[coreboot] making coreboot for Tyan s4882?

David Melik dchmelik at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 09:11:45 CET 2009


Myles Watson wrote:
>
> I've never actually built s4882, but it should have worked.  Can you build
> Coreboot for any other boards?
I have not tried, but I have no other computers I want to run 
continuously for main use in the next few months.

>
> you could try buildrom if you want a simple way of trying a different build.
> svn co svn://svn.coreboot.org/buildrom/buildrom-devel
> make menuconfig 
> make

I did that, then did not see Opterons listed in it or on 
coreboot.org/buildrom/.

>
> Configure it for platform tyan s2892 and payload grub2.
>
> If that doesn't work, or if that works and you still can't build for the
> s4882, we'll have to figure something else out
I thought I read in the archives that someone patched coreboot for s4882 
when it was (nearly) new (2005) and said that it worked for it and many 
other boards.

--David


(PS. the error being discussed:

~/coreboot-v2-3923/targets/tyan/s4882/s4882# make

...
objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary coreboot coreboot.strip
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../grub2.elf', needed by
`payload'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/root/coreboot-v2-3923/targets/tyan/s4882/s4882/normal'
make: *** [normal/coreboot.rom] Error 1) 

~/coreboot-v2-3923/targets/tyan/s4882/s4882#/ls -l grub2:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18973 2009-02-02 14:15 grub2.elf







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