payload coreinfo - no button press works

Hardware: g41m-es2l, latest coreboot git, latest seabios git, native vga, ps2 keyboard + usb keyboard

I liked to try out coreinfo. It show the CPU Information page at start. When i then press any button (f1,f2,a,b,c,d) nothing happens. I also cant reboot by pressing ctrl+alt+del. Have to press the ATX-power-on/off-button.

I then shut down and connected a USB-Keyboard. I pressed in Seabios esc (usb keyboard is working) and then inside coreinfo i was again unable to get any functionality by pressing some button.

[Paul Menzel]

Dear i1w5d7gf38keg,

Am Sonntag, den 26.02.2017, 21:23 +0100 schrieb [e-mail]:
> Hardware: g41m-es2l, latest coreboot git, latest seabios git, native
> vga, ps2 keyboard + usb keyboard

Please always add the commit hashes to your reports, as reading the
mailing list archive [1] in the future, “latest” is harder to map to a
specific commit.
> I liked to try out coreinfo. It show the CPU Information page at
> start. When i then press any button (f1,f2,a,b,c,d) nothing happens.
> I also cant reboot by pressing ctrl+alt+del. Have to press the ATX-
> power-on/off-button.
>
> I then shut down and connected a USB-Keyboard. I pressed in Seabios
> esc (usb keyboard is working) and then inside coreinfo i was again
> unable to get any functionality by pressing some button.

The payload *coreinfo* works with QEMU for me, so I guess it’s an issue
with the board. Please verify, if there are any differences if you use
the payload *coreinfo* directly. (The problem will probably be the
same.)

Then please try the same payload files/setup (SeaBIOS, coreinfo) with a
coreboot image built for QEMU.

If it works for you there, the reason is probably incomplete support
for your device. Please provide debug logs. Remember, that this is one
of the main advantages of coreboot, that you get elaborate messages.

Though, I have no idea, if somebody will have time and motivation to
fix this. So you might have to fix this yourself.

To not forget about this, and document this issue, it’d be great if you
created an issue in the coreboot bug tracker [2], and attach your
config files and captured log messages there.

Thanks,

Paul

PS: It’d be great, if you just send plain text messages with no HTML
parts to mailing lists.

[1] https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083418.html
[2] https://ticket.coreboot.org/

[qma ster]

Inside the " payloads/coreinfo/coreinfo.c " file, at lines 290 - 296 there
is a code:

int main(void) {
int i, j;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LP_USB)
usb_initialize();
#endif

It could be that your board has CONFIG_LP_USB option disabled at libpayload
config. If you are unsure about how to check it, you could just remove #if
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LP_USB) and #endif to just leave usb_initialize(); , to
make sure that the code of usb_initialize(); function will be run at every
coreinfo launch ! Then completely rebuild a coreboot with its' payloads to
make sure that this changed source code gets into your final BIOS image,
before flashing it. Good luck!

2017-02-27 10:57 GMT+03:00 Paul Menzel via coreboot :
> Dear i1w5d7gf38keg,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 26.02.2017, 21:23 +0100 schrieb [e-mail]
> :
> > Hardware: g41m-es2l, latest coreboot git, latest seabios git, native
> > vga, ps2 keyboard + usb keyboard
>
> Please always add the commit hashes to your reports, as reading the
> mailing list archive [1] in the future, “latest” is harder to map to a
> specific commit.
> > I liked to try out coreinfo. It show the CPU Information page at
> > start. When i then press any button (f1,f2,a,b,c,d) nothing happens.
> > I also cant reboot by pressing ctrl+alt+del. Have to press the ATX-
> > power-on/off-button.
> >
> > I then shut down and connected a USB-Keyboard. I pressed in Seabios
> > esc (usb keyboard is working) and then inside coreinfo i was again
> > unable to get any functionality by pressing some button.
>
> The payload *coreinfo* works with QEMU for me, so I guess it’s an issue
> with the board. Please verify, if there are any differences if you use
> the payload *coreinfo* directly. (The problem will probably be the
> same.)
>
> Then please try the same payload files/setup (SeaBIOS, coreinfo) with a
> coreboot image built for QEMU.
>
> If it works for you there, the reason is probably incomplete support
> for your device. Please provide debug logs. Remember, that this is one
> of the main advantages of coreboot, that you get elaborate messages.
>
> Though, I have no idea, if somebody will have time and motivation to
> fix this. So you might have to fix this yourself.
>
> To not forget about this, and document this issue, it’d be great if you
> created an issue in the coreboot bug tracker [2], and attach your
> config files and captured log messages there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> PS: It’d be great, if you just send plain text messages with no HTML
> parts to mailing lists.
>
> [1] https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083418.html
> [2] https://ticket.coreboot.org/
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[Stefan Reinauer]

Hello anonymous,

* [e-mail]  [170226 21:23]:
> Hardware: g41m-es2l, latest coreboot git, latest seabios git, native vga, ps2
> keyboard + usb keyboard
>
> I liked to try out coreinfo. It show the CPU Information page at start. When i
> then press any button (f1,f2,a,b,c,d) nothing happens. I also cant reboot by
> pressing ctrl+alt+del. Have to press the ATX-power-on/off-button.
>
> I then shut down and connected a USB-Keyboard. I pressed in Seabios esc (usb
> keyboard is working) and then inside coreinfo i was again unable to get any
> functionality by pressing some button.

Did you compile USB support, support for your USB host controller, and
USB keyboard support into libpayload when compiling for coreinfo?

Stefan