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Status
For the entries marked as WIP, please see below.
| Device/functionality
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Status
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Comments
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| CPU
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| CPU works
|
OK
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
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| L1 cache enabled
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Unknown
|
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| L2 cache enabled
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Unknown
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| L3 cache enabled
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Unknown
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| Multiple CPU support
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N/A
|
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| Multi-core support
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OK
|
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+: htop and /proc/cpuinfo
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| Hardware virtualization
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Unknown
|
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| RAM
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| EDO
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N/A
|
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| SDRAM
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N/A
|
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| SO-DIMM
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N/A
|
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| DDR
|
WIP
|
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| DDR2
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N/A
|
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| DDR3
|
N/A
|
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| Dual channel support
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Unknown
|
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| ECC support
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N/A
|
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| On-board Hardware
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| On-board IDE 3.5"
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OK
|
checked with a CD-ROM drive
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| On-board IDE 2.5"
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N/A
|
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| On-board SATA
|
WIP
|
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| On-board SCSI
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N/A
|
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| On-board USB
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OK
|
only checked two ports so far, for mouse and keyboard.
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| On-board VGA
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WIP
|
|
| On-board ethernet
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OK
|
|
| On-board audio
|
WIP
|
Front works, Surround doesn't
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| On-board modem
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N/A
|
|
| On-board FireWire
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N/A
|
|
| On-board smartcard reader
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N/A
|
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| On-board CompactFlash
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N/A
|
|
| On-board PCMCIA
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N/A
|
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| Add-on slots/cards
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| ISA add-on cards
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N/A
|
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| Audio/Modem-Riser (AMR/CNR) cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI add-on cards
|
OK
|
|
| Mini-PCI add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI-X add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| AGP graphics cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI Express x1 add-on cards
|
OK
|
|
| PCI Express x2 add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI Express x4 add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI Express x8 add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| PCI Express x16 add-on cards
|
Unknown
|
|
| PCI Express x32 add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| HTX add-on cards
|
N/A
|
|
| Legacy / Super I/O
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| Floppy
|
Unknown
|
|
| Serial port 1 (COM1)
|
Unknown
|
|
| Serial port 2 (COM2)
|
N/A
|
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| Parallel port
|
Unknown
|
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| PS/2 keyboard
|
Unknown
|
|
| PS/2 mouse
|
Unknown
|
|
| Game port
|
N/A
|
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| Infrared
|
Unknown
|
|
| PC speaker
|
Unknown
|
|
| DiskOnChip
|
N/A
|
|
| Miscellaneous
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| Sensors / fan control
|
Unknown
|
|
| Hardware watchdog
|
Unknown
|
|
| SMBus
|
Unknown
|
|
| CAN bus
|
N/A
|
|
| CPU frequency scaling
|
Unknown
|
|
| Other powersaving features
|
Unknown
|
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| ACPI
|
Unknown
|
|
| Reboot
|
No
|
|
| Poweroff
|
OK
|
|
| Suspend
|
Unknown
|
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| Nonstandard LEDs
|
N/A
|
|
| High precision event timers (HPET)
|
Unknown
|
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| Random number generator (RNG)
|
N/A
|
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| Wake on modem ring
|
Unknown
|
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| Wake on LAN
|
Unknown
|
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| Wake on keyboard
|
Unknown
|
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| Wake on mouse
|
Unknown
|
|
| Flashrom
|
OK
|
|
Known Issues
RAM
- Using 2 512 MB DIMMs I got 756 MB of usable RAM (as opposed to 881 with the vendor BIOS).
- With only 1 512 MB DIMM the system wouldn't boot.
- With my 4 DIMMS from 3 vendors (2x A, 1x B, 1x C) I get the following boot chances. These might be related to another issue and not to the port of this board.
RAM and booting
| DIMM configuration |
Boots?
|
| A/A |
Yes
|
| A |
No
|
| A/A/B/C |
No
|
| B/C/A/A |
Yes
|
SATA
- Sometimes the link seems slow. It doesn't happen every boot. If it happens, SeaBios needs a long time to load grub. Also, the devicenodes in /dev are not in the right order according to the ports on the board. There are also the following messages during boot:
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
- Apart from the slowness all 5 ports seemed to work.
- If the above error didn't occur all 5 ports seemed to work flawlessly.
- It seems this error only occurs for the first time after a BIOS switch. With the proposed patches (fix and cleanup from 10/08/16) even the vendor bios triggers a kernel panic upon first boot after coreboot was loaded. Something about IRQ issues.
- With the newest patch (at least) I get these messages on serial console during boot
drive detection not yet completed, waiting...
0x6=b0, 0x7=80
drive detection selected after 540 ms, retrying 0 ms
Primary Slave device is rstatus = 23
0x6=a0, 0x7=80
drinot yet completed, waiting...
0x6=a0, 0x7=80
drive detection not yet completed, waiting...
0x6=a0, 0x7=80
[snip]
Onboard VGA
- In regard to the vendor BIOS the output numbers were switched. DVI-0 (vendor BIOS) was named HDMI-0 using coreboot.
- Both VGA and DVI output worked.
PCI-E graphics adapter
- Wouldn't work. With both plugged in and CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA_ONBOARD_AT_FIRST not set there was no video output. I had the vgabios for the onboard adapter still inside the coreboot.rom however.
Keyboard in Grub
- The (USB) keyboard in Grub doesn't respond correctly. Every keypress triggers multiple actions.
Kernel
- Linux 2.6.35.2 wouldn't boot. It would start, then the screens were going blank and the machine hung.
