Dear Tanguy,
Am Donnerstag, den 18.08.2011, 10:35 +0200 schrieb Tanguy Ortolo: > Following your comment on my blog post [1], I am contacting you I am now > looking for more information in order to try that. > > [1] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article22/efi-boot great that I could arouse your interest in coreboot. Just to clear things up I am no developer so please post specific questions to the list. > If I want to try coreboot safely, I need a new DIP8 flash chip, do you > know where I could buy one? Is this common electronic material, that can > be found in a local store? I am not really fond of electronics so I do > not know much on that subject. :-) There is an entry in the FAQ [1] and I also posted a message to the list [2] for people to share their experiences. According to Rudolf [3] <http://bios-repair.co.uk/> is a good pick to order from if you live in Europe. Tanguy, I guess you live in France. Hopefully someone can recommend a store there or you could try to go into an electronics store in your city and ask them. > Now, the current UEFI firmware from ASRock provides an interface for > configuring some mainboard settings such as the SATA mode. What does > that become with coreboot? Coreboot only initializes the hardware and gives control afterward to a so called payload. Unfortunately there does not exist a payload yet to let you configure such setting as far as I know. There are certain settings stored in NVRAM you can configure/set using `nvramtool` if I am not mistaken. But I am not sure what exact settings are stored in NVRAM for ASRock E350M1/USB3. So the hard way is to change the settings in the source and rebuild the image and flash it to the chip. > Finally, in order to use coreboot I shall need to configure it for my > board, then compile it and flash it: can that be done in place with > flashrom? Yes, flashrom was originally developed to be able to flash a coreboot image to the flash chip under GNU/Linux. Thanks, Paul [1] http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Where_can_I_buy_BIOS_chips_.28empty_or_pre-flashed.29.3F [2] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-August/066205.html [3] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-August/066207.html [4] http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/perso/pages/accueil/
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