Hi Gergely,
Sorry, I didn´t know the PCI IDs are APU depending. I´m using an Athlon
5350.
Yes, the differences are minor. Only UART used and TTYS0_BASE address.
Thank you for clarifying the memory requirement. I didn´t see it in the
manual :-( .
Maybe you can change the defaults for CONFIG_UART_FOR_CONSOLE=1 and
CONFIG_TTYS0_BASE=0x2f8.
Actually, I only bought this board to have this port tested and working
:-) . But, like you said, it´s the ideal system for a HTPC.
I have a AM1M-A too. I think this board is (almost) identical. "Only" it
has more PCIEs slots (it´s micro-atx)
Thank you for your work and your valuable help.
Best regards,
Eli
On 13/02/2018 6:57, Gergely Kiss wrote:
Hi,
taking a look at the diffs, I can't see any major difference.
CONFIG_USE_BLOBS is y by default so setting it to y is not really
useful. The only notable difference is that you used COM1 for console
output instead of COM2 (which is the port soldered on-board). However,
this does not seem to explain why you got "slow" output on your
console. If the COM port number and the base address is specified
incorrectly then you'd see no output, at all, so I'm unsure what the
real issue was in your case and how you managed to fix it.
As for the PCI IDs of the VGA adapter, it can be different depending
on what APU is installed. My installation uses the one that is set in
Kconfig by default.
The requirement to place the DIMM to slot DIMM_A2 (the slot closest to
the edge of the board) when only one module is present is noted in the
vendor manual on page 1-7.
About changing the defaults in the board's Kconfig, I'm not sure what
you mean, could you please clarify? I think changing the default VGA
PCI ID does not make sense as the VGA controller is integrated to the
APU so each APU model and revision might use different PIDs and I
believe there's no point preferring one ID over the others. The one
that I have included is for reference only which might need to be
changed to match the APU installed (my installation uses a Sempron
3850 APU).
Anyway, I'm happy to see that you could finally make coreboot work on
your board, it's good to known I'm not the only user of my port! :)
Regards,
Gergely
On 11 February 2018 at 12:26, Elisenda Cuadros <li...@e4l.es
<mailto:li...@e4l.es>> wrote:
Hi Gergely,
Thank you for your config. Now I have coreboot + SeaBIOS perfectly
working.
Console speed is now "normal" :-)
These are the changes between the two configs:
-------------
diff config_original.txt config_Gergely.txt
23c23
< # CONFIG_USE_BLOBS is not set
---
> CONFIG_USE_BLOBS=y
101c101
< CONFIG_UART_FOR_CONSOLE=0
---
> CONFIG_UART_FOR_CONSOLE=1
150c150
< CONFIG_POST_DEVICE=y
---
> # CONFIG_POST_DEVICE is not set
210c210
< CONFIG_TTYS0_BASE=0x3f8
---
> CONFIG_TTYS0_BASE=0x2f8
428,429d427
< # CONFIG_PCI_OPTION_ROM_RUN_REALMODE is not set
< # CONFIG_PCI_OPTION_ROM_RUN_YABEL is not set
431d428
< # CONFIG_VGA_TEXT_FRAMEBUFFER is not set
556c553
< # Serial port base address = 0x3f8
---
> # Serial port base address = 0x2f8
581,583d577
< CONFIG_POST_DEVICE_NONE=y
< # CONFIG_POST_DEVICE_LPC is not set
< # CONFIG_POST_DEVICE_PCI_PCIE is not set
--------------
I made some tweaks to the configuration, added VGA output before
payload, a nice bootsplash, etc..
Other considerations:
VGA Device PCI IDs are 1002,9830 (The default 1002,9836 does not
get output).
Memory has to be located firstly on second slot (yellow DIMM_A2).
If not you get AGESA_FATAL_ERROR. I only have one module.
Please, find attached a working config.txt and console.log.
Coreboot revision is 4.7-294-g2db6fbc47b.
If you verify these changes are working for you is it possible to
change the defaults in Kconfig?
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
-- Eli
On 11/02/18 00:07, Gergely Kiss wrote:
Strange, the log you shared looked less verbose to me than
expected but seems like I was wrong. Anyway, you might find an
example on a full debug log here [1].
I have a small build script I use to build coreboot for my board,
please find it attached.
The version currently running on my box is 4.6-2554-ga1b4c94.
[1] https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/am1i-a#Bootlog
<https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/am1i-a#Bootlog>
On 10 February 2018 at 23:18, Elisenda Cuadros <li...@e4l.es
<mailto:li...@e4l.es>> wrote:
Thank you for your kind reply Gergely.
I think the cable is not the problem, I have been using it
for years and it's intact.
I am using a usb dongle but not a cheap one. Tomorrow I will
try with another cable and a real COM port. Just to be 100% sure.
Console is fast at the very first time (just the "normal")
but after two seconds it becomes extremely slow.
Please, can you say me which is the git revision you are using?
The console log I attached is from a SPEW debug level, not
corresponding with the config.. I tried several configs today
:-) .
Is it possible to share your config with me?
Best regards,
Eli
On 10/02/18 21:44, Gergely Kiss wrote:
Hi Eli,
I've been using Coreboot on my board for several weeks, it
is serving as an HTPC running 24/7 and it's working
perfectly stable which suggests the firmware should be free
of bugs. It is likely that you are facing some configuration
or hardware issue here.
I didn't see any issues with the serial output while working
with the board once the SuperIO chip started to work. Make
sure the cable you use is intact and try to attach it to
another machine. At the time I was working with my board, I
used a Dell Port Replicator with a native COM port so I
could use a standard null-modem cable and it was working
flawlessly. In case you use a USB serial adapter, try
replacing it or attach the serial cable directly to a COM
port if you have one available.
Also, please enable debug_level=Spew as it seems the console
log you attached comes from a less verbose setting and
therefore it's not as useful as it should be.
Note that the VBIOS image is executed by SeaBIOS which means
you won't see anything on your display until the payload is
executed.
If all else fails, you can still attach a POST debug module
to the LPC header of the board [1] which can help a lot to
find out where the boot process hangs.
Feel free to contact me if you need some more help or
information, I'm happy to assist!
Regards,
Gergely
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGqsWx3-1c
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGqsWx3-1c>
On 10 February 2018 at 18:17, Elisenda Cuadros <li...@e4l.es
<mailto:li...@e4l.es>> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to use Coreboot in an Asus AM1I-A board
recently ported by Gergely Kiss (thank you!).
I am using the default config settings and added vga rom
extracted with UEFITool from the vendor bios.
After flashing and booting I get no output from vga.
Serial console is extremely slow too (30 minutes to
write the log)
I attach the coreboot console log, config and cbfs.txt.
Any hints?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
-- Eli
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