Dear coreboot comunity,
Anton encourages the russian speaking part of linux users to write to the list to get help of supporting a new mainboard. Did somebody write in the past?
Maybe there are not a lot of people ready to try coreboot, because of: "Make changes to the board configuration, ACPI or IRQ routing etc etc until you find the proper settings. This can take from an hour of time to a few months based upon your coding skills and hardware issues." And this is the citation for "a new board with the *same* cpu family, chipset and superIO". Would you please be more precise, writing How-To?
I own a Gigabyte ga-990xa-ud3 board [1], based on Northbridge: AMD 990X Southbridge: AMD SB950 SuperIO: ITE IT8720F BIOS: Macronix flash chip "MX25L3205" Link to the latest original BIOS-image: [2]
I've attached the required... oh, the forum moderator has already removed this part of the conversation, where Anton said about what tools output is required.
By the way, what can be read from the original BIOS image? Are there any tools for this?
I've thought also of a following approach: would it be possible for author added support for a AMD 8xx/9xx based board to publish the output of tools, mentioned by Anton (flashrom, lspci -vv..., superiotool), so that one could compare this input with the ready code to see, what data is still missing and be able to ask for it?
Kindly regards, Andrey
[1] http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3901 [2] http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-990xa-ud3_f12.exe
P.S. I'll send superiotool output later.
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Andrey Gursky