[coreboot] How to build coreboot for AMD/Opteron nVnida/CK804 CRB

[yhlu]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:54 PM,  <Ken.Fuchs at bench.com> wrote:
>> Ken Fuchs wrote:
>
>> > There doesn't seem to be a target defined for this board
>> > in the current source for coreboot.
>> >
>> > I tried:
>> >
>> > $ cd ./targets
>> > $ ./buildtarget nvidia/ck804
>> > No target config file found
>> > Tried both nvidia/ck804 and nvidia/ck804/Config.lb
>> > $
>> >
>> > Where are the target files for the Opteron/CK804 CRB?
>> >
>> > --- Chipset Reference Boards ---
>> >
>> > It is very important that coreboot contains the targets
>> > of all chipset reference boards, since mainboard designers
>> > often use them as the basis of their own designs.  Thus
>> > coreboot ports from these chipset reference boards to the
>> > mainboards based on them would seem to be the easiest way
>> > to do these board-level ports.  The only exception might
>> > be a mainboard family whose various members may be closer
>> > in design that the chipset reference board.
>
> Joseph Smith wrote:
>
>> Sorry I don't think that board is supported by coreboot. I
>> know in the past
>> it is very hard to get nvidia chips supported due to lack of
>> datasheets,
>> public information, etc.
>
> The nVidia CK804 CRB is supported by coreboot
> (or at least it should be supported).  I have
> three year old source code based on LinuxBIOS
> that supports this board.  Our code was never
> submitted, because another CK804 port of
> LinuxBIOS was completed and submitted before
> ours.
>
> Three years ago, I didn't have any trouble
> getting technical information for the nVidia
> CK804 chipset.  An NDA was required.  nVidia
> was very easy to work with, especially while
> reviewing our source code.  We were provided
> with good support by nVidia.
>
> --- CK804 code in official LinuxBIOS source code ---
>
> The nVidia CK804 chipset is definitely supported
> by coreboot.  See ./src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/.
> What happened to the mainboard and target files
> of the nVidia CK804 CRB board?  Did someone remove
> them from the coreboot repository?
>
> I also have a snapshot of the official LinuxBIOS
> code right after the other CK804 port was officially
> submitted (three years ago).  It contains
> ./src/mainboard/nvidia/nf4crb, so the CK804
> mainboard files were in the official tree.  However,
> I see no evidence that the target files were in that
> snapshot, but I assumed that they were added later.
>

i have src/mainboard/nvidia/crb in my local disk.

don't know why it is not made to public.

that should be something like s2895 but doesn't have 8131...

YH