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

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:51:59 -0400, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, <Ken.Fuchs at bench.com> wrote:
> 
>> The i945/ICH7M would be a far better final target for an Atom chipset
>> and has none of the above mentioned issues.  Of course you would need
>> to use Diamondville Atom rather Silverthorne Atom in this case.
>>
> 
> The problem with i945, from what I've read, is that the i945 chipset uses
> as
> much or perhaps more power then the CPU, which makes it less than ideal
> for
> low power embedded systems, especially battery powered ones e.g. nettops.
> 
Looks like the ECS 945GCT-D might be a good starting choice. It looks like
the SPI has a dip socket already :-)


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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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