Dear Ross,
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 21:29 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > thank you for your message. First three off-topic things. > > 1. Please send just plain text messages and no HTML. This is covered in > the netiquette [1]. > 2. When pasting stuff please turn off line wrapping. This is not > possible with the Google Mail Web interface as far as I know. So either > attach this stuff as text files or use a good mail user agent like > Thunderbird/Iceweasel, Mutt, …. > 3. The project name is spelled all lower case: coreboot. > > Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 18:51 +0200 schrieb Ross McDonald: > > Hello! I would like to use CoreBoot on my laptop. It is an HP Compaq > > NC6320. The board vendor is HP. > > Ok, this a laptop for everyone. > > > It is a HP 30AA motherboard with an Intel 945GM Chipset (ICH7-M > > southbridge and i945 northbridge). The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo > > T5600. It has a SMSC LPC47N217 SuperIO chip (that is the output of > > SuperIOTool). > > […] > > If I am not mistaken, this is the same chipset as for example used in > the Lenovo X60 or T60 and 986LCD-M/mITX [2]. > > So make sure you have a way to recover. Easiest way is when the flash > chip is socketed to get some spare flash chips. Since this is a laptop > you probably need to solder a socket or an adapter to the board like was > done with the X60 or T60 [3][4]. On the IRC channel #coreboot, idwer gave an URL to a picture of the board [5]. So you need to do some soldering. Probably you have the same options as for the Lenovo T60/X60. > You also need to find out if an embedded controller is used and how it > works. Lastly you also need the laptop board schematics I think to set > everything up. Then you should be able to do the port pretty easily I > think. Look at the commits for the X60 and T60. Thanks, Paul > [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette > [2] http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards > [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/69354 > [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios.flashrom/575 [5] http://bios-repair.co.uk/Images/Laptops/HP/Notebook/NC6320-Mainboard.jpg
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