Re: [coreboot] USB to Serial Converters

[David Hendricks]

[re-adding the list while we're at it]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:34 PM, David Hendricks
 wrote:
> Hi Zahra,
> That header may be out of date
> (https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-August/084800.html).
>
> I had to manually download the microcode file corresponding to my
> processor SKU from Intel. Use the link I sent you earlier to download
> Baytrail_FSP_Gold4.tgz and see if the microcode headers included in
> that tarball match your processor. The Atom on my Minnowboard Turbot
> has a CPUID of 30679, so I needed to use M0130679901.h.
>
> (note that the Minnowboard Max uses an Atom E3825, while the Turbot
> uses an E3826 dual-core SoC or E3845 quad-core SoC)
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:36 AM, zahra rahimkhani
>  wrote:
> > Dear David
> >
> > for Microcode file I just it from coreboot source from this path
> > coreboot/3rdparty/blobs/soc/intel/baytrail/microcode_blob.h
> >
> > Is that good ?
> >
> > Thanks ,
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:18 PM zahra rahimkhani 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for your guide.
> > >
> > > I got this comments on my config and changes it based on your config.
> > > But I can not see any thing on output.
> > > Could you tell me  which Uart pins do you use on Minnowboard max
> > >
> > > I used it 6 pin that are separately on board .
> > >
> > > I would be grateful if you guide me .
> > > I got my new config here .
> > > https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3097
> > >
> > > Also , Could you tell me what is this parameter
> > > CONFIG_UART_FOR_CONSOLE=0
> > > and
> > > CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART_8250IO
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > Zahra
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:06 AM David Hendricks
> > >  wrote:
> > > > Hi Zahra,
> > > > > I got my config file here
> > > > > https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3096
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, that helps a lot!
> > > >
> > > > The last config that I tested is
> > > > https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/plain/intel/minnowmax/4.6-...
> > > >
> > > > If you diff my config and yours, it seems you have several options
> > > > disabled which I think you should try enabling:
> > > > CONFIG_HAVE_IFD_BIN
> > > > CONFIG_HAVE_ME_BIN
> > > > CONFIG_TTYS0_LCS
> > > > CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART_8250IO
> > > > CONFIG_IFD_BIN_PATH
> > > > CONFIG_ME_BIN_PATH
> > > > CONFIG_LOCK_MANAGEMENT_ENGINE
> > > > CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART
> > > > CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL
> > > > CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL_115200
> > > >
> > > > You can find these by using the search function in `make menuconfig`.
> > > > Press '/' and type a Kconfig option.
> > > > > I would be grateful if you check my config and tell me what is ifdtool
> > > > > in Coreboot and how
> > > > > I  use it.
> > > > > and How I find  Intel ME file for my board and GBE for a network on my
> > > > > board.
> > > >
> > > > ifdtool is a tool for viewing and manipulating an Intel Flash Descriptor
> > > > binary. The flash descriptor is a 4KB data structure at the start of the
> > > > ROM's address space (offset 0x000000-0x000fff).
> > > >
> > > > To build it: `make -C util/ifdtool`
> > > > To run it: `util/ifdtool/ifdtool`
> > > >
> > > > You'll probably want to use the '-x' option to extract the individual
> > > > modules from an existing Minnowboard Max firmware image (e.g. the UEFI image
> > > > that comes with the board). That will give you the ME and GBE files.