Hi all, I am a PhD student at a university and working on a research project which needs to modify the BIOS. Since most BIOS are close sourced, I choose the coreboot as the developing environment and thanks for providing such a good open source “BIOS”. Most of the existing computers in my lab are kind of new and Intel CPU based DELL desktop or servers. I guess they are not supported by coreboot. Therefore, I want to buy a new machine (my advisor will pay for that :) ) which is already well-supported by coreboot for developing, and I need your suggestions of which machine(x86 based desktop or workstation) is a good candidate. (Another reason I don’t like Intel based machine is that their documentation is poor compared to AMD. )
I have following requirements for the new machine. 1) Fully supported by coreboot. Especially, I want following support 2) Support Windows (XP) and Linux 3) Support ACPI S3 sleep (suspend to RAM) 4) Good documentation about how to detect and configure the memory (because I will modify this part for our project). I read coreboot Wiki and found out most supported parts are separated, such as CPU, motherboard, NB, SB, etc. Does that mean I need to buy all the parts and assemble the machine by myself? It is OK, but if there is some vendor providing a whole computer would be better. Or I guess I just need a good motherboard, any suggestions? Also, I prefer to buy an AMD K8 or K10 machine. Could someone recommend which main board should I use? I see “Pistachio” and “Tilapia” in the supported motherboard wiki, but I don’t know where I can buy those boards? Thanks. PS: I am new to BIOS development but have some experience in Linux and Window device driver. Regards, Jiang -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
