Hello, I realise your list is very technical and this is probably a daft set of question so please forgive me if it is cluttering up your list but I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask,.. ... so here goes.
My questions are about running coreboot on an ASUS KFN4-D16 with an NVIDIA CK804 chipset and a SST SST49LF080A (BIOS?) chip 33-4C-NHE 0631138-B I have 2 cpus one is a 65nm dual core opteron 2210, the second CPU is a quad core 45nm "Shanghai" opteron 2376 - this CPU isn't supported by the ASUS BIOS. My aim is to get the board to boot with the quad core CPU, I would be happy if it boots with support for all the RAM and at least one of the ethernet ports, I can live without PCI, SATA, USB etc. My plan is to use a BIOS saviour and buy a second SST49LF080A chip and then 1. flash coreboot for K8 (?) with flashrom to verify that coreboot works on this board 2. flash coreboot for fam10 (?) with flashrom does this sound like a good plan? I have a couple of other questions A. does FAM10 refer to 45nm Opterons (eg 2376) B. I read thorugh recent posts on the list and it seems that AMD are actively contributing to coreboot, is this correct? C. It seems that support for the Shanghai processors is not complete but will probably be in the near future, is this correct? D. I am slightly confused by North and South bridge, is the CK804 a southbridge?, do the opteron CPUs provide their own northbridge? E. what sort of BIOS chip / bios saviour kit should I use with this board? output from flashrom, superiotool and lspci appended below, many thanks for any help and good luck with your project, Tom Ward r...@shed:/home/tom/coreboot/flashrom# ./flashrom flashrom v0.9.0-r555 No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804", enabling flash write... OK. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST49LF080A" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000. superiotool r3695 Found Winbond W83627THF/THG (id=0x82, rev=0x84) at 0x2e 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev f1) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f3) 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev f3) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) 06:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02) -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
