Re: [coreboot] coreboot halts at "doing early_mtrr"

[Corey Osgood]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM,   wrote:
> Quoting Patrick Georgi :
> > Am 30.07.2010 19:35, schrieb [e-mail]:
> > > I have a Jetway 7F4K1G5S-LF board I'm trying to get working.
> >
> > Just to make things clear - that's a Via C7 board, yes?
>
> Yes.
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > We moved the C7 boards over to CAR (cache as RAM), but couldn't test all
> > of them (due to availability etc). Disabling cache before RAM is
> > available (and all data structures, esp. the stack are moved to RAM)
> > makes the system hang.
> >
> > From looking at the board's romstage.c, it seems that early_mtrr_init is
> > ran before RAM init, but after CAR enable.
> >
> > Do you get further after disabling early_mtrr_init (which disables
> > caching to activate the new MTRR config) completely?
>
> Commenting out the call to early_mtrr_init() lets coreboot run to
> completion.
>
> That's odd.  I assumed the call to "write_cr0(cr0)" in cache.h was
> responsible somehow, since that was where it stopped when "early_mtrr_init"
> called "disable_cache", but I left the print statements in disable_cache,
> and they were all printed repeatedly this time, so "write_cr0" only causes a
> problem when called early (during "early_mtrr_init")?
>
> ...
>
> Tried it again and with memtest as the payload and it doesn't see any
> memory.  Memtest pops up on the screen :
> L1 cache: 64K
> L2 cache: 128K
> L3 cache: none
> Memory :    0K
> (That last one is a zero K).
>
> Hmmm.

Can you send me a boot log, with output level set to DEBUG or SPEW level?

Thanks,
Corey