Seeing the success of running a P2B coreboot build on a P2B-B board (another legacy board), there could be a chance ;-)
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:47 PM Petr Cvek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The p5gc-mx is still supported (src/mainboard/asus/p5gc-mx in a git snapshot). > > It seems the mainboard consists of i945GC northbridge and ICH7 southbridge > (82801GX). > Both are supported, in a fact I'm using a board with i945GM+ICH7 which is > almost the same. > > However there may be some outdated things. My board had incomplete devicetree > and chipset > initialization had a weird problem with cache preload few weeks ago. But it > should be > still possible to boot a linux system (or at least to report bugs ;-) ). > > If you are planning to test it, make sure you will be able to flash back the > original > bios, or even better flash coreboot into a separate chip so you can hot swap > it. > > Having an RS232 adapter to see the logs is also extremely useful. > > ad boot: Coreboot only initialize the hardware and starts the payload. The > boot itself > is made by one of the payloads, for example seabios. And yes seabios supports > booting > from USB OHCI/EHCI/XHCI controller. > > Petr > > Dne 11. 08. 22 v 16:44 Benoît Dufour napsal(a): > > Hello, > > I saw one of my old board is listed compatible on the CoreBoot wiki : > > https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/p5gc-mx > > but knowing the wiki is "being retired". > > I don't know if it is still supported by the latest version of CoreBoot. > > > > Then the Status (as of commit 5bb27b7815) chart has broken colors. > > So it is hard to me to tell if everything is working fine or not. > > > > Then my board is the P5GC-MX/1333 and not the P5GC-MX. > > I could attempt to flash the Coreboot BIOS to it, but > > I would want to know if it could bring me some advantages other than > > "it is free software". For example, the original manufacturer BIOS > > doesn't supports booting from USB, does CoreBoot supports it? > > _______________________________________________ > > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Best regards, Mike Banon Open Source Community Manager of 3mdeb - https://3mdeb.com/ _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
