[coreboot] Coreboot+SeaBios Boot speed: ~12sec till Grub Boot Screen

[One7two99]

Hello Martin,

>> You don"t have serial console enabled, so that"s not the issue.
>> I would recommend going into the console menu and enabling "Send
>> console output to a CBMEM buffer".
>> Once you boot to an OS, you"ll be able to see that with cbmem, which
>> needs to be run as root.

Ok thank you for the idea, as I am running Qubes OS on my X230, I must install coreboot in dom0 (the core vm, where no other software should be running/installed).
I think I'll try to use cbmem from an ubuntu which runs on a USB-drive, so that I don't have to touch my Qubes Installation.

>> Everything looks ok in the config to me, so I"m not positive what
>> the issue is. We"d need to get a bit deeper into things to figure it out.

As mentioned my current configuration is far from beeing perfect, as my secondary payloads are shown in the coreboot (escape-key) menu but if I select them, they don't seem to work (blank screen).

I think that I've made something wrong splitting the compiled Coreboot.rom on my two Chips (4MB + 12MB) or that I am missing some other configuration steps after I've changed my CBFS from 0x10000 to 0x40000.
If you/someone can provide any guidance here, this would be great.

Before I try to reduce the bootup time I'd like to get a fully working coreboot including secondary payloads (mainly to use the "View Timestamps" feature).

kind regards

[799]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:30 PM, One7two99 via coreboot
<coreboot at coreboot.org> wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot+SeaBios Boot speed: ~12sec till Grub Boot
> Screen
> Local Time: 25 September 2017 3:53 AM
> From: gaumless at gmail.com
>
> Is serial console enabled? If so, disabling that will speed things up
> immensely.
>
>
> To which position in the menuconfig tree are you referencing?
> Have disabled all entries under "Console" in menuconfig but still get the
> boot delay.
> I"ve thecoreboot .config in case that this is helpfull, see attached file.
>
>
> Can you post a miniconfig? Run "make savedefconfig" and post the file
> "defconfig"?
>
>
> Sure, at your service:
>
> $ make savedefconfig && cat defconfig
> CONFIG_USE_OPTION_TABLE=y
> CONFIG_COLLECT_TIMESTAMPS=y
> CONFIG_VENDOR_LENOVO=y
> CONFIG_CBFS_SIZE=0x400000
> CONFIG_VGA_BIOS=y
> CONFIG_VGA_BIOS_FILE="~/my-coreboot/MyROMs/original/vga.rom"
> # CONFIG_POST_IO is not set
> # CONFIG_POST_DEVICE is not set
> CONFIG_BOARD_LENOVO_X230=y
> CONFIG_DRIVERS_PS2_KEYBOARD=y
> # CONFIG_CONSOLE_CBMEM is not set
> CONFIG_CPU_MICROCODE_CBFS_NONE=y
> CONFIG_SEABIOS_PS2_TIMEOUT=10
> # CONFIG_DRIVERS_INTEL_WIFI is not set
> CONFIG_LPC_TPM=y
> # CONFIG_SQUELCH_EARLY_SMP is not set
> CONFIG_SEABIOS_MASTER=y
> CONFIG_SEABIOS_THREAD_OPTIONROMS=y
> CONFIG_COREINFO_SECONDARY_PAYLOAD=y
>
> Can you post timestamp information so we can see what"s using all the time?
>
>
> Unfortunately not as I haven"t been able to create a 2nd payload in order to
> read the timstamps from coreinfo.
> Coreinfo is shown in the boot menu when hitting ESC, but after launching,
> the screen goes blank and nothing happens.
> Maybe this is related to the fact, that I flashed only 4 MB of the Chip(s)
> and as such some part of the code is missing (whoch would be in the 8 MB
> part of the rom-file)?
>
> [799]
>
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