Epia ME6000 VGA

[Michael Rauscher]

Hi,

I ran into problems to enable VGA in coreboot on the ME6000.

The log:

coreboot-2.0.0.0Fallback So 4. Mai 10:09:40 CEST 2008 starting...
 Enabling mainboard devices
 Enabling shadow ram
vt8623 init starting
Detecting Memory
Number of Banks 04
Number of Rows 0d
Priamry DRAM width08
No Columns 0a
MA type e0
Bank 0 (*16 Mb) 10
No Physical Banks 02
Total Memory (*16 Mb) 20
CAS Supported 2 2.5 
Cycle time at CL X     (nS)60
Cycle time at CL X-0.5 (nS)75
Cycle time at CL X-1   (nS)00
Starting at CAS 2.5
We can do CAS 2
tRP 48
tRCD 48
tRAS 2a
Low Bond 00  High Bondcd  Setting DQS delay88vt8623 done
00:06 11 23 31 06 00 30 22 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 
10:08 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
20:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
30:00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
40:00 18 88 80 82 44 00 00 18 99 88 80 82 44 00 00 
50:c8 de cf 88 e0 07 00 00 e0 00 10 20 20 20 00 00 
60:02 ff 00 30 d6 32 01 20 42 2d 43 58 84 55 00 00 
70:82 48 00 01 01 08 50 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 12 
80:0f 61 00 00 80 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
90:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
a0:02 c0 20 00 07 02 00 1f 04 00 00 00 2f 02 04 00 
b0:00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
c0:01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
d0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
e0:00 dd 00 01 00 00 01 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 12 13 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
AGP
 Doing MTRR init.
Copying coreboot to RAM.
Jumping to coreboot.
coreboot-2.0.0.0Fallback So 4. Mai 10:09:40 CEST 2008 booting...
clocks_per_usec: 877
Enumerating buses...
APIC_CLUSTER: 0 enabled
Finding PCI configuration type.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI_DOMAIN: 0000 enabled
Finding PCI configuration type.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI_DOMAIN: 0001 enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 00
PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/3123] enabled
PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/b091] enabled
PCI: 00:0d.0 [1106/3044] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3038.
PCI: 00:10.0 [1106/3038] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3038.
PCI: 00:10.1 [1106/3038] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3038.
PCI: 00:10.2 [1106/3038] enabled
In vt8235_enable ffff ffff.
Disabling static device: PCI: 00:10.3
In vt8235_enable 1106 3177.
Initialising Devices
Keyboard init...
PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/3177] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 0571.
PCI: 00:11.1 [1106/0571] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3059.
PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] enabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3068.
PCI: 00:11.6 [1106/3068] disabled
In vt8235_enable 1106 3065.
PCI: 00:12.0 [1106/3065] enabled
PCI: 00:14.0 [1131/7146] enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 01
PCI: 01:00.0 [1106/3122] enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=001
vt1211 enabling PNP devices.
PNP: 002e.0 enabled
vt1211 enabling PNP devices.
PNP: 002e.1 enabled
vt1211 enabling PNP devices.
PNP: 002e.2 enabled
vt1211 enabling PNP devices.
PNP: 002e.3 enabled
vt1211 enabling PNP devices.
PNP: 002e.b enabled
PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=001
PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 00
PCI: 00:00.0 [1106/3123] enabled
PCI: 00:01.0 [1106/b091] enabled
PCI: 00:0d.0 [1106/3044] enabled
PCI: 00:10.0 [1106/3038] enabled
PCI: 00:10.1 [1106/3038] enabled
PCI: 00:10.2 [1106/3038] enabled
PCI: 00:10.3 [1106/3104] enabled
PCI: 00:11.0 [1106/3177] enabled
PCI: 00:11.1 [1106/0571] enabled
PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] enabled
Error! malloc: free_mem_ptr >= free_mem_end_ptr

The whole thing is stored in a 39SF040 (512 KB), so I've set the rom_address to
0xfff8000:

device pci 0.0 on  # PCI
        chip drivers/pci/onboard
                device pci 0.0 on end
                register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" #512k image
        end
end

(I've also tried to create a 256 KB image (prepended with 256 KB of 0s) with
fffc0000 - same effect).

The following options are used:

option CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1
option CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN=0
option ROM_SIZE=458752

The fallback size is set to the same value as the ROM_SIZE (458752) as I use a
fallback-only image.

The interesting things are:

1. It doesn't matter if I use OptionsRom or the legacy VGA-BIOS
2. Without VGA BIOS (configuration adapted) it works.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Michael

[Kevin O'Connor]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:51:29PM +0000, Michael Rauscher wrote:
> I ran into problems to enable VGA in coreboot on the ME6000.
>
> The log:
>
> coreboot-2.0.0.0Fallback So 4. Mai 10:09:40 CEST 2008 starting...
>  Enabling mainboard devices
>  Enabling shadow ram

[...]
> PCI: 00:11.5 [1106/3059] enabled
> Error! malloc: free_mem_ptr >= free_mem_end_ptr

I ran into this problem also.  I was able to get around it by
modifying src/mainboard/via/epia-m/Options.lb and increasing
HEAP_SIZE:

default HEAP_SIZE=0x5000

Unfortunately, I still can not get vga output on my epia-m9000.
> device pci 0.0 on  # PCI
>         chip drivers/pci/onboard
>                 device pci 0.0 on end
>                 register "rom_address" = "0xfff80000" #512k image
>         end
> end

I don't think adding this is right.  Looking at the logs, this seems
to cause vga to get initialized twice.  (Unfortunately, I can't get
vga output regardless of how many times it gets initialized.)

-Kevin