On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:14:49PM +0000, thejapanscout . wrote: > I want to see if coreboot could support an old Latitude D510 I have from > late 2005. It's suitable for low-end operations such as running Firefox and > computations, and I'm currently running Lubuntu on this thing. > > Vendor: Dell
Coreboot currently doesn't support any Dell hardware. > Motherboard ID: 3TZKF91, according to dmidecode -s system-seriel-number > CPU: Pentium M, Type 0, Family 6, Model 13, Stepping 8 > Northbridge/Southbridge: likely 82915GM(?), ICH6/M Southbridge Coreboot supports GM45 northbridges, and a few others, I'm not sure if this northbridge is supported. Coreboot supports the 82801Ex (ICH5) and Gx (ICH7), but apparently no ICH6. > lspci -tvnn output: > -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express > Processor to DRAM Controller [8086:2590] > +-02.0 Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics > Controller [8086:2592] > +-02.1 Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics > Controller [8086:2792] > +-1d.0 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB > UHCI #1 [8086:2658] > +-1d.1 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB > UHCI #2 [8086:2659] > +-1d.2 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB > UHCI #3 [8086:265a] > +-1d.3 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB > UHCI #4 [8086:265b] > +-1d.7 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 > EHCI Controller [8086:265c] > +-1e.0-[02-06]--+-00.0 Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX > [14e4:170c] > | +-01.0 Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus > Controller [104c:8036] > | +-01.2 Texas Instruments Device [104c:8037] > | \-03.0 Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] > +-1e.2 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) > AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] > +-1e.3 Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) > AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:266d] > +-1f.0 Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge > [8086:2641] > \-1f.2 Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller > [8086:2653] > > There is no Super I/O chip on the mainboard, nor one can be detected by > superiotool. Sadly, this is where my venture ends here as flashrom refuses > to identify the motherboard because it halts if it finds an unsupported > laptop, so I can't identify the flash chip. SPI, maybe? SPI flashing is pretty inevitable during coreboot development anyway (in most cases), because internal flashing requires a booted system and coreboot won't boot at first. Overall, I guess this wouldn't be an easy port. And given that this laptop is quite old, it's probably not worth it. (If you want to port a laptop that can run without the Intel ME, I'd recommend one with GM45 and ICH9.) Regards, Jonathan
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