[coreboot] [patch][v2]:fam10 microcode

Marc Jones marcj303 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 17:49:27 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Christian Leber
<christian.leber at ziti.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009 22:27:58 Marc Jones wrote:
>
> Hi Marc
>
>> You are the first to try this on a real system.
>
> I also just tried it, it does not work (but fails a little bit later than
> Ward), log attached.
> The System is a tyan s2912_fam10 with the very same CPUs (00100f42).
> Without microcode patch we can boot the system, given that a HTX card is in
> the system. Without HTX card coreboot will fail.

Thanks for testing. It helps to have a few different cases to narrow
down the problems. My guess is that the HTX card forces the HT link
speed to a lower speed and that allows it to work.

Marc

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