[coreboot] VGA doesn't work on Mohon Peak

[ron minnich]

A good first pass is to enable YABEL instead of native execution and watch
what it does. That's how I've had to debug graphics before.

Also, if you can do a serial console only setup, you can run the VBIOS once
linux is booted and try to debug it that way.

It's very hard to debug a VBIOS issue as you are doing it now, however. It
will take years off of your life :-)

ron

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:07 AM Martin Roth <gaumless at gmail.com> wrote:

> My experience is that the aspeed chip based graphics card that comes with
> Mohon Peak has a bug in the vbios causing it to hang when run.  If you need
> to use this specific card, you'll need to debug it, probably with a jtag
> debugger, going through the assembly, and see what's causing the issue.  My
> initial guess is that they're looking for some value in the bda or ebda
> that isn't present, but I'm not sure what this might be.
>
> Martin
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:30:38PM +0300, Kuzmichev Viktor wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Hi Viktor,
>>
>> It seems you've tried a bunch of different configurations.  However,
>> this is making your trouble report hard to understand as it becomes
>> unclear which config had which results.
>>
>> If you have an external VGA card, then please build coreboot with
>> CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN, CONFIG_ON_DEVICE_ROM_RUN, CONFIG_VGA_BIOS, and
>> CONFIG_PXE_ROM all disabled.  Please use either the SeaBIOS provided
>> by coreboot, or build SeaBIOS with a default config (only
>> CONFIG_COREBOOT and if needed CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL changed from the
>> seabios defaults).  This is described at:
>> http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS
>>
>> In particular, there should be no "pciXXXX,YYYY.rom" or "vgaroms/XXX"
>> files in your cbfs rom.
>>
>> If the above does not work, please use the above config and recompile
>> SeaBIOS at debug level 8, and post the full debug log along with the
>> output of "cbfstool print".
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Kevin
>>
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