[coreboot] Re: Apollolake: SATA issues

2019-10-07 Thread ron minnich
one thought just occured to me that might be useful. We have a utility, called utk, that lets you script edits to UEFI firmware volumes. I use it all the time to slice and dice and strip these firmware volumes down. There are hundreds (500+) DXE in these UEFI volumes that are not needed. I've

[coreboot] Re: G505S (coreboot AMD no-PSP laptop) being sold for a good price, 40 mins left

2019-10-07 Thread Matt B
Neat. I've seen a few of these pop up every couple of months. A lot of them seems to be sold from the UK, dunno why. -Matt On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:18 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Mike found a good condition G505S with top A10-5750M CPU preinstalled, > being sold for a good price: > > >

[coreboot] Re: Basic hardware documentation

2019-10-07 Thread Rafael Machado
Hi Christoph I consider this a really good idea. It would help the beginners to understanding a lot of things. Rafael Em seg, 7 de out de 2019 às 06:53, Christoph Pomaska via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org> escreveu: > Hi, > > I had the idea of contributing basic information about hardware >

[coreboot] Re: Mainboard porting assistance

2019-10-07 Thread Benjamin Doron
I've had no luck with libgfxinit, but a customised version of Kabylake's VBT (using Intel BMP to modify it to be more like the vendor's configuration) in place of the outdated vendor one got the backlight working. I guess I can now either try the stock Kabylake VBT or review the

[coreboot] Re: Apollolake: SATA issues

2019-10-07 Thread werner....@siemens.com
Hi Christian. In APL there are special tuning registers for the SATA lanes which may need an adjust. The fact that stock UEFI runs without issues may be explained that UEFI touches this registers. Do you have access to related intel docs? Otherwise have a look at

[coreboot] Basic hardware documentation

2019-10-07 Thread Christoph Pomaska via coreboot
Hi, I had the idea of contributing basic information about hardware components to the coreboot documentation in the style of "What is Super I/O?" and similar. What do other people think of that? Best regards Christoph Pomaska hosting.de GmbH Franzstr. 51 52064 Aachen Telefon: 0241 46314 480