----- "Warren Turkal" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 06:10:45 am Nasa wrote: > > *snip* > > > IBASE MB899 > > Intel 945GM Chipset > > GMCH: 82945GM 1466-pin Micro-FCBGA > > ICH7M:82801GBM 652-pin MBGA. > > I just looked in our tree and I see src/mainboard/mb899. Anyone know > how well > it's supported? > > > While I am very capable of building software out of SVN (been doing > that > > for mythtv, openmobile, etc) and linux kernel, I have not played > with > > pulling individual chips, like a BIOS. So I don't know anything > about > > acquiring and/or replacing one. But I can be somewhat > adventureous... > > Is the following your board? > http://www.ibase.com.tw/MB899_500.jpg Yes,
That the one. > > If so, the bios chip might be the SST thing near the white connector > in the > bottom left quadrant of the board. I think it's an LPC style chip. > Having > another chip to flash instead of that one would mean that you could > keep your > oringinal untouched. I think that usually those types of chips just > pull right > out. If that one does just pull out; could I make a copy of the running bios, pull the chip (from a running machine...), and copy the old bios on to the new chip? > > Also, having an external flasher would be really useful in case you > flash a bad > image onto your chip and need to fix it. or would an external flasher be an easier solution? > > wt Thanks! > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
