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* Fix flashrom to also work when the board is booted using the proprietary BIOS. | * Fix flashrom to also work when the board is booted using the proprietary BIOS. | ||
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Revision as of 20:07, 12 October 2007
This page describes how to use LinuxBIOS on the MSI MS-7260 (K9N Neo) mainboard. It is maintained by Uwe Hermann.
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The mainboard
Some more information on the board is available in the mailing list archives.
So far we have verified that revision 1.0 of the mainboard has a socketed PLCC32 ROM chip (512KB).
If you have any other revision of the board, please contact us on the mailing list and let us know if it has a socketed (and PLCC-type) ROM chip.
Status
| Device/functionality | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Works | I'm using an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, both cores work fine. |
| RAM | Works | It seems some combinations of DIMMs and RAM slots don't work. Using only one DIMM (in slot 1) works for me. |
| IDE | Works | — |
| IDE using CF-to-IDE adapter | Works | — |
| SATA | Works | Tested with a 40 GB SATA disk, connected to the "SATA1" connector of the board (there are four). Works with hde2:/vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/sda2 in FILO (my Linux partition is /dev/sda2). Mounting the drive also works fine when you don't boot from SATA (e.g. from IDE or via etherboot). |
| USB | Works | Tested: USB thumb drive, USB keyboard, USB webcam, USB DVB-T adapter. |
| On-board ethernet | Works | — |
| On-board audio | Works | — |
| PCI add-on cards | Works | There were some problems with PCI add-on cards, but they're fixed as of svn revision 2807. |
| PCI Express add-on cards | Untested | — |
| Floppy | Untested | — |
| Serial port (COM1) | Works | — |
| Parallel port | Untested | — |
| PS/2 keyboard | Untested | — |
| PS/2 mouse | Untested | — |
| Mainboard sensors/fans | Works | The k8temp module loads fine, the sensors tool outputs the CPU temperature (both cores in my case) correctly. |
| CPU frequency scaling / powersave modes | Untested | Probably won't work as long as there's no ACPI implementation for this board(?) |
| Flashrom | Works | Currently Flashrom works fine with LinuxBIOS, but it does not yet work with the proprietary BIOS. |
| X11 | Works | Tested using a VGA add-on card (PCI). |
Building LinuxBIOS
Build a LinuxBIOS payload, e.g. FILO, and copy the resulting file to /tmp/filo.elf.
$ cp payload.file /tmp/filo.elf
Checkout LinuxBIOS:
$ svn co svn://linuxbios.org/repos/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2
Build the LinuxBIOS image, containing the payload.
$ cd LinuxBIOSv2/targets $ ./buildtarget msi/ms7260 $ cd msi/ms7260/ms7260 $ make
Write the LinuxBIOS image onto your ROM chip using flashrom:
$ flashrom -wv linuxbios.rom
WARNING: This will overwrite your current BIOS! Make sure you know what you're doing! You should have a way to revert back to the original BIOS in case anything goes wrong. It's a good idea to have a spare ROM chip which contains the original proprietary BIOS. Read the FAQ for more information. If in doubt, contact the mailing list.
Note: At the moment flashrom does not work in the MS-7260 (when booted using the original BIOS). Thus, I'm flashing the ROM chip in a different mainboard where flashrom works. However, flashrom works just fine once the MS-7260 is booted using LinuxBIOS.
TODO
- Test the devices marked as "Untested" in the above status table.
- Fix flashrom to also work when the board is booted using the proprietary BIOS.
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