[coreboot] [RFC] Porting coreboot to Intel Atom (Silverthorne) & SCH US15W (Poulsbo) chipset

Ken.Fuchs at bench.com Ken.Fuchs at bench.com
Sat May 3 00:56:24 CEST 2008


Intel Atom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)

http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/prodbrf/319544.pdf

http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/datashts/319535.pdf

Intel SCH US15W (combined northbridge, southbridge and graphics):

http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/prodbrf/319545.pdf

http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/datashts/319537.pdf

Intel's "reference design" for these two is called the
"Menlow" platform.  For more Intel codename definitions
concerning Mobile Internet Devices (MID), see:

http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/01/atom-101-deciphering-the-intel
-codewords-around-mids/

Comments:

Assuming that technical documentation is available for
Atom/Poulsbo, is it feasible to port coreboot (aka
LinuxBIOS) to Atom/Poulsbo?

Given that this port will support both a new processor
and a new single support chip (as opposed to a northbridge
and southbridge chipset), what kind of development effort
might be required?

Is anyone else interested in such a port?

Any suggestions and comments are welcome.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs




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