hi jiang, it is impossible to make the developers to port all of the mainboard.Actually, we take things as different chipset/cpu. If you found that the chipset/cpu/superio of one mainboard has already been supported, you can take a try to use coreboot.
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jiang Wang <jwang...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi: > > I am interested in this motherboard for BIOS developing too. I think > this board has a flash chip that you can plug out manually (without > soldering) right? > Where did you buy it? Form on-line or a local store? I am in the USA. > Also, is this board supported by coreboot? I checked the coreboot wiki > but cannot find it. Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > > Jiang > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:36 PM, xdrudis <xdru...@tinet.cat> wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I finally bought the hardware I told you and installed gnewsense 3 with a > > custom linux-libre 2.6.34 : > > mainboard Asus M4A77TD-PRO > > http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0AvsBb7WBZe2i9zK > > CPU AMD Phenom X4 910e stepping c3 > > AMD 770 > > AMD SB710 > > RAM 2 x 4Gb dual channel non-ECC G.Skill DDR3-1333 PC3 10666 > F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL > > superio ITE IT8712F (clearly marked on the chip and detected) > > lan: RTL8112L > > audio VIA VT1708S > > > > I've put a graphics card by MSI, Nvidia GeForce 8400GS passively cooled > (no fan) on the PCIExpress 2.0 slot. > > > > I'll attachs the lspci and superiotool r3125 outputs (versions from > gNewSense) > > and flashrom 0.9.2 downloaded and compiled from release tarball. > > > > Btw. The readme in flashrom 0.9.2 says to use make DESTDIR=/usr install > > if you don't want it in /usr/local, but this will install it in > /usr/usr/local/sbin. To have it in /usr/sbin you need to run makePREFIX=/usr > install. > > It's slightly confusing for me, I've had to look at the Makefile. > > > > Now, the first thing I want to do is to buy spare flash chips. > > But I'm not sure what chips or where to buy them. > > > > It's a socket with an eight pin chip (DIP-8?) > > (4 pins per side), roughly 5mm x 9mm > > I'd say it's by Macronix (and flashrom agrees). But I doubt about > > the specific model. The motherboard manual says "8Mb Flash ROM". > > > > The letters on the chip are very small and there's some marking over them > > that keeps me from reading them all . > > I'll copy here what I can read (i mark the most dubious letters with ?). > > (top left is a logo MX) > > > > - - - - > > -- -- - - > > = v = = = b09?714 > > = = = = > > > > 25L5???5PC-15G > > 3C153600 > > TAIWAN > > > > Looking at catalogues from macronix I think 25L is the > > family (SPI serial flash) 5?? should be the size (I'm not > > sure how many digits are there, not even 100% sure it's a 5) > > ?5 would be normal, write protected, duplex,etc. > > PC might be the process ( xx micrometers), -15 would be > > frequency of 66 Mhz and G something about lead free or environmental > > regulations. > > > > but flashrom says its a Macronix MX25L8005 . > > > http://www.macronix.com/QuickPlace/hq/PageLibrary4825740B00298A3B.nsf/h_Index/6F878CF760C559BD482576E00022E6CC/?OpenDocument&EPN=MX25L8005 > > > > Now, the question is should I buy some MX25L8005 ? (apparently its > > end of life is 2010-11-30, so it should be available, but where in > > small quantities ? ) > > > > According to > > > http://www.macronix.com/QuickPlace/hq/PageLibrary4825740B00298A3B.nsf/h_Index/430AA5580EA1C72E482576BE0004AF37/$File/PCN-10-035-B.pdf > > maybe I could try > > Mx25L8006EPI-12G > > > > Where do you get your spare EEPROMs ? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- Wang Qing Pei MSN:wangqing...@hotmail.com <msn%3awangqing...@hotmail.com> Gmail:wangqing...@gmail.com <gmail%3awangqing...@gmail.com> Phone:86+13426369984
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