Difference between revisions of "Desktops"

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Supported Desktop Motherboards

Please see the "Desktops / Workstations" section of the list of supported mainboards. You can also have a look at the "Server" section, as the differences between desktop/server are not always very big. The current "flagships" as far as modern, coreboot-supported desktop mainboards are concerned are probably:

• GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 (the ROM chip is soldered on, thus it needs a hardware hack; newer revisions use SPI, which is even harder to deal with)
• ASUS A8N-E (socketed PLCC chip)
• MSI MS-7260 a.k.a. K9N Neo (socketed PLCC chip)
• ASUS A8V-E SE (socketed PLCC chip)

Candidate desktop mainboards for support in the future

Mainboards with

• AMD K8 + NVIDIA CK804,
• AMD K8 + NVIDIA MCP55,
• AMD K8 + SiS 761GX/966(L),
• AMD K8 + VIA K8T890 / VT8237R
• AMD K8/Fam10 + AMD RS690 / SB600, or
• VIA CN700 / VT8237R

chipsets are good candidates for new mainboards. All or most components are supported already, so adding coreboot support for such a mainboard should be relatively easy. Please contact us on the mailing list if you intend to work on such a board or if you want to help with testing.

³ See http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-November/017322.html.
⁴ See http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-December/017580.html.
⁵ See http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-July/023029.html.
⁶ See http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-September/024474.html.