ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Build Tutorial
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
This is just a work-in-progress status page, the port is not functional yet.
Background
I started gathering informations about ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard
- the Intel i875P is currently not supported by coreboot, here are datasheets:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/875p/documentation.htm
- It will perhaps need "82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge" register setup to have onboard ethernet working...
Hardware
- Intel i875P Northbridge
- Intel i82801ER (ICH5R) Southbridge
- Winbond W83627THF-A Super I/O (ISA 290h) (http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/1469)
- Intel P4 Prescott (stepping 9) Socket 478 CPU 2.80 GHz
- 2 * 512 MB PC-3500 DDR-SDRAM Corsair XMS CMX512-3500C2 433 MHz
- RD1 PMC4 BIOS Savior on PLCC socket
- PMC Pm49FL004T-33JC - spare flash chips for work and backup (in case I flash the RD1 with a non working image)
- SST 49LF004B 33-4C-NH - spare, not tested
OK
NOK
Files
Information gathering
All output from these tools are on ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Build Tutorial/Infos.
- /proc/interrupts
- dmidecode - Flash ROM chip size
- getpir - infos for irq_tables.c & mptable.c
- mptable - infos for mptable.c
- superiotool -dV - infos for Config.lb device tree
- flashrom -V - Is your motherboard flashrom capable (northbridge + super I/O + flash chip)
- lspci -tnvv - PCI bus tree from legacy BIOS
- lspci -vvvxx - PCI devices informations