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Re: [coreboot] Intel Reference Board doesn't work after inserting INT 15h/86h into Flat32.asm

2018-03-14 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Toan, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:13:13 AM, you wrote: TLm> I'm so sorry if this question does not really relate to TLm> Coreboot. But I'm facing a serious problem and trying to get help TLm> from you who have excellent knowledge about BIOS and HW. I'll answer just this one time. Please

Re: [coreboot] Gigabyte Brix

2018-01-21 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Konrad, Sunday, January 21, 2018, 9:29:35 PM, you wrote: KE> Hi Igor, I know your work and I want to give kudos to you. However without being  KE> kritical (it is just like that) I want to note the tips you read i.e. at  winraid.com KE> really make you just more confused - eather they are

Re: [coreboot] Gigabyte Brix

2018-01-21 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Konrad, Sunday, January 21, 2018, 3:12:07 PM, you wrote: KE> You can probably set the DCI enable bit in the PCH softstraps in the KE> descriptor, no need to mess with the BIOS editing.  It seems to be bit 17 KE> in strap 0, right next to the HAP bit: KE> value="0x1" offset="0x0"  bitfield

Re: [coreboot] Gigabyte Brix

2018-01-21 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Konrad, Sunday, January 21, 2018, 9:02:30 AM, you wrote: KE> I would like to control the DCI and Debug bits in the boot process KE> and  dont want to mess with the AMI bios patching. You can probably set the DCI enable bit in the PCH softstraps in the descriptor, no need to mess with the B

Re: [coreboot] x86 validation suite

2018-01-18 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hi Ron, Thursday, January 18, 2018, 6:54:49 PM, you wrote: rm> Anybody out there know of an x86 emulation validation suite? There's test-i386.c in QEMU which seems to be quite complete. I also found a paper "Design and Testing of a CPU Emulator" from MS Research[1]. The mentioned Giano emulator

Re: [coreboot] Early debugging

2017-12-04 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hi Gergely, >Понедельник, 4 декабря 2017, 13:45 +01:00 от Gergely Kiss >: > >Hi, > >I'm working on porting Coreboot to the ASUS AM1I-A motherboard and I'm a bit >stuck. > >I could successfully build Coreboot but after flashing the ROM, my board looks >to be bricked... > >Once powering on the

Re: [coreboot] Is Goryachy's JTAG hack a chance for free firmware ?

2017-11-30 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Enrico, Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6:54:50 PM, you wrote: EWmIc> Can we completely replace UEFI w/o any signatures ? Yes, unless your PC uses Boot Guard (so far it's been only enabled in a small percentage of enterprise laptops because it ties together CPU and PCH - you can't replace one

Re: [coreboot] Verify option rom non-execution?

2017-11-11 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Taiidan, Saturday, November 11, 2017, 12:11:56 AM, you wrote: Tgc> Hi! how can I verify the non-execution of option roms? I recently Tgc> noticed that I had somehow turned that on with one of my latest compiles Tgc> (without yabel secure mode either) You can't really prove a negative, so

Re: [coreboot] New Subscriber

2017-11-08 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Robert, Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 3:36:16 PM, you wrote: RW> 2) About proprietary BIOS RW> Is it possible to download a "full" BIOS (with descriptor, me, RW> ...), like it is stored on the mainboard flash chip?, because on RW> the lenovo support webpage I can only find BIOS-Updates, with

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X220t variants with SMD-Flash-ROMs

2017-08-07 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Nico, Monday, August 7, 2017, 2:16:05 PM, you wrote: NH> Hi Philipp, NH> On 05.08.2017 21:58, Philipp Stanner wrote: >> Do we have any idea what exactly they do to update the firmware internally? NH> Well, I don't. Though, the flash chip is usually only partially NH> protected (something

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X220t variants with SMD-Flash-ROMs

2017-08-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Philipp, Saturday, August 5, 2017, 8:41:42 PM, you wrote: PS> Yes, you're probably right. PS> Though I wonder when and how they programmed the firmware. Before or PS> after soldering? Most likely before, unless they have some debug header exposed. From [1]: > When the hardware and softwa

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo X220t variants with SMD-Flash-ROMs

2017-08-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Philipp, Saturday, August 5, 2017, 6:01:04 PM, you wrote: PS> PS: Rantmode: Why the hell don't they just solder a socket? It's not PS> that unrealistic that someone bricks the BIOS while updating the PS> firmware from time to time. Being able to replace the ROM with a fresh PS> one is a huge

Re: [coreboot] question on SMM

2017-06-30 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello ron, Friday, June 30, 2017, 6:25:06 AM, you wrote: rm> there's something I am certain I don't understand about SMM on intel chipsets. rm> The question is pretty simple. Consider a system with a recent rm> intel chipset and flash. Is there some special secret sauce that rm> disables writing

Re: [coreboot] : AMT bug

2017-05-11 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Trammell, Thursday, May 11, 2017, 5:42:38 PM, you wrote: TH> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Allen Krell wrote: >> [...] There are multiple keys >> >> ME - public/private key pair - Fused in by Intel and checked by Intel >> silicon - Probably different across models It's a littl

Re: [coreboot] coreboot Digest, Vol 147, Issue 17

2017-05-11 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hi Allen, Thursday, May 11, 2017, 2:01:47 PM, you wrote: AK> One thing I am still confused about is the relationship between AK> Intel Boot Guard and the regions of flash. My understanding is AK> that Boot Guard only applies to the legacy BIOS region of flash, AK> not the ME/AMT region. Is that

Re: [coreboot] Intel ME The Way of the Static Analysis

2017-05-09 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Denis, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 2:13:13 AM, you wrote: DGC> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:38:15 +0800 DGC> Shawn wrote: >> slide: >> https://www.troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Static.pdf >> >> video: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_aokrfcoUk >> DGC> Thanks a lot! This is very in

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Zoran, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 5:03:33 PM, you wrote: ZS> To Coreboot, ZS> http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UPFS11_P4_UEFI_GOP_AMD.pdf ZS> Please, read about GOP, and what GOP suppose to be. ZS> So, GOP actually need to replace vBIOS, VBT, legacy INT 10H, and ZS> compl

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Patrick, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 8:54:09 PM, you wrote: PR> VBT is documented by intel-gpu-tools. There's intel_vbt_decode PR> (former intel_bios_decode) available PR> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/tree/tools/intel_vbt_decode.c PR> that will print all tables in huma

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello ron, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 5:16:33 PM, you wrote: rm> Zoran, given that we still see _MP_ and even $PIR tables in BIOS, rm> is it possible that VBT might always be there even if it's not strictly needed? rm> How do non-EFI kernels get information about video if not via the VBT? int 1

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-04 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
ps://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/ch04s02.html [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Electronics_Standards_Association thanks ron On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:19 AM Igor Skochinsky via coreboot wrote: Hello Zoran, Monday, April 3, 2017, 8:58:43 PM, you wrote: VBT should fulfill this VBE standard, as my best u

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-04 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
is no public description of these tables' layout and contents, only Intel knows how to build and parse them. Both VBE(code) and VBT (data) may be present in the video card's option ROM, I guess that's the only common part. Zoran On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Igor Skochins

Re: [coreboot] VGA and Graphics

2017-04-03 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Zoran, Monday, April 3, 2017, 9:24:41 AM, you wrote: > VBT is not code, it's a table -- that's what the T is -- and you can create > it any way you want. Not going to say more, anyway. Just to point to the standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions Not sure why you po

Re: [coreboot] Where to get ME image/flash descriptors for the x220?

2017-03-08 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Taiidan, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 6:23:37 AM, you wrote: Tgc>Uhh thanks but that's kinda missing the point of this - that I Tgc>don't want binaries from random people on the internet. Alas, the 8duj28us.exe update and a few others I checked do not seem to contain the ME region or the descr

Re: [coreboot] Back to original BIOS

2017-02-09 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
this thread. I am last 3 days very busy. Very very busy, >>but, certainly, I'll get free time, and will explore this opportunity, since >>it makes my old, not so sharp anymore eyes very wide! >> >>Thank you all, >>Zoran >> >>On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 10:

Re: [coreboot] Back to original BIOS

2017-02-08 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Title: Re: [coreboot] Back to original BIOS P.S. Hello Michal, The T400 BIOS is in a Pre-UEFI Phoenix FFV format. You can use phoenix_extract.py[1] to extract modules from it. To go back to Lenovo BIOS you can try the following: 1) download an update from lenovo (e.g. 7uuj49us.exe) 2) unp

Re: [coreboot] Back to original BIOS

2017-02-08 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Title: Re: [coreboot] Back to original BIOS Hello Michal, The T400 BIOS is in a Pre-UEFI Phoenix FFV format. You can use phoenix_extract.py[1] to extract modules from it. To go back to Lenovo BIOS you can try the following: 1) download an update from lenovo (e.g. 7uuj49us.exe) 2) unpack it wit

Re: [coreboot] Does the 62xx Series Opteron work *securely* without microcode?

2017-01-28 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Timothy, Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 6:32:29 PM, you wrote: TP> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- TP> Hash: SHA1 TP> On 01/25/2017 11:26 AM, Aaron Durbin wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Timothy Pearson >> wrote: >> On 01/24/2017 10:55 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I know

Re: [coreboot] Intel ME Question

2016-12-24 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello bancfc, Friday, December 23, 2016, 9:13:16 PM, you wrote: boo> Hi, boo> Seeing that many of you know a lot about Intel's ME I wanted to ask a boo> couple of things if its ok. boo> * Is the ME network accessible on all Intel chips or only the vPro ones boo> with AMT? IIRC there were some

Re: [coreboot] Disassembly of coreboot binaries

2016-12-14 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Title: Re: [coreboot] Disassembly of coreboot binaries Hello Himanshu, Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 10:11:57 AM, you wrote: Hi, I am working on a hypvervisor and am using coreboot + FILO as guest BIOS. While things were fine a while back, it has stopped working. I see that my hypervisor c

Re: [coreboot] Rettungsboot

2016-11-26 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hello Nico, Saturday, November 26, 2016, 6:42:40 PM, you wrote: NH> Hey coreboot folks, NH> here's something that's bugging me for a long time: Our lack of an out- NH> of-the-box booting experience. NH> All our payloads that don't implement legacy boot facilities (i.e. BIOS, NH> UEFI), only work

Re: [coreboot] Intel Braswell FSP graphics init

2016-11-08 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hi Andreas, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 9:07:43 PM, you wrote: AG> On 08.11.2016 20:04, Aaron Durbin via coreboot wrote: >> You'll need a debug version of FSP so that you can see the serial >> messages it spits out as to why things are failing. Talk to Intel to >> get help as that's about the best

Re: [coreboot] More experiments with disabling the ME

2016-11-05 Thread Igor Skochinsky via coreboot
Hi Nicola, Nice work! I would like to add some comments inline. Friday, November 4, 2016, 10:20:24 PM, you wrote: NC> * Sandy Bridge boots successfully without a good FPT (but with a valid FTPR), NC> so it probably has a "backup" on-chip FPT. The system boots fine and doesn't NC> powe