Hello to community,

I finally, after 3 days of additional very hard struggle, found out why I have (while I am in the last stage of building CBFS) nonsense while building APL-I Coreboot coreboot.rom?!

Please, read carefully this announcement.

For last three days I came to hard stop because of this failure:

Just quick look into the final failure (all passed, but last stage - IFD failed):

Compile IFDTOOL

HOSTCC util/ifdfake/ifdfake

DD Adding Intel Firmware Descriptor

IFDTOOL Unlocking Management Engine

File build/coreboot.pre is 8388608 bytes

No Flash Descriptor found in this image

src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Makefile.inc:50: recipe for target 'add_intel_firmware' failed

make: *** [add_intel_firmware] Error 1

[user@localhost coreboot]$

At first, I suspect that culprit my .config file, but I have checked it several times (maybe > dozen), and I could NOT find any problem with it (except minor doubts).

Then I switched to inspect -southbridge- setup, but these is none, since (simplified explanation/view) APL-I is SoC.

The next phase was to inspect src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Makefile.inc , but there (although my make scripting is rusty) I could NOT find any problem...

Finally, somewhere around 2:00 AM I noticed/determined the root cause of the problem: the util/ifdtool/ifdtool.c, line:

if (*(uint32_t *) (image + i) == 0x0FF0A55A) {

YET another INTEL IOTG PED hidden road bomb: the latest APL-I FSP: APL-I_FSP/ApolloLakeFspBinPkg/FspBin/ApolloLakeFsp.fd does NOT have pattern 0x0FF0A55A embedded in it (I have checked with HxD WIN tool).

Then, modifying the C f-n static fdbar_t *find_fd(char *image, int size), finally I've got success! :-(

Hello Martin,

Thank you for unselfish help.

Best Regards,

Zoran Stojsavljevic