[coreboot] Help for motherboard

sh4r4d at gmail.com sh4r4d at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 17:58:23 CET 2011


On Sat, Feb 19 2011, Alex G. wrote:

> On 02/19/2011 01:39 PM, sh4r4d at gmail.com wrote:
>> But I did not found here new Intel and AMD cpu for motherboards in
>> Desktop/Workstation section (except Laptop)
>> mentioned for e.g.
>>   Intel Core 7i
>>   Intel Core 3i 
>
> Won't happen because Intel won't tell us how to initialize that
> hardware. So just stay away.
>

I was not aware.

>> and similar AMD's latest.
>>   
> Support for AMD Fam 14h just got added a few days ago. There are only
> two AMD boards that are currently supported. It's a very new product, so
> we don't have the boards (yet?).
>
>> So finally I like to know do these newer CPU's any motherboard going
>> to be supported in near future, So I will purchase that motherboard.
>>
> Your board will be supported if you do the port yourself, or are lucky
> enough to have the same board as someone who has already ported (is
> doing the port).
>
> I'm working on the VIA VX900, so you could expect that to be supported
> in a couple of months (or earlier, depending on how difficult the
> chipset is).
>
>> I want to find it out as it will be difficult to change hardware than
>> software later. Please suggest which CPU/motherboard combination is
>> good with coreboot.
>> 
> What do you want to do with your computer?
> For HTPC, VIA Nano is pretty good.
> For regular desktop, we have a few good AM3 boards supported.
> For workstation/server, you can get your hands dirty, get a
> single/dual-socket G34 board, and start porting. We have most
> infrastructure code for that, so it shouldn't be too hard. :)


I wanted general purpose regular desktop for programming, internet,
GNU/Linux with common servers dovecote, tomcat, apache etc

>
> And someone wiser may give you a more complete answer.



-- 
Regards,
-sharad





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