ASUS A8N5X
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This HOWTO explains how to use coreboot on the ASUS A8N5X board.
As of 2008-11-20, a small patch is needed for RAM access to work properly.
Status
Device/functionality | Status | Comments | ||||||
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CPU | ||||||||
CPU works | OK | Tested: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+. | ||||||
L1 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L1 Cache: 128K | ||||||
L2 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L2 Cache: 512K | ||||||
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 | OK | Tested with one DIMM in slot DIMM_B1 (see manual), and with two DIMMs in slots DIMM_B1 and DIMM_B2. | ||||||
DDR2 | N/A | |||||||
DDR3 | N/A | |||||||
Dual channel support | Untested | |||||||
ECC support | Untested | The board supports ECC according to the manual. | ||||||
On-board Hardware | ||||||||
On-board IDE 3.5" | OK | Tested: Primary IDE (master). | ||||||
On-board IDE 2.5" | N/A | |||||||
On-board SATA | Untested | |||||||
On-board SCSI | Unknown | |||||||
On-board USB | OK | Tested: USB keyboard | ||||||
On-board VGA | N/A | |||||||
On-board Ethernet | OK | |||||||
On-board Audio | No | It didn't work with proprietary BIOS either (using Linux/ALSA) | ||||||
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 | No | Plugging any PCI card almost always result in crash when something attempts to access the PCI bus (although, specific cards were found not to produce this error, YMMV) | ||||||
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 | Untested | |||||||
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 | No | Doesn't seem to be detected | ||||||
PCI Express x32 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
HTX add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Legacy / Super I/O | ||||||||
Floppy | Untested | |||||||
Serial port 1 (COM1) | OK | |||||||
Serial port 2 (COM2) | N/A | |||||||
Parallel port | OK | Tested: modprobe ppdev, further tests were not performed. | ||||||
PS/2 keyboard | OK | |||||||
PS/2 mouse | Untested | |||||||
Game port | Untested | |||||||
Infrared | Untested | |||||||
PC speaker | OK | |||||||
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 | OK | Tested: sensors reports K8 core temp. (kernel module k8temp) and various other values from the IT8712F Super I/O (kernel module it87). | ||||||
Hardware watchdog | N/A | |||||||
SMBus | Unknown | |||||||
CAN bus | N/A | |||||||
CPU frequency scaling | Untested | |||||||
Other powersaving features | N/A | |||||||
ACPI | Untested | |||||||
Reboot | OK | |||||||
Poweroff | No | |||||||
Suspend | Unknown | |||||||
Nonstandard LEDs | OK | There's a green LED on the board which is enabled when the board is powered-on. Works out of the box, no special coreboot support required. | ||||||
High precision event timers (HPET) | OK | |||||||
Random number generator (RNG) | N/A | |||||||
Wake on modem ring | Untested | |||||||
Wake on LAN | N/A | The on-board ethernet device doesn't seem to support WOL (also not mentioned in the manual). | ||||||
Wake on keyboard | Untested | |||||||
Wake on mouse | Untested | |||||||
TPM | Unknown | |||||||
Flashrom | OK | Works fine when booted with BIOS and also with coreboot. |
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 A8N5X.
See the Build HOWTO for information on how to build coreboot for this board.
Known issues
- The MAC address is stored in flash. All A8N5X boards flashed with coreboot probably have the same MAC address. See src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/romstrap.inc for details.
If you can help out with this, please join the mailing list and let us know!
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