On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:57:35AM -0400, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote:
Joe Korty joe.korty@ccur.com writes:
As a first time coreboot user, I thought that I should first try it out on a supported board. That way I would learn the ropes a bit before even thinking about doing something more challenging.
Naturally I am having troubles. I suspect that as a newbie I am probably doing something stupid. But then I've heard that mb manufacturers like to change things around without notice, so maybe I'm doing things right and what was once a supported mb, no longer is.
The hardware: SuperMicro H8DME-2. Four 1Gbyte DDR2-667/533/400 Registered ECC SDRAM sticks from Crucial. Two Quad-Core AMD 2378 2.4 GHz Processors. Onboard video. One SATA disk. One PATA DVD-ROM reader. NULL modem serial cable from COM1 to COM1 on another PC.
The details: When booting coreboot, nothing happens for about 45 seconds. Then the fans speed up to high and some messages start appearing on the serial line. These messages print rather slowly (maybe 1 second/message). They are:
coreboot-4.0-r5521M Wed May 5 10:53:42 EDT 2010 starting... *sysinfo range: [000cf000,000cf730] bsp_apicid=00 Enabling routing table for node 00 done. Enabling SMP settings (0,1) link=00This looks like the bootup code for gen f Opterons. It doesn't look like the h8dme has a fam10 variant yet, which is what you need for the 2378 CPUs.
Thanks Arne! I'll have to figure out how to proceed from here.
On a side note, it _looks_ like the slowdown might be due to the udelay unification. Still bisecting.
Joe