On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Oskar Enoksson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. Sorry to bother you all with a BIOS problem ... > > I have a large number of old HP DL145 G1 servers with two Opteron > 248 each (single core). I want to upgrade the CPU's to Opteron 280 (dualcore). > > I have tried to simply install two 280 CPU's and boot up. The BIOS bootup > process first seems to work fine > detecting the harddrive, USB, management processor, memory etc. Then > there is a warning text "Warning: Unknown processor. Please contact your > BIOS vendor for appropriate updates". After that it detects the BMC > > I already have the last BIOS available from HP (from 21/7 2005) > installed. > > Would it be possible to tweak coreboot to make these servers work with > dualcore CPU's?
Definitely possible. Probably pretty easy. It's very similar to the amd serengeti_cheetah. If you want to support it, you could start by running superiotool to find out what superio you have. If it is the same as serengeti_cheetah there should be very little work required to support it. The wiki has useful information about superiotool and getting started. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
