On 11/26/10 2:31 PM, Fontaine, Eric R wrote: > Dear Coreboot Developers, > > I am very impressed with coreboot and agree with the importance of open > source firmware. I am looking at your list of supported server motherboards, > and see support for SuperMicro X6D series, but do not see any support for the > board I am using, the X7DVL-E. I included at the bottom of this email my > machine specs. My questions are: > - is anyone in the process of porting code for this board? No. > - if yes, then when do you think it will be done? > - if no, then approximately how much programming effort does it typically > take one of you to port coreboot to a new system, in case I decide to port it > myself? Roughly think of 6+ man months.
> - would you estimate if most of the X6D series firmware code can be reused, > or would I most likely have to rewrite everything? You will be able to reuse a lot of code, but the majority of chipset code will have to be written from scratch. Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
