[coreboot] [RFP/RFQ] contract to port coreboot to the ASRock IMB-161-D industrial motherboard

David Hendricks dhendrix at google.com
Fri Aug 16 01:16:05 CEST 2013


Hi Luke,
You may be in luck -- That chipset is similar to a couple others which are
already supported for the "Stumpy" and "Lumpy" ChromeOS products.

Of course, the devils are always in the details and this being an
Intel-based product will likely require proprietary bits, so there might be
other business considerations to take into account. I recommend getting in
touch with Sage Engineering (http://www.se-eng.com/).


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Luke Leighton
<luke.leighton at pathintel.com>wrote:

> hi folks i'm working for path intelligence and we have a requirement
> to use serial bios boot, on a motherboard which has an AMI standard
> BIOS.  the motherboard is being done by a new (independent) team
> within ASRock who are using higher-quality components, longer lifetime
> parts, and they're planning to keep this product going for at least
> 3-5 years: it therefore makes sense for us to see if there's anyone
> who would like to port - or help port - coreboot to it.
>
> our key requirements are: PXE-boot and Serial BIOS console access.
>
> if there is anybody who would like to contract to do that, please
> contact me.  feel free to discuss publicly if there are several people
> who would prefer to collaborate on-list.  any other suggestions
> greatly appreciated.
>
> here's some information on the board:
>
> * 1155 sandy/ivy bridge
> * intel cougar point q77 colay h61
> * spi flash
> * nuvoton NCT6627UD (aka W83627UHG, yay! [*1]) which supports *six*
> RS232/422/485
> * intel 82579V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board
> * intel 82583V gigabit ethernet PCIe on-board
>
> having done a bit of research on what's been committed recently, the
> SPI flash was added in may/june ("leaked" docs on H61 SPI interface);
> H61 cougar PCIe ids were added in may; the W83627UHG is a winbond
> chipset supported by coreboot 4...
>
> ... i really don't see this as being particularly hard!  only the
> gigabit ethernet chips are not listed anywhere (google
> site:coreboot.org 82579V gives nothing...) but here's the lspci
> output:
>
>
> # lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0100 (rev 09)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI
> Controller #1 (rev 04)
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1503 (rev 05)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced
> Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition
> Audio Controller (rev 05)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root
> Port 1 (rev b5)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root
> Port 2 (rev b5)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root
> Port 3 (rev b5)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced
> Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1c5c (rev 05)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 4 port SATA IDE
> Controller (rev 05)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller (rev 05)
> 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 2 port SATA IDE
> Controller (rev 05)
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82583V Gigabit Network
> Connection
> 01)
> # lspci -n
> 00:00.0 0600: 8086:0100 (rev 09)
> 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0102 (rev 09)
> 00:16.0 0780: 8086:1c3a (rev 04)
> 00:19.0 0200: 8086:1503 (rev 05)
> 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1c2d (rev 05)
> 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1c20 (rev 05)
> 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1c10 (rev b5)
> 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:1c12 (rev b5)
> 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:1c14 (rev b5)
> 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1c26 (rev 05)
> 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1c5c (rev 05)
> 00:1f.2 0101: 8086:1c00 (rev 05)
> 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1c22 (rev 05)
> 00:1f.5 0101: 8086:1c08 (rev 05)
> 02:00.0 0200: 8086:150c
>
>
> [*1]
> http://www.nuvoton.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/CloudAndComputingIC/SuperIO/SuperIOforDesktopandIPC/Documents/W83627UHG_NCT6627UD.pdf
>
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David Hendricks (dhendrix)
Systems Software Engineer, Google Inc.
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