coreboot May 2014

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PIC instead of APIC mode for KolibriOS
by Paul Menzel 06 May '14

06 May '14

Dear coreboot folks, I try to get KolibriOS running on the ASRock E350M1 with coreboot and SeaBIOS payload. Keyboard and mouse do not work [1] probably because KolibriOS needs PIC mode. Was somebody successful in getting KolibriOS working on a board with coreboot? Is there an easy way to use PIC instead of APIC mode with coreboot and SeaBIOS or is APIC mode assumed everywhere? Thanks, Paul [1] http://bugs.kolibrios.org/view.php?id=84

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ASUS F2A85-M (Pro)
by Kete 05 May '14

05 May '14

I looked on a couple websites (Pricewatch & Newegg) for ASUS F2A85-M, but I only found Pros. The wiki page said to contact the mailing list for details. I'll appreciate any guidance or shopping suggestions. On the sites I mentioned, I can order motherboards as a part of an assembled workstation.

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Is there a payload to test SeaBIOS’ BIOS mouse interface?
by Paul Menzel 05 May '14

05 May '14

Dear coreboot folks, on the ASRock E350M1 [1] with coreboot and SeaBIOS payload, starting KolibriOS from GRUB 2 on the hard drive, it loads fine but neither keyboard nor mouse work. This is true for USB and PS/2 [2]. Do you know of a payload I can use to test SeaBIOS’ BIOS mouse interface? Thanks, Paul [1] http://www.coreboot.org/Board:asrock/e350m1 [2] http://bugs.kolibrios.org/view.php?id=84

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Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family (ron minnich)
by ron minnich 05 May '14

05 May '14

Jiming, why doesn't intel just put that more open stuff up on github and be done with it? ron

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[RFH] Please test latest cleanups on AGESA boards
by Paul Menzel 05 May '14

05 May '14

Dear coreboot folks, Kyösti’s cleanup patches for AGESA boards were merged today [1][2][3]. A big thanks to Kyösti for addressing that long standing maintenance problem! All of you with access to an AGESA board, could you please build a coreboot image from latest master and check if your board still boots and, if coreboot ever supported S3 on your board, please check if the board still suspends to and resumes from S3? Thanks, Paul [1] http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=coreboot.git;a=commit;h=08df7326e6bd39d… [2] http://review.coreboot.org/#/q/status:merged+project:coreboot+branch:master… [3] http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/5660/

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Flash access on ASUS F2A85 variants
by Stefan Tauner 04 May '14

04 May '14

Hello, I noticed that some F2A85 firmwares apparently block flashrom from accessing the flash correctly as noted here: http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_F2A85-M#UEFI_builds_that_allow_flash_chip_acce… I could not find any details but the error message one receives: "ERROR: State of SpiAccessMacRomEn or SpiHostAccessRomEn prohibits full access." If I read the documentation of SpiHostAccessRomEn correctly then it should not bother us at all. It indicates it the ethernet firmware can access the host partition of the flash chip. If however the other bit (SpiAccessMacRomEn) is reset to 0 then we indeed have a problem. Can someone please send me the verbose output of flashrom to confirm which one it is? And I am also looking for testers with these boards, because I think the abort on SpiHostAccessRomEn is a bug in flashrom. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

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Life hack #37: how to make a great touchpad
by mrnuke 03 May '14

03 May '14

To manufacturers of Chromebooks, Sorry guys, I have a chromebook myself, and its touchpad is appalling. I've also tried the chromebooks in stores and they aren't much better. But have no fear, Alex is here, and has the perfect recipe on how to squash such hardware bugs early on. Following these steps, you are guaranteed to never make this mistake again: 1. Go to your favorite bidding site 2. Enter the following search terms: "HP Pavilion M6 1035dx" 3. Find a matching listing 4. Purchase full laptop 5. When you get it, observe its touchpad 6. Notice the big, easy to hit buttons 7. Notice the surface area 8. Notice the smoothness of the surface 9. Notice the ease of moving the pointer 10. Notice the tactile feedback from the buttons 11. Notice the evenness of the force needed to engage the button 12. Notice the fatigue of repeatedly pressing the buttons (hint:there is none) 13. Play with its touchpad 14. Play some more with its touchpad 15. Now play with the Unreleased(TM) Chromebook's touchpad 16. If it seems inferior, it probably is You'll be making perfect touchpads now, won't you? Alex

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Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family (ron minnich)
by Jiming Sun 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hi, Ron, The licensing agreement you referred to was a generic license that users click on download. The click through license specific for FSP when you extract it gives the user more capability... Could you check if that meets your need? Thanks, Jiming ------------------- your message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:41:10 -0700 From: ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> To: "Stojsavljevic, Zoran" <zoran.stojsavljevic(a)intel.com>, coreboot <coreboot(a)coreboot.org> Subject: Re: [coreboot] New addendums to INTEL FSP family Message-ID: <CAP6exY+fUyTBQoUaD+1naKmfXEPXWeC9Pa73nbYb26ib3znWqQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This license still looks problematical to me. Couple that with the fact that the Haswell MRC is still not generally available from Intel and I'm a bit concerned. If I build a coreboot image with FSP, am I allowed to put it on dropbox for others to try out? Not clear at all! And, "one backup copy"? Do the people who wrote this understand how things in this world work? This is progress, and Intel gets closer every time, but they're still not there in my view. ron

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T60 fails to init LVDS
by uberushaximus＠gmail.com 01 May '14

01 May '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, After flashing my T60 (ATI X1400) to coreboot my laptop screen will not come up, even after adjusting the brightness keys. I can output video fine via DVI via a port replicator. I've heard that other ATI users have had similar problems and I'm attaching my oprom, dmesg, and xrandr output for anyone to have a look. board-status http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=board-status.git;a=commit;h=c282f074c6e… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTYL+JAAoJEH5c6sLCAqXrFl0P/R+LZhdSFq86v6IvfJZJ99P4 UveVw9SmIFSMHV8ERReN8RKObEDvYCPuWxyE/Q0a0HVHJ8FFL5JRu5TEZw3exAHQ yVXod4BvacVx2N2U+4YDKNhSAsAgDCYqrY30Ee8wzIK+CzxxHkhPkIVj99ETl507 ZSH3OObK+2FLiD2BdYw+1NUbph03ZI5W3G22LJS65NjlGGy5r7gSpzYNq15f2oqB 9pobvPE3r4gmjxMR1nQ7sktSAoqTf35UYU4iO0yXqb8SNM53I5OWbfeGNb+A2wCy cfedJSp4xbEyKAsZc2pCEqFFkeFViPqLr8js/crl1cD5a9bm2wqdGNJFSdKpKdB2 +FAm2WqYmb86lU7+Sp0BlhXXHYDLpMKMZDhXq45Dot6kxVxqXM7Jew79rTPPot/h l35TRVzlmkqNHIA3AtHmaL7WqE9HDKXnxVA3Q2/mANuvT0RyjQ6E2FyZH+AkB5mc oaOhj7TQ4t/qqXBIPiLuzPmfygZ/kpLksXldgIIU0vTS/Jn3wzqdWev4z3YzWVmb AMAbx4KWzz5RjPzW92ldfQMwiP+dTeaR5i5oCVXg5hK+ST0U3nHwtWGCpUo+J1KX 8aajqxPhr3QCegFq+J+upUDYnozXV6Ws4vrj91UEL6RUXmANVWrpo0OKnmQFjNoA jRT+HFIEJ0DbEvzCv1hn =1xLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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