Hi all, After hours spent yesterday, some Chipquik, one heatgun pass, and a dead board scare later, I managed to solder a PLCC socket on my TUSI-M board.
SIS630ET is still on my radar, but I'm going to need some help. In the spirit of the "coreboot challenge" below, let me propose another one: Port coreboot v4 to SIS630ET, then to Asus TUSI-M. This is a challenge because most if not all of the SIS chipsets have no public documentation, and so far from reversing my factory BIOS I don't recognize any of the registers the TUSI-M factory BIOS programs, after reading what's available from coreboot v1. To be legally safe, I would like one person/team to reverse the factory BIOS of a number of 630ET boards, then produce a documentation. Then another person/team (can be myself) do the port to that documentation. And one interesting bit: I noticed a special check for "CentaurHauls" CPUID in the factory BIOS, which also uses CAR. Cheers Keith On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Joseph Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:01:28 -0400, Keith Hui <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I want to propose a "coreboot challenge" to first port coreboot to the >>>> i840 chpset, second port coreboot to support a very rare i840 dual cpu >>>> board, third instead of RAMBUS (which i840 is designed for) this board >>>> uses SDRAM. I think this would be a very interesting port for coreboot. >>>> >>>> The board is a AMI Megatrends MegaDual. The user manual can be found >>>> here: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/MegaDual_mb_man.PDF >>>> >>>> I have four of these rare boards and am willing to donate three of them >>>> (one person each, less shipping costs of course) to anyone who is >>>> willing to take on this challenge. Let me know if your interested. >>>> >> >> Sounds like some sort of reference board for workstations/servers. >> >> i840+SDRAM means this board has one or two MTHs. This is going to be > epic. >> > Yes it should be interesting :-) > >> (No I won't be able to attempt it - I still have 440BX and SIS630ET in >> my pipeline.) >> > That's OK Keith. I actually have allot of other i8xx boards that are a > higher priority than this one. I knew I was not going to be able to get to > it for a while that is why I am offering up my 3 spare boards for free so > others could hack along if they want. > > I am actually suprised no one has jumped for the oppritunity to get a free > motherboard. > > I do have a few SIS 630's kicking around so I will be looking forward to > your work on that :-) > > -- > Thanks, > Joseph Smith > Set-Top-Linux > www.settoplinux.org > > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
