Hello I want to use coreboot in an old laptop (in order to replace/upgrade a fried graphics card). Both the southern and northernbridges are suported The laptop is the A8js from asus.
Here's an lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0397 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 06:00.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 06:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01) 06:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 06:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
I can't find a socketed bios in the motherboard...so I guess I have one try. Can anyone help me out in making a target build(I wouldn't bother you and try to do it myself if I had more than one chance). It's either make it work and make me happy, or put the laptop in the garbage..independently of frying the bios or not. Thank you
On 1/4/10 12:17 PM, Joao Mamede wrote:
Hello I want to use coreboot in an old laptop (in order to replace/upgrade a fried graphics card). Both the southern and northernbridges are suported The laptop is the A8js from asus.
Here's an lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
I can't find a socketed bios in the motherboard...so I guess I have one try. Can anyone help me out in making a target build(I wouldn't bother you and try to do it myself if I had more than one chance). It's either make it work and make me happy, or put the laptop in the garbage..independently of frying the bios or not. Thank you
Chances are good to get coreboot running on this laptop, its components seem to be mostly supported by coreboot. However, the chance of getting everything working on the first try are zero. The chances to get the system at least to boot on the first try and always keep the system in a working, updatable state are almost zero, too. So if you attempt to port coreboot to this machine, you will need to create some kind of recovery mechanism. You could solder a socket to the mainboard, or a plug to reflash the machine externally.
However, to get started, I suggest that you find out what flash chip you have on the board, so you can determine what recovery mechanism is suitable. (The flashrom utility from www.flashrom.org will help you with that)
Also, a dump of superiotool -ed will help you a lot. Does the machine have a serial port?
Stefan
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