[coreboot] Executing bootstrap from MBR in coreboot

[Marc Jones]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Piotr Piwko <piotr.piwko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/2/24 Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>:
>> Given the boot logs it's very possible that someone on the list will fix it
>> for you.  In most cases it only takes a few iterations.
>
> We were discussing about fixing this coreboot-v3 bug in my previous
> thread (http://www.mail-archive.com/coreboot@coreboot.org/msg21110.html)
> and I didn't get any positive results. I think that the memory
> controller initialization process is not carried out in the proper
> way. I've even talked with AMD guys who gave me some hints, but
> unfortunately it must be postponed for a while and wait for my free
> time.
>
> They have some objections about the following registers:
> - MC_CF1017_DATA (0x2000001a) should be equal something more like
> 0x00000000_140DD101 instead of 0x00000000_00000101
> - GLCP_DELAY_CONTROLS (0x4c00000f) should be closer to something like
> 0xF2F100FF_56960004

I think you are correct. This looks like the memory init is not able
to get correct information from the SPD. If that is the problem, you
should check that the SMBus controller setup is correct.

Marc

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