[coreboot] Intel FSP on Bayley Bay CRB: No output

Wed Jun 11 12:12:10 CEST 2014

Hi Gerald,

You should either erase the TXE area or replace it with the correct one 
from BYT-I_SEC_DUAL_BOOT_PV_GOLD. The TXE within BIOS will not play nice 
with anything except the BIOS.

Cheers,
Sean

On 06/11/2014 03:16 PM, Gerald Otter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> indeed, I think I misinterpreted the original issue, which is not 
> solely due to the wrong/lack of microcode being loaded.
> I did not get any output on port 80 ( all zeros ).
>
> I just found out this had to do with the particular intel flash 
> descriptor/txe I’ve been using, which doesn’t seem to play nice with 
> my coreboot build.
> I’ve been in contact with someone outside of the list who sent me a 
> working image after my initial e-mail.
> I flashed the build with microcode over the top 2MB of his image, 
> after which my build worked fine.
> I assumed it was the microcode, when it was actually (partly) due to 
> the wrong txe/fd.
> When the wrong microcode is loaded, the 4digit display alternates 
> between 0x66 and 0x07, so you’re right that there should be output in 
> that case as well.
>
> Right now I’m not really sure what the differences are between the 
> working fd/txe I have, and the non-working fd/txe.
> If there is any particular version of the txe/fd that is working while 
> others aren’t, then I’d love to know.
> Another option is to erase the fd and txe and just start it in 
> non-descriptor mode. There are apparently some downsides to that, but 
> I haven’t looked into the details of that just yet.
> Gerald
>
> On 11 Jun 2014, at 04:09, Sean McNeil <seanmcneil3 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:seanmcneil3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> There is indeed a port80 4 digit hex display on that board, so Gerald 
>> should be getting something from that.
>>
>> Hi Gerald,
>>
>> If you had serial output from the BIOS, then I think you probably 
>> have the UART connected properly. I always use the microUSB 
>> connector, though, with a standard phone cable to get serial from 
>> those boards. It has an on-board usb to serial adapter. Coreboot 
>> usually sets baud rate to 115200, but it is configurable. Check your 
>> .config:
>>
>> CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL=y
>> CONFIG_TTYS0_BASE=0x3f8
>> CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL_115200=y
>> CONFIG_TTYS0_BAUD=115200
>> CONFIG_TTYS0_LCS=3
>> CONFIG_POST_IO=y
>> CONFIG_POST_DEVICE=y
>> CONFIG_POST_DEVICE_NONE=y
>> CONFIG_POST_IO_PORT=0x80
>>
>> Regardless of these settings, FSP will send info to the port80 so 
>> something should have shown.
>>
>> Other things you can check:
>>
>> 1) Properly configured FSP for BayleyBay with the bct program. 
>> BayleyBay is a non-ECC RAM board and won't boot with ECC FSP.
>> 2) Have the appropriate microcode for your stepping of CPU. B0 
>> steppings are harder to get correct and the microcode is not in git.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>> On 06/11/2014 03:04 AM, Marc Jones wrote:
>>> Gerald,
>>>
>>> Does the crb have a port80? You should get early postcodes from
>>> coreboot and the FSP. You are also correct that there might be
>>> something different in the descriptor.bin that isn't anticipated. You
>>> may want to use the coreboot util/ifdtool to get a look at the entire
>>> image.
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Gerald Otter <gerald.otter at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:gerald.otter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to run coreboot + seabios payload on the bayley bay crb 
>>>> with the recently committed FSP integration, but have had no luck 
>>>> so far.
>>>> This crb uses the bay trail I (now atom e3800) soc from intel.
>>>>
>>>> Following the instructions from commit d75800c7f , I have built a 
>>>> 2MB image and flashed it to the upper 2MB of the 8MB flash, leaving 
>>>> the TXE / flash descriptor intact.
>>>> I have added the config from the build. The FSP I used is 
>>>> BAYTRAIL_FSP_GOLD_002_10-JANUARY-2014, together with the flash 
>>>> descriptor and TXE from the 80.21 bios provided by intel, and vga 
>>>> bios 36.2.2.
>>>> Fwiw, I have tried both the 32bit and 64bit releases of the bios, 
>>>> even though the flash descriptor and TXE binary seem to be exactly 
>>>> the same.
>>>>
>>>> The issue I’m running into is that I have no idea if anything is 
>>>> running at all.
>>>> There is no output on the VGA/HDMI ports or uart.
>>>>
>>>> The legacy uart referred to in the source is working correctly with 
>>>> the original intel bios, but does not produce any output with the 
>>>> coreboot image.
>>>> I have tried the most common baud rates (115200, 19200, 9600 ) and 
>>>> did some measurements with a scope in case I got the baud rate 
>>>> wrong, but no cigar.
>>>> The uart I’m using is the PCU uart, as opposed to hsuart1/2 and the 
>>>> superIO uart. This matches with the configuration in coreboot when 
>>>> compared to the datasheet, so I’m assuming I got this set up correctly.
>>>> Unfortunately, this is about all the information I have, so I hope 
>>>> I am missing something obvious when building the image / flashing 
>>>> it, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I have also used intel’s flash image tool (fitc) to build a 
>>>> complete image, thinking that maybe the flash descriptor needed to 
>>>> contain some specific information regarding the coreboot image 
>>>> (size/checksums), but given the original instructions I wasn’t 
>>>> surprised this didn’t work.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>>
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