Hi Jiang, most of the amd 690/780 serial mainboard are supported by coreboot. Please see comments below.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Jiang Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a PhD student at a university and working on a research project > which needs to modify the BIOS. Since most BIOS are close sourced, I > choose the coreboot as the developing environment and thanks for > providing such a good open source “BIOS”. > Most of the existing computers in my lab are kind of new and Intel CPU > based DELL desktop or servers. I guess they are not supported by > coreboot. Therefore, I want to buy a new machine (my advisor will pay > for that :) ) which is already well-supported by coreboot for > developing, and I need your suggestions of which machine(x86 based > desktop or workstation) is a good candidate. (Another reason I don’t > like Intel based machine is that their documentation is poor compared > to AMD. ) > AMD 690 are the most mature mainboards which supported by coreboot. > > I have following requirements for the new machine. > 1) Fully supported by coreboot. Especially, I want following support > 2) Support Windows (XP) and Linux > Windows XP supported are depends on the code. I used only to port windows 7 to herring. > 3) Support ACPI S3 sleep (suspend to RAM) > 4) Good documentation about how to detect and configure the memory > (because I will modify this part for our project). > the best documentation is maillist in my mind, you can take a mainboard as the start point. And ask for help from the maillist. > > I read coreboot Wiki and found out most supported parts are separated, > such as CPU, motherboard, NB, SB, etc. Does that mean I need to buy > all the parts and assemble the machine by myself? It is OK, but if > there is some vendor providing a whole computer would be better. Or I > guess I just need a good motherboard, any suggestions? > > Also, I prefer to buy an AMD K8 or K10 machine. Could someone > recommend which main board should I use? I see “Pistachio” and > “Tilapia” in the supported motherboard wiki, but I don’t know where I > can buy those boards? Thanks. > Pistachio and Tiapia is the AMD dev mainboard. It can not been bought in public. > > PS: I am new to BIOS development but have some experience in Linux and > Window device driver. > > Regards, > > Jiang > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- Wang Qing Pei MSN:[email protected] <msn%[email protected]> Gmail:[email protected] <gmail%[email protected]> Phone:86+13426369984
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