New subject: coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not

4 Nov 2008


      I think the patch is in this link.  
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-September/038551.html
Is this one, Myles?
I am also now trying to boot XP with SeaBios as payload on VIA's board.
on 30/10/2008 16:52 Myles Watson said the following:
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From: Andriy Gapon [mailto:avg@icyb.net.ua]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:43 AM
To: Myles Watson
Cc: 'Coreboot'
Subject: Re: [coreboot] coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not
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on 30/10/2008 16:34 Myles Watson said the following:
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On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:25 AM
To: Coreboot
Subject: [coreboot] coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not 
found
In northbridge/intel/i440bx/raminit.c:sdram_set_spd_registers all 
PAM registers are programmed for RAM R/W access (0x33).
When SeaBIOS searches for option ROMs (including VGA ROM) it 
doesn't do anything about PAM, so it sees empty memory instead of
the ROMs.
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I am not sure what is the best solution here. It is debatable how 
coreboot should set PAM register, and it is not right to make 
SeaBIOS too hardware dependent.
Maybe coreboot could somehow export functions for setting access to
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option ROM space (aka legacy memory segments) and SeaBIOS could 
call
them.
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I think SeaBIOS expects Coreboot to copy the option ROM to 0xc0000 
in
RAM.
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That way SeaBIOS gets to stay hardware agnostic.
Makes sense!
But it doesn't look like this does actually happen (by default).
I am playing with msi/ms6147 target (under heavily tweaked qemu).
You're right.  It doesn't happen by default.  Kevin sent a simple 
patch to the list, which I can't find right now :(
Basically you tell coreboot to run the ROM, but comment out the 
execution right after the copy.  Let me know if you can't find it, and
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I'll try to help you dig.
I found a post where Kevin talks about this but no patch.
I am thinking about this approach for 440BX: set PAM registers to "read
from ROM, write to RAM" mode, copy the whole range onto itself, set PAM
register to R/W RAM mode.
I am not sure if this better be done for all legacy segments (0xC0000 -
0xFFFFF range) or only for option ROM segments (0xC0000 - 0xDFFFF range)
excluding BIOS Area and BIOS Extension segments.
P.S.
This approach won't work in stock qemu because of incorrect
implementation (absence, actually) of emulation of this "mixed" PAM
mode.