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diff --git a/Documentation/mainboard/asus/p3b-f.md b/Documentation/mainboard/asus/p3b-f.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..587b94efd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mainboard/asus/p3b-f.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +# ASUS P3B-F + +This page describes how to run coreboot on the ASUS P3B-F mainboard. + +## Flashing coreboot + +```eval_rst ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Type | Value | ++=====================+===========================+ +| Model | SST 39SF020A (or similar) | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Protocol | Parallel | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Size | 256 KiB | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Package | DIP-32 | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Socketed | yes | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Write protection | See below | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +| Internal flashing | yes | ++---------------------+---------------------------+ +``` + +flashrom supports this mainboard since commit c7e9a6e15153684672bbadd1fc6baed8247ba0f6. +If you are using older versions of flashrom, below has to be done (with ACPI disabled!) +before flashrom can detect the flash chip: + +```bash + # rmmod w83781d + # modprobe i2c-dev + # i2cset 0 0x48 0x80 0x80 +``` + +Upon power up, flash chip is inaccessible until flashrom has been run once. +Since flashrom does not support reversing board enabling steps, +once it detects the flash chip, there will be no write protection until +the next power cycle. + +### CPU microcode considerations + +By default, this board includes microcode updates for 5 families of Intel CPUs +because of the wide variety of CPUs the board supports, directly or with an +adapter. These take up a third of the total flash space leaving only 20kB free +in the final cbfs image. It may be necessary to build a custom microcode update +file by manually concatenating files in 3rdparty/intel-microcode/intel-ucode +for only CPU models that the board will actually be run with. + +## Working + +- Slot 1 and Socket 370 CPUs and their L1/L2 caches +- PS/2 keyboard with SeaBIOS (See [Known issues]) +- IDE hard drives +- USB +- PCI add-on cards +- AGP graphics cards +- Serial ports 1 and 2 +- Reboot + +## Known issues + +- PS/2 keyboard may not be usable until Linux has completely booted. With SeaBIOS + as payload, setting keyboard initialization timeout to 2500ms may help. + +- The coreboot+SeaBIOS combination boots so quickly some IDE hard drives are not + yet ready by the time SeaBIOS attempts to boot from them. + +- i440BX does not support 256Mbit RAM modules. If installed, coreboot + will attempt to initialize them at half their capacity anyway + whereas vendor firmware will not boot at all. + +- ECC memory can be used, but ECC support is still pending. + +## Untested + +- Floppy +- Parallel port +- EDO memory +- ECC memory +- Infrared +- PC speaker + +## Not working + +- ACPI (Support is currently [under gerrit review](https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41098)) + +## Technology + +```eval_rst ++------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ +| Northbridge | :doc:`../../northbridge/intel/i440bx/index` | ++------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ +| Southbridge | i82371eb | ++------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ +| CPU | P6 family for Slot 1 and Socket 370 | +| | (all models from model_63x to model_6bx) | ++------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ +| Super I/O | winbond/w83977tf | ++------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ +``` + +## Extra resources + +[flashrom]: https://flashrom.org/Flashrom |