[coreboot] KGPE-D16 AMD-vi fails because combined sata is enabled

[Thierry Laurion]

Xen error:
(XEN) AMD-Vi: SP5100 erratum 28 detected, disabling IOMMU.
(XEN) If possible, disable SATA Combined mode in BIOS or contact your vendor
for BIOS update.
(XEN) AMD-Vi: Error initialization
(XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled
-but HAP is working,
(XEN) HVM: SVM enabled
(XEN) HVM: Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) detected
(XEN) HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB
Src:https://lists.gt.net/xen/users/371020


AMD's SP5100 chipset can be placed into SATA Combined mode
that may cause prevent dom0 from booting when IOMMU is
enabled and per-device interrupt remapping table is used.
While SP5100 erratum 28 requires BIOSes to disable this mode,
some may still use it.
src: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/2724.html

ENABLE_IDE_COMBINED_MODE available for sp800 but not for sp700, for ewhich
sp5100 is derived from:
https://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_Options


SP5100 Product Errata
46836 Rev. 3.00 June 2012 P.18
Product Errata 28
Incorrect IOMMU Table Accessed in SATA Combined Mode

Description
Systems with SP5100 SATA set to AHCI or IDE combined mode with SATA port 4
or 5 in use will use the SATA source ID for IDE DMA when consulting the
IOMMU tables.

Potential Effect on System
Operating systems where the IDE and SATA tables are separated will
experience I/O page faults.

Several warnings will be issued during kernel initialization, ultimately
leading to the inability to boot the operating system due to the boot disk
not being found.

Suggested Workaround
Disable combined mode by setting a platform BIOS callback option to CIMx
called "SataIdeCombinedMode" to 0.
This change will not have an impact on AHCI/RAID mode, however, in IDE
mode, the total number of available ports is reduced by two.

Fix Planned
No
src:https://support.amd.com/TechDocs/46836.pdf


Coreboot: Release 4.6
Xen: 4.8.x
Xen code responsible for detection:
https://github.com/xenserver/xen-4.3.pg/blob/master/tweak-iommu-errata-policy.patch

Is there something i'm missing? Is it possible to disable combined sata
mode for sb700 from coreboot?

Thanks,
Thierry
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