Re: [coreboot] BBC EFI story

2010-10-02 Thread ali hagigat
Dear Ron Minnich, I started with Wiki pages of Coreboot and i found Kontron, 986LCD-mITX as a supported mother board. I though its documentation is open because Coreboot is open source and ordered 4 motherboards, over 11000$. After investigating more about Intel manuals I found out that many

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread coreboot
#163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB -+-- Reporter: oxygene | Owner: ste...@… Type: defect| Status: closed Priority:

Re: [coreboot] BBC EFI story

2010-10-02 Thread Corey Osgood
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:49 AM, ali hagigat hagigat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Ron Minnich, I started with Wiki pages of Coreboot and i found Kontron, 986LCD-mITX as a supported mother board. I though its documentation is open because Coreboot is open source Don't blame coreboot for your own

[coreboot] [PATCH] Add CPP logic to VIA CAR init code.

2010-10-02 Thread Warren Turkal
VIA/AMD experts, This patch get's the via/vt8454c back to building. However, I am not sure if the code that is being #ifdef'ed out will actually ever be used on a via platform. The code comes straight from the amd CAR implementation. A couple of questions are raised by this: 1) Should we just

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5897 - trunk/src/cpu/via/car

2010-10-02 Thread Warren Turkal
Stefan, Is there a technical reason to split the logical or considering that the values constants that are known at compile time? It seems like the additional orl could be avoided by how the code was before? BTW, I am asking to learn, not because I think it's wrong. Thanks, wt On Fri, Oct 1,

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5897 - trunk/src/cpu/via/car

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick Georgi
Am 02.10.2010 11:33, schrieb Warren Turkal: Stefan, Is there a technical reason to split the logical or considering that the values constants that are known at compile time? It seems like the additional orl could be avoided by how the code was before? BTW, I am asking to learn, not

[coreboot] [commit] r5904 - trunk/src/northbridge/amd/amdk8

2010-10-02 Thread repository service
Author: uwe Date: Sat Oct 2 14:51:38 2010 New Revision: 5904 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/5904 Log: Fix spelling/typos in comments. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net Acked-by: Uwe Hermann u...@hermann-uwe.de Modified:

Re: [coreboot] [patch] spelling fixes for comments in src/northbridge/amd/amdk8/misc_control.c

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:26:29PM +, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: Fix spelling/typos in comments. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net Thanks, r5904. Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.org http://randomprojects.org |

[coreboot] Trac spam

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! This is getting monotonous. It seems every time a trac entry is updated, it aquires some blockhead's random example of junk. In this case its #163. Now I realize that everyone does know about them, but I am simply bringing it up so that we can get the matter resolved. - Gregg C Levine

Re: [coreboot] Trac spam

2010-10-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 10/2/10 4:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: This is getting monotonous. It seems every time a trac entry is updated, it aquires some blockhead's random example of junk. In this case its #163. Now I realize that everyone does know about them, but I am simply bringing it up so that we can get the

Re: [coreboot] BBC EFI story

2010-10-02 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:19 AM, ali hagigat hagigat...@gmail.com wrote: Stefan, you are working for a big company and you wrote for me that we could get that privileged license for documentation hardly after one year!! Stefan's company is hardly a big company. Many may make this mistake

[coreboot] RFC: Typed -- was Re: [PATCH] Drop unneeded header from i82371eb_enable_rom.c

2010-10-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 10/2/10 2:43 PM, Uwe Hermann wrote: Hm, not sure about this one. The file _does_ use stuff from stdint.h What's the general feeling about types... Should we get rid of the stdint.h usage and go for u8/u16/u32/s8/s16/s32 completely? Stefan -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] [PATCH] AMD SB600 uses a hardcoded USB Debug Port number

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Hermann
See patch. Will post a patch for changing the port on SB700 soon, on that southbridge it is indeed possible according to the datasheet. Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://sigrok.org http://randomprojects.org | http://unmaintained-free-software.org AMD SB600 uses a hardcoded USB Debug

Re: [coreboot] RFC: Typed -- was Re: [PATCH] Drop unneeded header from i82371eb_enable_rom.c

2010-10-02 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coresystems.de wrote:  On 10/2/10 2:43 PM, Uwe Hermann wrote: Hm, not sure about this one. The file _does_ use stuff from stdint.h What's the general feeling about types... Should we get rid of the stdint.h usage and go for

Re: [coreboot] Trac spam

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Stefan Reinauer wrote: I am simply bringing it up so that we can get the matter resolved. Gregg, it is not really so easy to resolve. We do want the bug tracker to be easy to add information to. Yes, it sucks! So far I don't think it's too bad, but there will be more of course. The

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Allow selecting the physical USB Debug Port on AMD SB700

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Uwe Hermann wrote: Allow selecting the physical USB Debug Port on AMD SB700. The AMD SB700 allows changing the physical USB port to be used as USB Debug Port, implement support for this. Also, fix incorrect PCI device of the SB700 EHCI device. Actually, the SB700 has _two_ EHCI devices

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Factor out common CAR asm snippets

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: I find the non-abstracted version much easier to understand. FWIW I think write-once makes it even nicer to have high-level operations in source code. Since it will change less often (ie. be less well known) it's a good thing to not need to see every detail the next time it is

Re: [coreboot] BBC EFI story

2010-10-02 Thread David Hendricks
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:19 AM, ali hagigat hagigat...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that this can be frustrating, but it's something that the coreboot project has no control over. NDA stands for Non-Disclosure Agreement, which means that At least you could add some lines about NDA story and

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Factor out common CAR asm snippets

2010-10-02 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:42:51PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Warren Turkal w...@penguintechs.org wrote: I think that making arguments against this code on grounds that it doesn't feel like other common code is a little shortsighted. When bugs are fixed in

Re: [coreboot] Trac hosting

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Warren Turkal wrote: why don't we use something like sourceforge Read their EULA carefully. They're a US company and it is full of things I for one don't like so much. It's my experience that while there is a bit of overhead to self-hosting, it's really valuable for at least someone in the

[coreboot] [commit] r5906 - trunk/src/console

2010-10-02 Thread repository service
Author: uwe Date: Sat Oct 2 22:33:56 2010 New Revision: 5906 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/5906 Log: AMD SB600 uses a hardcoded USB Debug Port number. It cannot be changed via software according to the datasheet, whereas this is indeed possible on AMD SB700. I tested

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread coreboot
#163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB -+-- Reporter: oxygene | Owner: ste...@… Type: defect| Status: closed Priority:

[coreboot] [commit] r5907 - in trunk/src: mainboard/amd/mahogany mainboard/amd/mahogany_fam10 mainboard/amd/tilapia_fam10 mainboard/asrock/939a785gmh mainboard/asus/m4a785-m mainboard/gigabyte/ma785gm

2010-10-02 Thread repository service
Author: uwe Date: Sat Oct 2 22:36:26 2010 New Revision: 5907 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/5907 Log: Allow selecting the physical USB Debug Port on AMD SB700. The AMD SB700 allows changing the physical USB port to be used as USB Debug Port, implement support for

[coreboot] [commit] r5908 - in trunk/src/cpu: amd/car intel/car intel/model_106cx intel/model_6ex intel/model_6fx via/car

2010-10-02 Thread repository service
Author: uwe Date: Sat Oct 2 22:51:29 2010 New Revision: 5908 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/5908 Log: Add comments to make it clear why these two lines are written like that: movl$REAL_XIP_ROM_BASE, %eax orl $MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK, %eax Signed-off-by: Uwe

Re: [coreboot] Trac spam

2010-10-02 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 02.10.2010 21:25, Warren Turkal wrote: I know I am probably going to take crap over this suggestion, but why don't we use something like sourceforge for the ticketing system. It seems like there is a lot of distraction in maintaining the project infrastructure like bug tracker, wiki, etc.

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread coreboot
#163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB -+-- Reporter: oxygene | Owner: ste...@… Type: defect| Status: closed Priority:

[coreboot] coreboot certified hardware

2010-10-02 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, I wonder if we want to establish something like the Designed for Windows XP or Yes it runs with Netware certificates? It would certainly be a nice marketing aid for vendors, and at the same time it would promote coreboot visibility. If there is interest in such an idea, we will have to

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Factor out common CAR asm snippets

2010-10-02 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:21:38PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Yes, it scares me too (well, sort of :) It's one of the most complex and non-obvious pieces of code we have in coreboot. Which makes it even more important to make this code as clean and easily readable and understandable as we can.

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread Russell Whitaker
Could you make closed tickets read only? Then if a spammer happens to pick a closed ticket and he doesn't know why his spam didn't take, he might think it's a moderated list and just go away. Russ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Russell Whitaker r...@ashlandhome.net wrote: Could you make closed tickets read only? Then if a spammer happens to pick a closed ticket and he doesn't know why his spam didn't take, he might think it's a moderated list and just go away.  Russ -- coreboot

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread Corey Osgood
I was thinking of just filtering them by if the email is a member of the mailing list, and instead of returning an error when the email isn't a list member (which might pique the spammer's curiousity), just drop it silently. -Corey On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Gregg Levine

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Factor out common CAR asm snippets

2010-10-02 Thread Warren Turkal
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: I think the three lines of assembler is easier to understand than enable_l2_cache.  Assembler isn't C - the macros defined aren't free abstractions.  (In particular, it's not clear they clobber %eax.) I definitely agree

Re: [coreboot] coreboot certified hardware

2010-10-02 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 03.10.2010 01:28, Warren Turkal wrote: I think that a base coreboot certification should basically state that all the hardware on the board is usable with a major free OS (e.g. Linux-based OSes like Debian, Ubuntu, and Redhat maybe). We could maybe have extended certifications for things

Re: [coreboot] #163: Board still requires RAMBASE 1MB

2010-10-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 10/3/10 1:29 AM, Corey Osgood wrote: I was thinking of just filtering them by if the email is a member of the mailing list, and instead of returning an error when the email isn't a list member (which might pique the spammer's curiousity), just drop it silently. -Corey If someone wants to

[coreboot] Fwd: [nylug-talk] Trac questions

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Folks, this is from a member of the LUG here in NYC. He addresses the methods that are confusing me, to prevent those spurious tickets from surfacing. Naturally it is forwarded below my comments. Ron that's the group that I was interested in having yourself, or one of the members of the

Re: [coreboot] Intel datasheets require NDAs

2010-10-02 Thread ali hagigat
I am afraid those unmentioned registers have a significant effect in understanding the function and logic of the internal parts of the IC and the standards used. First, one must study to know what is going on, how can i work without having enough information?! I am not going to keep on complaining

Re: [coreboot] Intel datasheets require NDAs

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Stuge
ali hagigat wrote: I am afraid those unmentioned registers have a significant effect in understanding the function and logic of the internal parts of the IC and the standards used. What function, logic and standards is it you want to understand better? We may be able to recommend some reading

Re: [coreboot] Intel datasheets require NDAs

2010-10-02 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: ali hagigat wrote: I am afraid those unmentioned registers have a significant effect in understanding the function and logic of the internal parts of the IC and the standards used. What function, logic and standards is it you