ASUS P2B-DS

This page describes how to use coreboot on the ASUS P2B-DS mainboard. It is maintained by Uwe Hermann.

Status

Device/functionality	Status	Comments
CPU
CPU works	?
L1 cache enabled
L2 cache enabled	WIP	L2 cache is not being enabled at the moment. We're working on fixing it.
L3 cache enabled	N/A
Multiple CPU support	N/A
Multi-core support	N/A
Hardware virtualization	N/A
RAM
EDO	N/A
SDRAM	WIP	Works, but currently the RAM settings are hardcoded to one 64MB DIMM and certain speed settings. This will be fixed soon.
SO-DIMM	N/A
DDR	N/A
DDR2	N/A
DDR3	N/A
Dual channel support	N/A
ECC support	N/A
On-board Hardware
On-board IDE 3.5"	OK
On-board IDE 2.5"	N/A
On-board SATA	N/A
On-board SCSI	Unknown
On-board USB	Untested
On-board VGA	N/A
On-board ethernet	N/A
On-board audio	N/A
On-board modem	N/A
On-board FireWire	N/A
On-board smartcard reader	N/A
On-board CompactFlash	N/A
On-board PCMCIA	N/A
Add-on slots/cards
ISA add-on cards	?
Audio/Modem-Riser (AMR/CNR) cards	N/A
PCI add-on cards	?
Mini-PCI add-on cards	Unknown
PCI-X add-on cards	Unknown
AGP graphics cards	?
PCI Express x1 add-on cards	N/A
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	N/A
PCI Express x32 add-on cards	N/A
HTX add-on cards	N/A
Legacy / Super I/O
Floppy	Untested
Serial port 1 (COM1)	OK
Serial port 2 (COM2)	?
Parallel port	?
PS/2 keyboard	?
PS/2 mouse	?
Game port	N/A
Infrared	Untested
PC speaker	?
DiskOnChip	N/A
Miscellaneous
Sensors / fan control	?
Hardware watchdog	?
SMBus	Unknown
CAN bus	N/A
CPU frequency scaling	?
Other powersaving features	?
ACPI	No	There's no ACPI support for this board.
Reboot	?
Poweroff	No	Doesn't work yet, probably requires (at least partial) ACPI support.
Suspend	Unknown
Nonstandard LEDs	N/A	No special-purpose LEDs available on the board.
High precision event timers (HPET)	N/A
Random number generator (RNG)	N/A
Wake on modem ring	Untested
Wake on LAN	Untested
Wake on keyboard	Untested
Wake on mouse	Untested
Flashrom	OK	Works fine out of the box with the vendor BIOS as well as with coreboot.

Build tutorial

$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2
$ cd coreboot-v2/targets
$ ./buildtarget asus/p2b-ds
$ cd asus/p2b-ds/p2b-ds
$ make -s

The resulting coreboot.rom is your coreboot ROM image you can flash using flashrom.

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