[coreboot] proposal to enable running vsa in geode northbridge

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 05:03:07 CET 2008


Well, we got MUCH further, but it did not work.

LAR: CHECK blob/vsa @ 0xfff9c730
start 0xfff9c770 len 60466 reallen 60466 compression 0 entry
0x00000000 loadaddress 0x00000000
LAR: Compression algorithm #0 used
buf ilen 60466 real len 60466ld
buf 0x00060000 *buf 186 buf[256k] 0
buf[0x20] signature is b0:10:e6:80
Call real_mode_switch_call_vsm
biosint: INT# 0x18
biosint: eax 0x84e53 ebx 0x38 ecx 0xff0 edx 0x87ee4
biosint: ebp 0x60000000 esp 0x87f7c edi 0x15 esi 0x0
biosint:  ip 0x28   cs 0x1000  flags 0x26
BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x18
biosint: INT# 0x18
biosint: eax 0x84e53 ebx 0x38 ecx 0xfee edx 0x87ee4
biosint: ebp 0x60000000 esp 0x87f7c edi 0x15 esi 0x0
biosint:  ip 0x28   cs 0x1000  flags 0x26
BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x18
do_vsmbios: VSA2 VR signature verified
After VSA:
Finding PCI configuration type.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
 done
Phase 2: Done.

I think VSA ran. I don't like those BIOSINT #0x18 -- I am guessing
that something did not work out. But note that the VSA2 VR signature
was there .

AND -- we found config type one. There the good news ends. Phase 2:
done comes out, which is wrong, as we should have more output, and
then ...
LinuxBIOS-3.0.0 Fri Jan 25 19:36:21 PST 2008 starting...


we restart.

Damn. So close.

ron




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