Re: [coreboot] Please upload board status Asus AM1I-A

[Elisenda Cuadros]

Dear Paul,

Sorry for the delay.

I uploaded another build from current master to the board_status repository.

I disabled the serial console and rebooted twice before uploading the data.

I think RAM initialization time is more or less the same.

Is there anything else I can do to debug this?

Best Regards,

- Eli

On 16/04/18 09:07, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Eli,
>
> Am Montag, den 12.02.2018, 11:55 +0100 schrieb Elisenda Cuadros:
> > Sure, I will be happy to do it :-)
>
> Thank you very much for uploading the data to the board status
> repository [1].
>
> I noticed, that the serial console is enabled in your run, which causes
> the boot time to be quite slow as all messages have to be sent over the
> serial cable.
>
> Could you please do another upload with the serial console disabled?
> You can just use latest commit from the master branch. That data would
> be nice to have to keep track of possible boot time regressions.
>
> Also, RAM initialization took 1.7 seconds according to the time stamps.
>    2:before ram initialization                         178,042 (174,580)
>    3:after ram initialization                          1,878,897 (1,700,855)
>
> If it is really that long – I didn’t see any log messages, so it’s
> shouldn’t be the serial console –, could you do at least two reboots to
> see if it’s due to an empty cache of the RAM data?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
> [1] asus/am1i-a/4.7-294-gac05cbdea4/2018-02-12T15_31_32Z

Please upload board status Asus AM1I-A

[Kyösti Mälkki]

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Elisenda Cuadros  wrote:
> Dear Paul,
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> I uploaded another build from current master to the board_status repository.
>
> I disabled the serial console and rebooted twice before uploading the data.
>
> I think RAM initialization time is more or less the same.

Set ENABLE_MRC_CACHE in menuconfig, You are correct RAM init time
improvement would only appear after 2nd boot.
> Is there anything else I can do to debug this?

Not really, expect also pull fresh master as I think we recently broke
f16kb, see:

https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/26036

Kyösti