Re: My Asus P2B-LS is still having fun with coreboot/SeaBIOS/flashrom. Now I have questions.

[Branden Waldner]

Hi
> I have to calmly tell it "laptop=this is not a laptop" and then it works as usual. I don't remember
> ever having to do this before. Why? If I have a clue I can code up and submit a patch.

If I recall correctly both my p2b and p2-99 boards do that while
running vendor firmware, though I don't recall ever seeing it while
running coreboot (which I just checked to verify it still doesn't show
up).
> Back to how it failed to boot in the first place. The hard disk booting stalled after SeaBIOS. Took
> me hours but eventually I found a line in my serial log that there has been a DMA timeout.
> Turning UDMA off in devicetree.cb and flash again made it boot again. So I would have to revert
> 576315e1 (aka CB:40961), but I'm hesitant because that seemed like the reasonable thing to do
> and it should have worked. So I'm also unsure why it didn't.

I've had the occasional issue with my p2-99 in the past, but I've
always got it booting again after reseating chips (flash/memory/cpu
card). I guess I should be making sure to have the serial link set up
more often, I normally only use it when I have a known bad version of
coreboot flashed. I actually have the cable connected between the two
boards right now, which seems to work decently for testing.

Branden