Fwd: USB to Serial Converters

[zahra rahimkhani]

Hello Friends ,

I compiled Coreboot 4.5 for Minnow board max  and see this message  in
consol.

"Memory Configure Data Hob is not present.
Not updating MRC data in flash."

what is Data Hob?
Cold you help me how to solve it?

Best wishes ,
Zhara

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From: zahra rahimkhani 
Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Fwd: [coreboot] USB to Serial Converters
To: cc: Coreboot

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From: zahra rahimkhani 
Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] USB to Serial Converters
To: David Hendricks

Hello David

Thank you very much for your help .

I used version 4.8 but it shows this message on consol  and do not boot usb
flash or sata.

Running option rom at c000:0003
Turning on vga text mode console
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.11.2-0-gf9626cc)
EHCI init on dev 00:1d.0 (regs=0xd061e020)
WARNING - Timeout at i8042_flush:71!
AHCI controller at 00:13.0, iobase 0xd061d000, irq 10
Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/*@12
Found 0 lpt ports
Found 1 serial ports
Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@1d/hub@1/storage@1/*@0/*@0,0
Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/usb@1d/hub@1/usb-*@1
USB MSC vendor='UFD 2.0' product='Silicon-Power8G' rev='1100' type=0
removable=1
USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=15730688
Initialized USB HUB (1 ports used)
All threads complete.
Scan for option roms

Press ESC for boot menu.

Searching bootorder for: HALT
drive 0x000f62c0: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=979/255/63 s=15730688
Space available for UMB: cd800-ed800, f5b60-f62c0
Returned 253952 bytes of ZoneHigh
e820 map has 18 items:
  0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
  1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
  2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
  3: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 = 1 RAM
  4: 0000000020000000 - 0000000020100000 = 2 RESERVED
  5: 0000000020100000 - 000000007ad9c000 = 1 RAM
  6: 000000007ad9c000 - 0000000080000000 = 2 RESERVED
  7: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 = 2 RESERVED
  8: 00000000feb00000 - 00000000fec01000 = 2 RESERVED
  9: 00000000fed01000 - 00000000fed02000 = 2 RESERVED
  10: 00000000fed03000 - 00000000fed04000 = 2 RESERVED
  11: 00000000fed05000 - 00000000fed06000 = 2 RESERVED
  12: 00000000fed08000 - 00000000fed09000 = 2 RESERVED
  13: 00000000fed0c000 - 00000000fed10000 = 2 RESERVED
  14: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed1d000 = 2 RESERVED
  15: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 = 2 RESERVED
  16: 00000000fef00000 - 00000000ff000000 = 2 RESERVED
  17: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 = 2 RESERVED
enter handle_19:
  NULL
Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00

I would be grateful if you guide me .
I should set a special config or no?

Best ,
Zahra

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:35 PM David Hendricks 
wrote:
> Hi Zahra,
> Yes, I used the 6-pin serial port header. Also, make sure the microcode
> header(s) you include correspond to the CPUID of your processor. The E3825
> and E3826 use different microcode headers, so M0130679901.h will not work
> for you.
>
> Please keep the coreboot mailing list CC'd. I haven't done anything with
> Minnowboard in several months and others may be able to help.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM, zahra rahimkhani <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hi David
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> > I extract your file and got M0130679901.h as Microcode but my board does
> > not work it did not show anything.
> > I use E3825.
> > In previous notes, you told "My guess is that you don't have
> > CONFIG_ENABLE_BUILTIN_COM1 selected
> > (under "Chipset"), which is an option you have to set in addition to
> > the stuff under "Console."
> > but in your config, you had not enabled this option.
> > Could you help me with this and Did you use   6 pins that are separated
> > on board for console port?
> > I do not know what is my problem .it did not show anything log.
> >
> > Thank you for your time.
> > Zahra
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:04 AM 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 <
> > >
> > > [e-mail]>
> > > > 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.