[coreboot] H8DME-2 woes, hints?

[Joe Korty]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:57:35AM -0400, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote:
> Joe Korty <joe.korty at ccur.com> writes:
> > As a first time coreboot user, I thought that I should first try it out
> > on a supported board.  That way I would learn the ropes a bit before even
> > thinking about doing something more challenging.
> >
> > Naturally I am having troubles.  I suspect that as a newbie I am probably
> > doing something stupid.  But then I've heard that mb manufacturers like
> > to change things around without notice, so maybe I'm doing things right
> > and what was once a supported mb, no longer is.
> >
> > The hardware:
> >    SuperMicro H8DME-2.
> >    Four 1Gbyte DDR2-667/533/400 Registered ECC SDRAM sticks from Crucial.
> >    Two Quad-Core AMD 2378 2.4 GHz Processors.
> >    Onboard video.
> >    One SATA disk.
> >    One PATA DVD-ROM reader.
> >    NULL modem serial cable from COM1 to COM1 on another PC.
> >
> > The details:
> >    When booting coreboot, nothing happens for about 45 seconds.
> >    Then the fans speed up to high and some messages start appearing
> >    on the serial line.  These messages print rather slowly (maybe
> >    1 second/message).  They are:
> >
> >         coreboot-4.0-r5521M Wed May  5 10:53:42 EDT 2010 starting...
> >         *sysinfo range: [000cf000,000cf730]
> >         bsp_apicid=00
> >         Enabling routing table for node 00 done.
> >         Enabling SMP settings
> >         (0,1) link=00
> 
> This looks like the bootup code for gen f Opterons.  It doesn't look
> like the h8dme has a fam10 variant yet, which is what you need for the
> 2378 CPUs.

Thanks Arne!
I'll have to figure out how to proceed from here.

On a side note, it _looks_ like the slowdown might be due to the udelay
unification.  Still bisecting.

Joe