[coreboot] Asus E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU

[Oliver Schinagl]

On 23-07-11 12:56, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I'm currently eyeing the ASUS E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU
>> (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD Hudson M1 Micro AT over at newegg and was
>> wondering if any coreboot compatibility is known.
>>
>> I saw in the supported motherboards section that the asrock (the
>> budget section of asus?) does have a E350 based board that is
>> supported, so hopes are good for now :)
> I am kindof working on it, but so far memory initialization fails most
> of the time (as in: I had two or three boots that reached the payload
> so far). The (apparently) same failure has been observed with the ASRock
> board as well:
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-July/065795.html
>
> As such, I am actually currently not really working on it, but rather
> waiting for Frank Vibrans to have a closer look at the AGESA debug output
> the board generates before it stops.
>
>> Recently amd announced they'd support all future CPU's starting with
>> .. I forgot, but how well is this setup to be supported in, say a
>> year from now?
>>
>> I'm experienced with linux, and not scared of flashing, compiling
>> and testing. I (will soon) have jtag and other flashing capabilities
>> using bus-pirate and bus-blaster boards. I don't know if this board
>> has dual bios or swapable bios, as the only swapable chip is a
>> little 8 leggeded chip (doubt that's the 32MB flash). The current
> It's 32 Mb/4 MB, but that's the BIOS flash, indeed.
>

Well with the replaceable bios-chip; that's awesome. Getting a spare of 
those shouldn't be to hard, to experiment with.
>> bios is UEFI based though.
> ... and horribly broken, yes.
as always I suppose :(
>> Any thoughts/idea's?
> Well, I can provide you with what's necessary to get the serial port going,
> but currently there isn't much to do unless you are familiar with
> AMD CPU and chipset initialization, I guess.
>
> Florian
I'm not that technical I'm affraid :) But didn't AMD say they'd support 
coreboot 'better'? Any way they'd be of help in that regard?