[coreboot] VGA doesn't work on Mohon Peak

[WANG FEI]

Viktor, I've messed around VGA function on my platform before, I got the
problem to display seabios messages on VGA as well, finally I fed up and
enabled the bootsplash in coreboot instead, as along as the coreboot splash
can be shown on monitor, which proves the VGA function works, it's what I
want, maybe you want more...

Here is my suggestions, 1) Once the VGA option rom integrated in coreboot,
making sure it can be invoked during coreboot booting, you possible have to
change the debug level to 8 to get more coreboot debug message. I remember
it will show a message before/after VGA option rom invoked, searching "VGA"
or other keyword in your coreboot log to make sure it does happen. 2)
Enable boot splash on coreboot, making sure it can be shown up on your
monitor.

I can not help you on seabios VGA function, I never make it work neither.

-Fei

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Kuzmichev Viktor <
kuzmichevviktorv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using coreboot + SeaBIOS on Mohon Peak CRB. And I've tried to make VGA
> work for a while now. I used this article as a guide:
> http://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support
>
> Extracting VGA BIOS from vendor BIOS image did not work:
> $ ./bios_extract EDVLCRB1.86B.0043.R00.1408290947_MPK.bin
> Using file "EDVLCRB1.86B.0043.R00.1408290947_MPK.bin" (8192kB)
> Error: Unable to detect BIOS Image type.
>
> Then, I've downloaded VGA BIOS from here:
> http://www.aspeedtech.com/support.php
> Mohon Peak uses Aspeed VGA controller AST1300.
>
> And also, I've extracted Video ROM from /dev/mem:
> # dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin bs=1k count=32 skip=768
>
> Neither of them worked. Here's what I've tried. I've tried to add them via
> coreboot's menuconfig (' Add VGA BIOS image' option). I've tried to add
> them manually via cbfstool as an optionrom and as a raw file. I've tried to
> put them in CBFS under vgaroms/ directory. Here's my latest ROM-file layout:
> $ ./build/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom print
> coreboot.rom: 8192 kB, bootblocksize 1024, romsize 8388608, offset 0x600000
> alignment: 64 bytes, architecture: x86
>
> Name                           Offset     Type         Size
> cmos_layout.bin                0x600000   cmos_layout  1352
> pci1a03,2000.rom               0x600580   optionrom    32768
> fallback/romstage              0x6085c0   stage        26616
> fallback/ramstage              0x60ee00   stage        59904
> fallback/payload               0x61d840   payload      56100
> config                         0x62b3c0   raw          4532
> revision                       0x62c5c0   raw          708
> pci8086,1f41.rom               0x62c8c0   raw          61952
> vgaroms/pci1a03,2000.rom       0x63bb00   raw          32768
> img/Memtest86+(5.01)           0x643b40   payload      159492
> (empty)                        0x66aa80   null         939288
> mrc.cache                      0x74ffc0   (unknown)    65536
> cpu_microcode_blob.bin         0x760000   microcode    83968
> (empty)                        0x774840   null         46936
> fsp.bin                        0x77ffc0   (unknown)    372736
> (empty)                        0x7db000   null         150424
>
> The entries pci1a03,2000.rom are the VGA ROMs there. I also tried to
> remove either of them. I've tested with coreboot option 'Run VGA Option
> ROMs' checked and unchecked without any difference. In SeaBIOS I set 'VGA
> Hardware Type (coreboot linear framebuffer)' as the other options are None,
> GeodeGX2 and GeodeLX, so coreboot linear framebuffer seemed more logical.
>
> I saw this mailing list:
> http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2015-January/008588.html
> but found no solution there and it seems not to be my case as my board
> does not hang.
>
> I put coreboot and SeaBIOS output in the attachment. Debug levels set to 7
> for both. In coreboot only 'Output verbose CBFS debug messages' checked in
> 'Debugging' submenu.
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong or simply missing?
>
> Viktor
>
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