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Kfir Lavi wrote: |
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> Thanks for your lengthy replay. Very interesting talk. |
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I'm glad you liked it! |
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> I loved the push pins idea. |
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Hehe, yes, it's really handy. :) |
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> Now I'm asking myself, how I didn't thought about it myself. I used |
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> a paper clip, but it is awkward. |
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Yep. I like the pushpin idea a lot but I actually continue to use a |
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small screwdriver myself. |
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> I have a kontron board with an intel cpu. How can I get the spec |
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> with the parts in order to check if I will be able to use coreboot? |
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> Attached is the lspci of the board. |
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> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) |
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lspci is a good first bit of info! This chipset is not supported at |
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all. The only modern-ish Intel chipset that is supported is the i945. |
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Compare the other Kontron with Intel in the list of supported boards. |
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> I would also like to know (if it is possible) how hard is to create |
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> support for this board myself. |
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For an experienced coreboot developer I would estimate an absolute |
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minimum of eight man-months of work. This assumes that Intel NDAs and |
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document retrieval requests are processed instantly. It took 9 months |
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just to get NDAs processed for the coreboot developer who went |
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through that process. On the other hand, one Intel FAE I talked to |
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mentioned only weeks needed in some of his projects. |
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You will also benefit from test equipment that will allow you to |
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study DRAM signals, and CPU state. These are 100k pricetag items. |
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Learning how to initialize CPU, northbridge and memory controller |
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takes significant effort, and FAEs usually can not help. |
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Is this Mobile 4 Series chipset (whatever that means, you could try |
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to look for some more low-level product codes for the chipset) part |
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of Intel's Embedded division? If so, you may be able to find much |
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inforation at edc.intel.com, but only after going through some |
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approval process there. |
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It can certainly be worthwhile to do the coreboot work also for |
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something completely unsupported like this, but you need a fairly |
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large series production. |
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On the other hand, maybe you can just choose a different board that |
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is already supported. I would try hard to do just that. |
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//Peter |
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