Board:asus/m2n-e
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This page describes how to use coreboot on the ASUS M2N-E mainboard. It is maintained by Uwe Hermann.
Status
Device/functionality | Status | Comments | ||||||
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CPU | ||||||||
CPU works | OK | I'm using: CPU model AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ | ||||||
L1 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) | ||||||
L2 cache enabled | OK | CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) | ||||||
L3 cache enabled | N/A | |||||||
Multiple CPU support | N/A | |||||||
Multi-core support | Untested | I don't have a multicore CPU to test with, but it should work. | ||||||
Hardware virtualization | Untested | |||||||
RAM | ||||||||
EDO | N/A | |||||||
SDRAM | N/A | |||||||
SO-DIMM | N/A | |||||||
DDR | N/A | |||||||
DDR2 | OK | Tested: One 512 MB DIMM in slot DIMM_A2 (see manual). | ||||||
DDR3 | N/A | |||||||
Dual channel support | OK | Seems to work. Tested: Two 512MB DIMMs (in the DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B2 slots). | ||||||
ECC support | Untested | |||||||
On-board Hardware | ||||||||
On-board IDE 3.5" | OK | Tested: Booting from IDE disk (CF card actually). | ||||||
On-board IDE 2.5" | N/A | |||||||
On-board SATA | OK | Tested: Booting from a SATA disk in ports SATA1-SATA6 (all of them work). | ||||||
On-board SCSI | N/A | |||||||
On-board USB | OK | Tested: USB keyboard on all 10 USB ports. | ||||||
On-board VGA | N/A | |||||||
On-board Ethernet | OK | |||||||
On-board Audio | OK | |||||||
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 | OK | Tested: PCI graphics card in all three PCI slots. | ||||||
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 | OK | Tested: PCI-E x1 NIC in both PCI-E x1 slots. | ||||||
PCI Express x2 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI Express x4 add-on cards | OK | Tested: PCI-E x1 NIC (which also fits in the x4 slot). | ||||||
PCI Express x8 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
PCI Express x16 add-on cards | OK | Tested: PCI-E x16 graphics card. | ||||||
PCI Express x32 add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
HTX add-on cards | N/A | |||||||
Legacy / Super I/O | ||||||||
Floppy | WIP | Doesn't seem to work, yet. | ||||||
Serial port 1 (COM1) | OK | |||||||
Serial port 2 (COM2) | N/A | |||||||
Parallel port | OK | Tested: modprobe ppdev. | ||||||
PS/2 keyboard | OK | |||||||
PS/2 mouse | OK | |||||||
Game port | N/A | |||||||
Infrared | N/A | |||||||
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 | The k8temp, it87, lm85, eeprom and i2c-nforce2 / i2c-dev modules load fine and seem to work. | ||||||
Hardware watchdog | N/A | |||||||
SMBus | N/A | |||||||
CAN bus | N/A | |||||||
CPU frequency scaling | WIP | Doesn't work, yet. | ||||||
Other powersaving features | N/A | |||||||
ACPI | No | There's no ACPI implementation for this board, yet. | ||||||
Reboot | OK | |||||||
Poweroff | No | Needs ACPI support. | ||||||
Suspend | Unknown | |||||||
Nonstandard LEDs | OK | There's a power-on LED on the board PCB, it lights up when the board is powered up. | ||||||
High precision event timers (HPET) | WIP | Currently not enabled in coreboot, but you can enable it via the hpet=force Linux kernel cmdline argument. The powertop tool works fine. | ||||||
Random number generator (RNG) | N/A | |||||||
Wake on modem ring | Untested | |||||||
Wake on LAN | Untested | |||||||
Wake on keyboard | Untested | |||||||
Wake on mouse | Untested | |||||||
TPM | Unknown | |||||||
Flashrom | WIP | Works fine with the proprietary BIOS, the may be issues when booted with coreboot though (investigating). |
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