[coreboot] Will coreboot run on my acer aspire L5100 machine?

Gal Frishman frishrash at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 20:47:08 CET 2009


Hi all, I'm sending this mail as instructed by the FAQ.
I want to know if coreboot would run on my pc because original bios doesn't
enable amd virtualization which is supported by cpu...

*relevant output of lshw:*
    product: Aspire L5100
    vendor: Acer
    version: R01-B0
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop
uuid=001C2589-1139-2008-0305-133923000000
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: FRS690L
       vendor: Acer
       physical id: 0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: R01-B0 (01/29/2008)
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect
socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720
int13floppy2880
 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb
agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu at 0
          version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
          slot: Socket AM2
          size: 2300MHz
          capacity: 3GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 199MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx

mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16 lahf_lm
cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 8
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 128KiB
             capacity: 128KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 9
             slot: External Cache
             size: 512KiB
             capacity: 512KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1f
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 2GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             physical id: 0
             slot: A0
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             physical id: 1
             slot: A2
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RS690 Host Bridge
          vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci at 0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          configuration: latency=64
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:01.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci ht bus_master cap_list                bus
info: pci at 0000:01:05.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=64 module=fglrx
           *-multimedia
                description: Audio device
                product: Radeon X1200 Series Audio Controller
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 5.2
                bus info: pci at 0000:01:05.2
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=64
module=snd_hda_intel
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 7
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:07.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0             bus info: pci at 0000
:00:12.0
             logical name: scsi2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=64 module=ahci

*output of lspci:*
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal
gfx)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI
Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200
Series]
01:05.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series Audio
Controller
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
03:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000
Controller (PHY/Link)

*and link for acer's specs:*
http://www.acer.co.il/public/page9.do?sp=page4&dau34.oid=36408&UserCtxParam=0&GroupCtxParam=0&dctx1=39&CountryISOCtxParam=EU&LanguageISOCtxParam=en&ctx3=-1&ctx4=Israel&crc=511262483

Thank you.
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