[coreboot] Gigabyte GA AMD E350N USB3 Board

[Tom Sylla]

Hi Marek,

When I first got the board, I checked the signals of the DB_PORT
header with a meter, and found several connections going to the Super
I/O instead of the flash chip. I was thinking it might be a serial
port header of some non standard pinout instead of a SPI header. It
would be good to double-check though.

Tom

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Marek <mlf.conv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom and Niklas,
>
> What about the DB_PORT programming header? Is the dual BIOS stored on
> the MX25L1606EM2I-12G chip? I'm not interested in USB3 that much although
> it's a nice and useful feature but it seems to be a very good board in
> general.
> Marek
> On 16.4.2011, at 11:12, Tom Sylla <tsylla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marek,
>
> I do own this board, and it is probably one of the more painful to get
>
> ported. There is no SPI header, no serial port, and it has the
>
> gigabyte dual-BIOS mechanism to deal with. I also have an MSI e350
>
> mini-ITX board, without any of those problems, and maybe someday I
>
> will try to make a port for it.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Marek <mlf.conv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 12.4.2011, at 15:08, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>
> Marek wrote:
>
> with regards to recent AMD patches,
>
> Note that the patches did not include support for your mainboard.
>
>
> I'd like to ask whether it would be possible to install coreboot on
>
> Gigabyte GA AMD E350N USB3 board
>
> (AMD E350, chipset FCH A50 Hudson M1, iTE 8720).
>
> The answer is, as always, no it will not work unless you make it work.
>
> The final piece of the puzzle, mainboard support, is still missing,
>
> but all the other 4999 pieces have been put in place for you by AMD
>
> and the rest of the coreboot community.
>
> thanks for your answer, I'm fully aware of the situation, my question was
> more directed to people (if there are any) who own that MB, perhaps work on
> coreboot support, or have considered it and abanonded it in the initial
> phase or even made progress but were unable to continue due to various
> circumstances. No answer most likely means that there isn't anyone who owns
> this board so far, so I just pushed all information I could find out without
> buying that board in case someone wants to buy one and add coreboot support
> for it.
>
> Marek
>
>
>
> //Peter
>
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