On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > * Andrey Korolyov <[email protected]> [150802 22:22]: >> I am trying to estimate amount of effort to make an old military Getac >> to work with coreboot (currently it runs Insyde with computrace-style >> code). All currently supported boards, lanner/em8510 and >> digitallogic/adl855pc are desktops, which means that I should play >> with EC support almost from scratch. Given the fact that i855G(M) was >> quite popular in P-M era, are there any real issues standing behind >> lack of support of a simular mobile platform in a tree? > > The ADL855PC is an embedded module that is using the i855GME chipset > (the same as the Getac W130 as far as I remember). > > Last I checked, the 855 port was not very good, but there's probably > nothing in the way of attempting to write a port for that laptop. > > You should make sure you have some means of recovering your flash chip > back to something working, because writing a port and getting a system > booting typically takes a few tries ;) > > Stefan >
Thanks, I`ve already ordered PLCC extractor and programmer for this purpose, PLCC bed is not designed for in-scheme clip reprogramming anyway. EC looks like not a big deal, though it should implement some unique bits like HDD heater setting. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
