[coreboot] coreboot on "acer aspire 1520"

Rudolf Marek r.marek at assembler.cz
Tue Mar 16 15:58:43 CET 2010


Paweł Stawicki wrote:
> 
> Hi, Rudolf
> 
> I'm trying to run coreboot on my laptop which is based on the VIA K8N800 
> northbridge
> I saw on corboots svn that you where involved in the implementation
> of the VIA K8T890 chip which (I think) is very similar to my.
> 
> Maybe you know where  can I find the datasheets for this chips.
> or other useful informations ?

Well I have a NDA with the VIA, and I got the K8T890 under an NDA.

Maybe you can post a lspci -xxx -vvv for the beginning to see what SB you have. 
I will check how the NB looks like, maybe it will be quite similar.

We could also ask Bruce for the datasheet but I think he will just tell me that 
it is too old chipset ;) Best it would be to work on VX855 or VX800 because it 
is still produced.

You will also need perhaps the service manual to laptop and list of GPIO for 
various things like EC etc. Also you will need to recover the bad flash so you 
will need most likely to solder the socket for the BIOS and also you will need 
to deal with the embedded controller.

Rudolf



> Thanks,
> Paweł
> 




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