Wyse S10 Geode GX2

Hi,

I'm fairly new at this and I'm trying to get coreboot and SeaBIOS working
on a Wyse S10 and I've hit a problem and wondered if anyone can help.

I've compiled the reference toolchain and used that with the latest Git
version and the one mentioned in Fijam's blog
(http://fijam.eu.org/blog/how-to-put-coreboot-on-wyse-s30s50/) but they
both stop at the same place.

I've obtained a copy of the GX2 VSA (through methods I probably can't
mention here), but it's a different size to the one Fijam used?
Is this a fault with the VSA or have I made a rookie mistake somewhere?

.config and bootlog attached.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> it's a different size to the one Fijam used?

Check if it is gzip-compressed.
> .config and bootlog attached.

Sorry, no attachments. Make sure that they are text/plain.

//Peter

Hi Andrew,

I am interested in getting coreboot running on the Wyse S50, and am also 
wondering if the VSA for the LX will work on these devices. Have you 
actually found source code for the GX2? Or only a compiled VSA?

Following Fijam's blog, and doing a lot of searching, I have managed to 
piece together the strange/old toolchain for making the VSA. Very 
detailed instructions are in my post:

http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-January/076992.html

I can succesfully build the VSA, but haven't come as far as actually 
flashing a device and testing it out.

Is this the same toolchain that you use?

I hope you can keep us up to date with your progress, I know there are a 
few people who would love to get coreboot on their wyse devices. 
Personally, I plan to run NanoBSD on them, but am plagued with pci bus 
hangs under boot - a problem caused by the factory BIOS.

-Jamie

P.S. I also have a few spare S10 devices, so hopefully I can start 
testing soon as well

On 16-02-2014 20:08, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new at this and I'm trying to get coreboot and SeaBIOS 
> working
> on a Wyse S10 and I've hit a problem and wondered if anyone can help.
>
> I've compiled the reference toolchain and used that with the latest Git
> version and the one mentioned in Fijam's blog
> (http://fijam.eu.org/blog/how-to-put-coreboot-on-wyse-s30s50/) but they
> both stop at the same place.
>
> I've obtained a copy of the GX2 VSA (through methods I probably can't
> mention here), but it's a different size to the one Fijam used?
> Is this a fault with the VSA or have I made a rookie mistake somewhere?
>
> .config and bootlog attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew

> Hi Andrew,
>
> I am interested in getting coreboot running on the Wyse S50, and am also
> wondering if the VSA for the LX will work on these devices. Have you
> actually found source code for the GX2? Or only a compiled VSA?

Hi Jamie,

I haven't found any different source code I'm afraid, I tried and then
gave up getting the geode toolchain working.

I reasoned that all GX BIOS's must use a VSA, the BIOS on the Wyse Sx0 is
XpressROM or XpressLoader by Insyde. I couldn't find any of the tools to
work with these so I looked for alternatives.
I reckon most of the boards developed will follow the AMD GX2 development
kit fairly closely, although I'm not sure that matters here?

So I searched the web and found the closest matched specification
industrial board with an Award BIOS - the IEI Wafer-GX.
I downloaded the BIOS update, then used bios_extract to pull the vsa2.bin
out. I know this is frowned-upon and I don't know whether it will work!
It's a different size to the one Fijam used and sofar I can't get it to
boot, although I think that's my fault configuring Coreboot wrong.
> Following Fijam's blog, and doing a lot of searching, I have managed to
> piece together the strange/old toolchain for making the VSA. Very
> detailed instructions are in my post:
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-January/076992.html

I saw your post only after I gave up on the toolchain, thanks for
detailing your steps, it's very helpful and I may go back and try to get
the toolchain working.
> I can succesfully build the VSA, but haven't come as far as actually
> flashing a device and testing it out.
>
> Is this the same toolchain that you use?
>
> I hope you can keep us up to date with your progress, I know there are a
> few people who would love to get coreboot on their wyse devices.
> Personally, I plan to run NanoBSD on them, but am plagued with pci bus
> hangs under boot - a problem caused by the factory BIOS.
>
> -Jamie
>
> P.S. I also have a few spare S10 devices, so hopefully I can start
> testing soon as well

The toolchain I was talking about below was the coreboot reference
toolchain, not the VSA one.

Although the OLPC uses the LX, the geode-vsa sources seem to be for all
the geode CPU's and it includes the CS5536 as well?

Would you be willing to send me a copy of the VSA you compiled so I can
see if that works? I think all the Sx0-02L versions are the same so
hopefully it should work on any of them.

Thanks,
Andrew
> On 16-02-2014 20:08, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm fairly new at this and I'm trying to get coreboot and SeaBIOS
> > working
> > on a Wyse S10 and I've hit a problem and wondered if anyone can help.
> >
> > I've compiled the reference toolchain and used that with the latest Git
> > version and the one mentioned in Fijam's blog
> > (http://fijam.eu.org/blog/how-to-put-coreboot-on-wyse-s30s50/) but they
> > both stop at the same place.
> >
> > I've obtained a copy of the GX2 VSA (through methods I probably can't
> > mention here), but it's a different size to the one Fijam used?
> > Is this a fault with the VSA or have I made a rookie mistake somewhere?
> >
> > .config and bootlog attached.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew