<div dir="ltr">Hi Luke,<div>You may be in luck -- That chipset is similar to a couple others which are already supported for the "Stumpy" and "Lumpy" ChromeOS products.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, the devils are always in the details and this being an Intel-based product will likely require proprietary bits, so there might be other business considerations to take into account. I recommend getting in touch with Sage Engineering (<a href="http://www.se-eng.com/">http://www.se-eng.com/</a>).</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Luke Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.leighton@pathintel.com" target="_blank">luke.leighton@pathintel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi folks i'm working for path intelligence and we have a requirement<br>
to use serial bios boot, on a motherboard which has an AMI standard<br>
BIOS. the motherboard is being done by a new (independent) team<br>
within ASRock who are using higher-quality components, longer lifetime<br>
parts, and they're planning to keep this product going for at least<br>
3-5 years: it therefore makes sense for us to see if there's anyone<br>
who would like to port - or help port - coreboot to it.<br>
<br>
our key requirements are: PXE-boot and Serial BIOS console access.<br>
<br>
if there is anybody who would like to contract to do that, please<br>
contact me. feel free to discuss publicly if there are several people<br>
who would prefer to collaborate on-list. any other suggestions<br>
greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
here's some information on the board:<br>
<br>
* 1155 sandy/ivy bridge<br>
* intel cougar point q77 colay h61<br>
* spi flash<br>
* nuvoton NCT6627UD (aka W83627UHG, yay! [*1]) which supports *six*<br>
RS232/422/485<br>
* intel 82579V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board<br>
* intel 82583V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board<br>
<br>
having done a bit of research on what's been committed recently, the<br>
SPI flash was added in may/june ("leaked" docs on H61 SPI interface);<br>
H61 cougar PCIe ids were added in may; the W83627UHG is a winbond<br>
chipset supported by coreboot 4...<br>
<br>
... i really don't see this as being particularly hard! only the<br>
gigabit ethernet chips are not listed anywhere (google<br>
site:<a href="http://coreboot.org" target="_blank">coreboot.org</a> 82579V gives nothing...) but here's the lspci<br>
output:<br>
<br>
<br>
# lspci<br>
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0100 (rev 09)<br>
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge<br>
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)<br>
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI<br>
Controller #1 (rev 04)<br>
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1503 (rev 05)<br>
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced<br>
Host Controller #2 (rev 05)<br>
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition<br>
Audio Controller (rev 05)<br>
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root<br>
Port 1 (rev b5)<br>
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root<br>
Port 2 (rev b5)<br>
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root<br>
Port 3 (rev b5)<br>
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced<br>
Host Controller #1 (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1c5c (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 4 port SATA IDE<br>
Controller (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 2 port SATA IDE<br>
Controller (rev 05)<br>
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network Connection<br>
01)<br>
# lspci -n<br>
00:00.0 0600: 8086:0100 (rev 09)<br>
00:02.0 0300: 8086:0102 (rev 09)<br>
00:16.0 0780: 8086:1c3a (rev 04)<br>
00:19.0 0200: 8086:1503 (rev 05)<br>
00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1c2d (rev 05)<br>
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 05)<br>
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1c10 (rev b5)<br>
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:1c12 (rev b5)<br>
00:1c.2 0604: 8086:1c14 (rev b5)<br>
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1c26 (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1c5c (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:1c00 (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1c22 (rev 05)<br>
00:1f.5 0101: 8086:1c08 (rev 05)<br>
02:00.0 0200: 8086:150c<br>
<br>
<br>
[*1] <a href="http://www.nuvoton.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/CloudAndComputingIC/SuperIO/SuperIOforDesktopandIPC/Documents/W83627UHG_NCT6627UD.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nuvoton.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/CloudAndComputingIC/SuperIO/SuperIOforDesktopandIPC/Documents/W83627UHG_NCT6627UD.pdf</a><br>
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