Hi Balaji,

I see that SPI BIOS_CTRL.LE bit is set. It can be set by either Coreboot or FSP.

I guess  it might be getting set by FSP.

Can you add printk in file "src/soc/intel/denverton_ns/chip.c" at the line 46 before & after fsp_silicon_init to print bios control reg.

This will help in understanding whether fsp is doing it or not.

If SOC_INTEL_COMMON_PCH_LOCKDOWN config is enabled in your build then 

src/soc/intel/common/block/fast_spi/fast_spi.c +102

here it might be getting locked.

Also you can enable debug log in smi handler & print bios control reg

select this in menuconfig CONFIG_DEBUG_SMI

If possible, provide a log with above debug prints to understand  where the lock enable bit is getting set.

Regards,

Naresh Solanki

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:40 PM David Hendricks <david.hendricks@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Balaji,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:03 PM Balaji Sivakumar <shivbalaji1985@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi David,

Have verified and confirmed that coreboot process as well, it is disabling the BIOS write protect and Enable Prefetching and Caching as part of fast_spi_init().

Were you able to figure this one out? The snippet you showed is from fast_spi_init() which should get called once early on. It is possible that something later on calls fast_spi_enable_wp(), perhaps smihandler_soc_check_illegal_access().

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Best regards,

Naresh G. Solanki