[coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] m57sli : debugging the flashrom problem when booting with LB

[Florentin Demetrescu]

Hi,

I think we are close to fix the pb. of the flashrom under LB on the m57sli mobo

There was indeed a problem with the IO address decoding into the PCI->LPC
bridge..

Facts:
1) after booting with LB : when reading @ the IO address 0x820 (where the SPI IF
of the IT8715 SIO should be mapped), one gets 0xff (the value read is 0x0c after
booting with the factory bios)
2) when probing the LPC bus with an oscilloscope, one can notice that a IO read
@ 0x820 produces:
 - under factory bios : a corect IO read cycle as expected with the address
0x820 and the SIO answers with the correct value;
 - under LB : a WRITE IO cycle @ the address 0x0080! (yes is true!) This is what
is seen on the bus (I tested many times..), even if the software operation
really was a IO read;
3) the PCI register 0xa0 of the pci device 00:01.0 (the LPC bridge) holds the
value:
 - 0xc1100001 under factory bios;
 - 0x30000001 under LB;
4) the IO range 0x0800->0x085f can be seen with the factory bios into the pci
register 0xb4 of the same pci device; it don't appear with the actual version of
LB
5) after booting with LB, and forcing the following registers of the lpc bridge
with the following comands:
 setpci -s 00:01.0 a0.l=c1100001
 setpci -s 00:01.0 a4.l=0
 setpci -s 00:01.0 a8.l=0
 setpci -s 00:01.0 ac.l=0
 setpci -s 00:01.0 b0.l=02f40295
 setpci -s 00:01.0 b4.l=085f0800
(force them at same values as in proprietary bios)
the command "flashrom -m gigabyte:m57sli" do not hang anymore and correctly
identifies the flash chip (I haven't tested yet a full flash programming)

So a workaround is now possible as suggested in point (5).

For a full coreboot patch, unfortunatelly I don't master the software
architecture of coreboot enough to make a proposal.. Can someone help please?

I would like to thank Yinghai for his advice (-> mcp55_lpc.c where I found the
very interesting procedure "mcp55_lpc_enable_childrens_resources") which
permited me to do this work..

Florentin

Quoting yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com>:

> On Jan 10, 2008 4:42 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On 10.01.2008 12:14, Florentin Demetrescu wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > For my part I continue to think that there is a problem with the IO
> address
> > > decoding into the PCI->LPC bridge in mcp55.. Yinghai, can you help
> please?
> > >
> >
> > Yinghai? Is there some mcp55 conf we need to change?
>
> that range is already decoded to LPC bridge ( enable_rom, or
> cache_as_rom_auto, or mcp55_lpc.c)
>
> YH
>