[coreboot] VGA doesn't work on Mohon Peak

[Kuzmichev Viktor]

I tried not to include any VBIOS file in coreboot ROM much earlier, in 
my first tests. With 'Run VGA Option ROMs' option checked the board just 
hung.

And as I mentioned in my previous email VGA works fine with vendor's 
BIOS. So the card itself should be fine.

Sadly, I don't have another card to try. Even if I had, I still would 
need to make this one work somehow as Mohon Peak is just a reference 
board and the target board will have a similar VGA controller.

So please, let me know if there are some other things I could try or if 
I am mistaken somewhere.

-Viktor

On 03/19/2015 09:20 PM, Marc Jones wrote:
>
> Hi Viktor,
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM Kuzmichev Viktor 
> <kuzmichevviktorv at gmail.com <mailto: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
>
>
> Since it is an add-in card, you don't need to extract the VBIOS and 
> put it into cbfs. The VBIOS on the card will run during the PCI card 
> enumeration. It seems that there is a problem with that specific 
> aspeed card and/or VBIOS. You may want to try a different card to 
> avoid the issue. Please let us know the results if you debug that card 
> further.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>     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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