Hi Andrew,
ruik, do you have a working setup with a f2a85-m motherboard at the moment (i.e. .config file, graphics card, distro/kernel version being used?) if nothing is working for you right now, how can we narrow this down?
Yes it seems it is working fine.
You can check http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards
Or check:
http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=board-status.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=asus/f...
Note that I'm using 1.65V for DDR3 memory. Please check your memory voltage in original bios if it is 1.5V or 1.65V. From what I seen in the longs it seems something dies in kernel, maybe interrupts or timer. Could be some unfixed errata. I run memtester in userspace today and I seen one mem problem (on 1.65V mem)
I use some Linux Mint, but mostly I just boot with this kernel.
http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=board-status.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=asus/f...
to anyone else: do you find that using one graphics card with coreboot, works while others do not? any ideas on how i can resolve this issue?
I don't have any recent external graphics card. I only use internal one with this board. I want to use it as my next workstation, I did not do any longrun testing yet.
the problems i've been seeing are quite reliable. they happen when using coreboot + one of a couple graphics card models i've tried + extended high disk i/o, all together. at other times, these issues are more rare. also, a somewhat older compilation of coreboot with a vga_bios and without an external graphics card is crashing multiple times per day, during that person's day-to-day work flow.
Hm strange I have not seen any crashes like this.
i would like to get coreboot with this motherboard working, so more people here can use it. :)
Yep great!
my guess is that this is an issue with option roms playing nasty with coreboot, and that this issue is for some reason brought forth by the high i/o test. if any of those factors are absent, crashes are far less frequent, if at all.
i've been seeing crashing with f2a85-m motherboards with an a8-5600k processor. vga bioses have not been compiled in to coreboot.
My CPU is also 0x00610f01 but it is AMD A4-5300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics.
kernel-loading of recent amd microcode has not solved the problem. option roms get loaded by seabios (
the stress test i've been using is mostly running badblocks on repeat using a couple sata drives. the other test has been building four kernels at once.
Can you share the scripts? I tried today reading with DD on two harddrives and it was fine.
if anyone has any idea of what the issue(s) may be here, or how i could try narrowing this down, please help me out. thanks! :)
It could be some unfixed errata.
http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/48671.pdf http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/48931_15h_Mod_10h-1Fh_Rev_G...
I think I need to reproduce the problem first. I seen some PM_timer problem. What is your clocksource?
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
I also seen some errata about USB3.0 controllers. Can you exclude usage of USB 3.0?
If you run memtester under Linux it is oK?
Thanks Rudolf
-andrew