[coreboot] [PATCH] ASUS P2B-LS support, RAM detection for 440BX, add Slot 1 CPU, Microcode for Intel Tualatin CPUs

[Andrew Morgan]

On 06/03/2010 20:05, Christian Leber wrote:
> On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:01:11 ron minnich wrote:
>    
>> This activity is really impressive. It got me to wondering: how old is
>> the 440bx chipset?
>>      
> it was released in april 1998
>    

Old enough that most people would want to get rid of computers that old, 
but still new enough to be useful. (Flash not EPROM, PCI, DIMMs...) I 
have an i440BX based Soyo board which I got for free and I know that 
even if I broke it it wouldn't be a great loss, so re-programming the 
flash etc. is of no great risk. Even if I had to de-solder the flash 
chip I could use it for practice, although this board has a socket. And 
now (after surprisingly little effort on my part!) Coreboot runs on it. :)

So it is probably a good era of board for anyone wanting to get started 
with Coreboot without the risk of destroying something they care about 
or remembering how to do ISA.

-- 

Andrew.