[coreboot] Burn 2MB coreboot.rom on 8MB flash chip
Mariusz Szafrański
mariusz.szafranski at akumat.pl
Wed Oct 3 11:46:27 CEST 2018
Hi Jose,
In your case set:
ROM chip size = 8MB (your case)
CBFS_SIZE <= 5MB (your specific case)
This will build 8M file. After that just cut last 5M of this 8M file
(using any hexeditor) or use something like below from command line:
dd if=coreboot.rom of=corebootout.rom bs=1M skip=3
(before doing that double check if original vendor`s rom file size is
5242880 bytes long)
Mariusz
W dniu 03.10.2018 o 08:53, Jose Trujillo via coreboot pisze:
> You can do that but I have never done this way and I cannot help you
> with that.
>
> Someone else can advise on this?
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 9:39 PM, Zvi Vered <veredz72 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jose, All,
>>
>> Highly appreciate your answers.
>> It seems the vital information in your replies are not documented.
>>
>> The original vendor's rom file size is 5MB.
>> Do you think I can create a 5MB coreboot.rom ?
>>
>> It seems that AfuEfix64.efi supplied by vendor is looking for 5MB rom
>> file like the original one. For any other file size, AfuEfix64 fails.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Zvika
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:08 PM Jose Trujillo <ce.autom at protonmail.com
>> <mailto:ce.autom at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Zvika:
>>
>> There are 2 ways to build coreboot: (choose one)....
>> 1.- Including IFD, TXE, GBE etc.... inside coreboot CBFS.
>> 2.- Using the original firmware(FW) with IFD, TXE, GBE already in
>> flash and just rewrite coreboot on top of the BIOS block.
>>
>> Your original computer Firmware = Intel FW + "BIOS"
>>
>> Intel FW = IFD +PD+ME/TXE+GBE
>> BIOS=AMI-Phoenix etc...
>>
>> IFD=Intel Firmware Descriptor Table.
>> PD=Parameters
>> ME=Management Engine (For "Core" kind of processors).
>> TXE=Trusted Execution Engine (For "Atom" kind of processors).
>> GBE=Network card firmware.
>>
>> Zvika said:
>> "After creating coreboot.rom should I always use the original
>> BIOS with ifdtool to convert rom to bin ?"
>> Answer:
>> No, there are other methods and tools that can do the merge....
>> (ifdtool and Intel's FIT are working fine for me)
>>
>> After the creation of the coreboot build you have 2 ways of doing
>> the flashing for your case: (with fpt).
>> 1.- Flash the full 8MB (Intel FW+coreboot) if the SPI flash is
>> blank or have unknown firmware.
>> Use IFDTool in this case to inject coreboot to Intel FW.....
>> then flash it with fpt .
>> 2.- Flash only the BIOS block (5MB your specific case) in this
>> case ask someone else how to do it with fpt....
>>
>> I hope this answered your questions.
>> Jose..
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 12:24 AM, Zvi Vered
>> <veredz72 at gmail.com <mailto:veredz72 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jose,
>>>
>>> You wrote:
>>> "My recommended approach is using the original Intel FW with
>>> already included the FD, TXE".
>>>
>>> What is "original intel FW" ?
>>> What is FD, TXE ?
>>>
>>> After creating coreboot.rom should I always use the original
>>> BIOS with ifdtool to convert rom to bin ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Zvika
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:27 PM Jose Trujillo
>>> <ce.autom at protonmail.com <mailto:ce.autom at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You are right Nico,
>>>
>>> I just forgot the troubles this caused me.
>>> I am sorry Vika... My mistake.
>>>
>>> I can confirm with Nico:
>>> ROM chip size = 8MB (your case)
>>> CBFS_SIZE = 2 to 5MB (your specific case)
>>>
>>> My recommended approach is using the original Intel FW with
>>> already included the FD, TXE.
>>>
>>> I never tested adding regions to coreboot but you can try.
>>>
>>> To have better chances of success you should be dumping
>>> hardware settings booting with your original "BIOS" (look
>>> for the attached file).
>>>
>>> Check if the system is "Memory down"or/and ECC because it
>>> will be needed to edit FSP (if using it).
>>> Dump memory settings with the following commands:
>>>
>>> sudo dnf install i2c-tools-perl
>>> sudo modprobe eeprom
>>> decode-dimms
>>>
>>> If you have not done this already there is still a long way
>>> to go.
>>> Don't get intimidated, just do it, if you have questions
>>> just ask.... I will try to help
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>> Jose.
>>>
>>>
>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>> On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 6:28 PM, Nico Huber
>>> <nico.h at gmx.de <mailto:nico.h at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > On 9/26/18 9:19 AM, Jose Trujillo via coreboot wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > No, don't change it, you change the size of coreboot
>>> only if during the
>>> > > building process "make" complain that there is not
>>> enough space but in
>>> > > your case your build was already successful leave it
>>> like that.
>>> >
>>> > this advice seems very weird to me. I'm not experienced
>>> with Bay Trail.
>>> > But unless there is a bug in the Bay Trail code, you
>>> should always set
>>> > the correct ROM_SIZE (to the full flash chip size).
>>> Otherwise you may
>>> > introduce bugs in code that relies on this setting (e.g.
>>> saving the
>>> > MRC cache might fail and so would S3 resume).
>>> >
>>> > CBFS_SIZE however is the setting to adjust according to
>>> your needs. It
>>> > should be at most the size of the BIOS region.
>>> >
>>> > > In the rare circumstance that more space is required you
>>> can increase
>>> > > coreboot size to 4MB and istill will fit into your
>>> system 5MB of space
>>> > > available.
>>> > > "ifdtool" will inject coreboot in the top of the
>>> BYT_orig.bin and save
>>> > > as BYT_orig.bin.new that you can flash to your system.
>>> >
>>> > I assume this doesn't work oob if you set ROM_SIZE
>>> correctly. But it is
>>> > unnecessary to craft a single file by hand. You can either
>>> only flash
>>> > the BIOS region (recommended) or add the other regions in
>>> coreboot's
>>> > config (HAVE_{IFD,ME,GBE}_BIN).
>>> >
>>> > Nico
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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