On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Anders Jenbo <[email protected]> wrote: > Den 17-05-2011 10:41, Андрей Клаус skrev: > > Hello everybody, > > I'm thinking about porting coreboot to my motherboard (epox 9NPA3I / 9NPA3J > / 9NPAJ-3 / 9NPA3 Ultra Series). My chipset (CK804) and my superio > (F71872F/FG) are in supported list. According to this page > (http://www.coreboot.org/Support) port "might be easy" (exactly: "If you > find those in our list of Supported Chipsets and Devices a port might be > easy"). > > I need roughly estimation for "easy" to decide is it possible for me to port > coreboot or not (in time-consuming terms). So, is "easy" up to 8 hours for > coreboot expert, or is it up to 40 hours for coreboot expert? Will be great > if you could give me estimation for 'worst' and 'best' variant. > > Thank you very much, > Andrey > > It took me less then 8 hours to make my first port, and I'm not even a C > programmer, mine was a best case senario as there was a sibling board > already ported. I have also ported some where just the component where > supported, that didn't take to long either, probably 7-10 hours. > > Working on a board where only legacy code and docs are available I have > probably spend around 12 hours to get to ram init. > > I think the key to sussess is to have an easy way to reflash the bios when > your image failes. Seems quite inspirational to the people who wanted to port for new boards. @ Stefan: Can you please share your opinions on this?
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