On 31/07/2013 15:33, Aaron Durbin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, John Lewis jlewis@johnlewis.ie wrote:
Hi all, Just want to confirm where we are in terms of things working or not. The new system-agent binary works and recognises all 4 GB of RAM as long as an additional pei data field is added to Stefan's patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3831/ [1] as detailed by Kyösti in the comments. The patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3830/ [2] don't appear to do anything for mrc.cache (it's still zero size) and this (or perhaps something else) results in a time to SeaBIOS prompt of between 5 to 9 seconds.
Can you show us 'ls -l $(obj)/mrc.cache' ? I didn't see
-rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 0 Jul 31 11:04 mrc.cache
CONFIG_MRC_CACHE_SIZE in your .config. Also, what does 'cbfstool
Menuconfig doesn't allow you specify it, and there isn't currently a default being put in automatically.
image.rom print' say now? Build logs with V=1 would be helpful to see
coreboot.rom: 8192 kB, bootblocksize 1552, romsize 8388608, offset 0x700000 alignment: 64 bytes
Name Offset Type Size cmos_layout.bin 0x700000 cmos_layout 1120 pci8086,0106.rom 0x7004c0 optionrom 65536 cpu_microcode_blob.bin 0x710500 microcode 20544 fallback/romstage 0x7155c0 stage 36438 fallback/coreboot_ram 0x71e480 stage 294016 fallback/payload 0x766140 payload 87816 (empty) 0x77b880 null 18200 mrc.cache 0x77ffc0 (unknown) 0 (empty) 0x780000 null 130968 mrc.bin 0x79ffc0 (unknown) 195732 (empty) 0x7cfcc0 null 49880 spd.bin 0x7dbfc0 (unknown) 1536 (empty) 0x7dc600 null 144280
what is occurring when mrc.cache is being created.
See attached build.log
I added a 64 GB SSD this afternoon, which I have working, but something strange went on with geometry - if I tried to dd the partition itself back it would crap out at 2 GB (this was after dd'ing the backed up mbr onto the new drive). If I dd'ed the whole device it worked, but the partition wouldn't mount, and fdisk would report that the partition was too large for the device. Luckily, after reboot, it worked anyway. :) Summary: if we could get rid of the 5 to 9 second delay, and just confirm the drive detection geometry is A1 I think we are there. John. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org [3] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot [4]
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM, John Lewis jlewis@johnlewis.ie wrote:
On 31/07/2013 15:33, Aaron Durbin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, John Lewis jlewis@johnlewis.ie wrote:
Hi all, Just want to confirm where we are in terms of things working or not. The new system-agent binary works and recognises all 4 GB of RAM as long as an additional pei data field is added to Stefan's patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3831/ [1] as detailed by Kyösti in the comments. The patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3830/ [2] don't
appear to do anything for mrc.cache (it's still zero size) and this (or perhaps something else) results in a time to SeaBIOS prompt of between 5 to 9 seconds.
Can you show us 'ls -l $(obj)/mrc.cache' ? I didn't see
-rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 0 Jul 31 11:04 mrc.cache
This is your problem. I was hoping for a build.log that was completely clean. The build log attached does not show mrc.cache being created.
Can you try the following and rebuilt? dd if=/dev/zero of=mrc.cache bs=16K count=1 | tr '\000' '\377' > mrc.cache
CONFIG_MRC_CACHE_SIZE in your .config. Also, what does 'cbfstool
Menuconfig doesn't allow you specify it, and there isn't currently a default being put in automatically.
image.rom print' say now? Build logs with V=1 would be helpful to see
coreboot.rom: 8192 kB, bootblocksize 1552, romsize 8388608, offset 0x700000 alignment: 64 bytes
Name Offset Type Size cmos_layout.bin 0x700000 cmos_layout 1120 pci8086,0106.rom 0x7004c0 optionrom 65536 cpu_microcode_blob.bin 0x710500 microcode 20544 fallback/romstage 0x7155c0 stage 36438 fallback/coreboot_ram 0x71e480 stage 294016 fallback/payload 0x766140 payload 87816 (empty) 0x77b880 null 18200
mrc.cache 0x77ffc0 (unknown) 0 (empty) 0x780000 null 130968 mrc.bin 0x79ffc0 (unknown) 195732 (empty) 0x7cfcc0 null 49880 spd.bin 0x7dbfc0 (unknown) 1536 (empty) 0x7dc600 null 144280
what is occurring when mrc.cache is being created.
See attached build.log
I added a 64 GB SSD this afternoon, which I have working, but something strange went on with geometry - if I tried to dd the partition itself back it would crap out at 2 GB (this was after dd'ing the backed up mbr onto the new drive). If I dd'ed the whole device it worked, but the partition wouldn't mount, and fdisk would report that the partition was too large for the device. Luckily, after reboot, it worked anyway. :) Summary: if we could get rid of the 5 to 9 second delay, and just confirm the drive detection geometry is A1 I think we are there. John. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org [3] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot [4]
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