Board:asus/a8n e
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This HOWTO explains how to use coreboot on the ASUS A8N-E board.
Works fine, only smaller issues remain to be fixed. A list of known issues is available.
Status
Device/functionality | Status | Comments | ||||||
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CPU | ||||||||
CPU works | OK | Tested: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ and 3200+. | ||||||
L1 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) | ||||||
L2 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) | ||||||
L3 cache enabled | N/A | |||||||
Multiple CPU support | N/A | |||||||
Multi-core support | Untested | |||||||
Hardware virtualization | N/A | |||||||
RAM | ||||||||
EDO | N/A | |||||||
SDRAM | N/A | |||||||
SO-DIMM | N/A | |||||||
DDR | OK | Tested with one DIMM in slot DIMM_B1 (see manual). Since r3614 it's also possible to use a single DIMM in slot DIMM_B2. | ||||||
DDR2 | N/A | |||||||
DDR3 | N/A | |||||||
Dual channel support | Untested | |||||||
ECC support | OK | |||||||
On-board Hardware | ||||||||
On-board IDE 3.5" | OK | Tested: Primary IDE (master and slave) and secondary IDE (master and slave). | ||||||
On-board IDE 2.5" | N/A | |||||||
On-board SATA | OK | |||||||
On-board SCSI | N/A | |||||||
On-board USB | OK | Tested: USB keyboard (on each of the 10 possible USB ports). | ||||||
On-board VGA | N/A | |||||||
On-board Ethernet | OK | |||||||
On-board Audio | OK | |||||||
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 | |||||||
On-board Wifi | N/A | |||||||
On-board Bluetooth | N/A | |||||||
On-board SD card reader | N/A | |||||||
Add-on slots/cards | ||||||||
ISA add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Audio/Modem-Riser (AMR/CNR) cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI add-on cards | OK | Tested: PCI VGA card in all three PCI slots. | ||||||
Mini-PCI add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Mini-PCI-Express add-on cards | Unknown | |||||||
PCI-X add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
AGP graphics cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI Express x1 add-on cards | Untested | |||||||
PCI Express x2 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI Express x4 add-on cards | Untested | |||||||
PCI Express x8 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI Express x16 add-on cards | Untested | |||||||
PCI Express x32 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
HTX add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Legacy / Super I/O | ||||||||
Floppy | OK | |||||||
Serial port 1 (COM1) | OK | |||||||
Serial port 2 (COM2) | N/A | |||||||
Parallel port | OK | Tested with a printer | ||||||
PS/2 keyboard | OK | |||||||
PS/2 mouse | OK | |||||||
Game port | N/A | |||||||
Infrared | N/A | |||||||
PC speaker | OK | |||||||
DiskOnChip | N/A | |||||||
Input | ||||||||
Trackpoint | N/A | |||||||
Touchpad | N/A | |||||||
Fn Hotkeys | N/A | |||||||
Fingerprint Reader | N/A | |||||||
Laptop | ||||||||
Docking VGA | N/A | |||||||
Docking LAN | N/A | |||||||
Docking USB | N/A | |||||||
Docking Audio | N/A | |||||||
Docking Displayport | N/A | |||||||
Thinklight | N/A | |||||||
Webcam | N/A | |||||||
Miscellaneous | ||||||||
Sensors / fan control | OK | Tested: sensors reports K8 core temp. (kernel module k8temp) and various other values from the IT8712F Super I/O (kernel module it87). | ||||||
Hardware watchdog | N/A | |||||||
SMBus | OK | |||||||
CAN bus | N/A | |||||||
CPU frequency scaling | No | |||||||
Other powersaving features | N/A | |||||||
ACPI | OK | |||||||
Reboot | OK | |||||||
Poweroff | OK | |||||||
Suspend | No | |||||||
Nonstandard LEDs | OK | There's a green LED on the board which is enabled when the board is powered-on. Works out of the box, no special coreboot support required. | ||||||
High precision event timers (HPET) | OK | The hardware supports it, but you currently need the hpet=force Linux kernel parameter. Reduces the number of wakeups in powertop drastically. | ||||||
Random number generator (RNG) | N/A | |||||||
Wake on modem ring | Untested | |||||||
Wake on LAN | N/A | The on-board ethernet device doesn't seem to support WOL (also not mentioned in the manual). | ||||||
Wake on keyboard | Untested | |||||||
Wake on mouse | Untested | |||||||
TPM | Unknown | |||||||
Flashrom | OK | Works fine when booted with BIOS and also with coreboot. |
Building coreboot
See the Build HOWTO for information on how to build coreboot for this board.
Known issues
- The MAC address is stored in flash for almost all CK804/MCP55 boards. All of these boards flashed with coreboot probably have the same MAC address. See src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/romstrap.inc and src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/romstrap.inc for details. On some of these boards, the MAC address is stored in a separate EEPROM, but you can't count on that.
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