtos how to adopt existing part's code. Probably I can support
> developers with this motherboard, if it brings really result. Or it
> will be easier to change my platform(for example on amd)?

It is easier to change to AMD or intel i945, which is supported.

We can always use help. If it is not code, it is writing. If it is not
writing, it is calling vendors and pushing them to do the right thing.
One thing is certain: we can ALWAYS use help!

If you would like to get a group of people together and contact intel
and try to get info on the i965, for purposes of doing the bios work,
that is a good idea.

Or you can mobilize the Ubuntu organization and have them help push on
vendors to get the information and support we need. I think Ubuntu
could be a very powerful force in this manner.

Thanks very much for your note.

thanks

ron