[coreboot] it boots! [was: re: H8DME-2 woes, continued....]

[Joe Korty]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:56:20PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Well, I've replaced the AMD 2378 CPUs on my SuperMicro H8DME-2 mb with
> a pair of AMD 2212 CPUs, and I get much much further along in the boot.
> But it still locks up.  The starting and ending messages on the serial
> console are:
> 
> 	[0x50] <-- 0xf0000000
> 	PCI: 00:06.1 init
> 	base = 0xfc140000
> 	codec_mask = 01



It boots!!!!!

I applied the below patch to skip 'codec' initialization (whatever that is)
and I was able to boot up to linux.

Can anyone explain what the codec is; perhaps we can turn this 'feature'
off permanently?  (or make it a .config option).

Joe


Index: trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/mcp55_aza.c
===================================================================
--- trunk.orig/src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/mcp55_aza.c	2010-05-06 10:54:13.000000000 -0400
+++ trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/mcp55_aza.c	2010-05-11 13:57:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 
 	if(codec_mask) {
 		printk(BIOS_DEBUG, "codec_mask = %02x\n", codec_mask);
-		codecs_init(base, codec_mask);
+		// codecs_init(base, codec_mask);
 	}
 }