On 2014-10-31 10:56, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > The rest of the group will chime in soon, but is the board currently > running a known working distribution of Linux? Some released ones do > not provide good toolchains for us.
I don't have the board, as I haven't yet decided to buy it. But I'd run Debian wheezy on it. By toolchains, do you mean GCC and Binutils or superiotool and flashrom? > The other problem here is that we'll need to have you run such tools > as are shown on the wiki. Please note that they need to be run at the > prompt. One of them is the superio tool, and the other is the flashrom > tool. The other one concerns itself with the tool to reading the > contents of the PCI management registers. (It also tells us what > components were used to glue the entire system together.) Sure, I can run superiotool and flashrom, either from Debian or from Git as needed. > For example some examples shown are untested because the boards are > wearing proprietary parts who were specially built for them. Intel is > famous for doing that... > > Oh and regarding the ROM chip containing your system's commercial BIOS > I suggest tracking down spares as you might need them. The other > problem is how the part is fastened down on the board. > I believe that covers it. Yes, I have some W25Q80BVDAIG chips I planned to use with another board. I know the board comes with a socketed W25Q64FVAIG, although I'm having some trouble finding a distributor who carries that chip or equivalent chips. I assume the 80BV ones I have won't work, because they use a slightly different supply voltage range? -- Patrick "P. J." McDermott http://www.pehjota.net/ Lead Developer, ProteanOS http://www.proteanos.com/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
