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The wiki is being retired!

Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!

Status

Device/functionality Status Comments
CPU
CPU works OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK Tested: AMD Athlon64 X2 250.
L1 cache enabled OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested Not tested yet
L2 cache enabled OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested Not tested yet
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
Hardware virtualization OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK KVM seem to work
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 N/A
DDR2 OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
DDR3 OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK 2G works, 4G(2 * 2G) works with lastest coreboot
Dual channel support OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
ECC support OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
On-board Hardware
On-board IDE 3.5" OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK Tested: 500GB HDD
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 some ports, works fine
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 USB keyboard works
On-board VGA OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK Tested:analog VGA and HDMI,dual screen.
On-board Ethernet OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
On-board Audio OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | No Linux driver crashes.
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 }}" | N/A
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 }}" | N/A
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 I've an ath9k wifi PCI card and it works.
Mini-PCI add-on cards OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
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 }}" | N/A
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 }}" | Untested
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 a clean way to merge the patch must be found.
PCI Express x32 add-on cards OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
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 There is no floppy connector at all.
Serial port 1 (COM1) OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK COM1 is only pin header on board. DB-9 serial connector is available, but not included with board.
Serial port 2 (COM2) OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
Parallel port OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested No connector, pins on board only
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 }}" | Untested
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 }}" | N/A
PC speaker OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
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 }}" | Untested
Hardware watchdog OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | N/A
SMBus OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Unknown
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 }}" | OK works in GNU/Linux
Other powersaving features OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
ACPI OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
Reboot OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
Poweroff OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | OK
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 }}" |
High precision event timers (HPET) OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" |
Random number generator (RNG) OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
Wake on modem ring OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
Wake on LAN OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" |
Wake on keyboard OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
Wake on mouse OK=lime | TODO=red | No=red | WIP=orange | Untested=yellow | N/A=lightgray | yellow }}" | Untested
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 The chip is SPI

Introduction

This pages is about the port to the M4A785T-M, this mainboard is very similar to the M4A785-M, but:

  • it has DDR3 instead of DDR2

Building the serial port adapter

You'll need to build a serial port adapter to get the coreboot logs during. Here's a picture of the serial port connector on the mainboard:

And here's the kind of cable you will need:

And you'll need to build a cable similar to this one(on the picture the DB9 is connector is a male connector):

Here's how it looks like on the mainboard: 

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Here's a table of corresponding pins:

Mainboard connector pin Mainboard pin Function Standard DE9 pin connector Standard DE9 pin Function Mandatory for coreboot
1 ? ? ? No
2 RX 3 TX Yes (you could do without but it's advised to get it, to be able to use certain functions of coreboot)
3 TX 2 RX Yes
4 4 DTR No
5 Ground 5 Ground Yes
6 ? ? ? No
7 7 RTS No
8 8 CTS No
9 ? ? ? No

Adapting GNU/Linux

Before booting with coreboot, do the following:

  • blacklist the snd-hda* modules (refer to the usual way to get help for the GNU/Linux distribution you want to run for doing that)
  • 32bit GNU/Linux trisquel distribution tested
  • 64bit GNU/Linux trisquel distribution failed to initialize the USB.

Building Coreboot

To build coreboot for this mainboard:

  • checkout coreboot revision 1b1309f289d6fc9f6ec348686665d25218535030
  • Configure and Build it as usual(for having graphics you need to extract your VGA BIOS ROM from your BIOS)

PCIe

Patch 1

Patch1 Requirements/Issues

  • the -pae kernel didn't boot my LUKS hdd(failed at cryptsetup password entering)... => using a -generic kernel worked(however that sees only 2772M in htop(I've 4GB))
  • if you remove the PCIe card, the integrated ATI card won't come up...
  • you only see the external graphic card in lspci, like with the BIOS, which seem to be the way to go...

Patch1

From ab15ce791543cb0c1a09317962fe6bdc79e4e1b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:35:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] IRQ tables for getting the PCIe graphic card working

Thanks a lot for the help trough IRC in the #coreboot channel
  on the Freenode servers.

Change-Id: Ie99ee5adaf997cb94c96eb1942d1089ab2528f85
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
---
 src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb b/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
index e8764b1..7095afd 100644
--- a/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
+++ b/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ chip northbridge/amd/amdfam10/root_complex
 			device pci 18.0 on #  northbridge
 				chip southbridge/amd/rs780
 					device pci 0.0 on end # HT  	0x9600
-					device pci 1.0 on end # Internal Graphics P2P bridge 0x9602
-					device pci 2.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge (external graphics) 0x9603
+					device pci 1.0 off end # Internal Graphics P2P bridge 0x9602
+					device pci 2.0 on end # PCIE P2P bridge (external graphics) 0x9603
 					device pci 3.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge	0x960b
 					device pci 4.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge 0x9604
 					device pci 5.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge 0x9605
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ chip northbridge/amd/amdfam10/root_complex
 					register "gpp_configuration" = "3"   # Configuration D default
 					register "port_enable" = "0x6fc"
 					register "gfx_dev2_dev3" = "1"
-					register "gfx_dual_slot" = "2"
+					register "gfx_dual_slot" = "0"
 
 					register "gfx_lane_reversal" = "0"
 					register "gfx_tmds" = "0"
-- 
1.7.5.4

Patch 2

Patch2 Requirements/Issues

  • see both cards and memory regions have some issues because of that.
  • VESA works
  • -pae works
  • nouveau fails like that:
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x0a8280b1)
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Failed to PRAMIN BAR
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
nouveau: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -12

Which is caused by: 

pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 1: trying firmware assignment [mem 0xa0000000-0xafffffff 64bit pref]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 1: [mem 0xa0000000-0xafffffff 64bit pref] conflicts with reserved [mem 0xaffe0000-0xbfffffff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 1: can't assign mem pref (size 0x10000000)
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 3: trying firmware assignment [mem 0xb0000000-0xb1ffffff 64bit pref]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 3: [mem 0xb0000000-0xb1ffffff 64bit pref] conflicts with reserved [mem 0xaffe0000-0xbfffffff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: BAR 3: can't assign mem pref (size 0x2000000)

Patch2

diff --git a/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb b/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
index e8764b1..905e5d3 100644
--- a/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
+++ b/src/mainboard/asus/m4a785t-m/devicetree.cb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ chip northbridge/amd/amdfam10/root_complex
                                chip southbridge/amd/rs780
                                        device pci 0.0 on end # HT      0x9600
                                        device pci 1.0 on end # Internal Graphics P2P bridge 0x9602
-                                       device pci 2.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge (external graphics) 0x9603
+                                       device pci 2.0 on end # PCIE P2P bridge (external graphics) 0x9603
                                        device pci 3.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge        0x960b
                                        device pci 4.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge 0x9604
                                        device pci 5.0 off end # PCIE P2P bridge 0x9605
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ chip northbridge/amd/amdfam10/root_complex
                                        register "gpp_configuration" = "3"   # Configuration D default
                                        register "port_enable" = "0x6fc"
                                        register "gfx_dev2_dev3" = "1"
-                                       register "gfx_dual_slot" = "2"
+                                       register "gfx_dual_slot" = "0"
 
                                        register "gfx_lane_reversal" = "0"
                                        register "gfx_tmds" = "0"

SerialICE

  • Selecting the ASUS M4A77TD-PRO mainboard makes the serialICE shell appear once flashed(however running the BIOS under SerialICE fails at some point).

Howto

WARNING, This Howto is for SerialICE and not for coreboot, don't flash the resulting image unless you really know what you're doing...
git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/serialice.git
cd serialice
make menuconfig
make

cd ../
cd qemu-0.15.x
sh build.sh
ln -s ../SerialICE/simba/*.lua ./

Add the following to asus_m4a77td_pro.lua: 

microcode_patchlevel_eax = 0x010000b7

function do_mainboard_setup()
	do_minimal_setup()
	do_default_setup()
	enable_hook(cpumsr_hooks, filter_amd_microcode)
end

Failing

It fails like that(it inits the 2 cores and we have 1 core(qemu)): 

[fffc06a:0c0f] e25f.e260   LAPIC: [00000380] <= 00000000
[fffc06a:1321] e26b.e26d   PCI: 0:18.0 [60] => 00010000
[fffc06a:12e3] e273.e275   PCI: 0:18.3 [e8] => 00075f79
[fffc06a:1397] e27e.e27f   CPUID: eax: 00000001; ecx: 0000001b => 00100f62.00020800.00802009.178bfbff
[fffc06a:1321] e290.e292   PCI: 0:18.3 [e8] => 00075f79
[fffc06a:1397] e297.e298   CPUID: eax: 00000001; ecx: 0000001b => 00100f62.00020800.00802009.178bfbff
[fffc06a:121e] e2a5.e2a6   CPUID: eax: 80000001; ecx: 0000001b => 00100f62.10001b26.000037ff.efd3fbff
[fffc06a:12ff] e2bb.e2bc   CPUID: eax: 80000008; ecx: 0000001b => 00003030.00000000.00002001.00000000
[fffc06a:130c] e2bf.e2c0   CPU MSR: [c001001f] => 00584000.00000008
[fffc06a:131d] e2c4.e2c5   CPU MSR: [c001001f] <= 00584000.00000008
[fffc06a:131d] e2cf.e2d1   PCI: 0:18.3 [90] => 00000000
[fffc06a:1348] e2dc.e2dd   CPUID: eax: 80000008; ecx: 0000001b => 00003030.00000000.00002001.00000000
[fffc06a:135d] e2e2.e2e3   CPU MSR: [c001001f] <= 00584000.00000008
[fffc06a:0b7d] e2f2.e2f3   CPU MSR: [0000001b] => 00000000.fee00900
[fffc06a:0b7d] e2f4.e2f5   LAPIC: [00000020] => 00000000
[fffc06a:127a] e2f9.e2fa   CPUID: eax: 00000001; ecx: 0000001b => 00100f62.00020800.00802009.178bfbff
[fffc06a:1289] e2f9.e2fb   CPUID: eax: 80000008; ecx: 00802009 => 00003030.00000000.00002001.00000000
[fffc06a:1057] e302.e304   PCI: 0:18.0 [68] => 004fac0f
[fffc06a:1071] e30d.e30f   PCI: 0:18.0 [68] <= 004fac2f
Readback error! 30/72
Readback error! a/63
Readback error! 72/30
Readback error! 3e/30
Readback error! 20/30
Readback error! 63/30
Readback error! 66/30
Readback error! 45/30
Readback error! a/31
Readback error! 52/62
Readback error! 3e/2e
Readback error! 52/66
Readback error! 20/66
Readback error! 4f/66
Readback error! 30/65
Readback error! 52/62
Readback error! a/30
Readback error! a/30
Readback error! 3e/30
[fffc06a:0c50] e31d.e31e   CPU MSR: [0000001b] => 00000000.00000000

TODO

  • Add defaults for the nvram settings.
  • find a clean way to merge the patch for the PCIe graphic card.
  • fix the Audio CODEC(it's the same than the x60 and it works on the x60):
<DarkDefender> GNUtoo-hplaptop: I think you should be able to disable it if you look at "src/southbridge/amd/cimx/sb700/late.c" and line 266
  • handle suspend to ram
  • lock SMM/SMI
  • make it possible to run the BIOS under serialICE
  • 64bit support
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