[coreboot] [PATCH] HP e-Vectra P2706T support

[Paweł Stawicki]

2009/10/21 Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:34:16PM +0200, Paweł Stawicki wrote:
> > Acked-by: Paweł Stawicki <stawel at gmail.com>
> > the patch is working correct.
>
> Thanks, r4820.
>
>
> > My linux distribution boots very fast :)
> > the only problem is that the vga bios is not booting.
> > I'm  trying  investigate.
>
> As this is onboard VGA (not a PCI plugin-card) I assume, you need to
> add the VGA BIOS image to coreboot.rom.
>
> This can be done by adding a line like this to targets/.../Config.lb:
>
>  pci_rom /tmp/vga.bin vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x27a2
>

yes i added this line and it seems that i need also  add:
uses CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN
default CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN = 1
to the Options.lb file, without this it doesn't work.
I needed  also this patch:
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-July/050497.html

The console is turning on
when the linux is starting (not at the FILO start)



> (in kconfig it's a bit simpler, but I'm not sure if your board works
> fine with kconfig already)
>
> You need to adapt the vga.bin path/filename, and the PCI vendor/device ID
> (you can do a test-boot and coreboot will tell you which ID it tries to
> find on the serial console).
>
> You can get vga.bin (filename may differ) using the phnxdeco, amideco,
> awardeco, or bios_extract utilities.
>
> For PCI graphics cards it's simpler, they should usually work out of the
> box, but let us know if that's not the case.
>

the e-Vectra has no  additional slots on board , therefor it has only an
onboard vga card.


> I'll make a superiotool patch for your Super I/O so we can dump the
> register contents and fix the Super I/O setup a bit.
>

sounds great.


> Can you tell us how big the ROM chip is in the board (so we can fix the
> default Kconfig file)b?


the bios size is 512KB - really :-)
the vga bios size is 32KB
it has also an ethernet bios inside the bios (size 58880B)



> Also, if you have some time to test all available
> hardware components with coreboot let us know the results. It would be
> nice if we could make a wiki status page for your board, such as this
> one for example:
>
>  http://www.coreboot.org/MSI_MS-6178
>

ok, I will try to make the tests tomorrow.


>
> Uwe.
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Thanks a lot.
Paweł
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