Re: [coreboot] Microcode problem with Braswell CPU

2016-05-01 Thread Alexander Böcken
Hello Zoran, I really appreciate your help. I was able to resolve the problem on late Friday. I cannot exactly tell what the reason was, however, I set up a fresh install of coreboot, just using my old .config and microcode. Then I saw that the board gets past the microcode update. I must have

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
> > Okay. I was just aware of the generic "processor.max_cstate=2" > > parameter. I tried with both parameters using the vendor BIOS and > > here are the results: > > Can you do a test run with closed devices? This would ensure, you're > not measurring a brightness difference. Okay, you mean with

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Alexander Couzens
On Mon, 2 May 2016 01:06:10 +0200 Daniel Kulesz wrote: > Okay. I was just aware of the generic "processor.max_cstate=2" > parameter. I tried with both parameters using the vendor BIOS and > here are the results: Can you do a test run with closed devices? This would ensure, you're not measurring

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
> > - disabling "cpu power management" makes the idle consumption raise to 12,8W > Is this 12.8W compared to 7.5W (i.e. with lowest backlight)? > Nope, I am only comparing with highest backlight now, so it is 12.8W versus 10.0W here. > > - disabling "PCI Bus power management" and "PCI express p

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Nico Huber
On 01.05.2016 21:40, Daniel Kulesz wrote: > Hi again, > > I did some more experiments with the vendor BIOS and made the following > observations: > > - disabling "cpu power management" makes the idle consumption raise to 12,8W Is this 12.8W compared to 7.5W (i.e. with lowest backlight)? > - disa

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Nico Huber
On 01.05.2016 15:30, Daniel Kulesz wrote: > Hi Nico, > >> On 01.05.2016 12:26, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: >>> Coreboot with idle=poll: 15,8W >>> Coreboot running "stress": 37,2W >> well, this is what I would expect from the specs. >> >>> Vendor BIOS with idle=poll: 15W >>> Vendor BIOS with

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
Hi again, I did some more experiments with the vendor BIOS and made the following observations: - disabling "cpu power management" makes the idle consumption raise to 12,8W - disabling "PCI Bus power management" and "PCI express power management" makes the idle consumption raise to 13,3W - disa

Re: [coreboot] coreboot 4.4 release coming soon

2016-05-01 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Le vendredi 22 avril 2016 à 15:36 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : > With those patches applied, the display is mangled on depthcharge as seen > on: http://download.paulk.fr/coreboot/nyan_big/nyan_big-display.jpg This was reported as https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/50 and fixed by https:// re

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
Hi Nico, > On 01.05.2016 12:26, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > > Coreboot with idle=poll: 15,8W > > Coreboot running "stress": 37,2W > well, this is what I would expect from the specs. > > > Vendor BIOS with idle=poll: 15W > > Vendor BIOS with intel_pstate=disabled: 10W > > Vendor BIOS runni

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
Hi all, thank you again for the suggestions! First thing: VGABIOS. I was able to extract the blob (the hint in the wiki is a bit hidden and the introduction of the section is a bit misleading btw) and re-ran the measurements using the proprietary VGA BIOS: Idle: 13,4W Stress: 37,2W So they va

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Daniel, On 01.05.2016 12:26, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > Coreboot with idle=poll: 15,8W > Coreboot running "stress": 37,2W well, this is what I would expect from the specs. > Vendor BIOS with idle=poll: 15W > Vendor BIOS with intel_pstate=disabled: 10W > Vendor BIOS running "stress": 2

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Daniel, first thing: We never got to the deepest processor sleep states (C3, C4) when we originally ported coreboot for the GM45 chipset. But we didn't see a difference in power consumption back then on the Roda/RK9. On 01.05.2016 00:55, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > No tweaking with pow

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X200 running Coreboot drains 3-4W more power than with Vendor BIOS

2016-05-01 Thread Daniel Kulesz via coreboot
Hi Andrey and lynxis, thank you for the quick reply and your suggestions. I followed Andrey's advice and here are the results (only with full screen brightness): Coreboot with idle=poll: 15,8W Coreboot running "stress": 37,2W Vendor BIOS with idle=poll: 15W Vendor BIOS with intel_pstate=disable