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This page describes how to use coreboot on the DFI Infinity NF570 series mainboard. It is maintained by Chris Lingard.

Work in progress, back soon

After much failure trying to get a motherboard modified with a switch and a second BIOS socket, I found one with a socketed BIOS. It comes in three flavours:

NF570 SLI-M2/G, NS570-M2/G and NF550-M2/G

The designers have chosen an identical chip set to the Gigabyte M57SLI, so I only had to make trivial code changes for it to work to the standard shown below. All credit to coreboot's M57SLI team.

This board would be too easy for any experienced corebooter; but it is an ideal entry point for someone who has never hot swapped a chip before, nor flashed a BIOS.

Status

Device/functionality	Status	Comments
CPU
CPU works	OK	AMD Athlon(tm) X2 dual core Processor 6000+
L1 cache enabled	OK	CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line),
L2 cache enabled	OK	CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
L3 cache enabled	N/A
Multiple CPU support	N/A
Multi-core support	OK	Works fine, tested with prolonged builds like gcc and glibc
Hardware virtualization	Untested
RAM
EDO	N/A
SDRAM	N/A
SO-DIMM	N/A
DDR	N/A	N/A
DDR2	OK	Using 2 by 2GB 667
DDR3	N/A
Dual channel support	Untested
ECC support	Untested
On-board Hardware
On-board IDE 3.5"	N/A
On-board IDE 2.5"	N/A
On-board SATA	OK	Tested: SATA port 1 , that is my CD/DVD RW.
On-board SCSI	Unknown
On-board USB	Untested	Should be OK.all the right modules are loaded by udev/kernel
On-board VGA	N/A
On-board ethernet	OK
On-board audio	Untested
On-board modem	N/A
On-board FireWire	Untested
On-board smartcard reader	N/A
On-board CompactFlash	N/A
On-board PCMCIA	N/A
Add-on slots/cards
ISA add-on cards	N/A
Audio/Modem-Riser (AMR/CNR) cards	N/A
PCI add-on cards	Untested
Mini-PCI add-on cards	Unknown
PCI-X add-on cards	Unknown
AGP graphics cards	N/A
PCI Express x1 add-on cards	OK
PCI Express x2 add-on cards	Untested
PCI Express x4 add-on cards	N/A
PCI Express x8 add-on cards	N/A
PCI Express x16 add-on cards	OK	Tested: Saphire ati clone radion card. Works using the radionhd X11 driver.
PCI Express x32 add-on cards	N/A
HTX add-on cards	N/A
Legacy / Super I/O
Floppy	WIP	Does not work with either the factory or coreboot BIOS
Serial port 1 (COM1)	OK
Serial port 2 (COM2)	N/A
Parallel port	Untested
PS/2 keyboard	OK
PS/2 mouse	OK
Game port	Untested
Infrared	N/A
PC speaker	OK
DiskOnChip	N/A
Miscellaneous
Sensors / fan control	Untested
Hardware watchdog	Untested
SMBus	Unknown
CAN bus	N/A
CPU frequency scaling	Untested
Other powersaving features	N/A
ACPI	Untested
Reboot	OK
Poweroff	Untested
Suspend	Unknown
Nonstandard LEDs	OK
High precision event timers (HPET)	Untested
Random number generator (RNG)	N/A
Wake on modem ring	Untested
Wake on LAN	Untested
Wake on keyboard	Untested
Wake on mouse	Untested
Flashrom	OK	Works fine with coreboot and with the proprietary BIOS. The board/chipset/flashrom can decode 1MB chips fine.

Hardware

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2
Nvidea MCP55
Nvidea
Pm49LF004

lspci -tvnn

[0000:00]-+-00.0 nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller [10de:0369]

          +-01.0  nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge [10de:0362]
          +-01.1  nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus [10de:0368]
          +-01.2  nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller [10de:036a]
          +-01.3  nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMU [10de:036b]
          +-02.0  nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036c]
          +-02.1  nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller [10de:036d]
          +-04.0  nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE [10de:036e]
          +-05.0  nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f]
          +-05.1  nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f]
          +-05.2  nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller [10de:037f]
          +-06.0-[0000:01]----07.0  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller [1106:3044]
          +-06.1  nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio [10de:0371]
          +-08.0  nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet [10de:0373]
          +-0b.0-[0000:02]--
          +-0c.0-[0000:03]--
          +-0d.0-[0000:04]--
          +-0e.0-[0000:05]--
          +-0f.0-[0000:06]--+-00.0  ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600XT] [1002:9588]
          |                 \-00.1  ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series] [1002:aa08]
          +-18.0  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
          +-18.1  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
          +-18.2  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
          \-18.3  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]

Building coreboot

This motherboard has a socketed BIOS chip, so, first of all buy half a dozen empty Pm49LF004 chips. Build flasrom and do something like:

BIOS	Power up — OS loader	Linux — shell	Summary
Vendor BIOS (boot from SATA disk)	24s	24s	48s
coreboot (boot from SATA disk)	9s	24s	33s

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 Work in progress, back soon
+After much failure trying to get a motherboard modified with a switch and a second BIOS socket, I found one with a socketed BIOS.  It comes in three flavours:
+NF570 SLI-M2/G, NS570-M2/G and NF550-M2/G
+The designers have chosen an identical chip set to the Gigabyte M57SLI, so I only had to make trivial code changes for it to work to the standard shown below.  All credit to coreboot's M57SLI team.
+This board would be too easy for any experienced corebooter; but it is an ideal entry point for someone who has never hot swapped a chip before, nor flashed a BIOS.
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