[coreboot] Intel Core 2 Duo L7400 with MB chipset Intel 7100

Remi Lefevre rlefevre at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 22:06:43 CET 2008


Thank you for your very fast answer.

I wonder if you may have a linuxbios porting experience to help me
evaluate the work needed to make this configuration supported by
coreboot.
(I mean a very gross evaluation considering that it would be someone
valuable in low level work who would work on it).

Regards,
rémi

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:45 PM,  <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Remi Lefevre <rlefevre at gmail.com>:
>
>  > Hi everyone,
>  >
>  > At first, this project is great, thanks to everyone that contributed
>  > to make it alive.
>  >
>  > I build a new embedded system (Linux based) and seriously consider for
>  > various reasons to replace the proprietary BIOS by coreboot.
>  > Before promising heaven to business guys, I would like to see if
>  > nothing will prevent me to realize it.
>  >
>  > My system will probably have the following components:
>  > * CPU: Core 2 Duo L7400
>  >         - Overview: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/core2duo/316663.pdf
>  >         - Core 2 Duo datasheet:
>  > http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/316745.htm
>  > * MB chipset: Intel 3100
>  >         - Overview: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/prodbref/315817.htm
>  >         - Datasheet: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/datashts/313458.htm
>  > * The motherboard will probably be custom (at least adapted) and I
>  > don't have enough information yet to provide.
>  >
>  > Without wasting time from you, do you see anything that could prevent
>  > me to port coreboot to this system (given your Intel NDA experience or
>  > whatever...)
>  >
>  > This port would surely contribute to the coreboot repository.
>  >
>  I don't see anything that would prevent you from porting coreboot to
>  this board, except that the chips are not supported yet, so you would
>  have alot of work ahead of you....
>
>
>
>  Thanks - Joe
>




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