[LinuxBIOS] ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe

Arturo Mann arturo.mann at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 17:30:27 CEST 2007


Good Morning, Uwe:

I checked for the BIOS support, so, here we go:
Password:
Calibrating delay loop... ok
No LinuxBIOS table found.
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55": Enabling flash write... OK.
Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000
Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB)
No operations were specified.
(And I thought it was an SST49LF family flash). I will try out the bios with
this board, just let me buy a couple of blank pm49LF004 parts (incidentally,
i am glad it's pm49lfxxx and not sst49lfxxx, the pm49 family is really easy
to get here!)

Ok, so, after I get my new chips, what proceeds? (I will patch whatever
needs to be patched, too!)
Thanks!



On 10/12/07, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:18:54AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:20:07AM -0500, Arturo Mann wrote:
> > > > Hello there,
> > > > I am wondering if this board is supported at all:
> > > > Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, based on an nVidia MCP55 (NF570-SLI), running
> > > > with an Amd Athlon64 6000+ X2
> > >
> > > The components are supported but noone has made an effort to make
> > > this particular board work.
> > >
> > > So no, I don't think the board is supported yet. But if you want to
> > > try to port an existing MCP55 board it is significantly less effort
> > > than writing support from scratch.
> >
> > Yep. If you have a null-modem cable (for serial debug output) and a
> > second, compatible flash chip, the tool to remove the chip and replace
> > it with another one, and if you're willing to test patches, please let
> > us know. We can provide you patches which will probably work after
> > one or two tries...
> >
> > First steps, can you please run 'superiotool -dV' on the box? Also,
> > is your BIOS chip in a socket? Is it a PLCC chip? (see website for
> details).
> >
> > Then, post 'lspci -nn' and 'lspnp -v' if possible.
>
> Arg, maybe I should actually read your post before I reply... lspci is
> there, flash ROM is PLCC and socketed (which is good)!
>
> You can run 'flashrom' (without arguments) to find out whether flashrom
> recognizes your chip. If you have a spare chip with a backup copy of
> your original BIOS you could even try if writing to a chip works
> (flashrom -wv foo.img).
>
>
> Uwe.
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