[coreboot] AMD 690 board with dual 88e8056

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Tue Mar 17 15:54:50 CET 2009


Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:43:36PM +0800, Daniel Toussaint wrote:
> Finally resolved the issue's with the Marvell's: It was indeed a GPIO - GPIO
> 5(SHUTDOWN#)  from SB600 to be exact. Turning on that GPIO brought up both
> LAN chips. Going to continue now, with more deeper tests, and try to help
> you with the DDR/ACPI testing as good as I can. My board has  two SODIMM
> slots.
> By the way, the board will be available for sale ,  most likely - but I
> can't provide details yet - as it is was intended for other use originally.
> I will keep you posted on this.

Just to add another voice to this - if you are going to sell the board the
FSF will be happy, and I will add it to our recommended hardware page, which
currently only lists boards that are now (very) hard to find. So, the sooner
it is available, the better!

Thanks,
Ward. 

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
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