Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread lee.changhan
Thank you both for your responses. I hope I'm not beating the question to death here, but is it possible to reverse engineer closed information on things like Intel MBs' memory controller registers? On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:16 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: How long does it take?

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread mrnuke
On Tuesday, February 04, 2014 09:16:31 PM ron minnich wrote: you can shoot for a board with an FSP-supported chipset, or you could Please avoid FSP like the plague. Programatically, it will be the worst pain you will have ever dealt with. do the Quark, which would be truly wonderful to have.

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:41 AM, lee.changhan changhan...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you both for your responses. I hope I'm not beating the question to death here, but is it possible to reverse engineer closed information on things like Intel MBs' memory controller registers? How much time do you

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: you could do the Quark, which would be truly wonderful to have. mrnuke wrote: Quark comes with firmware source code IIRC. I read a little about the quark soc and it seems to have some pretty tight signature checks on firmware. I got the impression that it was unpossible to

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I read a little about the quark soc and it seems to have some pretty tight signature checks on firmware. I got the impression that it was unpossible to use any other firmware than the UEFI it comes with. I'm forwarding a

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I read a little about the quark soc and it seems to have some pretty tight signature checks on firmware. I got the impression that it was unpossible to use any other firmware than the UEFI it comes with. Word from Intel: hook up

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: I read a little about the quark soc and it seems to have some pretty tight signature checks on firmware. I got the impression that it was unpossible to use any other firmware than the UEFI it comes with.

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread mrnuke
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 04:53:26 PM Peter Stuge wrote: mrnuke wrote: Quark comes with firmware source code IIRC. I read a little about the quark soc and it seems to have some pretty tight signature checks on firmware. I got the impression that it was unpossible to use any other

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread mrnuke
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:26:46 PM Peter Stuge wrote: the SoC features an on-die Boot ROM that is used to establish a hardware Root of Trust (RoT). RoT sounds about right. Alex -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread ron minnich
So I'm continuing my discussion with intel, they are being quite responsive. Peter, thanks for pushing on this, we need the answer! ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-05 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: So I'm continuing my discussion with intel, they are being quite responsive. Peter, thanks for pushing on this, we need the answer! I'm looking forward to the outcome of the discussion! //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-04 Thread Corey Osgood
It's not the time that's the biggest issue here, it's the documentation. Since around the time of the i945 chipset, Intel has stopped sharing data crucial to coreboot development, mainly the location and configuration information on the memory controller registers, these docs are now only

[coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-03 Thread lee.changhan
Hi, I have some info about my motherboard here according to the FAQ page to see if anyone can tell me about the compatibility between my BIOS and coreboot. 1. Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3 Motherboard Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 2. lspci -tvnn -[:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Xeon

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 03.02.2014 17:37, lee.changhan wrote: Hi, I have some info about my motherboard here according to the FAQ page to see if anyone can tell me about the compatibility between my BIOS and coreboot. Your motherboard is not compatible with coreboot. 1. Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3 Motherboard

Re: [coreboot] Motherboard Not on Support MB List - Specs

2014-02-03 Thread lee.changhan
Okay thanks. It also said on the FAQ it takes years to port to the motherboard. How long does it take programmers with low level C experience to port to a specific motherboard design? Also, is there a priority list of motherboards that coreboot is being port to? On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM,