[SeaBIOS] Issues with ASRock E350M1

[mbuschman at lucidmachines.com]

Hello:

Thanks for the reply. I've spent the last week getting Coreboot under  
my control with help from CareBear.
I'm running a patched Coreboot (latest, as of 6/3/11), and SeaBIOS  
master (as of 6/3/11).

Coreboot is presenting the drives as IDE.

I've attached the logs of a successful and an unsuccessful boot, as  
well as my SeaBIOS configuration - the debug level has been set to 8  
-- debug output from Coreboot has been disabled, as this increases the  
overall boot time substantially.

Thank you!
-Marshall Buschman

Quoting Scott Duplichan <scott at notabs.org>:

> Marshall Buschman wrote:
>
> ]Hello:
> ]
> ]I was instructed to send mail to you by Carebear from #coreboot.
> ]I have some issues to report based on the "Golden Image" I received from
> ]him, which was created for the ASRock E350M1.
> ]
> ]The first is with hard drive detection - there is a reliability problem
> ]here - only once out of every 5 to 12 times the machine posts will it
> ]detect the hard drive successfully.
> ]The hard drive is a Corsair F120 SSD. I do have another, smaller 16GB
> ]Kingston SSD I can test with.
>
> I am not sure if your image is using the AHCI interface or IDE
> interface. It really doesn't matter, there is a problem to debug either
> way. You need to find someone to debug using the Corsair F120 SSD, or
> debug it yourself. Is the problem for powerup only or both powerup
> and cold reset button?
>
> ]The second problem is that on booting, GRUB (I do not have the version
> ]on hand -- whatever gentoo is shipping as stable at this point) behaves
> ]very, very strangely with my USB keyboard.
> ]I should point out that it does not work 100% correctly on another
> ]machine under Fedora's grub, so this may bear further testing with
> ]another keyboard.
>
> I also have USB keyboard problems, but my problem is different. For
> each key I press, it repeats a couple dozen times. I solve the problem
> by adding a 'break' to usb-hid.c:
>
>     for (;;) {
>         struct keyevent data;
>         int ret = usb_poll_intr(pipe, &data);
>         if (ret)
>             break;
>         handle_key(&data);
>         break; <==================
>
> With this change, I am able to type well enough to get windbg started,
> which is all I needed at the time. But typing is very sluggish. I
> believe the sluggishness is due to use of 8254 periodic interrupt
> polling to service the keyboard.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott


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