[coreboot] Offering Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 for porting

[Taiidan at gmx.com]

It *appears* to support IOMMU, and the AM3+ higher end procs (8350)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_800_chipset_series#890FX
http://www.overclock.net/t/730776/official-gigabyte-ga-890fxa-ud5-ud7-owners-thread-club/4040
The 7xx chipset that coreboot currently supports does not do IOMMU 
(artificial market separations)

What would be really swell is a port to a nice 9xx series motherboard, 
both are quite old but the 8xx is even older.

9xx is the last best x86-64 boards that are able to boot without any 
kind of supervisor processor (ME/PSP) and that have coreboot do the real 
work (intel FSP boards make coreboot just shimboot doing 10% of the work 
- entirely bogus - making most of the boot process a black box.)

On 12/15/2016 07:36 AM, Merlin Büge wrote:
> Hey all,
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> I have a nice Gigabyte mainboard which I don't need/use anymore:
> A Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 2.0 or 2.1)
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> http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3519
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> Since I like libre-friendly computing hardware, I'd find it nice to see
> libreboot running on it. I'm not sure, but from what I see, it should
> be libreboot compatible? Could someone more knowledged than me confirm
> this?
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> If someone is interested in porting this board to coreboot, and if
> there are no big foreseeable obstacles to porting it to lireboot, I'd
> be happy donating that board together with a Phenom II 965 and 4G RAM,
> preferrable to someone in Germany or within the EU (shipping costs).
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> Regards,
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> Merlin
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