On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:36:02 Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Thomas
> 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. Do you know if the board can physically support the CPU? Do you want to run the board with a mixed setup of both CPUs? (i have no idea if that works, but i would bet on: NO) > A. does FAM10 refer to 45nm Opterons (eg 2376) and to 65nm quad cores > C. It seems that > support for the Shanghai processors is not complete but will probably be in > the near future, is this correct? Possible, it is unclear if the microcode patches are needed, but with them it does not work. Is your shanghai a CPU from a store? (= no engineering sample) > D. I am slightly confused by North and > South bridge, is the CK804 a southbridge?, do the opteron CPUs provide > their own northbridge? The terminology is that the northbridge is in the CPU and the chipset is the I/O hub. Christian -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
