On 24.09.2008 01:13, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 23.09.2008 23:50, Marc Jones wrote: > >> 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? >
Hm. Page 8 of the mainboard manual states that the BIOS ROM hangs off the IT8716F and may be a SST 25VF040B. That means flashrom should support it already. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
