On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Christopher West <chris.pn.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's good news, thanks Marc. > > I'll elaborate on what I've done so far then. > > I have a second flash chip which I'm using for coreboot and hot swapping > on the motherboard for programming and running. > > I've tested builds of a few different Asus boards and found the m4a78-em > does slightly more than the others which is not much, it doesn't boot > and has no serial coms. > > Using the m4a78-em as a starting point, I have done the following; > > Modified the devicetree.cb file using information from lspci and lshw. > Update the Kconfig for the different socket and memory. > Constructed the IRQ table using getpir. > Cloned the superio chip ITE it8718f to the it8720f. > > This all successfully builds and programs. > > So when I try and boot coreboot the machine does nothing and no info > gets sent across the serial console. > > This is where I've ground to a halt, I would appreciate some advice on > what can I do next? > > Thanks, > Chris >
You will need to make changes to romstage.c and enable the early_serial etc there. Marc > > > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 09:11 -0600, Marc Jones wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Christopher West >> <chris.pn.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > I'm attempting to port my Asus M4A79XTD EVO again and I've come up >> > against a dead stop, I think the problem is due to the motherboard >> > having an AMD RD790 Northbridge. >> > >> > Would I be correct in assuming that this chip is not currently >> > supported? >> > >> > If not is there anything that I can do to port it? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Chris W >> > >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> I suspect that the 780 code would be very close to what you need for >> the 790. I think that AMD has released the required documents. Make >> sure that you are prepared to recover the flash for broken images >> before you start. If you have specific questions, please post them or >> join the irc channel. >> >> Regards, >> Marc >> >> >> > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- http://se-eng.com -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
