Supported Chipsets and Devices

Note: If a device is not supported by LinuxBIOSv2, try checking LinuxBIOSv1 for support. Do not attempt to use LinuxBIOSv3 — this is an early development version which is not ready for production use, yet.

See also Supported Motherboards.

Devices supported in LinuxBIOSv3

LinuxBIOSv3 is an alpha-stage development version of LinuxBIOS and is not meant for production use, yet!

Northbridges Vendor Northbridge Status AMD Geode LX WIP Intel® 82443BX (440BX) WIP

Southbridges Vendor Southbridge Status AMD CS5536 WIP Intel® 82371EB (PIIX4E) WIP

Super I/Os Vendor Super I/O Status Fintek F71805F WIP Winbond™ W83627HF WIP

CPUs Type CPU Status Generic i586 WIP AMD Geode LX WIP SOCs Vendor SOC Status

Devices supported in LinuxBIOSv2

Northbridges Vendor Northbridge Status AMD K8 OK AMD GX1 OK AMD GX (GX2) OK AMD LX OK IBM CPC710 ? IBM CPC925 ? Intel® E7501 ? Intel® E7520 ? Intel® E7525 ? Intel® 82810 WIP9 Intel® 82443BX (440BX) WIP11 Intel® 82855PM WIP2 Motorola MPC107 ? SiS SiS761GX OK VIA VT8601 WIP VIA VT8623 OK VIA K8T890 OK VIA CN700 WIP14

Southbridges Vendor Southbridge Status AMD AMD8111 OK AMD AMD8131 OK AMD AMD8132 OK AMD AMD8151 OK AMD CS5530/CS5530A WIP AMD CS5535 ? AMD CS5536 OK Broadcom BCM5780 ? Broadcom BCM5785 ? Intel® EBS6300 ? Intel® 82371EB (PIIX4E) WIP6 Intel® 82801AA/AB (ICH/ICH0) OK10 Intel® 82801BA/BAM (ICH2/ICH2-M) OK10 Intel® 82801CA/CAM (ICH3-S/ICH3-M) OK10 Intel® 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) OK10 Intel® 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) OK10 Intel® 82870 ? Intel® PXHD ? NVIDIA CK804 OK NVIDIA MCP55 OK Ricoh RL5C476 ? SiS SiS966(L) OK VIA VT8231 ? VIA VT8235 ? VIA VT8237R OK Winbond™ W83C553 ?

Super I/Os Vendor Super I/O Status ASUS A8000 12, 13 Fintek F71805F/FG OK 5 ITE IT8661F OK 1 ITE IT8671F OK 1 ITE IT8673F OK 1 ITE IT8705F OK 1 ITE IT8712F OK 8 ITE IT8716F OK ITE IT8718F OK 1 NSC PC8374 ? NSC PC87309 OK 5 NSC PC87351 OK NSC PC87360 ? NSC PC87366 ? NSC PC87417 ? NSC PC87427 ? NSC PC97307 ? NSC PC97317 ? SMSC® FDC37M70x OK12 SMSC® FDC37B80x OK12 SMSC® FDC37B78x OK12 SMSC® FDC37B72x OK12 SMSC® FDC37B81x OK12 SMSC® FDC37M60x OK3,12 SMSC® LPC47B27x OK7,12 SMSC® LPC47M10x OK12 SMSC® LPC47M112 OK12 SMSC® LPC47M13x OK12 SMSC® LPC47M15x OK12 SMSC® LPC47M192 OK12 SMSC® LPC47B397 OK12 SMSC® DME1737 OK12 SMSC® SCH5307 OK12 SMSC® LPC47N217 ? VIA VT1211 ? VIA VT82C686(A/B) OK5 Winbond™ W83627EHG/EHF ? Winbond™ W83627HF ? Winbond™ W83627THF ? Winbond™ W83977F OK Winbond™ W83977TF OK Winbond™ W83977EF OK4

CPUs Type CPU Status x86 AMD OK x86 Intel® OK x86 VIA OK PowerPC MPC74xx ? PowerPC PPC4xx ? PowerPC PPC7xx ? PowerPC PPC970 ? Emulated QEMU OK SOCs Vendor SOC Status AMD Elan SC520 OK

¹ Serial output should work for all ITE Super I/Os (but is only tested on the IT8671F and IT8712F). The rest could work, but is completely untested.
² Work in progress.
³ Serial output on serial port 1 is tested and works, the rest probably not yet (tested on FDC37M602).
⁴ The W83977EF works fine with the W83977TF code (the pre-RAM serial part at least).
⁵ Pre-RAM serial output works fine, but nothing else, yet.
⁶ IDE support is available and tested. SMBus support may work, but is untested. USB support is on our TODO list.
⁷ Pre-RAM serial output works fine, everything else is untested.
⁸ Works fine mostly, but support for more obscure features (floppy, game port, MIDI, IR) might need more work.
⁹ Works mostly, but currently there are some limitations as to which RAM DIMMs can be used.
¹⁰ These southbridges should all be supported by the (experimental) new code in src/southbridge/intel/i82801xx/ now. Please test this code and use this code for all new ICH* based boards. There's still some old code for the southbridges, but that should not be used anymore.
¹¹ Sort of works, but the settings are hardcoded for the Tyan S1846. This will be fixed soonish.
¹² All these Super I/O chips should be supported by the "smscsuperio" driver. Only the ASUS A8000 is tested, though. The floppy disk controller, the parallel port, the serial ports (COM1 + COM2), and the keyboard should work for all chips. More advanced stuff may need more work, though.
¹³ The ASUS A8000 Super I/O seems to be a rebranded SMSC DME1737.
¹⁴ Working but not fully tested.

Devices supported in LinuxBIOSv1

Not all devices have been ported from LinuxBIOSv1 to LinuxBIOSv2, yet (check "v2?" field). If you want to work on such a port contact us on the mailing list.

Northbridges Vendor Northbridge Status v2? Acer M1631 ? No Alpha Tsunami ? No AMD AMD76x ? No Intel® 430TX ? No Intel® 440BX ? Yes3 Intel® 440GX ? No Intel® 82815EP ? No Intel® 82830 ? No Intel® 82860 ? No Intel® E7500 ? No Intel® E7501 ? Yes Intel® E7505 ? No Micron 21PAD ? No Motorola MPC107 ? Yes NSC/AMD GX1 ? Yes VIA VT694 ? No VIA VT8601 ? Yes VIA VT8623 ? Yes

Southbridges Vendor Southbridge Status v2? Acer M1535 ? No Acer M1543 ? No AMD AMD766 ? No AMD AMD768 ? No Intel® 82801 ? Yes Intel® 82801CA ? Yes Intel® 82801DB ? Yes Intel® 82870 ? Yes Intel® PIIX4E ? Yes NSC/AMD CS5530 ? Yes NSC SCX200 ? No VIA VT8231 ? Yes VIA VT8235 ? Yes VIA VT82C686 ? No Winbond™ W83C553 ? Yes

Super I/Os Vendor Super I/O Status v2? Acer M1535 ? No ITE IT8671F ? Yes NSC PC87309 OK Yes NSC PC87351 ? Yes NSC PC97307 ? Yes NSC PC97317 ? Yes SiS 950 ? No SMC FDC37B72X ? Yes SMC FDC37B78X ? Yes SMC FDC37B807 ? Yes SMC FDC37C669 ? No SMC FDC37C67X ? No SMC FDC37N769 ? No VIA VT1211 ? Yes VIA VT8231 ? No VIA VT82C686 ? Yes2 Winbond™ W83627HF ? Yes Winbond™ W83877TF ? No Winbond™ W83977EF ? Yes1

North-/Southbridges Vendor North/South Status v2? NSC SCX200 ? No SiS 540 ? No SiS 550 ? No SiS 630 ? No SiS 635 ? No SiS 730 ? No SiS 735 ? No ST STPC ? No CPUs Type CPU Status v2? Alpha ? ? No PowerPC ? ? Yes x86 AMD ? Yes x86 Intel® ? Yes x86 VIA ? Yes x86 EV6 (?) ? No

¹ The W83977EF works fine with the W83977TF code in LinuxBIOSv2 (the pre-RAM serial part at least).
² Pre-RAM serial output works in LinuxBIOSv2, but the rest is not supported, yet.
³ Work in progress.