Hi Nikolai, On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Nikolai Spassoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to port an Asus A8V-VM board (it has the already supported > VIA K8M890/VT8237A and W83627EHG). > Currently I have a major problem with getting the serial port working > correctly. > > Booting SerialICE (rom for Asus m2v-mx_se, which has totally different > SuperIO, but the same NB/SB) works, the serial console is fully > accessible and qemu can talk to the board. > > With coreboot the board hangs on console_init() right after the serial > port is initialized. > > In the attached romstage.c (http://pastebin.com/AKrr2A7i) I see output > right before the console_init() call. It's also strange that it takes > about 20-30 sec. to print the whole line ( print_info("pre: > console_init()\n"); ). A char. is printed every ~2 sec. > > I also tried using the initialization code from already supported > boards like A8V-E SE, still w/o any luck. > > Porting the already working SerialICE code (see > http://pastebin.com/Y9Gc0U6n) to coreboot results the same slow > printing and hang on the console_init() call. > > Any help would be really helpful and thanks in advance!
The board may use a different clock source/rate for the SIO. You can google for the datasheet to get more information. Marc -- http://se-eng.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
