[coreboot] "FCH SPI: Too much to write" on KGPE-D16

[Iru Cai]

Hello Timothy,

On 2017年01月06日 01:14, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> On 01/05/2017 04:33 AM, Iru Cai wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I've set up a computer with Asus KGPE-D16 recently. I use an Winbond
> > W25Q64.V 8M flash chip and tested with this config with only ROM size
> > changed:
>
> >
> https://review.coreboot.org/gitweb/cgit/board-status.git/tree/asus/kgpe-d16/4.5-759-gab8f7d3/2017-01-04T21_18_55Z/config.short.txt
>
> > And it can boot to my OS on disk. However, after I enabled the serial
> > console, I can only see:
> > "FCH SPI: Too much to write. Does your SPI chip driver use
> > spi_crop_chunk()?"
>
> Do you see any other messages at all from a cold start (i.e. AC power
> removed from the system, then reapplied after 15 seconds while the
> serial console is being logged)?
>

I have other console logs, but not about this SPI issue, I came into
other problems when I try other configurations.

I don't know if it's related to serial console. The config on board
status and the ROMs from libreboot all boots, but they all have no
serial console output.

> I have not personally tested the 8M chips; it could be that there is an
> issue with coreboot's generic driver for those devices.  I know it's not
> a general issue with large Flash chips since the 16M chips work fine.
>
Thanks for the info.
> Thanks!
>
Iru