Tristan Corrick 921a4cfa3f mainboard: Add ASUS P8H61-M LX

Tested with GRUB 2.02 as a payload, booting Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 with
kernel 4.9. This code is based on the output of autoport.

The file `data.vbt` matches the VBT in the latest version of the vendor
firmware (version 4601).

This board works well under coreboot. A list of what works and what
doesn't can be found in the documentation part of this commit. To
summarise: the only known issues are that S3 suspend/resume doesn't
work, and that there is no automatic fan control via the super I/O.

Change-Id: I2a0579f486d3a44de2dd927fa1e76b90c3b48f62
Signed-off-by: Tristan Corrick <tristan@corrick.kiwi>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27798
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>

2018-08-03 15:18:07 +00:00

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ASUS P8H61-M LX

This page describes how to run coreboot on the ASUS P8H61-M LX.

Flashing coreboot

+---------------------+------------+
| Type                | Value      |
+=====================+============+
| Socketed flash      | yes        |
+---------------------+------------+
| Model               | W25Q32BV   |
+---------------------+------------+
| Size                | 4 MiB      |
+---------------------+------------+
| Package             | DIP-8      |
+---------------------+------------+
| Write protection    | no         |
+---------------------+------------+
| Dual BIOS feature   | no         |
+---------------------+------------+
| Internal flashing   | yes        |
+---------------------+------------+

Internal programming

The main SPI flash can be accessed using flashrom. By default, only the BIOS region of the flash is writable. If you wish to change any other region (Management Engine or flash descriptor), then an external programmer is required.

The following command may be used to flash coreboot:

$ sudo flashrom --noverify-all --ifd -i bios -p internal -w coreboot.rom

The use of --noverify-all is required since the Management Engine region is not readable even by the host.

Known issues

S3 suspend/resume does not work. This is the case for both coreboot and the vendor firmware, tested with Linux 4.9, Linux 4.17, and OpenBSD 6.3. Interestingly, it is possible to resume from S3 with Linux, but only if the resume is started immediately after the suspend.
There is no automatic, OS-independent fan control. This is because the super I/O hardware monitor can only obtain valid CPU temperature readings from the PECI agent, whose complete initialisation is not publicly documented. The coretemp driver can still be used for accurate CPU temperature readings.

Untested

PCIe graphics
parallel port
PS/2 keyboard
EHCI debug
S/PDIF audio

Working

USB
Gigabit Ethernet
integrated graphics
PCIe
SATA
PS/2 mouse
serial port
hardware monitor (see Known issues for caveats)
onboard audio
front panel audio
native raminit (2 x 2GB, DDR3-1333)
native graphics init (libgfxinit)
flashrom under the vendor firmware
flashrom under coreboot
Wake-on-LAN
Using me_cleaner (add -S --whitelist EFFS,FCRS if not using me_cleaner as part of the coreboot build process).

Technology

+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Northbridge      | :doc:`../../northbridge/intel/sandybridge/index` |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Southbridge      | bd82x6x                                          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| CPU              | model_206ax                                      |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Super I/O        | Nuvoton NCT6776                                  |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| EC               | None                                             |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Coprocessor      | Intel Management Engine                          |
+------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

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