[coreboot] [PATCH] ASUS P2B-LS support, RAM detection for 440BX, add Slot 1 CPU, Microcode for Intel Tualatin CPUs
Andrew Morgan
ziltro at ziltro.com
Mon Mar 8 17:54:19 CET 2010
On 06/03/2010 20:05, Christian Leber wrote:
> On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:01:11 ron minnich wrote:
>
>> This activity is really impressive. It got me to wondering: how old is
>> the 440bx chipset?
>>
> it was released in april 1998
>
Old enough that most people would want to get rid of computers that old,
but still new enough to be useful. (Flash not EPROM, PCI, DIMMs...) I
have an i440BX based Soyo board which I got for free and I know that
even if I broke it it wouldn't be a great loss, so re-programming the
flash etc. is of no great risk. Even if I had to de-solder the flash
chip I could use it for practice, although this board has a socket. And
now (after surprisingly little effort on my part!) Coreboot runs on it. :)
So it is probably a good era of board for anyone wanting to get started
with Coreboot without the risk of destroying something they care about
or remembering how to do ISA.
--
Andrew.
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