Hi Luke, You may be in luck -- That chipset is similar to a couple others which are already supported for the "Stumpy" and "Lumpy" ChromeOS products.
Of course, the devils are always in the details and this being an Intel-based product will likely require proprietary bits, so there might be other business considerations to take into account. I recommend getting in touch with Sage Engineering (http://www.se-eng.com/). On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Luke Leighton <[email protected]>wrote: > hi folks i'm working for path intelligence and we have a requirement > to use serial bios boot, on a motherboard which has an AMI standard > BIOS. the motherboard is being done by a new (independent) team > within ASRock who are using higher-quality components, longer lifetime > parts, and they're planning to keep this product going for at least > 3-5 years: it therefore makes sense for us to see if there's anyone > who would like to port - or help port - coreboot to it. > > our key requirements are: PXE-boot and Serial BIOS console access. > > if there is anybody who would like to contract to do that, please > contact me. feel free to discuss publicly if there are several people > who would prefer to collaborate on-list. any other suggestions > greatly appreciated. > > here's some information on the board: > > * 1155 sandy/ivy bridge > * intel cougar point q77 colay h61 > * spi flash > * nuvoton NCT6627UD (aka W83627UHG, yay! [*1]) which supports *six* > RS232/422/485 > * intel 82579V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board > * intel 82583V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board > > having done a bit of research on what's been committed recently, the > SPI flash was added in may/june ("leaked" docs on H61 SPI interface); > H61 cougar PCIe ids were added in may; the W83627UHG is a winbond > chipset supported by coreboot 4... > > ... i really don't see this as being particularly hard! only the > gigabit ethernet chips are not listed anywhere (google > site:coreboot.org 82579V gives nothing...) but here's the lspci > output: > > > # lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0100 (rev 09) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) > 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI > Controller #1 (rev 04) > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1503 (rev 05) > 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced > Host Controller #2 (rev 05) > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition > Audio Controller (rev 05) > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root > Port 1 (rev b5) > 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root > Port 2 (rev b5) > 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root > Port 3 (rev b5) > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced > Host Controller #1 (rev 05) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1c5c (rev 05) > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 4 port SATA IDE > Controller (rev 05) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05) > 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 2 port SATA IDE > Controller (rev 05) > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network > Connection > 01) > # lspci -n > 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0100 (rev 09) > 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0102 (rev 09) > 00:16.0 0780: 8086:1c3a (rev 04) > 00:19.0 0200: 8086:1503 (rev 05) > 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1c2d (rev 05) > 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 05) > 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1c10 (rev b5) > 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:1c12 (rev b5) > 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:1c14 (rev b5) > 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1c26 (rev 05) > 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1c5c (rev 05) > 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:1c00 (rev 05) > 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1c22 (rev 05) > 00:1f.5 0101: 8086:1c08 (rev 05) > 02:00.0 0200: 8086:150c > > > [*1] > http://www.nuvoton.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/CloudAndComputingIC/SuperIO/SuperIOforDesktopandIPC/Documents/W83627UHG_NCT6627UD.pdf > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- David Hendricks (dhendrix) Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
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