[coreboot] Intel me problems

Alejandro Flores af49880 at gmail.com
Tue May 16 19:38:45 CEST 2017


Thanks Nico. I do see 2 me related events.

ME: Power Management Event: Clean Moff > Mx wake
intel_me_path: mbp is not ready!

How would I increase the log level?

On May 16, 2017 9:48 AM, "Nico Huber" <nico.h at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 16.05.2017 16:22, Alejandro Flores wrote:
> > I have a new acer chromebook I have flashed with coreboot + seabios
> > payload. It boots to linux ok, but then powers off suddenly after 30 min
> > regardless of whether I am using it.
> >
> > I disabled hibernation and have been leaving it plugged in, but this
> > changes nothing. I suspect a faulty intel me since there is nothing else
> I
> > can think of. The strange thing is I did not use me cleaner but used the
> > full me extracted from the original bios. Later I downloaded the stock
> > chrombook bios for my model from google and extracted the me module from
> > that.
> >
> > At this point I have built several variations of roms using the me module
> > from the original bios, the google bios, and "cleaned" versions of both
> but
> > always with the same problem of power off after 30 min.
> >
> > I am confused as to what the problem may be. I used the intelmetool
> bundled
> > with coreboot but when I run it with the -s flag it seg faults.
> >
> > In order to extract the me rom I used ifdtool that is included with
> > coreboot.
> > ./ifdtool -x bios.bin
> > The intel me module is found at offset 00001000 - 001fffff and is 2 mb in
> > size. Is that the correct way to do it?
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> The ME state is logged in the coreboot console. You can read it with
> `cbmem -c` (see util/cbmem/ in the coreboot source tree). If you set
> the default log level high enough, you should find some lines starting
> with "ME:".
>
> Hope that helps,
> Nico
>
>
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