[coreboot] Re: Could not find a bounce buffer... Payload not loaded. Intel 440BX/LX Board

2024-09-12 Thread Branden Waldner
Hi Christian, Both Keith Hei and I [Branden] have 440BX boards that still run up-to-date/recent coreboot (though they do need a bit of work). I also have an Intel 440LX board [Trigem Florida-TG (COGNAC)] that I was intending on trying to get coreboot to run on yet, but I wanted to get it reworked

[coreboot] 440BX meminit changes testing

2023-03-27 Thread Branden Waldner
Hi Keith So far I've only tested the complete patch train (73888) like previously mentioned and didn't have my serial console set up at the time. I dug out the cable from behind my desk and got it run to my work bench again, so that should help out. I'm assuming you would want logs with raminit

[coreboot] Running coreboot on M1 Mac or Arm64 platforms

2022-05-12 Thread Branden Waldner
> Dear coreboot community, > I just started coreboot and getting the hang of it. I am considering getting > a M1 MacBook for my > development work. > May I will will coreboot work well on M1 MacBook? I am doing the coreboot > work for x86 > platforms. > I understand that coreboot is using i386 cr

[coreboot] asus p2b logs - change: cpu/x86/lapic: Move LAPIC configuration to MP init

2022-02-09 Thread Branden Waldner
With https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58387 merged, my p2b board hangs at seabios. I've attached serial logs from a rom of this commit and the previous one. Branden coreboot-4.15-1377-g7261b5ade5 Sat Feb 5 07:56:48 UTC 2022 bootblock starting (log level: 7)... FMAP: Found "FLASH" versio

[coreboot] Re: My Asus P2B-LS is still having fun with coreboot/SeaBIOS/flashrom. Now I have questions.

2021-12-31 Thread Branden Waldner
Hi > I have to calmly tell it "laptop=this is not a laptop" and then it works as > usual. I don't remember > ever having to do this before. Why? If I have a clue I can code up and submit > a patch. If I recall correctly both my p2b and p2-99 boards do that while running vendor firmware, though

[coreboot] Re: i440bx PARALLEL_MP testing WAS: Re: Suggestion for deprecation: LEGACY_SMP_INIT & RESOURCE_ALLOCATOR_V3

2021-11-30 Thread Branden Waldner
uding microcode updates for now. I'm hoping the LTO and romstage sources inside the bootblock will make in it yet, since they both saved s[pace. I only attached a specific portion of the log, since it got rather long with spew set. Branden Waldner Initializing devices... CPU_CLUSTER:

[coreboot] i440bx PARALLEL_MP testing WAS: Re: Suggestion for deprecation: LEGACY_SMP_INIT & RESOURCE_ALLOCATOR_V3

2021-11-30 Thread Branden Waldner
P2B. I'm working on recovering it and I was planning on trying a build with log level spew on the P2-99 since it is easy for me to recover with the way I have it setup right now. Branden Waldner ___ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] Re: Suggestion for deprecation: LEGACY_SMP_INIT & RESOURCE_ALLOCATOR_V3

2021-11-29 Thread Branden Waldner
m in the legacy ASEG (0xa - > 0xb) region. A > POC showed that it's not that hard to do with PARALLEL_MP > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58700 I didn't even know that was a problem until now. I doubt there is much I can do about it myself at this point in time

[coreboot] Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

2021-11-10 Thread Branden Waldner
> /bin/sh: 1: python: not found > make[2]: *** [Makefile:168: out/romlayout16.lds] Error 127 I ran in to this error the other day in a clean build environment and was going to mention it in the thread about python in the build system, but Peter Surge already commented here on it. If you are on Ub

[coreboot] Re: Build error/warning on 32bit host?

2021-11-01 Thread Branden Waldner
A bit of a follow up, I verified it happens in a 32 bit (i686) Debian sid chroot and not in 32 bit Debian Bullseye (actual install on hardware). Should I be properly reporting this on the issue tracker? I don't have an account on the coreboot redmine tracker, though I probably should make one. I c

[coreboot] Build error/warning on 32bit host?

2021-10-23 Thread Branden Waldner
I've been working on testing current coreboot on my asus/p2b and asus/p2-99 for the upcoming release, but ran in to problems trying to build it on my p2b with Gentoo with gcc 11.2.0. It (ironically) did build and work on the p2-99 with Debian Buster (oldstable) with gcc 8.3.0. It also built on my m

[coreboot] Mailing list archive not updating

2021-09-21 Thread Branden Waldner
I was just checking the mailing list archive and noticed that it isn't showing any new messages since September 9. I wasn't able to determine if there was a mailing list admin address to send this to, so I hope just sending it to the list is okay. (I did see this "mail...@coreboot.org alias for ma

[coreboot] Re: link time optimization testing

2021-06-07 Thread Branden Waldner
> Hi Branden, > >VultureProg was mentioned - even a DIY emulator would be fairly >straightforward; that's a nice microcontroller project. > > >That seems a bit overkill, but then again flash chips seem to be more >expensive then microcontrollers these days. I don't think I'm

[coreboot] Re: DiskonChip 2000 testing (& old coreboot_v1/linux_bios)

2021-06-07 Thread Branden Waldner
On 6/7/21, Rao G wrote: > Please look into this document too about Disk On Chip > https://www.coreboot.org/images/9/97/LinuxBIOS.pdf > I'll check it out yet. >> Branden wrote... >> >> In the first place, I think my assumption of it exposing a large rom >> was wrong, it looks like they only

[coreboot] DiskonChip 2000 testing (& old coreboot_v1/linux_bios)

2021-06-06 Thread Branden Waldner
Well, I'm finally getting around to writing this, though I'm still not all that comfortable bringing it up. I purchased a diskonchip 2000 266mb a while ago just to mess around with. It took a long time in shipping though and then it took me a while to actually try to test it out. I had thought I c

[coreboot] Re: link time optimization testing

2021-06-06 Thread Branden Waldner
>> I haven't had much luck in finding options for recovery. Ideally I'd >> like something like the dual switched bios in the old wiki but >> toggle-able electronically ie. gpio pin from spare router w/ Openwrt. > >That's the product BIOS Savior RD1 from Taiwanese IOSS, switched by a >jumper which c

[coreboot] Re: link time optimization testing

2021-06-01 Thread Branden Waldner
On 6/1/21, Angel Pons wrote: > Hi Branden, list, > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:10 AM Branden Waldner wrote: >> >> The LTO patches seem to both compile and work/boot for me on the p2b. >> >> I built it both on a debian sid x86_64 system and on the gentoo i686 >

[coreboot] Re: link time optimization testing

2021-05-31 Thread Branden Waldner
The LTO patches seem to both compile and work/boot for me on the p2b. I built it both on a debian sid x86_64 system and on the gentoo i686 setup I currently have for the p2b, both with the coreboot crossgcc-i386 toolchain. It looks like it uses the system linker though (or something similiar, I d

[coreboot] Re: link time optimization testing - Was: Re: asus/p2b - not enough space in cbfs for default build since i440bx bootblock console enable

2021-05-25 Thread Branden Waldner
On 5/25/21, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear Branden, > > > Am 22.05.21 um 20:03 schrieb Branden Waldner: >> On 5/21/21, Arthur Heymans wrote: > >>> Thanks for sharing your findings. The flash is 256K big, which is quite >>> small these days. >>> When bui

[coreboot] Re: asus/p2b - not enough space in cbfs for default build since i440bx bootblock console enable

2021-05-22 Thread Branden Waldner
y 21, 2021 at 7:08 AM Paul Menzel wrote: > >> Dear Branden, >> >> >> Am 21.05.21 um 05:36 schrieb Branden Waldner: >> > When testing the latest coreboot code before the 4.14 release, I found >> > I couldn't build a working image with the default (or

[coreboot] asus/p2b - not enough space in cbfs for default build since i440bx bootblock console enable

2021-05-20 Thread Branden Waldner
When testing the latest coreboot code before the 4.14 release, I found I couldn't build a working image with the default (or what I usually use) config for the asus/p2b. I figured out that it failed to build with an error of not enough space in cbfs after the merge to enable bootblock console for i

[coreboot] Re: System gcc requirements

2020-11-17 Thread Branden Waldner
Well, this seems to be really going off topic. My only intention was to ask what the required/recommended host(system) compiler was and what documentation there was for that. Branden Waldner wrote: > Is there an expected minimal system gcc version and if so, is it > documented? I couldn&

[coreboot] System gcc requirements

2020-11-09 Thread Branden Waldner
I recently looked in to why I couldn't build coreboot on one of my systems any longer and I think I found the cause. It looks like vboot uses features not available in gcc 6 on Debian Stretch. I actually did manage to get it to build and work by commenting out the offending gcc warning flags and

[coreboot] Re: Any live usb for recovery flash coreboot?

2019-10-31 Thread Branden Waldner
I tested Nico's method for you with a Debian bios install, but it might be different for the Manjaro live usb. To stall grub from booting, you can press the left arrow key repeatedly, assuming that doesn't mess with tianocore loading first. Then you press e to edit the boot parameters. For my debi

[coreboot] Re: Abandoned add asus p2-99 board patches

2019-09-22 Thread Branden Waldner
On 9/21/19, Nico Huber wrote: > > If nobody resurrects these changes, can you please squash the > commits? If you remove the Change-Id from the commit message, > a new should be generated and you could push it to Gerrit as > a new change. > I managed to squash the commits and resubmit the change,

[coreboot] Abandoned add asus p2-99 board patches

2019-09-21 Thread Branden Waldner
I have tested coreboot on both the asus/p2b and asus/p2-99 and it seems to work fine. I had previously commented on the mailing list instead of these patches and then never really followed up on it. I meant to retest and comment on the change sets on gerrit (22977 and 22965) before they got abando

[coreboot] Re: Coreboot support for Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 5.0)

2019-04-30 Thread Branden Waldner
I believe the recommendation is to start with one of the boards closest to what you have (ie. one of the boards with the same northbridge, southbridge, and superio), try to figure out any adjustments you can tell it needs and test and debug. The northbridge is part of the cpu and depends on which

[coreboot] asus p2b and p2-99

2019-04-28 Thread Branden Waldner
I got an actual p2b motherboard a few months ago so that I could actually test it properly and not just claim the p2b build works on the p2-99. It seems to work fine and flashrom works on the p2b (but not the p2-99). I believe there was some discussion and a patch to setup the p2-99 as a variant o

Re: [coreboot] proposal: coreboot docs in separate repo

2018-06-16 Thread Branden Waldner
>> git bundles available over resumable http(s) can help a lot with that, >> but they are almost never provided. >I think this is a fair enough request, and maybe quite straightforward >to arrange. Do you already have some scripts to create a bundle every >now and then, that you could contribute?

Re: [coreboot] proposal: coreboot docs in separate repo

2018-06-15 Thread Branden Waldner
Not everyone has access to decent reliable internet and git is pretty much useless if it gets interrupted. I would prefer to be able to clone the source code[1] without the documentation without having to resort to some weird git commands to get it done. Of course, having git bundles available over

[coreboot] Coreboot with an UEFI payload to boot (Clover) an Thinkpad X230 Hackintosh

2018-01-01 Thread Branden Waldner
Hello, If I'm understanding this correctly, you are unable to get Coreboot/TianoCore to correctly load/boot efi grub2 (on disk). If this isn't working your not even able to get to chainloading Clover. (Unless grub2 is working, but booting Ubuntu isn't?). You could either try to get your Coreboot/

Re: [coreboot] Asus P2-99: PS2 keyboard, time stamps, double logs

2017-12-16 Thread Branden Waldner
Hi Paul, My intention in uploading again to the board status repository was to do to it with the patches Keith made merged. It's failed though as make clean and make distclean didn't seem to clean up the old (external?) acpi code like when I first tested the patch for Keith (The kernel log shows a

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-12-07 Thread Branden Waldner
While testing the 22687 change set, I ended up having the board fail to boot after rebooting. After getting the logs organized I figured I check it out with a clean rom and sure enough, after rebooting from the grub prompt six times with ctl+alt+del, it ended up failing to boot. It looks to alway

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-12-01 Thread Branden Waldner
Alright, I've finally got a follow up with the raminit logs and bx configuration dumps. Hopefully you'll find something interesting or useful in there. As expected, I had to use serial capture for the raminit logs, since the default cbmem size isn't large enough. I didn't get any logs from it comp

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-11-24 Thread Branden Waldner
I tried the acpi patches again, and this time it worked properly. I don't know if I had just missed running make clean, ended up flashing the wrong rom with aflash, or messed something else up. As for flashrom, I'd posted logs from my attempts at running it on its mailing list [0.00]

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-11-20 Thread Branden Waldner
I'm not sure that I'm setting up the acpi patches correctly then. I had just ran: git fetch https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot refs/changes/73/22473/1 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD originally. I think I had run make clean as well. I tried doing: git fetch https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot refs/c

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-11-19 Thread Branden Waldner
Keith, I've attached the dmesg from running a build with the acpi patch you had me listed as a reviewer on - https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/22473/ It's still throwing acpi errors. Is having color codes in the log okay? I can avoid them in the future if it's a bother. Also, I wouldn't really cons

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-11-08 Thread Branden Waldner
I managed to get the board status uploaded earlier today. CONFIG_MAINBOARD_SMBIOS_PRODUCT_NAME was set to P2-99, other then that, it shows up as just a P2B. I guess I need to look in to figuring out how to get flashrom to work properly. I could check that the floppy, second serial port, and paral

Re: [coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-11-01 Thread Branden Waldner
I did manage to get a clean build that board_status wouldn't complain about being dirty. The problem was I couldn't clone board_status properly, have a crappy isp. I can probably clone it from some where else tommorrow, or else I'll have to wait a week. After using git clean I was able to actually

[coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-10-30 Thread Branden Waldner
In reply to Keith. Probably won't show up as a reply since I wasn't subscribed to the list. I am now though, so it should work out now. I also had to rewrite this, since gmail didn't like noscript refreshing the page when I enabled javascript from google to register on gerrit. My config was actual

[coreboot] ASUS P2-99 with P2B config

2017-10-26 Thread Branden Waldner
Hi all, I wasn't planning on posting unless I could actually contribute something, but since Keith Hui posted last month about his work on CBMEM for 440BX and ACPI, I figured I should do some proper testing and at least post if it worked out. I'm running coreboot on a ASUS P2-99 board with the co