[coreboot] coreboot on dell mini 9

[Stefan Reinauer]

The i945 chipset is supported. It will be some work to get that Dell supported but if you want to try adding a new port, there are two similar laptops in the tree already

Stefan

On 07.11.2010, at 07:09, HacKurx <hackurx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to install coreboot on dell mini9?
> I enclose my command to see.
> Thank you for your help and sorry for my English.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> [hackurx at Admin ~]$ su root
> Mot de passe :
> [root at Admin hackurx]# cd Dell-mini9/
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# lspci -nnvvvxxxx > lscpi.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# lspnp -vv > lspnp.log
> Commande non trouvée
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# lsusb -vvv > lsusb.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# superiotool -deV > superiotool.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# inteltool -a > inteltool.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# ectool > ectool.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# msrtool > msrtool.log
> msrtool 5566
> Detected system linux: Linux with /dev/cpu/*/msr
> 
> Unable to detect a known target; can not decode any MSRs! (Use -t to force)
> Please send a report or patch to coreboot at coreboot.org. Thanks for your help!
> 
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# msrtool -t > msrtool.log
> msrtool: option requires an argument -- 't'
> msrtool 5566
> Detected system linux: Linux with /dev/cpu/*/msr
> 
> Unable to detect a known target; can not decode any MSRs! (Use -t to force)
> Please send a report or patch to coreboot at coreboot.org. Thanks for your help!
> 
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# msrtool --t > msrtool.log
> msrtool: invalid option -- '-'
> msrtool: option requires an argument -- 't'
> msrtool 5566
> Detected system linux: Linux with /dev/cpu/*/msr
> 
> Unable to detect a known target; can not decode any MSRs! (Use -t to force)
> Please send a report or patch to coreboot at coreboot.org. Thanks for your help!
> 
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# msrtool t > msrtool.log
> msrtool 5566
> Detected system linux: Linux with /dev/cpu/*/msr
> 
> Unable to detect a known target; can not decode any MSRs! (Use -t to force)
> Please send a report or patch to coreboot at coreboot.org. Thanks for your help!
> 
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# msrtool -t > msrtool.log
> msrtool: option requires an argument -- 't'
> msrtool 5566
> Detected system linux: Linux with /dev/cpu/*/msr
> 
> Unable to detect a known target; can not decode any MSRs! (Use -t to force)
> Please send a report or patch to coreboot at coreboot.org. Thanks for your help!
> 
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# dmidecode > dmidecode.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# biosdecode > biosdecode.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# nvramtool -x > nvramtool.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# dmesg > dmesg.log
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# flashrom -V -p
> internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick > flashrom_info.log
> ========================================================================
> WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on a laptop.
> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend
> to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these
> machines often interacts badly with flashing.
> See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
> 
> If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
> and write may brick your laptop.
> Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
> failure and sudden poweroff.
> You have been warned.
> ========================================================================
> Proceeding anyway because user specified laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]# flashrom -V -p
> internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -r rom.bin > flashrom_read.log
> ========================================================================
> WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on a laptop.
> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend
> to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these
> machines often interacts badly with flashing.
> See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
> 
> If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop
> and write may brick your laptop.
> Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight
> failure and sudden poweroff.
> You have been warned.
> ========================================================================
> Proceeding anyway because user specified laptop=force_I_want_a_brick
> [root at Admin Dell-mini9]#
> ----------------------------------------
> <biosdecode.log>
> <dmesg.log>
> <dmidecode.log>
> <ectool.log>
> <flashrom_info.log>
> <flashrom_read.log>
> <inteltool.log>
> <lscpi.log>
> <lsusb.log>
> <nvramtool.log>
> <superiotool.log>
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