[coreboot] Re: AMD AGESA board removals

[Matt B]

Hi,

Regarding lenovo/g505s, asus/am1i-a, and maybe some others (suggestions
welcome!) I'd be willing to put up some money on
https://www.bountysource.com/ for their migration away from ROMCC_BOOTBLOCK.

Thoughts?

Sincerely,
    -Matt

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:26 AM Michal Zygowski 
wrote:
> On 04.12.2019 16:15, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:48 PM Michal Zygowski
> >  wrote:
> > > On 03.12.2019 18:29, Kyösti Mälkki wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Regarding the deprecation of AGESA platforms due to ROMCC_BOOTBLOCK.
> > > >
> > > > As of 3rd December there is active development, while not much testing
> > > > yet, only for the following AGESA platform boards:
> > > > asrock/imb-a180
> > > > lenovo/g505s
> > > > pcengines/apu1
> > >
> > > I do not exactly understand "not much testing". While uploading patches
> > > for family14 or apu1 I always build, flash, boot Linux test whether it
> > > works...
> >
> > You can read this no testing at all for fam15tn and fam16kb so far,
> > and testing fam14 with a single board.
> >
> > I believe there was a commit for apu1 where newly added bootblock.c
> > file was not linked in, while the boot sequence to OS worked just
> > perfect? Some super-io configuration bits are sticky and powered from
> > Vbat /Vrtc or Vstb rails, these bootblock changes should be verified
> > with (RTC) battery removed.
>
> True. The NCT5104D has UARTA LDN enabled by default with
> IO base 0x3f8. So Vbat wouldn't affect it at all.
> > Kyösti
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