the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 8adf7a2c50dcb3a7f09b66c1f3918ab195d8c5ec Author: Duncan Laurie dlaurie@chromium.org Date: Mon Jun 10 10:34:20 2013 -0700
Log device path into CMOS during probe stages
One of the most common hangs during coreboot execution is during ramstage device init steps. Currently there are a set of (somewhat misleading) post codes during this phase which give some indication as to where execution stopped, but it provides no information on what device was actually being initialized at that point.
This uses the new CMOS "extra" log banks to store the encoded device path of the device that is about to be touched by coreboot. This way if the system hangs when talking to the device there will be some indication where to investigate next.
interrupted boot with reset button and gathered the eventlog after several test runs:
26 | 2013-06-10 10:32:48 | System boot | 120 27 | 2013-06-10 10:32:48 | Last post code in previous boot | 0x75 | Device Initialize 28 | 2013-06-10 10:32:48 | Extra info from previous boot | PCI | 00:16.0 29 | 2013-06-10 10:32:48 | Reset Button 30 | 2013-06-10 10:32:48 | System Reset
Change-Id: I6045bd4c384358b8a4e464eb03ccad639283939c Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie dlaurie@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/58105 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/4230 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke.me@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/4230 for details.
-gerrit