[LinuxBIOS] Progress on ASUS A8N-E

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Thu May 17 20:18:42 CEST 2007


On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:30:41PM +0200, Philipp Degler wrote:
> I realized some guys on this list were talking about porting ASUS A8N-SLI. 
> 
> I started porting LinuxBIOS to ASUS A8N-E [1]. The boards seem to share some 
> similarities so maybe my code is of any use for A8N-SLI port.
> 
> At the moment I'am able to fully boot an open SuSE 10.0 using the standard 
> SuSE SMP kernel. 
> 
> Network, sata, ide, usb and vga are working fine.
> 
> Unfortunately I still have some issues with IT8712F superio. Keyboard and 
> mouse are not working (have to use usb counterparts). I finally ended up 
> writing a little tool that dumps the register values of IT8712F (see 
> attachement). As of writing this I'am pretty sure it is no issue of IT8712F 
> alone. It seems to be an interrupt problem. Maybe some extra interrupt 
> settings of ck804 are needed?? Unfortunately I don't have any mb schematics 
> nor any ck804 data sheets that would help me further here :(. 
> 
> I would be perfectly happy to provide a svn diff if it is of interest for you 
> guys.

Yes, definately! Please post a (signed-off) patch to add the mainboard
as a new target. If it already boots we should definately add it to the
repository. Fixing the remaining issues can be done later...


Uwe.
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