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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Hi all, I have a dell vostro 1400 laptop and I would like to install coreboot on it. Could somebody let me know if it is possible?</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The laptop has:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20GHz cpu.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Intel 965GM Express chipset for integrated graphics.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">More detailed specifications can be found at:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/Vos1400/en/OM/specs.htm">http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/Vos1400/en/OM/specs.htm</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The output of "lspci -tvnn" is as follows:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">[ Note: I will be replacing Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN card with Atheros ar9280 based mini card. So please consider atheros chipset based wireless card in place of the intel card. ]</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-02.0 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-02.1 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a03]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1a.0 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1a.1 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1a.7 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1b.0 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1c.0-[0000:0b]--</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1c.1-[0000:0c]----00.0 Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4229]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1c.3-[0000:0d-0e]--</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1c.5-[0000:09]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1713]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1d.0 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1d.1 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1d.2 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1d.7 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1e.0-[0000:03]--+-01.0 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> | +-01.1 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> | +-01.2 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> | +-01.3 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> | \-01.4 Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1f.0 Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1f.1 Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> +-1f.2 Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller [8086:2828]</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"> \-1f.3 Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e]</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">==============================================================</p><br># superiotool
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">superiotool r3844</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">No Super I/O found</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"># flashrom</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">flashrom v0.9.1-r946</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">No coreboot table found.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Found chipset "Intel ICH8M", enabling flash write... OK.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH,SPI.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Calibrating delay loop... OK.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Found chip "Spansion S25FL008A" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xfff00000.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Error: No filename specified.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"># ectool</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">EC RAM:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">00: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">10: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">20: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">30: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">40: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">50: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">60: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">70: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">80: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">90: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">a0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">b0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">c0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">d0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">e0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">f0: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Not dumping EC IDX RAM.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Thanks.</p>