Haven't the faintest idea, Naveed - have never tried running with the cache disabled. Only thing I can tell you is that if the cache is enabled, but not working for some reason, I didn't get such a beep.
I'm hoping one of the proper guys will have an idea about this. Cheers, John. On 02/03/17 07:34, Naveed Ghori wrote: > It was the MRC cache. :) > One issue however with disabling the cache is that we get a long 20-30s beep > (annoyingly loud :)) on shutdown. Any idea why as it doesn't seem to do this > with the MRC cache turned off. > > I might start a new thread for this depending on response. > Cheers, > And again Thanks for the help in this regard. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Naveed Ghori > Sent: Tuesday, 28 February 2017 9:59 AM > To: coreboot@coreboot.org > Subject: Re: [coreboot] SPI Flash Writeprotect > > > Thanks all for your suggestions. I do have fast boot enabled (and probably > MRC cache too). I will try to disable that. > > Main issue was that we have had a unit not boot up at all and a unit not boot > up properly (as in Windows logo would fade in and out but stay in that state > without progressing). > > Both issues were fixed by writing the same bios (using a programmer or if the > system would boot) or flashrom. This write should however remove anything > written by the system on first boot. This makes me think that the cache or > whatever else is writing to the flash chip is causing the system to fail. > > I will test and update once I know if it was the MRC writing to the flash. > Regards, > Naveed -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
