Re: [coreboot] SPI clock rate

2011-07-05 Thread Juhana Helovuo
? Best Regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM

2010-12-02 Thread Juhana Helovuo
ose are IO ports and have nothing to do with memory addresses? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM

2010-12-02 Thread Juhana Helovuo
appening. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM

2010-12-04 Thread Juhana Helovuo
Juhana Helovuo wrote: Oh, this was very good! Thank you! Now I can load Linux kernel on the M4A78-EM, although it doesn't boot successfully yet. [...] I'll have to do some more testing to find out more. More testing done, and now Linux boots to login prompt. I regenerated irq_tab

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM

2010-12-05 Thread Juhana Helovuo
003000-3fff: RESERVED 5. e000-efff: RESERVED Wrote coreboot table at: 2fffe000 - 2fffe1bc checksum ba50 But does it really matter? There is now physical RAM only up to 4000. Or is it going to be a problem if there is more than 3 GB RAM? Best regards, Juh

[coreboot] Upgrading SPI ROM chip?

2010-12-05 Thread Juhana Helovuo
just by plugging in another chip. Has anyone tried this? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A78-EM

2010-12-07 Thread Juhana Helovuo
mmconf patch you sent to this list on 2nd December commited to SVN. That should create a trunk revision, which is usable on this board without any source patching. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] [PATCH] Update Coreboot support in Memtest86+ 4.10

2010-12-10 Thread Juhana Helovuo
on Qemu with only Coreboot + VGA BIOS and Memtest86+ directly as payload. If anyone cares to test this on their hardware, please report if this works for you. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo diff -Naur memtest86+-4.10.renamed/coreboot.c memtest86+-4.10.j/coreboot.c --- memtest86+-4.10.renamed

Re: [coreboot] Upgrading SPI ROM chip?

2010-12-16 Thread Juhana Helovuo
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 05.12.2010 12:26, Juhana Helovuo wrote: How does a chipset know the size of the SPI BIOS ROM on board Chipsets do not know the size of the flash ROM chip. Ok. Thanks for the explanation, Carl-Daniel and Rudolf. I tried substituting a bigger SPI ROM chip on

Re: [coreboot] Support ASUS M4A78PRO motherboard ?

2010-12-17 Thread Juhana Helovuo
original BIOS chip safe, so that you don't accidentally flash over it. The safest thing should be to first practice with flashrom by reading the original BIOS image, then replacing the BIOS chip with a new one while the board is running, and then flashing the factory BIOS to the new chip

Re: [coreboot] QA contribution

2011-02-01 Thread Juhana Helovuo
serprog", mainly by adapting it to suit SPI. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Tester devices [was: QA contribution]

2011-02-01 Thread Juhana Helovuo
1.2.2011 14:58, Peter Stuge kirjoitti: Juhana Helovuo wrote: unit that can administer testing of one or even better several mainboards. I have plenty of design and implementation ideas if you'd like to go into that. I started building a tester device to hook up a mainboard into an auto

Re: [coreboot] Tester devices [was: QA contribution]

2011-02-02 Thread Juhana Helovuo
! I suppose git would do better for this job, since I expect that the development is quite decentralized. Right now I have only the prototype board schematics and layout, but I suppose that is already better than nothing. Do have a good home for a git repository available? Best regards,

Re: [coreboot] Tester devices [was: QA contribution]

2011-02-12 Thread Juhana Helovuo
Peter Stuge wrote: Juhana Helovuo wrote: Here are some images of my first (incomplete) prototype: http://alpskari.asiantuntijat.org/~juhe/spi-flasher-piirilevyt/ Looks like a great start! Now there is more progress. After some building, coding, and debugging I have the tester sort-of

Re: [coreboot] Tester devices [was: QA contribution]

2011-02-17 Thread Juhana Helovuo
e USB controller. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Tester devices [was: QA contribution]

2011-02-17 Thread Juhana Helovuo
, including default control endpoint. Maximum packet size is 64 bytes. Two of the endpoints can be double buffered in hardware. Is this enough details, or do you need something else? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman

[coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-06-13 Thread Juhana Helovuo
d vs. manually coded? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo $ lspci -tvnn > -[:00]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate > [1022:9601] >+-01.0-[:01]--+-05.0 ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9710] >| \-05.1 ATI Technol

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-06-16 Thread Juhana Helovuo
Juhana Helovuo kirjoitti: Hello, I am trying to get coreboot working on Asus M4A785-M with Athlon II X2 240e CPU (Socket AM3). So far there is no success. Hello again, There is now some progress in this port. - Found out that the northbridge was wrong. We should use AMD Family 10 instead

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-06-16 Thread Juhana Helovuo
same devices many times. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo coreboot-4.0-r5631M Thu Jun 17 06:40:35 EEST 2010 starting... BSP Family_Model: 00100f62 *sysinfo range: [000cc000,000cdfa0] bsp_apicid

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-06-17 Thread Juhana Helovuo
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:04 -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Juhana Helovuo wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:30 -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > >> > Coreboot now boots past the romstage and starts setting up PCI devices. > >> > Unfort

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-07-18 Thread Juhana Helovuo
2:1203] \-18.4 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204] So it seems that something goes wrong inside isa_dma_init(); Now I am not sure what I could try next. As the LPC is needed for Super I/O access, it seems like it cannot be just lef

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-07-30 Thread Juhana Helovuo
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 20:14 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Juhana Helovuo said the following: > > Meanwhile, I added call to it8712f_kill_watchdog() , like Rudolf Marek > > suggested. > > BTW, if it's not too hard, could you please share what value that register > (IT8

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-08-05 Thread Juhana Helovuo
- 0x7fff is reserved as "iomem" to device "pnp 00:01". Now the next step would be to get Linux to accept the ACPI tables, but I do not really know where to begin debugging them. Best Regards, Juhana Helovuo [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00]

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-08-19 Thread Juhana Helovuo
r where and how all of these memory maps are transmitted from Coreboot to Linux. I could not find the callback for BIOS e820 calls in Coreboot sources. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-08-26 Thread Juhana Helovuo
the SeaBIOS "home page". So far I have Grub2 more or less working, so is Coreinfo, and I can also get response (VGA & keyboard) from FILO, although it does not find my disks. Grub2 sees my IDE disk and cdrom as "ata6" and "ata7". Best Regards, Juhana Helovuo

Re: [coreboot] Porting to Asus M4A785-M

2010-08-26 Thread Juhana Helovuo
contribute a patch for this mainboard to the Coreboot project, but first I have to clean the code I have mangled back and forth. Best Regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot]  [PATCH] Generate multiboot table s after and from coreboot tables

2010-08-30 Thread Juhana Helovuo
before coreboot tables, but it seemed to cause no harm for me. Signed-off-by: Juhana Helovuo Best regards, Juhana Helovuo diff -u -r -N -x .svn coreboot.orig.r5756/src/arch/i386/boot/multiboot.c coreboot.r5756/src/arch/i386/boot/multiboot.c --- coreboot.orig.r5756/src/arch/i386/boot/multiboot.c

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Generate multiboot tables after and from coreboot tables

2010-08-30 Thread Juhana Helovuo
Patrick Georgi kirjoitti: Am 30.08.2010 20:54, schrieb Juhana Helovuo: Hello, The attached patch adds all the memory memory ranges in the coreboot tables also to the multiboot tables. It is useful e.g. when booting Linux with Grub2 payload, since then Linux gets the Coreboot memory map via

[coreboot] [PATCH] version 2, Generate multiboot tables after and from coreboot tables

2010-08-31 Thread Juhana Helovuo
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 21:46 +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Am 30.08.2010 20:54, schrieb Juhana Helovuo: > > Hello, > > > > The attached patch adds all the memory memory ranges in the coreboot > > tables also to the multiboot tables. It is useful e.g. when booting &

Re: [coreboot] AMD Tilapia / simnow: endless looping in functionpci_scan_bus

2010-09-02 Thread Juhana Helovuo
does SeaBIOS detect which RAM is usable and which is not? Maybe the memory conflict with UMA and ACPI tables could be avoided in a similar manner? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-09 Thread Juhana Helovuo
to prevent hangups/crashes on this board. (3) Multiboot table patch required to get UMA and high coreboot tables locations to Grub and Linux. Independent of (1) and (2). Signed-off-by: Juhana Helovuo I tested appying these patches, building and flashing using the following procedure: 1.

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-09 Thread Juhana Helovuo
s could be smaller and neater. However, I cannot hold on to this board for arbitrarily long, since I should put it to production use now that Coreboot is working. I will see what I can do to reduce these patches further, if I just find a suitable slot of time. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-11 Thread Juhana Helovuo
rivers failing, the boot logs seem to be the same as before. I tried to look at the patch code, but could not figure out why this is happening. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-11 Thread Juhana Helovuo
o narrow down where the failure is. The first thing to check would be to see if the cause was in different patches (original vs. simplified) or trunk code (5792 vs. 5799). Then I'll see what uma.diff and reserved.diff do. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-11 Thread Juhana Helovuo
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 23:36 +0300, Juhana Helovuo wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 07:03 -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > > > So it works with my updated patch, but not with the uma & reserved > > patches? Or does it not work at all? Does it still work with your > > previo

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-13 Thread Juhana Helovuo
e other hardwiring? Since variable "msr" here is local to the routine, I don't see how it could have effect on anything else but the UMA location and size. The value read from TOP_MEM2 isn't even used for anything but printing. Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add support for Asus M4A785-M, with build instructions

2010-09-16 Thread Juhana Helovuo
correct? If yes, then the northbridge is creating holes into RAM, in order to have PCI memory-mapped IO in 32-bit addresses. Now, if I wish to have Coreboot to cope with large memory and holes, what manuals do I need to understand and modify the codes managing this? Best regards, Juhana Helovuo -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] [PATCH] Re: RE : RE : First coreboot build for Tyan s2895 K8WE mobo with seabios payload, computer starts, but graphical ubuntu 64bits is crashing

2010-09-18 Thread Juhana Helovuo
t; is multiboot-compatible ELF executable and "memtest.bin" is bootable image like a Linux kernel image. Choosing between these two depends on your boot method: BIOS, Coreboot only, Coreboot+SeaBIOS, or a bootloader. My success with memtest86+ has been rather limited, but maybe this works