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

[Iru Cai]

Hi 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)?
>

It seems that as long as I enable serial console output, system cannot
boot. Besides the SPI thing, I can also get stuck on some place when
booting. Now I post these logs in the attachment. Both logs are logged
when I'm using a 2MB flash chip.

Iru

> 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!
>

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