Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-15 Thread A.Haq Abbad
I thought we had to wait for GSoC, as it will add support to those mobo's!!! I can see that AMD has submitted some source code, but I never heard of anyone who tested it. regards. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz wrote: AMD785G works, Rudolf -- coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph Smith
On 04/15/2010 07:24 AM, A.Haq Abbad wrote: Ahhh, only if I can help you out. I can program in C, but looking at coreboot's source code, it makes no sence to me at all o_O It is too specialist knowledge I guess. Sure, two heads are always better than one :-) No not specialist knowledge, like

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Stuge
A.Haq Abbad wrote: So you advice me to install coreboot on it? I wouldn't. You will brick the board. the motherboard is not mentioned on the website, but the chipset is! That doesn't help. Unless you want to spend some time (ranging from a few weeks to a few months) on developing support for

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 4/14/10 8:08 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: A.Haq Abbad wrote: So you advice me to install coreboot on it? I wouldn't. You will brick the board. the motherboard is not mentioned on the website, but the chipset is! That doesn't help. Unless you want to spend some time (ranging

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread Qing Pei Wang
no, what i want to tell you is that seabios may support DOS/Xp, but others not. be mention that there is always risk to flash the bios. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:51 AM, A.Haq Abbad haq...@gmail.com wrote: So you advice me to install coreboot on it? the motherboard is not mentioned on the

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread A.Haq Abbad
Ohh, I thought it was going to be an easy ride, but I'll wait for AMD 785/750 support, as others are very old! Thanks every one. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: A.Haq Abbad wrote: So you advice me to install coreboot on it? I wouldn't. You will brick the

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread Rudolf Marek
AMD785G works, Rudolf -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Smith
Hello, i845 is on my TODO list. Have patients, the goal is to have it done by the end of the year. By the way, this is some what a tricky chipset because it supports both SDRAM and/or DDR. -- Thanks, Joseph Smith Set-Top-Linux www.settoplinux.org -- coreboot mailing list:

[coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-13 Thread A.Haq Abbad
Hi All IntelĀ® 845G chipset Southbridge 82801 P4 2.4GHz From Compaq Evo D310 DT (Custom Mobo, P4B266-VMX) Any recomemendations? Which payload to choose? I want to start with a basic one, will be using Linux mostly, but I do want to try XP and DOS perhaps. SeaBios seems good, but on the Wiki, it

Re: [coreboot] Newbie to coreboot with a 845G chipset

2010-04-13 Thread A.Haq Abbad
So you advice me to install coreboot on it? the motherboard is not mentioned on the website, but the chipset is! Thanks. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Qing Pei Wang wangqing...@gmail.comwrote: if you want to try xp/DOS, Seabios would be the only choice. and it is unnecessary to use kernel