Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

"...and am curious...what is compelling for you and this ?" The short answer - >nostalgia< and >spirit< . A little bit longer answer (for those with patience); You may take the following lines with a grain of salt, or . you can choose to give it a though, a moment of reflection, if you want.

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 4:56 AM taii...@gmx.com wrote: > there will probably never be another > owner controlled x86 system due to ME/PSP etc. > I think that is correct. What is your goal here? I like old hardware too, but at some point, it's a lot more trouble than it's worth to keep these

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Not to rain on your parade but currently I see this system going for $400 on ebay or $130 for the board and am curious...what is compelling for you and this? I did not know when I first started coreboot but you can buy faster and newer open source firmware boards for less money - stuff that you

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Dear all, I was politely reminded by a member of coreboot mailing list (>off the record< . I do apreciate the gesture), that a certain statement of mine sounded a bit harsh; hence I feel obliged to elaborate, just to be sure. In response to David I wrote: >... having a coreboot flashed

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Hello Jonathan, Your response surely came as a blessing ... reading it halfway through, I was just about to throw the towel, but when I read the rest, it truly made my day. So it must have been just recently, that the coreboot support for the AMD K8 (Fam0Fh) was deprecated, as the board is

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Hello David, First of all I'd like to thank you for your reassurance, that I seem to be on the right path towards the ultimate goal - having a coreboot flashed onto a marvelous piece of technology (Sun U40 M2), that was retired (IMHO) way prematurely by the profit driven minds (lacking any

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

The coreboot support for Ultra 40 M2 was for Fam0Fh processors only. As support for Fam0Fh processors was removed so was the board support. I've never got around to upstreaming my Fam10h port.. I could probably push it out somewhere if someone wants to polish it up. I refreshed it only a couple

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Hi Bostjan, On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Bostjan Kravcar via coreboot wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > > > It doesn't sound half as bad I feared it would, honestly. The way I see it, > this is what I can and should do: > > > > - Acquire the Ultra 40 M2 machine (just bite the bullet, as there's

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Thanks Peter, It doesn't sound half as bad I feared it would, honestly. The way I see it, this is what I can and should do: - Acquire the Ultra 40 M2 machine (just bite the bullet, as there's no other way around.), to be able to run the tests in a first place; - Buy a couple of blank BIOS

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Bostjan Kravcar via coreboot wrote: > Looking forward to receive some first-hand insight, about the > present-day coreboot status of this Sun board ... Don't hold your breath. Boards are removed in master if noone contributes test results for a long enough time. The code of course remains

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

s+ultra+40+m2’: Link: https://www.coreboot.org/Board:sunw/ultra40m2 (Last edited in July 2015); 1.1.1.) Sub-menu “Supported boards” -> Page “Mainboards supported by coreboot«: Sun Ultra 40 M2 board is not listed anymore, just the Tyan’s retail server counterpart (Thunder n3600R S2912 ; coreboot

[coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 Board - Obscured coreboot status

Greetings everyone, To begin with - I solemnly swear that I did my »homework«, to the best of my abilities, by digging long and hard through all the available sources pertaining the coreboot project (coreboot.org website, mailing lists, announcements, release notes, GitHib pages, etc.).

[coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2 port - TrainDQSPos: MutualCSPassW[48] then reboot

Hello, I'm working on a coreboot port to the Sun Ultra 40 M2. This is an MCP55 based dual socket Opteron system with two memory banks per node (four slots each.) It's currently in a dual dualcore configuration with 8GB of DDR2 memory, two 2GB sticks per bank. I'm using the Tyan s2912 mainboard

[coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2

Hey all, I know the Sun Ultra 40 has a coreboot image available but is anyone working on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 ? Sun / Oracle's latest BIOS for this unit will not support quad or six core (or dual threaded) Opterons. The chipset is definitely capable however. A BIOS with a microcode update would

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2

* Thom Lauret diracsh...@gmail.com [110427 17:05]: Hey all, I know the Sun Ultra 40 has a coreboot image available but is anyone working on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 ? You will have to make a new port. Give it a try and let us know how it goes. Thanks, Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: