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This page describes how to use coreboot on the Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX mainboard. It is maintained by Uwe Hermann.

The mainboard's manual (PDF) is available from the vendor website (together with various other documents).

Status

Device/functionality	Status	Comments
CPU
CPU works	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5300 @ 1.73GHz (dual core)
L1 cache enabled	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
L2 cache enabled	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	L2 cache: 2048K
L3 cache enabled	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Multiple CPU support	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Multi-core support	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Both cores show up in /proc/cpuinfo.
Hardware virtualization	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested	Hardware virtualization is not supported by this CPU (modprobe kvm-intel fails on coreboot + vendor BIOS).
RAM
EDO	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
SDRAM	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
SO-DIMM	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
DDR	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
DDR2	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine, but currently you need to populate both RAM slots with DIMMs of the same size (and reasonably similar timing probably: The controller has to operate in Dual Channel mode for now).
DDR3	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Dual channel support	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine according to memtest86+ (Tested: 2x 1GB DIMMs, interleaved mode).
ECC support	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board Hardware
On-board IDE 3.5"	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
On-board IDE 2.5"	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board SATA	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Tested: SATA disk ((hd0,0) / hda1 in FILO, /dev/sda1 in Linux).
On-board SCSI	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board USB	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Tested: USB thumb drive in all 4 backpanel USB ports, as well as on the USB pin headers on the board (USB6_7, see manual).
On-board VGA	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	You need to prepend the VGA blob from the proprietary BIOS for this to work. Console works, X11 works (use the intel X.org driver).
On-board Ethernet	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	All three NICs show up correctly in ifconfig -a.
On-board Audio	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine.
On-board Modem	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board FireWire	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Seems to work fine (backpanel FireWire port), even with pci=noacpi. Tested using the eth1394 module for IPv4-over-FireWire. The FireWire pinheader IEEE1394_1 (see manual) is not yet well-tested.
On-board Smartcard reader	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board CompactFlash	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	There's an onboard CompactFlash slot on the back-side of the board. FILO sees it as (hd2,0) / hdc1, Linux as /dev/sdb1.
On-board PCMCIA	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board Wifi	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board Bluetooth	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
On-board SD card reader	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Add-on slots/cards
ISA add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Audio/Modem-Riser (AMR/CNR) cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine, tested with a PCI network card.
Mini-PCI add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
Mini-PCI-Express add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
PCI-X add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
AGP graphics cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI Express x1 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI Express x2 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI Express x4 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI Express x8 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
PCI Express x16 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | WIP	Doesn't seem to work (at least not with pci=noacpi). A tested PCIe VGA card doesn't appear in lspci,
PCI Express x32 add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
HTX add-on cards	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Legacy / Super I/O
Floppy	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Serial port 1 (COM1)	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
Serial port 2 (COM2)	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested	There are also COM3 and COM4 pin headers on this board.
Parallel port	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Doing modprobe ppdev works, but no further test were performed. You probably need a special cable to connect to the onboard pin-header.
PS/2 keyboard	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
PS/2 mouse	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
Game port	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Infrared	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
PC speaker	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
DiskOnChip	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Input
Trackpoint	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Touchpad	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Fn Hotkeys	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Fingerprint Reader	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Laptop
Docking VGA	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Docking LAN	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Docking USB	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Docking Audio	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Docking Displayport	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Thinklight	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Webcam	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Miscellaneous
Sensors / fan control	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine using the w83627hf, coretemp (and also i2c-dev, i2c-i810, and eeprom) Linux kernel modules.
Hardware watchdog	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Not yet actually tested, but it seems to be found: iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0560).
SMBus	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
CAN bus	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
CPU frequency scaling	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | WIP	Needs ACPI. With pci=noacpi the cpufreq-info utility doesn't output anything useful. On vendor BIOS you can use p4-clockmod (discouraged) or acpi-cpufreq (iff you enabled the respective option in the BIOS menu).
Other powersaving features	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
ACPI	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	There is an ACPI implementation for this board which seems to work, but not much of it has been tested, yet.
Reboot	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Seems to work fine, even with pci=noacpi.
Poweroff	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | WIP	Needs ACPI, thus won't work if you use pci=noacpi.
Suspend	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
Nonstandard LEDs	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
High precision event timers (HPET)	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	The HPET is detected by Linux (hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0) and powertop output suggests that it works ok.
Random number generator (RNG)	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Wake on modem ring	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Wake on LAN	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested	The board supports WOL (tested with vendor BIOS using the wakeonlan utility).
Wake on keyboard	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested	Works fine with vendor BIOS.
Wake on mouse	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A	Doesn't seem to be supported (by the hardware / vendor BIOS), tested with a PS/2 mouse, as well as with a USB mouse.
TPM	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
Flashrom	OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK	Works fine, but you might need -m kontron:986lcd-m when booted with the vendor BIOS (not needed when booted with coreboot).

Build tutorial (without onboard VGA)

$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2
$ cd coreboot-v2/targets
$ ./buildtarget kontron/986lcd-m
$ cd kontron/986lcd-m/kontron_986lcd_m

Now copy your payload into the current directory and name it payload.elf. Then:

$ make -s

The resulting coreboot.rom is your coreboot ROM image you can flash using flashrom.

Build tutorial (with onboard VGA)

$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2
$ cd coreboot-v2/targets

In order to use on-board VGA you have to use the VGA blob from the vendor BIOS, and modify the coreboot config files a bit. Edit src/mainboard/kontron/986lcd-m/Config.lb in the section starting with chip drivers/pci/onboard. Depending on whether you use a 1 MB, 512 KB, or 256 KB ROM chip, you'll have to set the correct rom_address value:

chip drivers/pci/onboard
  device pci 02.0 on end # vga controller
  # register "rom_address" = "0xfffc0000" # 256 KB image
  # register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" # 512 KB image
  register "rom_address" = "0xfff00000"   # 1 MB image
end

Then, you have to obtain the VGA blob from the vendor BIOS. Thus, get the original vendor BIOS image using Flashrom:

$ flashrom -r kontron.dd

You can list all components of the vendor BIOS via the amideco utility (apt-get install amideco on Debian systems):

$ amideco kontron.dd -l
-=AmiBIOSDeco, version 0.31e (Linux)=-

FileLength      : 100000 (1048576 bytes)
FileName        : kontron.dd

        AMIBIOS information:
Version         : 0800
Packed Data     : 693A0 (431008 bytes)
Start           : DF83C
Packed Offset   : DF83C
Offset          : 0
Released        : 07 June 2007
DirName         : kontron.---
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Class.Instance (Name)        Packed --->  Expanded      Compression   Offset |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

   08 01 (        Interface)    00798 ( 01944) => 00798 ( 01944)      DF83Ch
   04 02 (     Setup Client)    05B6E ( 23406) => 09437 ( 37943)  +   D9CB8h
   0C 03 (           ROM-ID)    00008 ( 00008) => 00008 ( 00008)      D9C9Ch
   0E 04 (         OEM Logo)    0005D ( 00093) => 03E11 ( 15889)  +   D9C28h
   1A 05 (       Small Logo)    00532 ( 01330) => 026A2 ( 09890)  +   D96E0h
   18 06 (ADM (Display MGR))    017FD ( 06141) => 04245 ( 16965)  +   D7ECCh
   19 07 (         ADM Font)    0059C ( 01436) => 01304 ( 04868)  +   D791Ch
   1B 08 (             SLAB)    2FF20 (196384) => 65299 (414361)  +   A79E8h
   21 09 (    Multilanguage)    032A6 ( 12966) => 0723E ( 29246)  +   A472Ch
   20 10 (    PCI AddOn ROM)    09145 ( 37189) => 0EC00 ( 60416)  +   9B5D0h
   20 11 (    PCI AddOn ROM)    09681 ( 38529) => 10000 ( 65536)  +   91F38h
   20 12 (    PCI AddOn ROM)    06008 ( 24584) => 0A800 ( 43008)  +   8BF1Ch
   11 13 (     P6 Microcode)    00001 ( 00001) => 00005 ( 00005)  +   7DEF4h
   90 14 (  User-Defined ;))    021DE ( 08670) => 04200 ( 16896)  +   7BD00h
   2A 15 (         User ROM)    005F8 ( 01528) => 00C7A ( 03194)  +   7B6F4h
   2E 16 (         User ROM)    047B3 ( 18355) => 07800 ( 30720)  +   76F2Ch
   06 17 (         DMI Data)    00258 ( 00600) => 01024 ( 04132)  +   76CC0h
   80 18 (  User-Defined ;))    00044 ( 00068) => 00044 ( 00068)      76C68h
Total Sections  : 18

The next step is to extract all components:

$ amideco kontron.dd -x
-=AmiBIOSDeco, version 0.31e (Linux)=-

FileLength      : 100000 (1048576 bytes)
FileName        : kontron.dd

        AMIBIOS information:
Version         : 0800
Packed Data     : 693A0 (431008 bytes)
Start           : DF83C
Packed Offset   : DF83C
Offset          : 0
Released        : 07 June 2007
DirName         : kontron.---
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Class.Instance (Name)        Packed --->  Expanded      Compression   Offset |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Total Sections  : 18

The file we need is the 64KB VGA blob named amipci_01.20:

$ ls
amibody.04  amibody.0e  amibody.1a  amibody.2e    amipci_01.20
amibody.06  amibody.11  amibody.1b  amibody.80    amipci_02.20
amibody.08  amibody.18  amibody.21  amibody.90    kontron.dd
amibody.0c  amibody.19  amibody.2a  amipci_00.20

In order to use onboard VGA you further need to edit targets/kontron/986lcd-m/Config.lb. Comment out the line

option ROM_SIZE = 1024 * 1024

and enable the line

option ROM_SIZE = (1024 * 1024) - (64 * 1024)

instead (we're assuming a 1 MB ROM chip here, change that if you use another size). This will leave 64 KB room in the coreboot ROM image. We can now build coreboot as usual:

$ ./buildtarget kontron/986lcd-m
$ cd kontron/986lcd-m/kontron_986lcd_m

Now copy your payload into the current directory and name it payload.elf. Then:

$ make -s

Finally, prepend the 64 KB VGA blob to the coreboot image:

$ cat amipci_01.20 coreboot.rom > coreboot_final.rom

The resulting coreboot_final.rom is your coreboot ROM image you can flash using flashrom.

Notes

• If you use FILO, SATA will probably be hda and hdb, while hdc is the master drive of the IDE controller.
• Currently you have to use pci=noacpi on the kernel command line to make IDE and SATA work.
• If you experience kernel crashes (when building without onboard VGA support) try to blacklist the agpgart and intel_agp kernel modules.

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.