[coreboot] Fwd: USB to Serial Converters

Tue Aug 21 21:52:11 CEST 2018

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From: zahra rahimkhani <zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] USB to Serial Converters
To: David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com>

Hello David

Thank you very much for your help .

I used version 4.8 but it shows this message on consol  and do not boot usb
flash or sata.

Running option rom at c000:0003
Turning on vga text mode console
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.11.2-0-gf9626cc)
EHCI init on dev 00:1d.0 (regs=0xd061e020)
WARNING - Timeout at i8042_flush:71!
AHCI controller at 00:13.0, iobase 0xd061d000, irq 10
Searching bootorder for: /pci at i0cf8/*@12
Found 0 lpt ports
Found 1 serial ports
Searching bootorder for: /pci at i0cf8/usb at 1d/hub at 1/storage at 1/*@0/*@0,0
Searching bootorder for: /pci at i0cf8/usb at 1d/hub at 1/usb-*@1
USB MSC vendor='UFD 2.0' product='Silicon-Power8G' rev='1100' type=0
removable=1
USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=15730688
Initialized USB HUB (1 ports used)
All threads complete.
Scan for option roms

Press ESC for boot menu.

Searching bootorder for: HALT
drive 0x000f62c0: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=979/255/63 s=15730688
Space available for UMB: cd800-ed800, f5b60-f62c0
Returned 253952 bytes of ZoneHigh
e820 map has 18 items:
  0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
  1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
  2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
  3: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 = 1 RAM
  4: 0000000020000000 - 0000000020100000 = 2 RESERVED
  5: 0000000020100000 - 000000007ad9c000 = 1 RAM
  6: 000000007ad9c000 - 0000000080000000 = 2 RESERVED
  7: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 = 2 RESERVED
  8: 00000000feb00000 - 00000000fec01000 = 2 RESERVED
  9: 00000000fed01000 - 00000000fed02000 = 2 RESERVED
  10: 00000000fed03000 - 00000000fed04000 = 2 RESERVED
  11: 00000000fed05000 - 00000000fed06000 = 2 RESERVED
  12: 00000000fed08000 - 00000000fed09000 = 2 RESERVED
  13: 00000000fed0c000 - 00000000fed10000 = 2 RESERVED
  14: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed1d000 = 2 RESERVED
  15: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 = 2 RESERVED
  16: 00000000fef00000 - 00000000ff000000 = 2 RESERVED
  17: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 = 2 RESERVED
enter handle_19:
  NULL
Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00

I would be grateful if you guide me .
I should set a special config or no?

Best ,
Zahra

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:35 PM David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Zahra,
> Yes, I used the 6-pin serial port header. Also, make sure the microcode
> header(s) you include correspond to the CPUID of your processor. The E3825
> and E3826 use different microcode headers, so M0130679901.h will not work
> for you.
>
> Please keep the coreboot mailing list CC'd. I haven't done anything with
> Minnowboard in several months and others may be able to help.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:01 PM, zahra rahimkhani <
> zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>> I extract your file and got M0130679901.h as Microcode but my board does
>> not work it did not show anything.
>> I use E3825.
>> In previous notes, you told "My guess is that you don't have
>> CONFIG_ENABLE_BUILTIN_COM1 selected
>> (under "Chipset"), which is an option you have to set in addition to
>> the stuff under "Console."
>> but in your config, you had not enabled this option.
>> Could you help me with this and Did you use   6 pins that are separated
>> on board for console port?
>> I do not know what is my problem .it did not show anything log.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>> Zahra
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:04 AM David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Zahra,
>>> That header may be out of date
>>> (https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-August/084800.html).
>>>
>>> I had to manually download the microcode file corresponding to my
>>> processor SKU from Intel. Use the link I sent you earlier to download
>>> Baytrail_FSP_Gold4.tgz and see if the microcode headers included in
>>> that tarball match your processor. The Atom on my Minnowboard Turbot
>>> has a CPUID of 30679, so I needed to use M0130679901.h.
>>>
>>> (note that the Minnowboard Max uses an Atom E3825, while the Turbot
>>> uses an E3826 dual-core SoC or E3845 quad-core SoC)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:36 AM, zahra rahimkhani
>>> <zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Dear David
>>> >
>>> > for Microcode file I just it from coreboot source from this path
>>> > coreboot/3rdparty/blobs/soc/intel/baytrail/microcode_blob.h
>>> >
>>> > Is that good ?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks ,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 1:18 PM zahra rahimkhani <
>>> zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi David,
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you very much for your guide.
>>> >>
>>> >> I got this comments on my config and changes it based on your config.
>>> >> But I can not see any thing on output.
>>> >> Could you tell me  which Uart pins do you use on Minnowboard max
>>> >>
>>> >> I used it 6 pin that are separately on board .
>>> >>
>>> >> I would be grateful if you guide me .
>>> >> I got my new config here .
>>> >> https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3097
>>> >>
>>> >> Also , Could you tell me what is this parameter
>>> >> CONFIG_UART_FOR_CONSOLE=0
>>> >> and
>>> >> CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART_8250IO
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers!
>>> >> Zahra
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:06 AM David Hendricks
>>> >> <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi Zahra,
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> I got my config file here
>>> >>>> https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3096
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks, that helps a lot!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The last config that I tested is
>>> >>>
>>> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/plain/intel/minnowmax/4.6-1358-g49d117c69f/2017-09-06T06_53_39Z/config.txt
>>> >>>
>>> >>> If you diff my config and yours, it seems you have several options
>>> >>> disabled which I think you should try enabling:
>>> >>> CONFIG_HAVE_IFD_BIN
>>> >>> CONFIG_HAVE_ME_BIN
>>> >>> CONFIG_TTYS0_LCS
>>> >>> CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART_8250IO
>>> >>> CONFIG_IFD_BIN_PATH
>>> >>> CONFIG_ME_BIN_PATH
>>> >>> CONFIG_LOCK_MANAGEMENT_ENGINE
>>> >>> CONFIG_DRIVERS_UART
>>> >>> CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL
>>> >>> CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL_115200
>>> >>>
>>> >>> You can find these by using the search function in `make menuconfig`.
>>> >>> Press '/' and type a Kconfig option.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> I would be grateful if you check my config and tell me what is
>>> ifdtool
>>> >>>> in Coreboot and how
>>> >>>> I  use it.
>>> >>>> and How I find  Intel ME file for my board and GBE for a network on
>>> my
>>> >>>> board.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ifdtool is a tool for viewing and manipulating an Intel Flash
>>> Descriptor
>>> >>> binary. The flash descriptor is a 4KB data structure at the start of
>>> the
>>> >>> ROM's address space (offset 0x000000-0x000fff).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> To build it: `make -C util/ifdtool`
>>> >>> To run it: `util/ifdtool/ifdtool`
>>> >>>
>>> >>> You'll probably want to use the '-x' option to extract the individual
>>> >>> modules from an existing Minnowboard Max firmware image (e.g. the
>>> UEFI image
>>> >>> that comes with the board). That will give you the ME and GBE files.
>>> >>>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>
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