[coreboot] Funny boot log in Coreinfo

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sat Oct 18 00:28:36 CEST 2008


On 17.10.2008 23:57, Myles Watson wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
> <mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 17.10.2008 19:46, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>     > On 17/10/08 11:29 -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>     >
>     >> I haven't looked into the cause yet, but the boot log looks a
>     little "funny"
>     >> in coreinfo.  At least it's smiling.
>     >>
>     >
>     > Hmm - that is very unfortunate.  I think we have boot log issues
>     - I have
>     > also discovered that the bootlog is apparently overwriting the v3
>     > coreboot tables.  This could be a consequence of that.
>     >
>
>     Is there any old version where you don't see the issues on qemu?
>
>
> Yes.  I know when it was a new feature I tried it out and didn't see
> this garbage.

I remember it working well some time ago. It would be great if you could
do a binary search and narrow it down. I can then fix the problem.
 

>     IIRC K8 has numerous issues in the v3 startup code which can (and
>     probably will) interfere with printk buffers. I'm currently
>     auditing the
>     code to hunt all of these problems down. Please don't try using
>     CONFIG_PRINTK_BUFFER with K8.
>
>
> We should probably change the defconfigs then.  It doesn't change any
> behavior for me, so I must just be lucky.

I can make PRINTK_BUFFER depend on !K8.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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