Board:asus/a8n sli
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This HOWTO explains how to use coreboot on the A8N-SLI Deluxe board.
Contents
Status
Device/functionality | Status | Comments | ||||||
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CPU | ||||||||
CPU works | OK | Tested: TODO | ||||||
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 | WIP | See known Issues, only DIMMs A2_B2 or B2 will allow boot. | ||||||
DDR2 | N/A | |||||||
DDR3 | N/A | |||||||
Dual channel support | Untested | |||||||
ECC support | Untested | |||||||
On-board Hardware | ||||||||
On-board IDE 3.5" | ||||||||
On-board IDE 2.5" | N/A | |||||||
On-board SATA | WIP | See known Issues | ||||||
On-board SCSI | Unknown | |||||||
On-board USB | ||||||||
On-board VGA | N/A | |||||||
On-board Ethernet | ||||||||
On-board Audio | WIP | This is being worked on. | ||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
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 | WIP | Will boot with a card in PCIEX16_1, if card outputs to screen is untested | ||||||
PCI Express x32 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
HTX add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Legacy / Super I/O | ||||||||
Floppy | WIP | |||||||
Serial port 1 (COM1) | OK | |||||||
Serial port 2 (COM2) | N/A | |||||||
Parallel port | ||||||||
PS/2 keyboard | ||||||||
PS/2 mouse | ||||||||
Game port | WIP | |||||||
Infrared | N/A | |||||||
PC speaker | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Hardware watchdog | N/A | |||||||
SMBus | Unknown | |||||||
CAN bus | N/A | |||||||
CPU frequency scaling | No | Needs (at least partial) ACPI support. | ||||||
Other powersaving features | N/A | |||||||
ACPI | No | There's no ACPI implementation for this board. | ||||||
Reboot | ||||||||
Poweroff | ||||||||
Suspend | Unknown | |||||||
Nonstandard LEDs | ||||||||
High precision event timers (HPET) | ||||||||
Random number generator (RNG) | N/A | |||||||
Wake on modem ring | Untested | |||||||
Wake on LAN | ||||||||
Wake on keyboard | Untested | |||||||
Wake on mouse | Untested | |||||||
TPM | Unknown | |||||||
Flashrom |
Building coreboot
Note: you can use the same target as for the ASUS A8N-E board. At the time of writing there's no specific target for the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe.
$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2 $ cd coreboot-v2/targets $ ./buildtarget asus/a8n_e $ cd asus/a8n_e/asus_a8n_e
Now place your payload in this directory and name it payload.elf. Complete the build with:
$ make
The resulting coreboot.rom file (512 KB) can now be flashed using e.g. flashrom.
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.
- halt -p / shutdown -P fails due to no acpi
- possible issue if PCI card in PCI_1 causing hang
- SATA ports 1 and 2 will not allow disk to be found SATA port 3 works and 4 is untested.
RAM
- 512mb ram, DIMM A1 ( 1x512mb ) - Boots
- 512mb ram, DIMM A2 ( 1x512mb ) - Hangs
- 512mb ram, DIMM B1 ( 1x512mb ) - Hangs
- 512mb ram, DIMM B2 ( 1x512mb ) - Hangs
- 1gb ram, DIMMs A2_B2 ( 2x512mb ) - Boots
- 1.5Gb Ram, DIMMS A2_B2_B1 (3x512Mb) - Hangs on Ram2.00
- 1.5Gb Ram, DIMMS A2_B2_A1 (3x512Mb) - Hangs on Ram2.00
- 1.5Gb Ram, DIMMS A2_B2_B1_A1 (4x512Mb) - Hangs on Ram2.00
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