ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Build Tutorial

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Status

This is just a work-in-progress status page, the port is not functional yet.

Background

I started gathering informations about Asus P4C800E Deluxe motherboard

  • the Intel i875P is currently not supported by coreboot, here are datasheets:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/875p/documentation.htm

Hardware

  • Intel i875P Northbridge
  • Intel ICH5R Southbridge
  • Winbond W83627THF-A Super I/O
  • Intel P4 Prescott (stepping 9) Socket 478 CPU 2.80 GHz
  • 2 * 512 MB PC-3500 DDR-SDRAM Corsair XMS CMX512-3500C2 433 MHz
  • RD1 PMC4 BIOS Savior on PLCC socket
  • PMC Pm49FL004T-33JC - spare flash chips for work and backup (in case I flash the RD1 with a non working image)
  • SST 49LF004B 33-4C-NH - spare, not tested

OK

NOK

Files

Information gathering

All output from these tools are on Asus_P4C800E_Deluxe_Infos

  • /proc/interrupts
  • dmidecode - Flash ROM chip size
  • getpir - infos for irq_tables.c & mptable.c
  • mptable - infos for mptable.c
  • superiotool -dV - infos for Config.lb device tree
  • flashrom -V - Is your motherboard flashrom capable (northbridge + super I/O + flash chip)
  • lspci -tnvv - PCI bus tree from legacy BIOS
  • lspci -vvvxx - PCI devices informations

TODO

Notes