On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Martin Roth martin.roth@se-eng.com wrote:
On 03/26/2013 01:11 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote:
Hi all
The board is finally in. I'm aware that David bought it (i think he has f2a85-m CSM version which is USA specific), is there anyone else? PaulePanter maybe?
Has anyone tried "hot flashing" ? It seems linux crashes if I simply unplug the flash. I tried to work around and disabled SMI by software. But I want to be sure it happens also to other people.
The issue with SeaBIOS is gone. I will post some coded verb fix. Is there a way how to extract verbs for codec from original system? I did simple: cat /sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/init_**pin_configs
Is it all?
The last, so far known issue is that SeaBIOS likes to boot only from first AHCI port. I need to check this.
Thanks Rudolf
Hi Rudolf,
I just got a f2a85-m CSM to test with here at Sage, but we're still waiting for a CPU to drop in before we can do anything.
I suspect that the crash might be caused by the USB3 controller. It could also be the IMC, but I think this is less likely. Both of these run code directly from the ROM chip. If you unplug the chip while they're trying to fetch, it's not surprising that "Bad Things" happen. You could test for this by doing a build that removes these roms and after booting from that version, see if it still crashes when the chip is pulled.
The ahci issue with seabios sounds like an issue I fixed in AGESA a couple of months ago. http://review.coreboot.org/#/**c/2165/http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/2165/
This is great! Having sage putting resources into the f2a85-m means a lot! (the CSM just indicates that Asus will keep the item stocked longer / support it longer.)
Thanks, David