[coreboot] i855GM on laptop - possible or not?
Hello, I am trying to estimate amount of effort to make an old military Getac to work with coreboot (currently it runs Insyde with computrace-style code). All currently supported boards, lanner/em8510 and digitallogic/adl855pc are desktops, which means that I should play with EC support almost from scratch. Given the fact that i855G(M) was quite popular in P-M era, are there any real issues standing behind lack of support of a simular mobile platform in a tree? Thanks in advance! -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Re: [coreboot] i855GM on laptop - possible or not?
Hi Andrey, * Andrey Korolyov [150802 22:22]: > I am trying to estimate amount of effort to make an old military Getac > to work with coreboot (currently it runs Insyde with computrace-style > code). All currently supported boards, lanner/em8510 and > digitallogic/adl855pc are desktops, which means that I should play > with EC support almost from scratch. Given the fact that i855G(M) was > quite popular in P-M era, are there any real issues standing behind > lack of support of a simular mobile platform in a tree? The ADL855PC is an embedded module that is using the i855GME chipset (the same as the Getac W130 as far as I remember). Last I checked, the 855 port was not very good, but there's probably nothing in the way of attempting to write a port for that laptop. You should make sure you have some means of recovering your flash chip back to something working, because writing a port and getting a system booting typically takes a few tries ;) Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Re: [coreboot] i855GM on laptop - possible or not?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > * Andrey Korolyov [150802 22:22]: >> I am trying to estimate amount of effort to make an old military Getac >> to work with coreboot (currently it runs Insyde with computrace-style >> code). All currently supported boards, lanner/em8510 and >> digitallogic/adl855pc are desktops, which means that I should play >> with EC support almost from scratch. Given the fact that i855G(M) was >> quite popular in P-M era, are there any real issues standing behind >> lack of support of a simular mobile platform in a tree? > > The ADL855PC is an embedded module that is using the i855GME chipset > (the same as the Getac W130 as far as I remember). > > Last I checked, the 855 port was not very good, but there's probably > nothing in the way of attempting to write a port for that laptop. > > You should make sure you have some means of recovering your flash chip > back to something working, because writing a port and getting a system > booting typically takes a few tries ;) > > Stefan > Thanks, I`ve already ordered PLCC extractor and programmer for this purpose, PLCC bed is not designed for in-scheme clip reprogramming anyway. EC looks like not a big deal, though it should implement some unique bits like HDD heater setting. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
