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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.

Here is a picture of the motherboard:

Status

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

First get and compile filo-0.5. Here is my configuration file

# Do NOT add spaces or comments at the end of option lines.
# It confuses some versions of make.

# Use grub instead of autoboot?
USE_GRUB = 1

# Grub menu.lst path
MENULST_FILE = "hda1:/filo/menu.lst"
# Via Epia-MII CF boot:
#MENULST_FILE = "hde1:/boot/filo/menu.lst"

# time before default menu.lst is chosen. Set to 0 to ignore
MENULST_TIMEOUT = 0

# Image filename for automatic boot and optional command line parameter
AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "mem@0xfff80000"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hde1@0"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "uda1:/vmlinuz.elf"
#AUTOBOOT_FILE = "flashb@0x00400000,0x154a00 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"

# Time in second before booting AUTOBOOT_FILE
AUTOBOOT_DELAY = 2

# Driver for hard disk, CompactFlash, and CD-ROM on IDE bus
IDE_DISK = 1

# Add a short delay when polling status registers
# (required on some broken SATA controllers)
# NOTE: Slows down access significantly, so disable
# whenever possible.
#IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY = 1

# SATA drives seem to have problems reporting their spinup.
# This will delay FILO start by 5s so the disks have some time to settle.
# (required on some broken SATA controllers)
# NOTE: Slows down access significantly, so disable
# whenever possible.
#SLOW_SATA = 1

# Use PCMCIA compact flash on Via Epia MII10000 and MII6000E
# This device is referred to as hde.
#PCMCIA_CF = 1

# Driver for USB Storage
#USB_DISK = 1

# Driver for NAND flash storage
#FLASH_DISK = 1

# VGA text console
VGA_CONSOLE = 1
PC_KEYBOARD = 1

# Serial console
SERIAL_CONSOLE = 1
SERIAL_IOBASE = 0x3f8
# if SERIAL_SPEED is commented out, the speed will not be changed.
#SERIAL_SPEED = 115200

# Filesystems
FSYS_EXT2FS = 1
#FSYS_FAT = 1
#FSYS_JFS = 1
#FSYS_MINIX = 1
#FSYS_REISERFS = 1
#FSYS_XFS = 1
FSYS_ISO9660 = 1
#FSYS_CRAMFS = 1
#FSYS_SQUASHFS = 1

# Support for boot disk image in bootable CD-ROM (El Torito)
ELTORITO = 1

# PCI support
SUPPORT_PCI = 1

# Enable this to scan PCI busses above bus 0
# AMD64 based boards do need this.
PCI_BRUTE_SCAN = 1

# Sound support (needs SUPPORT_PCI)
#SUPPORT_SOUND = 1

# Sound drivers
#VIA_SOUND = 1

# Debugging
#DEBUG_ALL = 1
#DEBUG_ELFBOOT = 1
#DEBUG_ELFNOTE = 1
#DEBUG_LINUXBIOS = 1
#DEBUG_MALLOC = 1
#DEBUG_MULTIBOOT = 1
#DEBUG_SEGMENT = 1
#DEBUG_SYS_INFO = 1
#DEBUG_TIMER = 1
#DEBUG_BLOCKDEV = 1
#DEBUG_PCI = 1
#DEBUG_VIA_SOUND = 1
#DEBUG_LINUXLOAD = 1
#DEBUG_IDE = 1
#DEBUG_USB = 1
#DEBUG_ELTORITO = 1
#DEBUG_FLASH = 1
#DEBUG_ARTECBOOT = 1


# i386 options

# Loader for standard Linux kernel image, a.k.a. /vmlinuz
LINUX_LOADER = 1

# Loader for Windows CE image


# Leave disabled for now. Not supported.
#WINCE_LOADER = 1

# Artecboot loader support
#ARTEC_BOOT = 1

# Boot FILO from Multiboot loader (eg. GRUB)
MULTIBOOT_IMAGE = 1

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



{| border="0" style="font-size: smaller"
|- bgcolor="#6699ff"
! align="left" | BIOS
! align="left" | Power up — OS loader
! align="left" | Linux — shell
! align="left" | Summary

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
| Vendor BIOS (boot from SATA disk)
| 24s
| 24s
| 48s

|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
| coreboot (boot from SATA disk)
| 9s
| 24s  
| 33s

|}


{{PD-self}}