-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi Alois, > > On 23.06.2009 10:15, Alois Schlögl wrote: >> I'm wondering whether coreboot will work in my machine. Here is >> requested information [...] >> 1) System: >> SAPPHIRE PI-AM2RS780G, AMDx86-64 QuadCore, > > I have good and bad news for you. > The good news is that your processor is supported pretty well (I think > we're hunting down one strange interaction) and the 780G/SB700 > combination is being worked on. > The bad news is that we don't yet have a time estimate for when the > 780G/SB700 code will be ready (it's blocked on some legal review inside > AMD). > Porting to any given board should be doable in a few weeks (or days, if > we're really lucky) after the availability of 780G/SB700 code. > > We'll make sure to send out an announcement once the 780G/SB700 code (or > parts of it) has been released. > > Judging from experience, the legal review happens faster if we can show > more (or more interesting) reference customers, so if you plan to use > coreboot on 780G/SB700 as part of university research, we'd tell AMD > about this immediately. > > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel
The reason for asking is the bug as described here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13573 The bug is affecting my research at the university. It was suggested that a Bios-update could solve the problem. Cheers, Alois -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpAoDkACgkQzSlbmAlvEIgZAACfc3qt8zSRTnis1rIGGyb+zJkU VnQAnihmXXQOk58lzrUw2bv84wr/DaJt =EnrJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
