[coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

John Lewis jlewis at johnlewis.ie
Wed Jul 31 18:42:48 CEST 2013



On 31/07/2013 17:11, Aaron Durbin wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:03 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 31/07/2013 16:56, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:50 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie
>>> [7]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2013 16:43, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie
>>>>> [6][6]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 31/07/2013 16:20, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Aaron Durbin
>>>>>>> <adurbin at chromium.org [5][5][5]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM, John Lewis
>>>>>>>> <jlewis at johnlewis.ie [4][4][4][4]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 31/07/2013 15:33, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, John Lewis
>>>>>>>>>> <jlewis at johnlewis.ie [3][3][3][3]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all, Just want to confirm where we are in terms of
>>>>>>>>>>> things working or not. The new system-agent binary
>>>>>>>>>>> works and recognises all 4 GB of RAM as long as an
>>>>>>>>>>> additional pei data field is added to Stefan's
>>>>>>>>>>> patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3831/ [1]
>>>>>>>>>>> [1] [1] [1] [1] as detailed by Kyösti in the
>>>>>>>>>>> comments. The patches in
>>>>>>>>>>> http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3830/ [2] [2] [2] [2]
>>>>>>>>>>> [2] don't appear to do anything for mrc.cache (it's
>>>>>>>>>>> still zero size) and this (or perhaps something else)
>>>>>>>>>>> results in a time to SeaBIOS prompt of between 5 to 9
>>>>>>>>>>> seconds.
>>>>>>>>>> Can you show us 'ls -l $(obj)/mrc.cache' ? I didn't
>>>>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>>>> -rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 0 Jul 31 11:04 mrc.cache
>>>>>>>> This is your problem. I was hoping for a build.log that
>>>>>>>> was completely clean. The build log attached does not show
>>>>>>>> mrc.cache being created. Can you try the following and
>>>>>>>> rebuilt? dd if=/dev/zero of=mrc.cache bs=16K count=1 | tr
>>>>>>>> '00' '377' > mrc.cache
>>>>>>> Apologies. I am doing too many things at once. Remove the
>>>>>>> 'of=mrc.cache' parameter to dd.
>>>>>> The good news is that cbfstool now reports a non-zero
>>>>>> mrc.cache, the bad news is it doesn't make any difference.
>>>>>> cbmem -c reports Updating MRC cache data. No FMAP found at
>>>>>> ffe70000. FMAP: area RW_MRC_CACHE not found
>>>>>> find_current_mrc_cache_local: No valid MRC cache found. SF:
>>>>>> Detected W25Q64 with page size 1000, total 800000 Need to erase
>>>>>> the MRC cache region of -1 bytes at 0011037f SF: Erase
>>>>>> offset/length not multiple of erase size Finally: write MRC
>>>>>> cache update to flash at 0011037f ICH SPI: Data transaction
>>>>>> error SF: Failed to send write command (1 bytes): -1 SF:
>>>>>> Winbond Page Program failed
>>>>> CONFIG_CHROMEOS=y You have that option enabled. That's why you
>>>>> are seeing fmap calls. Therefore, it is not using the mrc.cache
>>>>> cbfs file. There's also the fact that certain variables are not
>>>>> initialized properly and thinking the callee will initialize
>>>>> them. cache_base should be set to NULL in update_mrc_cache()
>>>>> before calling get_mrc_cahce_region(). You'll see more
>>>>> enlightening messages. That, or ensure get_mrc_cache_region
>>>>> NULL's out the parameter. In short, don't enable CONFIG_CHROMEOS.
>>>> Menuconfig enables it by default, and there is no option to
>>>> uncheck. If I set it to 'n' or comment in .config I get:
>>>> build/generated/crt0.romstage.o: In function `main':
>>>> /home/john/coreboot/src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/romstage.c:215:
>>>> undefined reference to `save_chromeos_gpios'
>>>> /home/john/coreboot/src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/romstage.c:362:
>>>> undefined reference to `init_chromeos'
>>>> build/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrccache.romstage.o: In
>>>> function `get_mrc_cache_region':
>>>>
>>> 
>>> /home/john/coreboot/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrccache.c:71:
>>>> undefined reference to `find_fmap_entry'
>>>> build/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit.romstage.o: In 
>>>> function
>>>> `sdram_initialize':
>>>>
>>> 
>>> /home/john/coreboot/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit.c:240:
>>>> undefined reference to `recovery_mode_enabled' collect2: error: ld
>>>> returned 1 exit status make: ***
>>>> [build/cbfs/fallback/romstage_null.debug] Error 1
>>> Fantastic. In src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/Kconfig remove 'select
>>> CHROMEOS'. You'll need to do a 'make oldconfig' then rebuild. Fwiw,
>>> you can't set it to 'n'. It needs to be '# CONFIG_CHROMEOS is not
>>> set'. But since you did set it to 'n' the dependency object files
>>> weren't included in the link. Anyway, do a clean build after 
>>> removing
>>> 'select CHROMEOS'. hth. -Aaron
>> Okay. We are getting a bit further along now but: CC
>> cbfs/fallback/coreboot_ram.debug build/generated/coreboot_ram.o: In
>> function `acpi_create_gnvs':
>> /home/john/coreboot/src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/acpi_tables.c:102:
>> undefined reference to `chromeos_init_vboot' collect2: error: ld
>> returned 1 exit status make: ***
>> [build/cbfs/fallback/coreboot_ram.debug] Error 1
>
> Try the following patch:
>
> diff --git a/src/vendorcode/google/chromeos/gnvs.h
> b/src/vendorcode/google/chrom
> index 00fe443..5384423 100644
> --- a/src/vendorcode/google/chromeos/gnvs.h
> +++ b/src/vendorcode/google/chromeos/gnvs.h
> @@ -61,9 +61,13 @@ typedef struct {
> // dbe
> } __attribute__((packed)) chromeos_acpi_t;
>
> +#if CONFIG_CHROMEOS
> extern chromeos_acpi_t *vboot_data;
> void chromeos_init_vboot(chromeos_acpi_t *chromeos);
> void chromeos_set_me_hash(u32*, int);
> void acpi_get_vdat_info(uint64_t *vdat_addr, uint32_t *vdat_size);
> +#else
> +static inline void chromeos_init_vboot(chromeos_acpi_t *chromeos) {}
> +#endif
>
> #endif
>
> Or wrap the call in lumpy/acpi_tables.c with '#if
> CONFIG_CHROMEOS/#endif'.

Okay, that worked, but cold reboot takes 5 secs to SeaBIOS, warm reboot 
is instantaneous. cbmem -c output looks pretty healthy to me. I'll 
attach it anyway. What do you think?
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