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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hi!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I need
help to porting coreboot Asus M4a785m on Asus M5a78l-m lx3.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I'm
trying to porting coreboot on the motherboard Asus M5a78l-m lx3 (rs780l/sb710).
I cannot find documentation for the northbridge rs780l.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">My
configuration:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>cpu - Athlon 2 x2
220 (K10), memory - 2 + 2 Gb DDR3, video - Asus GT520, sata segate hdd 500Gb,
sata asus dvd-rw.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I have
a positive result for the configuration with memory 2Gb and external video card
Asus GT520. I can load Linux kernel 2.6.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">But, i
have two problems:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">1. I
cannot load coreboot with internal graphics card (hd 3000). Coreboot stops
loading and to print on console "Calling option ROM…". May be the problems with
gfx configuration?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">2. I
cannot run Linux with memory 4Gb. Coreboot is loading, SeaBios is loading too,
but<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Linux stop load on usb3-2 and
ata1 setup. May be the problems with memory map?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please, help me. I can provide all the necessary
information from the log coreboot, SeaBios and Linux.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thanks.</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>