[coreboot] coreboot support: difference between ASRock E350M1 and ASRock E350M1/USB3

[Marshall Buschman]

I own both boards - both do work, BUT there are still bugs:
USB3 and built-in NIC do not work on either by default.
Memory is only reported as roughly 512mb at this point.

You're welcome to help. :)

As far as your other question... I'm not sure what you mean...
USB3 is a physically different connector, with a different pinout 
entirely, although it does retain backward compatibility with USB2. See 
http://www.addonics.com/emerging_technologies/usb3_tutorial.asp

If you're referring to the bios chips themselves, they're DIP8s -- both 
the USB3 and the regular E350M1 use the same kind of chip, but the 
BIOSes themselves do differ.

Hopefully this helps.

Thanks!
-Marshall

On 6/16/2011 5:10 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear coreboot folks,
>
>
> looking at the offers there are two models ASRock E350M1 [1] and ASRock
> E350M1/USB3 [2] where the second one cost about 10 € more.
>
> Does coreboot run on both boards?
>
> OT: Does anyone know if there are different chips or plugs/ports used
> for the ASRock E350M1/USB3 or is that a software/BIOS limitation?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1
> [2] http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1/USB3