[LinuxBIOS] Is my hardware supported - p4p800e

[N. Gey]

[I'm sorry if this is a double post! I was greatly confused through my 
different emailadresses. I hope this is the only mail you'll get from me]

Dear mailinglist people.

I want to use linuxbios but I'm not sure if its possible. Following your
wiki I want to kindly ask you if my hardware is compatible.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

-Step 1: A very brief description of your system: CPU, northbridge,
southbridge, mainboard and optionally other important details.

CPU: Intel P4 3000 with Hyperthreading.
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
tm pbe cid xtpr

Mainboard: Asus p4p800-e deluxe

Northbridge: Intel 865PE MCH

Southbridge: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

Graphic Cards is ATI Radeon 9800 pro AGP

Step 2: Linux lspci output for your system, generated by booting Linux
via the original BIOS and runnning lspci.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus
Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350
[Radeon 9800 Pro]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon
9800 Pro] (Secondary)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak
378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712
[Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02)

Step 3: Super I/O chip on the mainboard (report the model numbers on the
actual chip)

Winbond W83627THF-A          411G7D2402564QUA

Step 4: Type of BIOS device.

PLCC / QJF

Step 5: URL to the mainboard specifications page (optional).

* 
http://www.asus.de/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=12&l3=31&l4=0&model...

Step 6: Any other relevant information you can provide.

Nothing Special. It's an few years old standard system with 1 GB RAM and
an additional PCI Soundcard M-Audi 2469 running Ubuntu Linux 2469. I'm
using SATA drives.

[Peter Stuge]

Hello,

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:52:56PM +0200, N. Gey wrote:
> Northbridge: Intel 865PE MCH

None of the Intel 8xx northbridges are supported at this point, I'm
afraid. There is some work being done on earlier chips (810/815) and
there are plans to move on to later hardware once that is done, but
this is a lot of work and documentation from Intel is not available
unless there is a solid business case with a good volume of chips..
> Southbridge: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

This is supported.
> Graphic Cards is ATI Radeon 9800 pro AGP

This should work.
> Winbond W83627THF-A          411G7D2402564QUA

Also supported.
> Step 4: Type of BIOS device.
>
> PLCC / QJF

There may be a problem with enabling writes to the flash chip, ASUS
tend to do crazy things with the SMBus, but there was an influx of
knowledge about this on the list a while back so it may already be
solved.

//Peter