coreboot porting to jetway PA78VM5 have been 95% successful.

i am  glad to say that the Jetway PA78VM5 mainboard can run coreboot sucessfully. The configuration of Jetway PA78VM5 can be found at PA78VM5.the coreboot+filo can work fine. The kernel began booting, but the only problem is after kernel shows”jumping to **” the serial port stoped showing anything. And i have already set the kernel parameter with “console=ttyS0,115200”

First of all thank olsen provide me this mainboard.

The mainboard have an SPI flash W25X80A, my SF100+testchip SO08 can detect the flash type, but can not erase the flash correctly. After contacted with dediprog engineer. i remove the flash from the board, it seems fine, the programming is fine, but i can not use it with the mainboard unless i can bear removing the flash chip every time i need to rebuild the coreboot. After that, i replace that flash chip with an sst 080b. it worked pretty fine. 🙂

another problem is while the coreboot booting, it stoped while corebooting trying to extract the cbfs files. i debugged this for a long time, finally thanks to patrick, i take his advice remove the $(CBFS_COMPRESS_FLAG).it worked.

the latest problem is that amd famlily10 may have much problem with the current build version.

i should find out what difference between btdc and coreboot public version caused problems.

my next step may focus on this things merge the code, and find out why the kernel did not show the booting message.

i am so glad that coreboot can finally booting the Jetway PA78VM5