Re: [coreboot] dbm690t buildrom patch

[Jordan Crouse]

On 22/09/08 16:42 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:10:06PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
> > Add AMD dbm690t mainboard to buildrom.
> > The dbm690t uses an embedded VBIOS which buildrom can attach to the ROM image.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Jones 
> > Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse a
>
> If you address the few details below (and assuming the built image actually
> boots - I don't have this board):
>
> Acked-by: Ward Vandewege
> > +config AMD_R690_HEADLESS
> > bool "Build the R690 platform as headless (without VGA)"
> > depends on ADVANCED && PLATFORM_DBM690T
> > default n
> > help
> >  Say 'y' here to build without the VGA BIOS for the
> >  R690 chipset.  This will result in no video graphics
> >  for the platform.  This is not likely what you want,
> >  so you should say 'n' here unless you are absolutely
> >  sure.
> >
> > +config AMD_R690_USE_VBIOS
> > bool
> > depends on !AMD_R690_HEADLESS
> > default y
>
> So if I select this and not AMD_R690_CUSTOM_VBIOS, I get a bios image that
> 992768 bytes long and no warning that the video bios needs to be added. Is
> that intended?

You are right - I have a patch coming to address this.
> > +CBV3_TAG=HEAD
> >
> > +COREBOOT_BOARD=dbm690t
> > +CBV2_TDIR=dbm690t
> > +CBV2_TAG=3092
>
> This revision dies on first checkout with
>
> Fetching external item into
>   '.../buildrom10/buildrom-devel/sources/coreboot/svn/util/lxbios'
>   svn: URL 'svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/util/lxbios' doesn't exist
>   Couldn't fetch the code from svn://coreboot.org/repos/trunk/coreboot-v2
>
> Also, it doesn't have support for this board. I guess you really meant 3590
> here.

Yep - we wanted to send this out first, and then adjust it for the SVN 
checkin - the SVN checkin just happened faster then we thought it would. :)
> > --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ buildrom-devel/packages/roms/amd_r690.mk	2008-09-22 10:21:09.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_AMD_R690_USE_VBIOS),y)
> > +OPTIONROM_TARGETS += $(AMD_R690_VBIOS_LOCATION)
> > +CBV2_PREPEND := $(AMD_R690_VBIOS_LOCATION)
> > +endif
> >
> > +$(AMD_R690_VBIOS_LOCATION):
> > @ $(BIN_DIR)/show-instructions.sh \
> > $(PACKAGE_DIR)/roms/amd_r690_instructions \
> > $(AMD_R690_VBIOS_LOCATION)
> > @ echo "Unable to find $(AMD_R690_VBIOS_LOCATION)"
> > @ exit 1
>
> There's an exec flag missing on the show-instructions.sh script; I get
>
> make: execvp:
> ..../buildrom10/buildrom-devel/bin/show-instructions.sh:
> Permission denied
> make: *** [somewhere.rom] Error 127

Yeah - the permission should be set in the svn commit.
> Also, somehow it never showed me the contents of

It would have if if the script had worked.
> > Index: buildrom-devel/packages/roms/amd_r690_instructions
> >
> > --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ buildrom-devel/packages/roms/amd_r690_instructions	2008-09-21 15:51:11.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> > +Please follow these instructions for downloading the video BIOS
> > +for your R690 platform:
> > Download the latest video BIOS from:
> > http://url.goes.here/
>
> Does this url need to be filled in?

Eventually - the URL is being determined as we speak.

Jordan