Hi all,
I wasn't planning on posting unless I could actually contribute something, but since Keith Hui posted last month about his work on CBMEM for 440BX and ACPI, I figured I should do some proper testing and at least post if it worked out.
I'm running coreboot on a ASUS P2-99 board with the config copied straight from P2B. It's not perfect, but it is stable and I haven't found anything that doesn't work that did with the original firmware.
Testing I did over the past week:
1. Actually made a seperate P2-99 config, I'd been using vanilla P2B with no renaming for a few months on it.
2. Built it properly with coreboot crossgcc. Previously I couldn't build it on amd64 Debian Sid but worked fine with the Debian toolchain. Now it builds fine on amd64 sid and stretch, but fails patching gcc-6.3.0_nds32_ite.patch on i686 Debian stretch and jessiie.
3. Setup a serial console - seems to work fine. I was using I different board for flashing anyway, since flashrom doesn't know the board enable and the asus flasher only works on with original firmware to find the board enable - it can flash coreboot though if you use the right flag to tell it to flash the whole rom.
4. Tried Keith Hui's ACPI patches (https://review.coreboot.org/c/22067/). It has no problem booting or restarting, but linux complains about the acpi. Didn't really expect it to work properly on a different board anyway.
As it stands now, all I've done is run it with a P2B config and not verified if everything is working as it should, I barely have beginner knowledge of C and nothing on low level x86 or acpi, so I can't actually do anything but testing. I can't upload board status for it since it's a P2-99 not P2B. I'm also still stuck with with using another board and hot swapping chips to flash roms. I should probably post on the flashrom list that the board I'm flashing with works as well as see if anyone knows anything about the asus board enable (it's getting pretty old).
The main reason I'm posting is to say I can test patches the patches Keith Hui has been working on and post logs. I'd also be glad for any other recommendations on what I can do to help with this system.
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Branden Waldner