[coreboot] Asus E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU

[Florian Zumbiehl]

Hi,

> I'm currently eyeing the ASUS E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU
> (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD Hudson M1 Micro AT over at newegg and was
> wondering if any coreboot compatibility is known.
> 
> I saw in the supported motherboards section that the asrock (the
> budget section of asus?) does have a E350 based board that is
> supported, so hopes are good for now :)

I am kindof working on it, but so far memory initialization fails most
of the time (as in: I had two or three boots that reached the payload
so far). The (apparently) same failure has been observed with the ASRock
board as well:
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2011-July/065795.html

As such, I am actually currently not really working on it, but rather
waiting for Frank Vibrans to have a closer look at the AGESA debug output
the board generates before it stops.

> Recently amd announced they'd support all future CPU's starting with
> .. I forgot, but how well is this setup to be supported in, say a
> year from now?
> 
> I'm experienced with linux, and not scared of flashing, compiling
> and testing. I (will soon) have jtag and other flashing capabilities
> using bus-pirate and bus-blaster boards. I don't know if this board
> has dual bios or swapable bios, as the only swapable chip is a
> little 8 leggeded chip (doubt that's the 32MB flash). The current

It's 32 Mb/4 MB, but that's the BIOS flash, indeed.

> bios is UEFI based though.

... and horribly broken, yes.

> Any thoughts/idea's?

Well, I can provide you with what's necessary to get the serial port going,
but currently there isn't much to do unless you are familiar with
AMD CPU and chipset initialization, I guess.

Florian