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

[Renze Nicolai]

Hello Merlin,

I just received a message from Idwer Vollering that there is no raminit
 code available yet. Since I am not at the level where I can write
raminit code without proper documentation (which isn't available as
well) I won't be able to port coreboot to your board. Sorry!

Hopefully you will find someone else who can!

Greetings,
Renze

On vr, 2016-12-16 at 14:09 +0100, Merlin Büge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Taiidan and Renze, thank you for your responses.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:46:07 +0100
> Renze Nicolai <renze at rnplus.nl> wrote:
> > I am interested in porting Coreboot to your GA-890FXA-UD5.
> > A month ago I succesfully ported coreboot to my MS-7721
> > (FM2-A75MA-E35) motherboard and having a go at porting another AMD
> > board to coreboot would be a good opportunity for me to learn more
> > about coreboot.
> 
> That sounds good. I'd love to try it myself, but at the moment I
> don't
> feel like I have enough time for it. I'm also quite new to coreboot
> and
> have plenty to learn about it, so I guess I should start somewhere
> else.
> 
> > Since I can not guarantee that I will succeed. Therefore I propose
> > that in case of failure the provided hardware will be returned to
> > you
> > so that you can find someone else to give it a go.
> > 
> > If you want me to work on porting coreboot to your board we should
> > work out the details privately. Please contact me directly
> > (renze at rnplus.nl).
> 
> Sure! I'll write you an email today.
> 
> > Can someone more experienced please confirm that coreboot has
> > support
> > for the AMD 890FX northbridge, the AMD SB850 southbridge and the
> > ITE
> > IT8720 superio chip?
> 
> I'm not sure, but I found this:
> https://www.coreboot.org/Board:amd/south_station
> ... which according to
> https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards/old
> has a SB850 and seems to be supported by coreboot.
> 
> I could not find any further info on that board though...
> 
> By the way, the Gigabyte mainboard has a "Dual BIOS" setup:
> https://www.coreboot.org/Gigabyte_Dual_bios
> 
> I guess this could impose obstacles.
> 
> It seems that there has been done work about it already:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/coreboot@coreboot.org/msg23613.html
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxbios@linuxbios.org/msg05929.html
> 
> 
> (Taiidan:)
> > > What would be really swell is a port to a nice 9xx series
> > > motherboard, 
> > > both are quite old but the 8xx is even older.
> 
> Heh, when I read specs on those, they both still sound absolutely
> high-end to me :P  I find it strenuous to keep up with current tech
> trends...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Merlin
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Merlin Büge <toni at bluenox07.de>
>