[coreboot] Lenovo Thinkpad X201: Coreboot incompatible with me_cleaner

Sam Kuper sam.kuper at uclmail.net
Thu Mar 30 17:43:07 CEST 2017


On 27/03/2017, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:19:18 +0000
> Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
>> Nicola Corna pointed out to me that adding a timeout at
>> https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/master/src/northbridge/intel/nehalem/raminit.c#L1756
>> might solve this problem.
>>
>> (I guess the idea is that instead of waiting indefinitely for the ME
>> to load, Coreboot should instead just wait for a defined amount of
>> time and then plough on regardless.)
>>
>> Please can anyone here provide a suitable patch for me to test, or
>> failing that, point me to a similar timeout in another architecture's
>> raminit that I might use as a starting point?
>
> I'll send one. I didn't check for typos or spelling yet in the commit
> message.

Many thanks :)

P.S. For the benefit of future readers, the thread with Denis's new
patch for Nehalem/etc can be viewed here:
https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-March/083798.html



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