Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Universal panic-room serial console, for x86 BIOS bootblock

[Scott Duplichan]

Pete Batard wrote:

]Also, if it's not too much to ask and if the code works without 
]FORCE_PANIC, I wouldn't mind finding out where it breaks if not using 
]the 48 MHz init (using forced base/type/ldn).
]
]I have now committed your patch to svn. Will still need to figure out 
]what the best approach might be with regards to 48 MHz SIO init.

Hello Pete,

I do not have that board setup at the moment so I cannot try it without
FORCE_PANIC. It seems like a baud rate change could substitute for the LPC
clock frequency programming, but so far that does not work as expected.

I have an AMD SB900 board with Nuvoton NCT6776F. To make the serial port
work on this board, two pieces of non-generic code are needed.

1) SIO com1 pins default to GPIO and must switched to serial port use:
// logical device 2 (UART A) defaults to base 3f8, irq 4, enabled
// all that is needed for early serial is to switch some dual function
// pins from gpio use (default) to serial port use. Clearing cr2a bit 7
// does this.
u8 reg8;
pnp_enter_ext_func_mode(dev);
reg8 = pnp_read_config(dev, 0x2a);
reg8 &= ~(1 << 7);
pnp_write_config(dev, 0x2a, reg8);
pnp_exit_ext_func_mode(dev);

2) LPC clock frequency programming and enable:
static void sb900_clocks(void)
{
  u8 reg8;
  u32 reg32;
  volatile u32 *acpi_mmio28 = (void *) (0xFED80000 + 0xE00 + 0x28);
  volatile u32 *acpi_mmio40 = (void *) (0xFED80000 + 0xE00 + 0x40);

// Program AcpiMmioEn to enable MMIO access to ClkDrvSth2, MiscClkCntrl
registers
  outb(0x24, 0xCD6);
  reg8 = inb(0xCD7);
  reg8 |= 1;
  reg8 &= ~(1 << 1);
  outb(reg8, 0xCD7);

// Program ClkDrvSth2 OSCOUT1_CLK_sel for 48 MHz (default is 14 MHz)
  reg32 = *acpi_mmio28;
  reg32 &= ~(7 << 16);
  reg32 |= 2 << 16;
  *acpi_mmio28 = reg32;

// Program MiscClkCntrl OSCOUT1_Clk_OutputEn to zero to enable LPC clock
  reg32 = *acpi_mmio40;
  reg32 &= ~(1 << 2);  // Auxiliary Clock1, OSCOUT1 clock output enable
  *acpi_mmio40 = reg32;
}

Thanks,
Scott