[coreboot] Upstream coreboot/SeaBIOS on google/ninja -- no emmc, video

[Matt DeVillier]

just to close the loop on this, the issue was the board's gpio.c not be 
included in the build, due to being conditional on CONFIG_CHROMEOS in 
the board's Makefile.inc - an difference I didn't catch when comparing 
with the existing Baytrail ChromeOS reference board (Rambi).  Just need 
to iron out a few things and will commit the board for review

cheers,
Matt

On 5/14/2016 5:19 PM, Matt DeVillier wrote:
> Greetings all!  Currently I'm working on getting upstream coreboot + 
> SeaBIOS working on a Baytrail-based ChromeOS device (NINJA / AOpen 
> Chromebox commerical).  After resolving some config issues which 
> prevented the board from booting, I'm left with two issues on which 
> I'm stuck:
>
> 1) the internal emmc / sdhci controller fails to initialize, and is 
> unavailable for boot or OS installation
> 2) video output works properly for SeaBIOS and grub/syslinux, but 
> output is disabled once the OS / kernel driver loads
>
> For the emmc, cbmem shows that the sdhci controller is timing out 
> after setting the initial frequency, somewhere after line 410 of 
> seabios/src/hw/sdcard.c.  Since the same exact SeaBIOS payload works 
> properly with the stock ChromeOS firmware (in both the RW_LEGACY and 
> BOOT_STUB slots), I suspect that the issue is with coreboot, but the 
> SoC init is pretty much identical between upstream and NINJA's CrOS 
> branch (save for a few base addresses and offset calculations), so not 
> sure where to start looking. I've also tried putting the sdhci 
> controller back into PCI mode (vs ACPI) which had no effect.
>
> For the video output, the same vgabios file is being used as stock 
> CrOS, and same SeaBIOS payload.  The i915 kernel driver reports that 
> no displays are connected, and there are some errors in the drm module 
> just prior.  I tested with a few different flavors of linux as well as 
> Windows 10, to be certain it wasn't driver-related.
>
> Attached are the cbmem and kernel logs from both working (stock CroS 
> firmware + upstream SeaBIOS/BOOT_STUB) and non-working (upstream 
> coreboot+SeaBIOS) cases.
>
> As the board hasn't been officially upstreamed yet (something I will 
> do once these issues are resolved), source can be found in my github 
> repo here (it's just 3 commits on top of the current master branch): 
> https://github.com/MattDevo/coreboot/tree/ninja_upstream
>
> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here :)
>
> cheers,
> Matt