On 23.09.2008 23:50, Marc Jones wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> any suggested boards people can buy to try this out? I need to buy a >> board anyway as i want to have two for development uses. > > It will probably require some minor porting but the GA-MA69G-S3H seems > popular with some of our marketing people. It is AM2 instead of s1g1 > but that should be ok. > > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2579 >
Looks nice. However, I was unable to find out whether it uses a LPC or SPI ROM. According to this picture http://techgage.com/reviews/gigabyte/ga_ma69gm_s2h/ga_ma69gm_07.jpg there is at least no socketed ROM. http://www.barebonecenter.de/images/stories/User2/gigabyte/ga-ma69gm-s2h/ga-ma69gm-s2h_8.jpg on the right, below the DIMM slot is a Winbond ACPI controller. There is not even a single PLCC32 chip on the board. The only option left is a soldered SOIC8 or SOIC16 SPI ROM. The SOIC8 chip below the SuperI/O here http://techgage.com/reviews/gigabyte/ga_ma69gm_s2h/ga_ma69gm_09.jpg is unmarked (except a green spot), but it could be what we're looking for. Marc, can you find out which ROM chip this board uses so that we can assess the coreboot-friendliness of it? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
