Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jonathan Rogers > wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote: >> > >> >> I applied the patch, but unfortunately, it still hangs in the same >> place. >> > Did you check with hexdump to

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jonathan Rogers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote: > > > >> I applied the patch, but unfortunately, it still hangs in the same > place. > > Did you check with hexdump to make sure it was effective? > > I now realize that the hexdump you se

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Jonathan Rogers
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Myles Watson wrote: > >> I applied the patch, but unfortunately, it still hangs in the same place. > Did you check with hexdump to make sure it was effective? I now realize that the hexdump you sent is not the same as the one Rudolph Marek did. Mine matches yours,

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
> I applied the patch, but unfortunately, it still hangs in the same place. Did you check with hexdump to make sure it was effective? Does it hang in the same place with a cold boot, or only on warm reset? > >  hexdump -C build/coreboot.rom | tail > > * > > 0007ff80  aa 00 44 50 c2 0f 97 61  aa

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Jones
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > Hi Ron, > > thanks for your answer. > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:03:14AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: >> > No hint, anyone? >> >> Just about every time I had this problem on my geodes it was

Re: [coreboot] #149: AMD DB800 Hangs at "Decompressing Coreboot to Ram"

2009-12-04 Thread coreboot
#149: AMD DB800 Hangs at "Decompressing Coreboot to Ram" ---+ Reporter: edwin_beas...@… | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > Help me understanding how the DRAM can be programmed correctly. Is it > about timing constraints? it's how you set the timing in the dram controller and how it matches the DRAM, but it's also about the order in which you program things and the

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Mack
Hi Ron, thanks for your answer. On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:03:14AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > > No hint, anyone? > > Just about every time I had this problem on my geodes it was a problem > with dram. Just about every time. It's quite weird

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hi, > > Please can you compare  last 128 bytes of image? I suspect that ROM SIP for > HT bus settings is not right. I mean it is same issue as M2V-MX SE. Thanks. I always forget about that. You can try the attached patch. Make sure to: rm -r

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > No hint, anyone? Just about every time I had this problem on my geodes it was a problem with dram. Just about every time. It's quite weird how well DRAM can work even if it has not been programmed correctly. The correspondance with disable_car(

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > No hint, anyone? Maybe you could zero all the RAM. If you have to power it down for a specific amount of time, that could be the time for the RAM to lose its state. If that works, you could start finding uninitialized variables or a bad pointe

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Mack
No hint, anyone? On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:44:15PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:59:01PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Daniel Mack wrote: > > > the effect is harder to trigger when booting from an external LPC > > > flash emulator (in contrast to coreboot flashed to the i

Re: [coreboot] howto build qemu bios image with VGA console support?

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
> Please give me some directions to enable the VGA outout. The best way is to use Kconfig. 1. make menuconfig 2. Select [*] Use VGA console once initialized in the Console Options menu 3. make clean 4. make Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

2009-12-04 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi, Please can you compare last 128 bytes of image? I suspect that ROM SIP for HT bus settings is not right. I mean it is same issue as M2V-MX SE. It should contain: 0007FF80 AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50 ?.DP?.?a?.DP?.?a?.DP 0007FF94 C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 0

[coreboot] howto build qemu bios image with VGA console support?

2009-12-04 Thread Scott.Hsiao
Dear all, I am trying some features of coreboot. The pre-compiled qemu images with various payload are fine but the one built by myself is not so lucky. Only the serail console is up but no VGA console. Here are the modifications I done: 1) add two lines in the mainboard Options.lb (src/mainboard

Re: [coreboot] #149: AMD DB800 Hangs at "Decompressing Coreboot to Ram"

2009-12-04 Thread coreboot
#149: AMD DB800 Hangs at "Decompressing Coreboot to Ram" ---+ Reporter: edwin_beas...@… | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major