[coreboot] The patch of AMD DBM690T board

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 23.09.2008 23:50, Marc Jones wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
>> any suggested boards people can buy to try this out? I need to buy a
>> board anyway as i want to have two for development uses.
>
> It will probably require some minor porting but the GA-MA69G-S3H seems
> popular with some of our marketing people. It is AM2 instead of s1g1
> but that should be ok.
>
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2579
>

Looks nice. However, I was unable to find out whether it uses a LPC or
SPI ROM. According to this picture
http://techgage.com/reviews/gigabyte/ga_ma69gm_s2h/ga_ma69gm_07.jpg
there is at least no socketed ROM.
http://www.barebonecenter.de/images/stories/User2/gigabyte/ga-ma69gm-s2h/ga-ma69gm-s2h_8.jpg
on the right, below the DIMM slot is a Winbond ACPI controller. There is
not even a single PLCC32 chip on the board.
The only option left is a soldered SOIC8 or SOIC16 SPI ROM. The SOIC8
chip below the SuperI/O here
http://techgage.com/reviews/gigabyte/ga_ma69gm_s2h/ga_ma69gm_09.jpg is
unmarked (except a green spot), but it could be what we're looking for.

Marc, can you find out which ROM chip this board uses so that we can
assess the coreboot-friendliness of it?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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