March 2021 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

ThinkPad T420 and FireWire chip on Linux
by Alesandar Metodiev April 9, 2022

April 9, 2022

Hello, Recently I have decided to give a try to coreboot for first time and flashed my ThinkPad T420, but a few weeks ago I have swapped the USB controller on the back, next to the battery, with a FireWire/USB controller (40GAB5809-G200) from another T420. Nothing special, since some models have been shipped like this. The controller is no longer accessible on my laptop. It seems like it may have been detected as an "SD Host Controller" or not detected at all. I will probably have to remove the chip and compare the output of lspci and lshw. If nothing has changed, I will probably have to return the stock BIOS and compare the results again. I have also tried to load some of the firewire kernel modules manually with modprobe. The operating systems I have tested so far are Arch Linux and Xubuntu. I am willing to provide more useful information, boot into a fresh Windows install, flash the chip again or whatever else. Correct me if I am wrong, but if I go back to the stock BIOS, the next time I flash, I will have to disassemble the laptop again and otherwise I must be fine with flashing internally, right? Thanks

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TigerLake RVP TCSS init failure
by Michal Zygowski Oct. 27, 2021

Oct. 27, 2021

Dear coreboot community, I have encountered problem with silicon init on Tiger Lake RVP platform. I managed to resolve previous issues with memory initialization and now hitting an error with TCSS init. The FSP asserts on IOM ready check, which is 0. The configuration has selected CONFIG_USE_INTEL_FSP_MP_INIT (without MP PPI service). When the CONFIG_USE_INTEL_FSP_TO_CALL_COREBOOT_PUBLISH_MP_PPI is selected, then the FSP-S returns smoothly (at least from one of the phases I guess) and resets after clearing MCEs in coreboot's CPU init: CPU: vendor Intel device 806c0 CPU: family 06, model 8c, stepping 00 Clearing out pending MCEs Setting up local APIC... apic_id: 0x00 done. Turbo is available but hidden Turbo is available and visible CPU #0 initialized Initializing CPU #2 Initializing CPU #6 Initializing CPU #7 CPU: vendor Intel device 806c0 CPU: family 06, model 8c, stepping 00 CPU: vendor Intel device 806c0 CPU: family 06, model 8c, stepping 00 Clearing out pending MCEs Cl (tutaj następuje reset) Any ideas what may cause these issues? When I clean this up, I will upstream the DDR4 variant of TGL UP3 RVP. -- Michał Żygowski Firmware Engineer https://3mdeb.com | @3mdeb_com

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Currently broken devicetrees (was Re: X200 dock has been broken since November 2019)
by Nico Huber Sept. 7, 2021

Sept. 7, 2021

Hi all, that we had another case of a missing-device-below-chip in a devicetree made me write a patch for `sconfig` [1]. Now that it's checking for the issue, that uncovered a few (31) more cases [2] that need to be fixed before upstream can benefit from the patch. Please help to fix the devicetrees. Note, `sconfig` currently doesn't print the file name of override trees, e.g. when it says SCONFIG mainboard/.../devicetree.cb line 10: end: syntax error that might as well refer to line 10 in an override tree. Nico [1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/51119 [2] https://qa.coreboot.org/job/coreboot-gerrit/164572/ Failing boards: board.AMD_BILBY board.AMD_CEREME board.AMD_MANDOLIN board.GETAC_P470 board.GOOGLE_BRYA0 board.GOOGLE_FALCO board.GOOGLE_PEPPY board.GOOGLE_WOLF board.KONTRON_BSL6 board.LENOVO_R500 board.LENOVO_T430S board.LENOVO_T431S board.LENOVO_T520 board.LENOVO_T530 board.LENOVO_W530 board.LENOVO_X1 board.LENOVO_X220 board.LENOVO_X220I board.LENOVO_X220_MRC_BIN board.LENOVO_X220_OPTION_TABLE_DEBUG_TPM_EXTENDED_CBFS board.LENOVO_X230 board.LENOVO_X230S board.LENOVO_X230T board.LENOVO_X301 board.LENOVO_X60 board.RODA_RK886EX board.SIEMENS_BOXER26

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A different lapic number in devicetree.cb needed for CPU with the same SKU and steping (Intel Atom C3538).
by dponamorev＠gmail.com Aug. 26, 2021

Aug. 26, 2021

Hi! We developed our CRB motherboard on Intel Atom C3538 (4 core) Denverton_NS processor. Faced with the following problem. For part of processors with the same SKU and steping (Atom C3538), lapic #4 in devicetree.cb needed (95%), and for the other part lapic #0 (5%). Intel confirmed that it might be so and that's okay ... Part of devicetree.cb: device cpu_cluster 0 on device lapic 4 on end end If we do not specify lapic id correctly in devicetree.cb, freeBSD OS does not BOOT (Unix like). FreeBSD BOOT log (set lapic #4 in devicetree.cb but need lapic #0): Table 'FACP' at 0x7f768070 Table 'SSDT' at 0x7f768170 Table 'MCFG' at 0x7f7693e0 Table 'APIC' at 0x7f769420 APIC: Found table at 0x7f769420 APIC: Using the MADT enumerator. MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 0 ACPI ID 0: enabled SMP: Added CPU 0 (AP) MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 4 ACPI ID 1: enabled SMP: Added CPU 4 (AP) MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 12 ACPI ID 2: enabled SMP: Added CPU 12 (AP) MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 16 ACPI ID 3: enabled SMP: Added CPU 16 (AP) MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 24 ACPI ID 4: enabled SMP: Added CPU 24 (AP) Copyright (c) 1992-2019 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE #0 r349754: Fri Jul 5 04:45:24 UTC 2019 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 8.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_800/final 356365) (based on LLVM 8.0.0) Table 'FACP' at 0x7f768070 Table 'SSDT' at 0x7f768170 Table 'MCFG' at 0x7f7693e0 Table 'APIC' at 0x7f769420 Table 'HPET' at 0x7f7694a0 ACPI: No SRAT table found PPIM 0: PA=0xa0000, VA=0xffffffff82410000, size=0x10000, mode=0 VT(vga): resolution 640x480 Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xffffffff8226d000. Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 2100071708 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3538 @ 2.10GHz (2100.07-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x506f1 Family=0x6 Model=0x5f Stepping=1 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x4ff8ebbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,RDRAND> AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x101<LAHF,Prefetch> Structured Extended Features=0x2294e283<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,SMEP,ERMS,NFPUSG,MPX,PQE,RDSEED,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PROCTRACE,SHA> Structured Extended Features3=0xac000400<MD_CLEAR,IBPB,STIBP,ARCH_CAP,SSBD> XSAVE Features=0xf<XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XINUSE,XSAVES> IA32_ARCH_CAPS=0x69<RDCL_NO,SKIP_L1DFL_VME> VT-x: Basic Features=0xda0400<SMM,INS/OUTS,TRUE> Pin-Based Controls=0xff<ExtINT,NMI,VNMI,PreTmr,PostIntr> Primary Processor Controls=0xfff9fffe<INTWIN,TSCOff,HLT,INVLPG,MWAIT,RDPMC,RDTSC,CR3-LD,CR3-ST,CR8-LD,CR8-ST,TPR,NMIWIN,MOV-DR,IO,IOmap,MTF,MSRmap,MONITOR,PAUSE> Secondary Processor Controls=0x1d6fff<APIC,EPT,DT,RDTSCP,x2APIC,VPID,WBINVD,UG,APIC-reg,VID,PAUSE-loop,RDRAND,VMFUNC,VMCS,XSAVES> Exit Controls=0xda0400<PAT-LD,EFER-SV,PTMR-SV> Entry Controls=0xda0400 EPT Features=0x6334141<XO,PW4,UC,WB,2M,1G,INVEPT,AD,single,all> VPID Features=0xf01<INVVPID,individual,single,all,single-globals> TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics DTLB: 4k pages, fully associative, 32 entries Data TLB: 4 KBytes pages, 4-way set associative, 512 entries Instruction TLB: 4 KByte pages, fully associative, 48 entries DTLB: 2M/4M Byte pages, 4-way associative, 32 entries L2 cache: 2048 kbytes, 16-way associative, 64 bytes/line real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) Physical memory chunk(s): 0x0000000000010000 - 0x000000000009bfff, 573440 bytes (140 pages) 0x0000000000100000 - 0x00000000001fffff, 1048576 bytes (256 pages) 0x0000000002400000 - 0x000000007f74ffff, 2100625408 bytes (512848 pages) 0x0000000100000000 - 0x000000027012efff, 6175256576 bytes (1507631 pages) avail memory = 8220336128 (7839 MB) Table 'FACP' at 0x7f768070 Table 'SSDT' at 0x7f768170 Table 'MCFG' at 0x7f7693e0 Table 'APIC' at 0x7f769420 Table 'HPET' at 0x7f7694a0 ACPI: No DMAR table found Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <COREv4 COREBOOT> WARNING: L1 data cache covers less APIC IDs than a core 0 < 1 Package ID shift: 5 L2 cache ID shift: 2 L1 cache ID shift: 1 Core ID shift: 1 panic: AP #4 (PHY# 0) failed! cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0xffffffff80b4c4b7 at kdb_backtrace+0x67 #1 0xffffffff80b054ce at vpanic+0x17e #2 0xffffffff80b05343 at panic+0x43 #3 0xffffffff80f752a4 at native_start_all_aps+0x344 #4 0xffffffff80f74c4f at cpu_mp_start+0x2ef #5 0xffffffff80b5cb76 at mp_start+0xa6 #6 0xffffffff80aa0b48 at mi_startup+0x118 #7 0xffffffff8031202c at btext+0x2c Uptime: 1s Other Linux OS boot but show an incorrect number of cores (5 instead of 4) and offline processor cores appear (see log). Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64) # lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 5 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,2-4 Off-line CPU(s) list: 1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 95 Model name: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3538 @ 2.10GHz Stepping: 1 CPU MHz: 2097.502 CPU max MHz: 2100.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 4200.00 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 24K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,2-4 What can be done in this situation? How to make a universal version of devicetree.cb?

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Status of Tianocore EDK2 on Coreboot
by Julian Stecklina April 19, 2021

April 19, 2021

Hello Coreboot Developers! First, I want to say that it is really a joy to work with Coreboot. The code is well-written and of high-quality. :) I'm currently trying to get Tianocore EDK2 running as a Coreboot payload in Qemu and meeting with limited success, though. I have a working configuration for the qemu q35 target. Building it for and running it with the 440fx/piix4 chipset results in the crash below. Is PIIX4 supported with Coreboot/EDK2 or should this configuration be avoided? I also appreciate any pointers in how to debug a situation like this. It looks like the crash happens in EDK2. Is there a way to get an ELF file that objdump understands, so I can see where in EDK2 code this issue originates from? BS: BS_PAYLOAD_LOAD run times (exec / console): 64 / 2 ms Jumping to boot code at 0x008008c0(0x7ff9b000) !!!! X64 Exception Type - 00(#DE - Divide Error) CPU Apic ID - 00000000 !!!! RIP - 000000007F92FAB0, CS - 0000000000000038, RFLAGS - 0000000000000202 RAX - 000000007F938C20, RCX - 000000007F938C20, RDX - 0000000000000008 RBX - 0000000000000008, RSP - 000000007FF4B278, RBP - 000000007FF666E0 RSI - 000000007FF65910, RDI - 0000000000000001 R8 - 000000007FF63480, R9 - 0000000000000038, R10 - 000000007F93CF08 R11 - 000000007FF64F08, R12 - 0000000000000000, R13 - 0000000000000080 R14 - 000000007FF66760, R15 - 000000007FAA9118 DS - 0000000000000030, ES - 0000000000000030, FS - 0000000000000030 GS - 0000000000000030, SS - 0000000000000030 CR0 - 0000000080010011, CR2 - 0000000000000000, CR3 - 000000007FC01000 CR4 - 0000000000000228, CR8 - 0000000000000000 DR0 - 0000000000000000, DR1 - 0000000000000000, DR2 - 0000000000000000 DR3 - 0000000000000000, DR6 - 00000000FFFF0FF0, DR7 - 0000000000000400 GDTR - 000000007FBED718 0000000000000047, LDTR - 0000000000000000 IDTR - 000000007F93A018 0000000000000FFF, TR - 0000000000000000 FXSAVE_STATE - 000000007FF4AED0 !!!! Can't find image information. !!!! Thanks! Julian

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New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for coreboot
by scan-admin＠coverity.com March 30, 2021

March 30, 2021

Hi, Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to coreboot found with Coverity Scan. 1 new defect(s) introduced to coreboot found with Coverity Scan. 3 defect(s), reported by Coverity Scan earlier, were marked fixed in the recent build analyzed by Coverity Scan. New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan Showing 1 of 1 defect(s) ** CID 1451545: Parse warnings (PARSE_ERROR) /src/mainboard/ti/beaglebone/sd_media.c: 95 in () ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *** CID 1451545: Parse warnings (PARSE_ERROR) /src/mainboard/ti/beaglebone/sd_media.c: 95 in () 89 .munmap = mmap_helper_rdev_munmap, 90 .readat = sd_readat, 91 }; 92 93 extern struct omap_image_headers headers; 94 >>> CID 1451545: Parse warnings (PARSE_ERROR) >>> function call is not allowed in a constant expression 95 static struct mmap_helper_region_device sd_mdev = MMAP_HELPER_REGION_INIT( 96 &am335x_sd_ops, COREBOOT_IMAGE_OFFSET + sizeof(headers), CONFIG_ROM_SIZE); 97 98 static bool init_done = false; 99 100 void boot_device_init(void) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To view the defects in Coverity Scan visit, https://u15810271.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=HRESupC-2F2Czv4BOaCWWCy7my0P…

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[coreboot - Bug #303] (New) qemu: Failure to build TianoCore UefiPayload
by coreboot＠fe80.eu March 29, 2021

March 29, 2021

Issue #303 has been reported by Julian Stecklina. ---------------------------------------- Bug #303: qemu: Failure to build TianoCore UefiPayload https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/303 * Author: Julian Stecklina * Status: New * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: build system * Target version: ---------------------------------------- I'm trying to build Coreboot with the TianoCore payload (CONFIG_TIANOCORE_UEFIPAYLOAD=y). This fails early when building the bundled TianoCore: ~~~ Using EDK2 in-source Basetools WORKSPACE: /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/BaseTools CONF_PATH: /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/Conf Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/build_rule.template to /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/Conf/build_rule.txt Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/tools_def.template to /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/Conf/tools_def.txt Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/target.template to /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/Conf/target.txt Build environment: Linux-5.11.9-200.fc33.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.32 Build start time: 15:10:51, Mar.29 2021 WORKSPACE = /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore EDK_TOOLS_PATH = /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/BaseTools CONF_PATH = /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/Conf PYTHON_COMMAND = /usr/bin/python3.9 build.py... : error 000E: File/directory not found in workspace /home/julian/src/own/coreboot/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadPkgIa32X64.dsc - Failed - Build end time: 15:10:51, Mar.29 2021 Build total time: 00:00:00 ~~~ I've attached my config and the full build output. I'm building on Fedora 33 on x86_64. ---Files-------------------------------- coreboot-config (20.5 KB) build.log (90.8 KB) -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: https://ticket.coreboot.org/my/account

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Coreboot on new laptops
by Gert Vanhaerents March 29, 2021

March 29, 2021

Hi Coreboot, We are from a computer store and we sell computers and laptops with Linux or Windows or dual boot. For Linux we are many asked for laptops with coreboot, probably due to the presence of intel ME spyware in the laptops. So, we are now investigating whether there is a possibility to offer the laptops with coreboot. Normally we buy our laptops at a distributor, we have also asked the distributor to have coreboot they don't know anything about bios/eufi or coreboot. They only deliver the laptops with the bios/eufi that the manufacturer made it, we can always ask for a bios update but not for other bios systems like coreboot. We don't have any contact with the manufacturer or have any contact data. I know there are laptops of this brand that have coreboot on it, but to buy directly ar the manufacturer we don't sell enough (i think we must sell 10.000 laptops in a quarter or more). My questions: - We i have installed coreboot, can i also boot Windows 10 or boot in dual-boot (Windows and Linux)? - The installation of coreboot is very unclair. I have looking to google but i don't realy know how can install it. - Can i install coreboot like we normally flash a bios? (startup with a efi boot stick and run a batch file, or startup in the bios and do a bios update directly from the bios with a usb stick with the flash file) - Or do i need a eeprom programmer or something like that? - Must itake out the motherboard completely of the laptop? To work with coreboot it's very important to have a very fast procedure to install it in mass production. We cannot spell a few hours on each laptop. It must be a flash file for a model laptop and a other flash file for a other model laptop. So we can install coreboot on the best selling models. Startup from a usb-stick, do a flash update wait 5 or 10 minutes and reboot, ... done. When it's possible in the procudure like above can i get some help to make the first coreboot flash. With Kind Regards, Gert

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[coreboot - Bug #302] (New) You need to be root
by coreboot＠fe80.eu March 29, 2021

March 29, 2021

Issue #302 has been reported by Tim L. ---------------------------------------- Bug #302: You need to be root https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/302 * Author: Tim L * Status: New * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- ~~~ # ./intelmetool -m iopl: Operation not permitted You need to be root. # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) ~~~ -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: https://ticket.coreboot.org/my/account

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[coreboot - Bug #301] (New) soc/amd: gpio_bank_lib.asl: IASL remarks on inefficient creation of named objects
by coreboot＠fe80.eu March 26, 2021

March 26, 2021

Issue #301 has been reported by Paul Menzel. ---------------------------------------- Bug #301: soc/amd: gpio_bank_lib.asl: IASL remarks on inefficient creation of named objects https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/301 * Author: Paul Menzel * Status: New * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Building amd/majolica, IASL 20200925 shows the remarks below. ``` dsdt.asl 98: Name(BUFF, Buffer(Local0) {}) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.S2BF) dsdt.asl 188: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, Local0, 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.GPRD) dsdt.asl 201: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, Local0, 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.GPWR) dsdt.asl 298: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, GPAD (Arg0), 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.STXS) dsdt.asl 312: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, GPAD (Arg0), 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.CTXS) dsdt.asl 326: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, GPAD (Arg0), 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.GRXS) dsdt.asl 342: OperationRegion (GPDW, SystemMemory, GPAD (Arg0), 4) Remark 2173 - ^ Creation of named objects within a method is highly inefficient, use globals or method local variables instead (\_SB.GTXS) ``` -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: https://ticket.coreboot.org/my/account

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