[coreboot] recent mainboard with coreboot support and certain requirements

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Ward,


thank you for your answer.

Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 09:52 -0400 schrieb Ward Vandewege:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:34:38PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > I want to buy a new mainboard with the following features.
> > 
> > 1. It has to be supported by coreboot.
> > 2. I want to have a board with onboard graphics, since I do not play any
> > games. I hope to save power this way.
> > 3. Probably it should support a processor with at least 2 GHz.
> > 4. Firewire would be nice.
> 
> Buy a gigabyte M57SLI. It fits all these requirements.

According to [1] it does not fulfill 2., or do I miss something.

> The main downside is that it has soldered-on rom chip.

Ok.

> > - GIGABYTE_GA-2761GXDK [2] (the link in the wiki on the board [3]
> > somehow leads to [4])
> 
> This board is not available anywhere, afaik.

That is unfortunate. For clarification: This board does not fulfill 4.

> > That is why I am planning to buy the ASUS M2V-MX SE [5] having read the
> > announcement from Rudolf Marek [6].
> 
> Yeah, that's another option, and it has a socketed rom chip.

Ok. It looks like, I am going to order this next week.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial#Status