Will my board be supported?

[Alexander Hug]

Hello!

I am interested in Coreboot and want to try it on my "old" desktop.
It is an "ASUS A7V880", but i cannot find it in the list of boards.

So here is my hardware, i hope everything is included:

ASUS A7V880 with AthlonXP 2600+, 2GB Ram, HD connected to the SATA 
controller.

The Manual says (highlights):
Chipset VIA KT880, VIA VT8237
FSB 400,333,266,200
1x AGPx8, 5xPCI
2x UDMA(IDE) 133
2x SATA
ASUS EZ Flash
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 2
ASUS Q-Fan

4Mb Flash EEPROM, Award BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM Bios 2.3, ACPI

$ lspci -tvnn

-[0000:00]-+-00.0  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:0269]
           +-00.1  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:1269]
           +-00.2  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:2269]
           +-00.3  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:3269]
           +-00.4  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:4269]
           +-00.7  VIA Technologies, Inc. KT880 Host Bridge [1106:7269]
           +-01.0-[0000:01]----00.0  nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] [10de:0322]
           +-0a.0  Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 
[8086:1229]
           +-0e.0  VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI 
Multi-Channel Audio Controller [1412:1724]
           +-0f.0  VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID 
Controller [1106:3149]
           +-0f.1  VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571]
           +-10.0  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller [1106:3038]
           +-10.1  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller [1106:3038]
           +-10.2  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller [1106:3038]
           +-10.3  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller [1106:3038]
           +-10.4  VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104]
           +-11.0  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge 
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
           +-11.5  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio 
Controller [1106:3059]
           -11.6  VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller [1106:3068]

$superiotool -d (I skipped V because it reports only "failed")

superiotool r3125
Found ITE IT8712F (id=0x8712, rev=0x5) at 0x2e
Register dump:
idx 07 20 21 22 23 24 2b
val 0a 87 12 05 01 00 00
def NA 87 12 08 00 00 00
LDN 0x00 (Floppy)
idx 30 60 61 70 74 f0 f1
val 01 03 f0 06 02 00 00
def 00 03 f0 06 02 00 00
LDN 0x01 (COM1)
idx 30 60 61 70 f0 f1 f2 f3
val 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 7f
def 00 03 f8 04 00 50 00 7f
LDN 0x02 (COM2)
idx 30 60 61 70 f0 f1 f2 f3
val 00 02 f8 03 00 50 00 7f
def 00 02 f8 03 00 50 00 7f
LDN 0x03 (Parallel port)
idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 74 f0
val 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
def 00 03 78 07 78 07 03 03
LDN 0x04 (Environment controller)
idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 f0 f1  f2 f3 f4 f5 f6
val 01 0c 00 0b 00 00 00 00  06 00 80 00 ff
def 00 02 90 02 30 09 00 00  00 00 00 NA NA
LDN 0x05 (Keyboard)
idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 71 f0
val 01 00 60 00 64 01 02 00
def 01 00 60 00 64 01 02 08
LDN 0x06 (Mouse)
idx 30 70 71 f0
val 01 0c 02 00
def 00 0c 02 00
LDN 0x07 (GPIO)
idx 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2c 60  61 62 63 64 65 70 71 72  73 74 b0 b1 b2 b3 
b4 b5  b8 b9 ba bb bc bd c0 c1  c2 c3 c4 c8 c9 ca cb cc  e0 e1 e2 e3 e4 
f0 f1 f2  f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 fa  fb fc fd
val 00 00 36 80 00 00 00 00  00 04 80 00 00 00 00 00  00 04 00 00 00 80 
00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 34 80 00  00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 16 00
def 01 00 00 40 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  c0 00 00 00 00 00 
00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00  00 40 00 01 00 00 40 00  00 00 00 00 00 
00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 NA 00
LDN 0x08 (MIDI port)
idx 30 60 61 70 f0
val 00 00 00 00 00
def 00 03 00 0a 00
LDN 0x09 (Game port)
idx 30 60 61
val 00 00 00
def 00 02 01
LDN 0x0a (Consumer IR)
idx 30 60 61 70 f0
val 00 03 10 0b 06
def 00 03 10 0b 00

$ flashrom -v

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL004" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.

URL to ASUS
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=de-de&model=A7V...

[Peter Stuge]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Hug wrote:
> I am interested in Coreboot and want to try it on my "old" desktop.
> It is an "ASUS A7V880", but i cannot find it in the list of boards.

Basically the answer is no, your board will not be supported, unless
you help add the support for it! :)

The K8T890 chipset is already supported, and maybe 880 is similar
enough that you can reuse all existing code.

//Peter

[Alexander Hug]

Hello Peter, hello list!

Thanks for the fast answer!

I have a bad feeling because the  K_8_T890 is for AMD64 Platform, while 
KT880 (w/o "8") is for "old" socket A processors ... but maybe it is 
just  a further development of the old one.
Has somebody experience in getting technical documents from VIA?

Regards, Alex

Peter Stuge schrieb:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> Alexander Hug wrote:
> > I am interested in Coreboot and want to try it on my "old" desktop.
> > It is an "ASUS A7V880", but i cannot find it in the list of boards.
>
> Basically the answer is no, your board will not be supported, unless
> you help add the support for it! :)
>
> The K8T890 chipset is already supported, and maybe 880 is similar
> enough that you can reuse all existing code.
>
> //Peter