[coreboot] Will coreboot work on GIGABYTE I945 chipset?

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 04.04.2009 14:11 Uhr, Dimitri Pekarovsky wrote:
> Sorry, for double post.
> I forgotten to attach listings.
>
> Could anyone say me if coreboot will work on my GIGABYTE
> GA-945GCM-S2L, 945GC / Socket 775?
> Data, as described in Wiki, is below.
> //W.respect. D.P.
>
> motherboard page:
> http://www.gigabyte.eu/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2669
>
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2180  @ 2.00GHz stepping 0d
>   

You might run into trouble because the i945 code has only been running
on mobile chipsets so far (FSB 667 vs FSB 1066).

It shouldn't be a big deal to get this working, but you should
definitely make sure you have an SPI writer (such as the dediprog sf100)
around in case something goes wrong. Alternatively you can try to put a
socket or a second bios chip on the board, see
http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4_Build_Tutorial#SOIC_hardware_hack
for more details.

Stefan


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