July 2012 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox
by coreboot Dec. 9, 2014

Dec. 9, 2014

#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Keywords: | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ It would be nice if we could test coreboot images in VirtualBox, see http://virtualbox.org/. VirtualBox does not (yet) provide a simple mechanism to use a different BIOS in their emulated machines (something like "-L" in qemu). Instead the BIOS image (a custom bochs BIOS + LGPL'g VGABIOS) is converted to C code (an array of bytes, or the like) and merged into the VirtualBox executable. The relevant files are {{{ src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevPcBios.cpp bldprogs/bin2c.c }}} if someone want to hack VirtualBox to easily support using coreboot images instead of their usual BIOS. -- Ticket URL: <http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/95> coreboot <http://www.coreboot.org/>

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EHCI debug port finder
by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger May 30, 2014

May 30, 2014

I wanted to know which physical port of my multiple USB controllers have the debug capability. There was no way to find that easily, so I created a tool which will do most of the work for the user. Example output: The following PCI devices support a USB debug port (says lspci): 0000:00:1d.7 The following PCI devices support a USB debug port (says the kernel): 0000:00:1d.7 PCI device 0000:00:1d.7, USB bus 3, USB physical port 1 Currently connected high-speed devices: /: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/6p, 480M |__ Port 2: Dev 20, If 0, Class=stor., Driver=usb-storage, 480M The output can be improved, but it's a good start. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/

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Dual SPI Flash adapter attempt 2.0
by Oliver Schinagl March 9, 2014

March 9, 2014

Hi list(s), Here's my second attempt at routing the previously mailed png of my schema. It was a lot trickier to route then my previous version, but I think it worked out! As mentioned, S1 and S2 need to be shorted if U3 is to be omitted. RN1 should be 10k or ideally 100k, as Peter mentioned earlier. Hopefully there's no obvious mistakes and can start working on alternative layouts (so it is insert-able in different angles). DRC Check fails on S1, S2 and U3. It thinks the distance is to shallow. That said, DRC check passes when I set the copper width/distance to 7mil's instead of the current 8 mils. I'm planning on having these PCB's manufactured by Seeed studio and their minimal width is much smaller. Minimum trace width: 6mil Minimum trace/vias/pads space : 6mil Minimum silkscreen width : 4mil Minimum silkscreen text size : 32mil I've used a grid size of 10mil and distances of 8 mils, as I didn't want to rely on the minimum of seed. The silkscreen I positioned using a grid size of 5 mil's however. Not sure what they mean with a 'minimum silkscreen text size' however. Anyhow, feedback greatly appreciated, so I can start working on alternative layouts :)

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#186: 3com 3c905tx / gpxe boot problem
by coreboot Jan. 10, 2014

Jan. 10, 2014

#186: 3com 3c905tx / gpxe boot problem -----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: jeroenkrabbendam@… | Owner: stepan@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: coreboot | Keywords: gpxe Dependencies: | Patch Status: there is no patch -----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Although (or: just because) novice in the field, I encountered some problems with netbooting with coreboot. Mobo's tried: Asus P2B, VTech with bios id ITE8671-2A69KV3IC-00. All mobo's boot '''harddisk''' fine with Asus P2B / Gigabyte GA-6BX{CE} respectively. NIC ROM is started, and loads the kernel by tftp. This is vvvveeeerrrryyy slow! Although loading, the kernel is never able to start itself. Same kernel on HDU is no problem at all (GRUB2) Note: the gpxe-image is on the nic, coreboot payload is seabios. -- Ticket URL: <https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/186> coreboot <http://www.coreboot.org/>

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unsupported mb questions (amd fam10h)
by Roman Elshin July 21, 2013

July 21, 2013

I try to get coreboot working with asrock 880g pro3 board. First problem: spd eprom say that memory ddr1600 capable, but it is not so, is there are right way to limit memory frequency at ddr1333? Other problem, may be related as machine with broken memory are very unpredictable: boot process stop with "It is not SB800 or SB810" message. I try to enable sb850 by this patch, but looks like it is not enough, most of time coreboot does not detect hdd. Sometimes in very rare case it is possible to boot from sata. Are sb850 supported by coreboot? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- diff -urN a/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/early_setup.c b/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/early_setup.c --- a/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/early_setup.c 2012-07-14 19:00:40.000000000 +0400 +++ b/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/early_setup.c 2012-07-14 21:49:54.000000000 +0400 @@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ rev = REV_SB800_A11; } else if (rev_id == 0x41) { rev = REV_SB800_A12; - } else { + } else if (rev_id == 0x42) { + rev = REV_SB800_A13; + } + else { die("It is not SB800 or SB810\r\n"); } diff -urN a/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/sb800.h b/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/sb800.h --- a/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/sb800.h 2012-07-14 19:00:40.000000000 +0400 +++ b/src/southbridge/amd/sb800/sb800.h 2012-07-14 21:49:10.000000000 +0400 @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ #define REV_SB800_A11 0x11 #define REV_SB800_A12 0x12 - +#define REV_SB800_A13 0x13 #ifdef __PRE_RAM__ void sb800_lpc_port80(void); -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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New patch to review: 49493f5 T60: add volume CMOS setting
by gerrit＠coreboot.org Jan. 28, 2013

Jan. 28, 2013

Sven Schnelle (svens(a)stackframe.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/12 -gerrit

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#131: New flashrom motherboard support
by coreboot Sept. 17, 2012

Sept. 17, 2012

#131: New flashrom motherboard support ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: anonymous | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: trivial | Milestone: Going mainstream Component: flashrom | Version: v2 Keywords: flashrom asus | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Did not know where I should put this but the bugtracker seemed like the right place. I tried flashrom and it could not detect my chip on my ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe motherboard. The board has a SST49LF004B flash chip and after enforcing the right chip flashrom seems to work fine. {{{ # ./flashrom -V -f -r -c SST49LF004A/B test Calibrating delay loop... 796M loops per second, 100 myus = 201 us. OK. No coreboot table found. WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail. Probing for SST SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0x21, id2 0x5e, id1 parity violation No EEPROM/flash device found. Force read (-f -r -c) requested, forcing chip probe success: Probing for SST SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB: Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000. Force reading flash... done. }}} This should probably apply to the P5ND-SLI board, too. What do you need from me for adding autodetection of this board/chip? -- Ticket URL: <http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/131> coreboot <http://www.coreboot.org/>

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Support for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Flash
by Joerg Mayer Aug. 24, 2012

Aug. 24, 2012

Hello, some time (> 1 year?) ago I asked on flashrom about support for the T60 and the attached patch was sent as part of the answer. The other part of the answer was that whoever sent this patch was not happy with it. Unfortunately I didn't keep the mail(s) and have forgotten the reason for this. Google also didn't really help. What I found was a similar but not identical mail on coreboot: http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2010-December/062303.html As the T60 is one of the few Laptop models that are supported by coreboot and I'd like to update to it I have two requests: 1) would someone be willing to update the patch to the current flashrom codebase (I tried this and was able to read, but I don't trust it as the change was done without understanding what the changes did). 2) if possible integrate this into flashrom to make using coreboot easier. 3) (of 2) would it be useful to integrate bucts into flashrom or move it to coreboot/utils/? Thanks Jörg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer(a)loplof.de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

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New patch to review for coreboot: 2a39261 Intel model_106cx: change CAR to HT-capable
by Kyösti Mälkki July 31, 2012

July 31, 2012

Kyösti Mälkki (kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/1384 -gerrit commit 2a39261e25686ae1b3c311262dcedfea754957d3 Author: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue Jul 31 23:47:09 2012 +0300 Intel model_106cx: change CAR to HT-capable There are hyper-threading Atom CPUs, those would not enable L2 cache with model_6ex CAR code. Switch to code that can handle different number of threads and cores. Change-Id: I57328c231f8998f45f7b0d26c63b24585f8476dd Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com> --- src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Kconfig | 1 + src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Makefile.inc | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Kconfig b/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Kconfig index 103ed50..2392fae 100644 --- a/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Kconfig +++ b/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Kconfig @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config CPU_INTEL_MODEL_106CX select SMP select SSE2 select UDELAY_LAPIC + select SIPI_VECTOR_IN_ROM select AP_IN_SIPI_WAIT config CPU_ADDR_BITS diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Makefile.inc b/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Makefile.inc index 018febc..0b506b3 100644 --- a/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Makefile.inc +++ b/src/cpu/intel/model_106cx/Makefile.inc @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ driver-y += model_106cx_init.c subdirs-y += ../../x86/name -cpu_incs += $(src)/cpu/intel/model_6ex/cache_as_ram.inc +cpu_incs += $(src)/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc

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Patch set updated for coreboot: 850fd7a Intel CPUs: Fix counting of CPU cores
by Kyösti Mälkki July 31, 2012

July 31, 2012

Kyösti Mälkki (kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/1172 -gerrit commit 850fd7a8379c49ec961dda12c8119f405c0d3cec Author: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed Jul 4 12:02:58 2012 +0300 Intel CPUs: Fix counting of CPU cores Detection for a hyper-threading CPU was not compatible with multicore CPUs. When using CPUID eax==4, also need to set ecx=0. CAR init tested on real hardware with hyper-threading model_f25 and under qemu 0.15.1 with multicore CPU. Change-Id: I28ac8790f94652e4ba8ff88fe7812c812f967608 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki(a)gmail.com> --- src/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++----- src/cpu/intel/hyperthreading/intel_sibling.c | 7 ++++- 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc b/src/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc index 65da516..2a8d854 100644 --- a/src/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc +++ b/src/cpu/intel/car/cache_as_ram_ht.inc @@ -127,16 +127,36 @@ bsp_init: post_code(0x24) - /* For a hyper-threading processor, cache must not be disabled - * on an AP on the same physical package with the BSP. - */ - movl $01, %eax + movl $1, %eax cpuid btl $28, %edx jnc sipi_complete bswapl %ebx - cmpb $01, %bh - jbe sipi_complete + movzx %bh, %edi + cmpb $1, %bh + jbe sipi_complete /* only one LAPIC ID in package */ + + movl $0, %eax + cpuid + movb $1, %bl + cmpl $4, %eax + jb cores_counted + movl $4, %eax + movl $0, %ecx + cpuid + shr $26, %eax + movb %al, %bl + inc %bl + +cores_counted: + movl %edi, %eax + divb %bl + cmpb $1, %al + jbe sipi_complete /* only LAPIC ID of a core */ + + /* For a hyper-threading processor, cache must not be disabled + * on an AP on the same physical package with the BSP. + */ hyper_threading_cpu: @@ -202,7 +222,7 @@ ap_init: ap_halt: cli 1: hlt - jnz 1b + jmp 1b diff --git a/src/cpu/intel/hyperthreading/intel_sibling.c b/src/cpu/intel/hyperthreading/intel_sibling.c index b9a9ae7..f30ea45 100644 --- a/src/cpu/intel/hyperthreading/intel_sibling.c +++ b/src/cpu/intel/hyperthreading/intel_sibling.c @@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ int intel_ht_sibling(void) apic_ids = 1; core_ids = 1; - if (cpuid_eax(0) >= 4) - core_ids += (cpuid_eax(4) >> 26) & 0x3f; + if (cpuid_eax(0) >= 4) { + struct cpuid_result result; + result = cpuid_ext(4, 0); + core_ids += (result.eax >> 26) & 0x3f; + } threads = (apic_ids / core_ids); return !!(lapicid() & (threads-1));

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