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

[Merlin Büge]

Hi Renze,

> 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!

no problem ;)

Thanks for pointing this out Idwer!

I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle then, writing raminit without
documentation sounds hard.

If anybody wants to give it a try nevertheless, feel free to contact me.

Regards,

Merlin



On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:31:35 +0100
Renze Nicolai <renze at rnplus.nl> wrote:

> 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>
> > 
> 
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