[coreboot] Issues getting ASUS F2A85-M to boot

[Idwer Vollering]

2013/10/29 Idwer Vollering <vidwer at gmail.com>:
> 2013/10/29 Haywood-Evans Matthew <MAHEVANS at qinetiq.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am presently looking at trying to get Coreboot up and running on an
>> ASUS F2A85-M system. I am however running into some issues.
>>
>> Using a bus pirate and flashrom I first backed up the original bios,
>> then erased the chip and restored the bios to ensure I had the basic
>> read/write capability working and this all worked correctly.
>
> My board came with AMI (U)EFI v5018.
>
> I was able to erase, and write to, every part of the flash chip with
> that particular version while leaving the chip in its socket.
> v6404 wasn't that permissive anymore.
>
>>
>> Then I proceeded to build a standard coreboot image using seabios as a
>> payload (using an external VGA card), leaving all the settings as
>> default apart from selecting the motherboard, upon writing this to the
>> flash and rebooting the machine I had no output from the VGA adapter and
>> nothing from the serial port.
>
> SeaBIOS should run the optionrom that is present on/for the offboard GPU.
>
>>
>> Next I removed the external VGA and followed the instructions at
>> http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_F2A85-M  taking a local copy of the VGA
>> bios and embedding that into the coreboot image, rebuilt and re-flashed
>> to get the same result as previous.
>
> The APU's PCI ID ofcourse varies, these lines are there (in dmesg and
> lspci -nn) when booting linux:
>
> [    0.047202] smpboot: CPU0: AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD
> Graphics (fam: 15, model: 10, stepping: 01)
>
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7560D] [1002:9904]
>
>>
>> After some investigation I created a serial ice image and loaded that,
>> this worked giving me a serial ice prompt on the COM port.  Using this,
>> and the QEMU provided, I proceeded to try and run the bios files created
>> in the last two stages, in the serial ice I see a lot of reads (takes
>> about 20 mins) before it exits with Bad memory pointer and core dumps.
>>
>> I have been building the coreboot images on a different machine to the
>> target (Core i7) but have rebuilt them with the crossgcc in case issues
>> with the development PC where causing the issue, however I got the same
>> results.
>>
>> I am now at a loss of where to go next to get this working and would
>> appreciate any insight.
>>
>> The target system I am working on is
>> F2A85-M
>> 4GB Corsair Ram
>
> What's the full name of that memory module? More important: what's its
> working voltage?
> One can confirm from coreboot's menu: mainboard -> DDR3 memory voltage
>
>> AMD A10 6800K FM2 CPU
>
> Assuming that the PCI ID of the abovementioned APU is 1002:990c, *and
> the sha1sum of the with dd from memory extracted VGA optionrom (while
> the AMI software is booted) is
> e8fd60fd8746ab7f1a997897807d3fdbd119bf7e*, I can provide a working
> image: http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/f2a85-m/coreboot_1002_990c.rom

I almost forgot to mention that this is built for 1,5V memory.

>
> See http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1002/990c
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Matt
>
> HTH,
>
> Idwer