Hi Mariusz,

Setting BOOT_DEVICE_SPI_FLASH_NO_EARLY_WRITES solved the problem, thanks!

The only drawback of saving MRC CACHE in later state are the additional resets which are requested by FSP_S (silicon init) - for each additional reset the DDR4 training data is lost and this delays the startup a little bit, but this was also occurring in old coreboot-4.8.1.

Basically those additional resets happens when the CMOS is cleared (when RTC-power-well settings are lost also) so FSP_S resets the system to reconfigure peripherals (ie. SATA, HSIO changes, etc) - and for each reset DDR4 training must be performed again.

For coreboot-4.8.1 in the past I have successfully implemented a change to save MRC CACHE before calling FSP_S to fix this, it worked well but I never used that change in production to not take any risk since I was unsure about side effects. But this improvement can save some time during manufacturing as some resets can't be avoided (here at least 1 reset always happens). It would be good if this can be implemented somehow in coreboot latest...

Hopefully this info could be useful to someone ;)

Kind regards,

Sumo

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:41 PM Mariusz Szafrański via coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote:

Hi Sumo,

Please try to additionally select MRC_WRITE_NV_LATE or BOOT_DEVICE_SPI_FLASH_NO_EARLY_WRITES to push MRC writing to later state

W dniu 10.06.2021 o 16:58, Sumo pisze:
Hi,

I'm stuck in a problem where coreboot fails to write the MRC cache in the SPI Flash.

Below is the log output:

FMAP: area RW_MRC_CACHE found @ 810000 (65536 bytes)
MRC: Checking cached data update for 'RW_MRC_CACHE'.
SF: Detected 00 0000 with sector size 0x1000, total 0x1000000
MRC: no data in 'RW_MRC_CACHE'
MRC: cache data 'RW_MRC_CACHE' needs update.
SPI Transaction Error at Flash Offset 810000 HSFSTS = 0x01046003
REGF metadata allocation failed: 1949 data blocks 4096 total blocks
MRC: failed to update 'RW_MRC_CACHE'.

Any clues?

Thanks,

Sumo
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