[coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization
awokd
awokd at elude.in
Tue Nov 28 13:48:58 CET 2017
Have been struggling for the past couple months to get Xen hardware
virtualization working on this Corebooted laptop. Paravirtualized VMs
work, but whenever I start a fully virtualized VM (HVM) it hard freezes
the entire system- no keyboard or mouse response. No related output is
showing in any logs, maybe because it's freezing too fast.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a Coreboot or Xen issue so I'm trying to
rule out Coreboot. Would anyone on the list be able to provide a known
good G505s Coreboot .config that is working with fully hardware
virtualized VMs, preferably under Xen 4.8.2 or another recent version? KVM
or ESXi might be OK too; should also let me narrow down the problem
domain.
One odd thing found from boot logs is:
[ 6.744165] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x00000000
[ 6.744205] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x00000000
[ 6.744220] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x00000000
[ 6.744227] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x00000000
[ 6.744290] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01
and the cpu_microcode_blob is 0 bytes even though I set the menuconfig
options:
CONFIG_USE_BLOBS=y
CONFIG_CPU_MICROCODE_CBFS_GENERATE=y
Name Offset Type Size Comp
cbfs master header 0x0 cbfs header 32 none
cpu_microcode_blob.bin 0x80 microcode 0 none
fallback/ramstage 0x100 stage 129898 none
payload_revision 0x1fcc0 raw 239 none
(empty) 0x1fe00 null 152 none
apu/amdfw 0x1fec0 raw 131072 none
fallback/romstage 0x3ff00 stage 320844 none
config 0x8e4c0 raw 528 none
revision 0x8e740 raw 568 none
cmos_layout.bin 0x8e9c0 cmos_layout 1164 none
pci1002,990b.rom 0x8eec0 optionrom 61952 none
fallback/postcar 0x9e140 stage 13268 none
fallback/dsdt.aml 0xa1580 raw 9435 none
img/coreinfo 0xa3ac0 payload 102264 none
img/nvramcui 0xbca80 payload 141596 none
fallback/payload 0xdf400 payload 63860 none
payload_config 0xeedc0 raw 1563 none
img/memtest 0xef440 payload 180268 none
(empty) 0x11b4c0 null 2968024 none
s3nv 0x3efec0 raw 32768 none
(empty) 0x3f7f00 null 31192 none
bootblock 0x3ff900 bootblock 1424 none
Is that normal for an A10-5750M APU? This is the first machine I've
attempted to Coreboot so maybe I'm missing something obvious.
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