[coreboot] Memtest86 SPD/DMI popups broken

Ben Gardner gardner.ben at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 21:49:56 CET 2016


Yes, lets revert it.
The popups work again after reverting commit 03e81e1
(https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/13900).

The other one (https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/13901/) doesn't make a
difference on my board.
Probably because I have VGA. I suppose that one can stay.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Martin Roth <gaumless at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you think we should revert those patches until we can get them fixed?
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Gardner <gardner.ben at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FYI -
>>
>> I just tried memtest86 with the popup patches that were added to coreboot.
>> I'm seeing issues with clearing the background before drawing the SPD popup.
>>
>> When I hit "c", the "settings" popup shows on both serial and VGA
>> properly. VGA has a black background and serial clears the area.
>>
>> When I select "display SPD data", it doesn't clear the background
>> before drawing the data and doesn't restore what was under when the
>> popup is lowered.
>>
>> Below is the output from the serial port when displaying the SPD data.
>> View in a fixed width font.
>>
>> -----
>> Memtest86+ 5.01 coreboot 001| Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  E3845  @ 1.91GHz
>> CLK: 1917 MHz  (X64 Mode)   | Pass  0%
>> L1 CSPD Data: Slot 095 MB/s | Test 50% ###################
>> L2 Cache: 1024K  22030 MB/s | Test #2  [Address test, own address Parallel]
>> L3 Cac92:13N0be03 04 19 02 02 03s11n01 0820a 001fe600  1965M of 4013M
>> Memory69:78069M3c 69811M18s81 20t08r3c 3ca01r40s83 05       | Time:   0:00:01
>> ------00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-84-00-00-00-00-00-00-------------------------
>> Core#:00 00M00 00s00l00)00|00C00 00m00 00R0f:01102M00 (DDR3-833) - BCLK:  83
>> State:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00s00C00 9-9-9-10 @ 64-bit Mode
>> Cores:00100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 000        Errors:      0
>> ------00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00-00-------------------------
>>       00 00 00 00 00 80 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c4 b1
>> Memory34P4b 54 46 32 35 36 36 34 48 5a 2d 31 47 36 45
>> ------31-45 31 80 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>>   - Sl00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00600ZffG6E1E
>>   - Sl57 50 4e 3a 33 34 32 35 36 20 52 45 56 3a641ZffG6E1E
>>       32 30 34 38 20 4d 42 59 54 45 ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>       ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>       ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>       ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>
>>
>>
>>                                 Wabtec CPU-1900
>> (ESC)exit  (c)configuration  (SP)scroll_lock  (CR)scroll_unlock
>> -----
>>
>> And what is shown after returning to the settings menu.
>>
>> -----
>> Memtest86+ 5.01 coreboot 001| Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  E3845  @ 1.91GHz
>> CLK: 1917 MHz  (X64 Mode)   | Pass  0%
>> L1 CSPD Data: Slot 195 MB/s | Test 88% ##################################
>> L2 CaNo valid DMI Memory Devices info founding inversions, 1s & 0s Parallel]
>> L3 Cac92:13N0be03 04 19 02 02 03s11n01 0890a 006fe400  2048M of 4013M
>> Memory69:78069M3c 69811M18s81 20t08r3c 3cf01f40f83 05       | Time:   0:05:38
>> ------00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-84-00-00-00-00-00-00-------------------------
>> Core#:00 00M00 00s00l00)00|00C00 00m00 00R0f:01102M00 (DDR3-833) - BCLK:  83
>> State:00 00                                  00s00C00 9-9-9-10 @ 64-bit Mode
>> Cores:00100  Settings:                       00 00 000        Errors:      0
>> ------00-00                                  00-00-00-------------------------
>>       00 00      (1) Test Selection          00 c4 b1
>> Memory34P4b      (2) Address Range           47 36 45
>> ------31-45      (3) Error Report Mode       00 00 00
>>   - Sl00 00      (4) Core Selection          00600ZffG6E1E
>>   - Sl57 50      (5) Refresh Screen          3a641ZffG6E1E
>>       32 30      (6) Display DMI Data        ff ff ff
>>       ff ff      (7) Display SPD Data        ff ff ff
>>       ff ff                                  ff ff ff
>>       ff ff      (0) Continue                ff ff ff
>>
>>
>>
>>                                 Wabtec CPU-1900
>> (ESC)exit  (c)configuration  (SP)scroll_lock  (CR)scroll_unlock
>> -----
>>
>> Not sure what is going on here.
>> I don't have this issue without the popup patches.
>> I'll look into it a bit more.
>>
>> Ben
>>
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