Re: [coreboot] Booting issue --AMD Olive Hill plus mainboard

[ron minnich]

unless you're dead certain you don't need them, include microcode updates.
did you hook up a serial port?

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:44 PM Idwer Vollering  wrote:
> 2017-04-24 21:08 GMT+02:00 Nagabhushan Shastry :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to bring up the AMD G series Olive hill plus mainboard with
> > coreboot.
> >
> > These are the options i have enabled in make menuconfig but I am not
>
> able
> > to see anything on the screen when i power on the board.
> > Could someone please let me know if I am missing something.
> >
> > • General / Use CMOS for configuration values = enable (CMOS defaults are
> > located in your boards directory src/mainboard/OEM/MODEL/cmos.default)
> > • General / Include the coreboot .config file into the ROM image
> > • General / Compress ramstage with LZMA
> > • Mainboard / Mainboard vendor = AMD
> > • Mainboard / Mainboard model = Olive Hill plus
> > • Mainboard / ROM chip size = 8 MB
> > • Chipset / Include CPU microcode in CBFS = Do not include microcode
>
> updates
> > (NOTE: you probably want to enable it on some systems)
> > • Chipset / Enable Hudson XHCI Controller
> > • Chipset / Add xhci firmware
> > • (3rdparty/blobs/southbridge/amd/avalon/xhci.bin) XHCI firmware path and
> > filename
> >  (3rdparty/blobs/southbridge/amd/avalon/PSP/AmdPubKey.bin) AMD public
>
> Key
> > • Devices /  Run VGA Option ROMs
> > • Devices /   Add a VGA BIOS image
> >  (3rdparty/blobs/northbridge/amd/00730F01/VBIOS.bin) VGA BIOS path and
> > filename
> >  (1002,9850) VGA device PCI IDs
>
> These PCI IDs, are they correct? Is the VBIOS, which I don't know
> anything about, executed? You need to have a way to see console
> output, either using the board's serial port or - presuming the
> mainboard boots to linux - through the utility found in util/cbmem/
> > • Display / Keep VESA framebuffer = disable (disable for text-mode
>
> graphics,
> > enable for coreboot vesa framebuffer)
> > • Generic Drivers / Serial port on SuperIO
> > • Generic Drivers / Support Intel PCI-e WiFi adapters
> > • Console / Squelch AP CPUs from early console.
> > • Console / Serial port console output
> > • Console / Use onboard VGA as primary video device
> > • Console / Send console output to a CBMEM buffer
> > • Console / Send POST codes to an external device
> > • Console /  Send POST codes to an IO port
> > • System tables /  [*] Generate an MP table
> > • System tables /  [*] Generate a PIRQ table
> > • System tables /  [*] Generate SMBIOS tables
> > • Payload  /        SeaBIOS version (1.10.2)  --->
> > • Payload  /        Use LZMA compression for payloads