[coreboot] Help getting a P2B board running with coreboot
Mark Marshall
mark.marshall at csr.com
Wed Oct 21 19:27:06 CEST 2009
Hi.
I've been lurking here for some time, and am slowly trying to get a ASUS
P2B board to run with coreboot. This is mainly so that I can get to
grips with how coreboot works - the P2B seemed to be an easy starting
point (well documented and cheap, they're on e-bay for < £10).
I've built a ROM image from earlier today and loaded it into a flash,
and I do get some serial output. I can see coreboot attempts to
initialize the memory and then hangs when it tries to copy the CBFS
image to RAM.
I uncommented one of the lines in the auto.c file so that I do a memory
test just before the copy from cbfs. The hang occurs when writing to
the RAM. I looked at the assembler, and it was using the MOVNTI
instruction, which I don't think is supported by the CPU I'm using.
After changing the HAVE_MOVNTI build define I tried again, this time I
get a reset when writing to the RAM.
The RAM that I'm using isn't a 64MB one, and the raminit code implies
that it may only work with this size of chip. Is this something easy
that I can change (if this is the only problem then there's a good
chance that I can work out the correct values from the data sheet)?
Are there other reasons why a P2B board won't just run out of the box?
What else can be causing a write to RAM to go wrong? What other tests
can I make?
Is there a know-good revision from SVN that I can sync to knowing that
that version will(should) work?
If I use serialice (or something else) what do we expect to happen if I
write to (or read from RAM) before it has been initialized? What about
if it has been wrongly initialized? (I surprised that it seems to cause
a reboot.)
I know that these are basic questions, but any help would be greatly
appreciated.
MM
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