Thanks Myles! Your reply is very helpfull to me (especailly the part about using v2 - I was unsure which of v2 or v3 was appropriate) and very clear. I will follow the "destructions" (probably not till August becasue busy in June and holiday most of July) and once I have blown up the board will post the results to this list.
regards, Tom. --- On Wed, 17/6/09, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Myles Watson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [coreboot] ASUS KFN4D16 - K8 FAM10 > To: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2009, 5:13 PM > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM, > Thomas Ward <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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.They should all work. > > > > 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?Yes. > > > I have a couple of other questions > > E. what sort of BIOS chip / bios saviour kit should I use > with this board?RD1 > > > > 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.Hopefully this > chip is socketed. > > > superiotool r3695 > > Found Winbond W83627THF/THG (id=0x82, rev=0x84) at > 0x2eThis SuperIO is supported. > > > 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory > Controller (rev a4) > > This board is very similar to the > tyan/s2892. > > If I were you, my first step would be to get the BIOS > savior (or just use the pushpin method) > > http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual > > > Once you can recover from a bad flash, > > check out the latest coreboot-v2 > mkdir src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16 > svn cp src/mainboard/tyan/s2892/* > src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16/ > mkdir targets/asus/kfn4-d16 > > svn cp targets/tyan/s2892/Config.lb targets/asus/kfn4-d16/ > > edit src/mainboard/asus/kfn4-d16/Config.lb > > Enable devices that are in your lspci, disable any that > don't show up. Don't worry about cards that you > plug in, they'll be found automatically. > > Change the SuperIO from chip superio/winbond/w83627hf to > superio/winbond/w83627thf and change any settings there that > you need to. > Change socket_940 to socket_F > > (When you're ready to switch to fam10) > Change amdk8 to amdfam10 everywhere (may need some other > small fixups) > > > edit targets/asus/kfn4-d16/Config.lb > Change s2892 to kfn4-d16 > make sure ROM_SIZE matches the chip you're using. > > > > cd targets > > ./buildtarget asus/kfn4-d16 > > make a payload (Maybe seabios) > cp your_payload targets/asus/kfn4-d16/kfn4-d16/payload.elf > > make -C asus/kfn4-d16/kfn4-d16 > > Last step is to send your patches to the list with a > Signed-off-by: <your-email> line. > > > Thanks, > Myles > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
