Hi Alois, I first want to say that I agree with kernel people that this is a BIOS issue.
Alois Schlögl wrote: > I'm wondering whether coreboot will work in my machine. Not coreboot, but flashrom looks good. > Found chip "Winbond W25x80" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000. The BIOS update you linked to in kernel bugzilla, http://us.sapphiretech.com/drivers/78SAPV09_20090522_4854.zip, contains a BIOS from May, with upgrades from AGESA (this is a BIOS library from AMD) 3.3.2.0 to 3.3.2.3. I don't know if this will fix the problem you are seeing. You could update your BIOS using flashrom and the 78SAPV09.BIN file in that zip. Run flashrom -E to erase your flash chip and then flashrom -wv 78SAPV09.BIN to program and verify the new BIOS. Ideally you should have a restore method before trying this. flashrom -E if it works will erase the flash chip completely. If you have a power outage at that point the system will not start again and the flash chip must be reprogrammed somewhere/somehow else, or the mainboard replaced. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
