[coreboot] Next target: ASUS TUSI-M

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Wed Jan 5 11:55:15 CET 2011



On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 00:06:29 -0500, Keith Hui <buurin at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the next board I want to port coreboot to. And the three logs
> are attached. "Sissy" is what I name the machine the board is in,
> after SiS. :D
> 
> The flash chip i know for sure is SST 39SF020A. It needs a board
> enable, for which I have figured out 3 of the 5 operations involved,
> thanks to Luc's slides up at Phoronix.
> 
> It used a soldered PLCC32 flash chip. I soldered a socket on myself,
> and the chip miraclously survived. But I have not been able to get
> another of the same chip for backup. All my 3 spares are DIP32.
> 
> Super I/O is IT8705F, already supported. So it looks like all that's
> needed is porting SiS630 from coreboot v1. I think I would also be the
> first to port a single chip chipset to v4.
> 
> Thanks to a previous thread on this list, I got the '630 datasheet,
> but I don't know for sure what is different between it (the 630) and
> my chip (630ET).
> 
> Appreciate all the help I can get for this one.

Sweet! I have a bunch of SIS 630 boards laying around, anything I can do to
help just let me know :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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