[coreboot] Porting coreboot to Unknown Sis620/5595 Motherboard

[Hernan Freschi]

Here's a photo of the board in question

http://yfrog.com/5g20100917104133116resistj


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Cristi Magherusan
<cristi.magherusan at net.utcluj.ro> wrote:
> În Vin, Septembrie 17, 2010 2:44, Anders Jenbo a scris:
>> This board is a hard one to start out with i would say.
>>
>>
>> You should look in to getting the documentation for the SIS 620 chip
>> set. I see that the SIS 630 is supported by Coreboot v1 so you might want
>> to look in to porting that to v4 and then the SIS 620.
>>
>> -Anders
> Hi,
>
> I think I may also have such a no-name motherboard based on this chipset
> so I may join you in this effort (I must check, though).
>
> I took a look at the datasheets of both 620 and 630 chipsets and from what
> I can tell after a short look at them, they seem to be very different.
> This means it needs to be done from scratch eventually.
>
> In order to get support for the motherboard, we need to have support for
> the following components:
> -ITE IT8661F SuperIO (already supported by coreboot)
> -SiS5595 southbridge
> -SiS620 northbridge
>
> The first step is to get serial output out of the motherboard for
> debugging, by getting the SuperIO to work, then implement support for the
> other components according to their datasheets.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> --
> Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu,
> System Engineer, Nokia Romania.
>
>