[coreboot] Porting coreboot to Intel Atom (Silverthorne) & SCH US15W (Poulsbo) chipset

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Tue Apr 14 16:15:43 CEST 2009




On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:56:06 -0500, bari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> Mansoor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I  have a Atom Silverthorne Poulsbo based board
>> (http://www.iwavesystems.com/iW-Q7.htm). I want to port coreboot on this
>> platform.
>>
>> I would like to know if anybody has started/suceeded in porting coreboot
>> to Atom, also if there is anyone interested in such a port.
> 
> There is lots of interest in Atom support. Nobody I am aware of has
> enough documentation yet. Maybe you do since you have an Atom based COM
> module?  http://iwavesystems.com/iW-Q7.htm
> 
>> 1)Which version of coreboot can be used (v2 or v3) ?
>> 2)Which platform (CPU,motherboard,EC) can be taken as reference ?
> 
> The i945 is supported by v2 so an Atom + i945 board would be the
> shortest path to success.
> 
Yes, I would have to agree with Bari here. You should start with the i945
code.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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