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

[Joseph Smith]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:39:30 -0400, Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org>
wrote:
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> 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:
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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 :-)
> 
Or even the Jetway NF94-270-LF.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
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