Intel
®
EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel
®
QuickAssist Technology—Product
Specification
Development Kit User’s Guide October 2008
16 Order Number: 320067-002US
2.4.1 Supported DIMM Slot Populations
Table 5 shows the supported DDR2 DIMM populations.
2.5 Supported Operating Systems
The Intel
®
EP80579 Development Kit is validated with the following operating systems:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5
• FreeBSD* 6.2
• Microsoft Windows* XP Embedded* SP2
Note: Operating systems are not distributed with the Intel
®
EP80579 Development Board,
kit, or processor.
2.6 Supported Pre-boot Firmware Features
The Intel
®
EP80579 Integrated Processor Pre-boot Firmware is based on the AMI
Aptio* 4.5 core and is compliant with the EFI v1.1 specification.
Table 6 provides an overview of the Pre-boot Firmware features.
Table 5. Supported DIMM Slot Populations
DIMM Configuration DIMM1 DIMM0
1 Single Rank Empty Populated
2 Single Rank Populated Populated
1 Dual Rank Empty Populated
Table 6. Pre-boot Firmware Features (Sheet 1 of 2)
Feature Description
Boot devices
Supports booting from:
•SATA hard drive
• SATA DVD-ROM drive
•USB drive
• Floppy drive
• LAN card in PCIe slot
• PXE boot from internal GbE ports
PCI Express
Initializes and supports PCI Express cards that are
plugged into the Intel
®
EP80579 Integrated Processor
Product Line
USB Supports USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 interfaces
CMOS header Detects clearing CMOS with clear CMOS header
Watchdog timer Supports two-stage Watchdog timer
APIC and ACPI control
Provides ability to enable and disable APIC and ACPI
support.
Supported ACPI states:
• G0(S0) - Working
• G1(S3) - Sleeping [Suspend to RAM]
• S4 - Suspend to disk
• G2(S5) - Soft Off
Supports C0, C1, and C2 states