[coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: 08b1466 Add support for A-Open DXPL Plus-U motherboard

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Kyösti Mälkki,


Am Mittwoch, den 19.10.2011, 18:00 +0200 schrieb Kyösti Mälkki:
> Kyösti Mälkki (kyosti.malkki at gmail.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/303
> 
> -gerrit
> 
> commit 08b14667047688b52aab01c686c42ea9ac458815
> Author: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki at gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 17 18:08:13 2011 +0300
> 
>     Add support for A-Open DXPL Plus-U motherboard

these are great news. Thank you for your work and patches!

>     This is an old (pre-2005) entry-level server mainboard.

The manual [1] is available but I could not find a product page.

>     The code is adapted from mainboard/intel/xe7501devkit.
>     
>     Featured chips:
>     - Dual socket604
>     - E7505 northbridge
>     - 82801DB southbridge (with EHCI debug port)
>     - 82870p2 PCI-X bridge
>     - LPC47M102S-MC super-io
>     - 512kB FWH flash (flashrom does the job well)
>     
>     What works:
>      - Dual-Xeon P4/HT boot with microcode update
>      - RAM: registered ECC DDR266 in dual-channel
>      - PCI-X slot interrupts with ACPI and I/O apic
>      - On-board PCI-X GbE and SCSI
>      - ACPI power-off and wakeup with PME#

What operating system did you test with? What payload did you use? Did
you measure how long every stage takes to boot? Kevin O’Connor wrote a
script `readserial.py` which you can find in the SeaBIOS repository [2].

>     Notes :
>      - Current ACPI is more or less a mess
>      - Interrupts do not route correctly with PIRQ
>      - MP-table is not implemented
>      - Issues with reboots remain (cold and warm)
>      - Many superio devices are disabled by default
>      - Audio codec is not investigated
>     
>     Change-Id: I02d18c83f485a09ada65dde03bcc86e9163f2011
>     Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki at gmail.com>

[…]


Thanks again,

Paul


[1] ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/server/motherboard/dxplpu/manual/dxplpu-ol-e.pdf
[2] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2010-October/061292.html
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