Re: [coreboot] [flashrom] Flashing capability in coreboot

2012-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi Carl-Daniel, thanks a lot for bringing this up.. * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net [120504 00:16]: coreboot has a requirement to store some data in flash to get some chipsets to work well. There are multiple ways to achieve this: 1. Write flashing code from

Re: [coreboot] Regarding patch review of 707

2012-04-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* manasa gv manasa671...@gmail.com [120419 12:54]: Hi, I have done patch review of 707  that is to Fix  address in Real mode IDT .. To find this i have gone through Intel IA-32  Vol-3A  manual..Here am using LIDT instruction to fix address in IDT register..I thought below given code may

Re: [coreboot] Patch merged into coreboot/master: c35c461 Invalidate cache before first jump

2012-04-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 4/10/12 11:13 PM, Marc Jones wrote: Stefan, can you explain the requirement or consider how else to only do this on a processor that requires it?Marc I will try to reconstruct how this was needed. I might not have the test system anymore. If it works without now, we should drop that patch

Re: [coreboot] Patch merged into coreboot/master: c35c461 Invalidate cache before first jump

2012-04-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de [120406 17:32]: Am 06.04.2012 17:27, schrieb Marc Jones: Can you be more descriptive to how it fails? Does it hang on that instruction? That change might also break on future CPUs (if they finally manage to make the TPM stuff secure, so that's a big

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Re-thinking the stages

2012-04-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.mal...@gmail.com [120404 10:54]: 3. Microcode updates The tiny bootblock doesn't seem like the correct place for microcode updates. As mentioned in one of the reviews, this is needed on many modern CPUs before entering Cache As Ram. Stefan -- coreboot mailing list:

Re: [coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: 77a6780 Add support for Intel Turbo feature

2012-04-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 4/2/12 3:26 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Duncan, dear Stefan, Am Montag, den 02.04.2012, 22:36 +0200 schrieb Stefan Reinauer: Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reina...@coreboot.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/844 -gerrit commit

Re: [coreboot] Can I use gdb debug tool with coreboot v4.0?

2012-03-29 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Julian Shulika herca...@gmail.com [120329 14:28]: Hi , everyone! Can I use gdb debug tool with coreboot v4.0? This information is oudated coreboot has an easy to use interface to the GNU debugger gdb. To enable it, add the following two lines to your mainboard's Options.lb: uses

Re: [coreboot] [SerialICE] Which MSR disables hyperthreading (all non-BSP/AP cores)?

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Idwer Vollering vid...@gmail.com [120215 17:33]: Or: how to start a multicore (hyperthreading) processor as if it were a singlecore (non-hyperthreading) processor. Would it be necessary to configure APIC/IPI in serialice' mainboard specific code? You probably need something like:

Re: [coreboot] porting Coreboot to a new motherboard....

2012-02-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ali hagigat hagigat...@gmail.com [120214 18:48]: I have initialized Intel 82815 SDRAM controller but for a special type of RAM without reading SPD registers. I know that DRP register is : 0xCC. I added the code to Coreboot. I tested much and concluded that RAM has a problem in a way as you

Re: [coreboot] Support for Intel Atom E6xx with EG20 needed

2012-01-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Software Developer softwaredeveloper...@googlemail.com [120127 12:41]: Hi, we're evaluating some bootloaders that we could use for our Intel E6xx with EG20 platform (its exactly the Kontron nanoETXexpress-TT). See here: http://us.kontron.com/products/computeronmodules/com+express/

Re: [coreboot] i965 and ICH-8

2012-01-11 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Daniel Lindenaar daniel-coreb...@lindenaar.eu [120111 15:13]: I understand what you're saying, yet I've gotten my hands on two boards with the aforementioned chipsets and a lot of goodies on them, so I thought to give it a go before spending €€€ for an already supported board (which would

Re: [coreboot] xgcc folder is not made!

2011-12-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 12/31/11 5:00 AM, ali hagigat wrote: I downloaded the coreboot version 4 for a Ubuntu system. When i want to execute util/crossgcc/make It stops complaining that there is an error building GDB! If i want to make without GDB like by buildgcc, it stops , the error is that it can not find one h

Re: [coreboot] Init for multi-processor

2011-11-21 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 11/22/11 5:20 AM, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: Hi Could someone explain the use of boot_cpu() in bootblock_normal.c main()? I thought only the BSP CPU executes this code (currently)? I am about to push a change that does early SMP init for hyper-threading CPUs to allow cache-as-ram implementation.

Re: [coreboot] Init for multi-processor

2011-11-21 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:01:01 +0200, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 06:30 +0900, Stefan Reinauer wrote: On 11/22/11 5:20 AM, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: Hi Could someone explain the use of boot_cpu() in bootblock_normal.c main()? I thought only the BSP CPU executes this code (currently

Re: [coreboot] [RFC]What to do with TINY_BOOTBLOCK?

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 10/24/11 3:15 AM, Patrick Georgi wrote: Therefore, I propose (http://review.coreboot.org/#change,320) to get rid of the big bootblock variant altogether. This might break some boards (silently: they still build, but they fail on boot), but at least it forces action to fix them.

Re: [coreboot] Getting serial output from w83627hf?

2011-10-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Alp Eren Köse alperenk...@buyutech.com.tr [111018 11:25]: Hi thanks all for your help, I have arranged the devicetree.cb as suggested, you can see it at the attachment. Put the superio chip under the LPC bridge section, but I didn't get how did you know it? Added those to the

Re: [coreboot] Getting serial output from w83627hf?

2011-10-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Alp Eren Köse alperenk...@buyutech.com.tr [111018 17:02]: By the way I do not have a CMC state machine binary, which it says: #We don't ship that, but booting without it is bound to fail in the src/southbridge/intel/sch/Makefile.inc file. What is it, how can get it? Is it likely for that

Re: [coreboot] how to delete symbol link created at compile time

2011-10-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marc Jones marcj...@gmail.com [111016 10:10]: I have created 2 devicetree file : devicetree_f15.cb for platform with family 15 CPU devicetree_f10.cb  for platform with family 10 CPU I changed the makefile to create a symbol link “devicetree.cb” link to

Re: [coreboot] how to delete symbol link created at compile time

2011-10-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marc Jones marcj...@gmail.com [111014 06:22]: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:19 AM, She, Kerry kerry@amd.com wrote: Hello, Some mainboard support more than one family of CPUs with same socket type, Such as SuperMicro/h8scm:

Re: [coreboot] missing read resources

2011-10-12 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Myles Watson myle...@gmail.com [111012 08:19]: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Oskar Enoksson e...@lysator.liu.se wrote: I get the following warnings: APIC: 00 missing read_resources APIC: 01 missing read_resources APIC: 02 missing read_resources APIC: 03 missing read_resources

Re: [coreboot] make crossgcc fails with 'Building IASL 20110623 ... failed'

2011-10-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 10/10/11 9:02 AM, Alp Eren Köse wrote: As written on the subject 'make crossgcc' fails as following: Skipping GDB as requested by command line Building IASL 20110623 ... failed make[1]: *** [build-without-gdb] Error 1 make: *** [crossgcc] Error 2 Anyone knows why? and the

Re: [coreboot] I want to know if my laptop supports coreboot

2011-09-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Pedro Armando Ojeda May pedroojeda2...@googlemail.com [110922 07:08]: I send you the information requested in the wiki of coreboot. The chipset is supported, the laptop itself is not. Please get it working and send a patch! :-) -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] New patch to review: d402be7 Fix up various dsdt.asl files

2011-08-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 8/22/11 1:37 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: Am Montag, den 22.08.2011, 04:55 +0200 schrieb Alec Ari: Alec Ari (neotheu...@ymail.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/166 -gerrit commit d402be72762f60d4b60edf5662d31a14eccb03ec Author: Alec

Re: [coreboot] libpci accesses in CAR, I need a suggestion

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Tadas Slotkus devta...@gmail.com [110811 00:32]: There will be a problem leaving the XIP area cached while trying to write to the flash. At the least this means it's not possible to write the whole flash. Is this intended? What's the plan here? Should it be possible to map flash

Re: [coreboot] Modifying Coreboot to support a new processor

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Dsouza, Malcolm malcolm.dso...@igatepatni.com [110809 14:40]: Thanks Corey, 1. I agree that before reading through the code, it is better to first check if the BIOS guides are available. However I would still like the answer to my question if I wish to carry on with the

Re: [coreboot] libpci accesses in CAR, I need a suggestion

2011-08-01 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 8/1/11 1:28 PM, Marc Jones wrote: Tadas, On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Tadas Slotkusdevta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thank you both for the answers. I have studied libpci from libpayload and removed that device list generation with mallocs. Done a bunch of trial-error cleanup and now

Re: [coreboot] Questions about how to record hardware information on ARM

2011-07-26 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Hamo hamo...@gmail.com [110726 11:05]: Hi lists, As I have moved forward to writing the ramstage, much more problems came out. PCI devices are just extra devices that can be used but not key devices like those on X86. Most devices on ARM are connected through AHBA bus and can be configured

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] use of SMM with SSE/MMX...

2011-07-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 7/2/11 2:08 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote: Hi, Yes even 486 would be good fit! (It has more closer aligns etc). As Stefan mentioned, some CPU might not have SSE enabled failing to execute coreboot. Maybe this is a bit broader problem. Thanks Rudolf Note that this problem does not happen with

Re: [coreboot] build failure: cannot move location counter backwards

2011-06-23 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Kevin O'Connor ke...@koconnor.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:58:06PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: On 06/20/2011 04:09 PM, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: Hi, I documented the latest developments (git and crossgcc) at

Re: [coreboot] Video card bios project

2011-06-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* dove - railing doverail...@gmail.com [110619 14:11]: I have phoned Australia and spoke to an expert in Procon.com.au about 2 times and corresponded via email. Procon.com.au are wanting several hundred dollars whether it's my font or theirs. This is not affordable. I don't know why vga

Re: [coreboot] build failure: cannot move location counter backwards

2011-06-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi Darren, * Darren Hart dvh...@linux.intel.com [110621 00:19]: I'm new to coreboot and just trying to get it to boot into qemu. I've tried using SeaBios as well as just copying yes to payload.elf. I updated the Makefile to use gcc 4.5 instead of the 4.4 that ships with my distribution

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6625 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* repository service s...@coreboot.org [110604 17:44]: Author: stuge Date: Sat Jun 4 17:44:31 2011 New Revision: 6625 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6625 Modified: trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1/romstage.c

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6626 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* repository service s...@coreboot.org [110604 17:44]: Author: stuge Date: Sat Jun 4 17:44:54 2011 New Revision: 6626 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6626 Log: Port persimmon r6583 to e350m1: pstate 0 early Switch processor cores to pstate 0 early to reduce

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6627 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* repository service s...@coreboot.org [110604 17:45]: Author: stuge Date: Sat Jun 4 17:45:12 2011 New Revision: 6627 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6627 Log: Port persimmon r6584 and r6601 to e350m1: SPI prefetch early Enable SPI cacheline prefetch early to

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6633 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* repository service s...@coreboot.org [110604 17:47]: Author: stuge Date: Sat Jun 4 17:47:05 2011 New Revision: 6633 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6633 Log: Port persimmon r6591 to e350m1: ROM cache early Enable rom cache early to reduce boot time.

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6625 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se [110604 18:16]: Stefan Reinauer wrote: +++ trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1/romstage.c Sat Jun 4 17:44:31 2011(r6625) .. +__outdword (0xcf8, 0x8000a3a0); what's the reason to not use pci_read_config32() here? +++ trunk/src

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6627 - trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se [110604 18:19]: Stefan Reinauer wrote: +++ trunk/src/mainboard/asrock/e350m1/romstage.c Sat Jun 4 17:45:12 2011(r6627) @@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ // all cores: set pstate 0 (1600 MHz) early to save a few ms of boot time __writemsr

Re: [coreboot] Fonts at the Bios

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 6/4/11 3:22 PM, dove - railing wrote: I am not a techie. Would it be correct to say that fonts at the Bios level are decided by the Video card / VGA firmware? The VGA BIOS loads the initial font. Is there an opensource utility for them? I found this, it's not open source though:

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 1/2] SMM: add mainboard_apm_cnt() callback

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 6/4/11 10:47 AM, Sven Schnelle wrote: motherboards can use this hook to get notified if someone writes to the APM_CNT port (0xb2). If the hook returns 1, the chipset specific hook is also skipped. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnellesv...@stackframe.org Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 2/2] X60: add support for handling EC events in SMM

2011-06-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
and there are no event queue registers in the EC register space, we're using 0x62/0x66 as EC I/O ports as long as ACPI is disabled. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnellesv...@stackframe.org Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Is this board supported?

2011-06-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Thomas Rohloff v10la...@myway.de [110603 12:33]: Am Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:37:16 -0700 schrieb Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org: On 6/1/11 10:52 PM, Thomas Rohloff wrote: Hi, I have a AsRock 870 Etreme3 ( http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=870%20extreme3

Re: [coreboot] Is this board supported?

2011-06-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 6/1/11 10:52 PM, Thomas Rohloff wrote: Hi, I have a AsRock 870 Etreme3 ( http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=870%20extreme3 ) and wanted to know if it's supported b coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards for a list of supported boards. So, is this possible?

Re: [coreboot] [patch] ck804 ACPI PIC/APIC interrupt logic

2011-06-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jonathan A. Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net [110525 18:59]: + If (LEqual (Arg0, 8)) { white spaces look messed up No, that was intentional, i wanted the LEqual to line up, though then I didn't pad the single character numbers ... Sorry not sure what you were trying to achieve. As

Re: [coreboot] JetwayJNC92-330 support

2011-06-01 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Joe Holden li...@rewt.org.uk [110601 22:29]: Hi guys, Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but what are the chances of the above board being supported? I have a couple in use and they look like pretty standard ICH7/945 boards: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=47#jnc92-330 Slight

Re: [coreboot] haveing troubling building core boot!

2011-05-29 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/29/11 4:44 PM, Raleigh Boulware wrote: Is there a good link to this tool chain? There are no prebuilt binaries for this tool chain. Type 'make crossgcc' in coreboot, as suggested several times before in this thread;-) Stefan Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:05:47 +0300 From:

Re: [coreboot] Problem returned regarding SVN (and then vanished)

2011-05-29 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/29/11 6:06 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Group I returned from vacation, (which is where SVN worked) on the Friday. Today I went ahead and attempted the regular and routine update of SVN. Stefan is it possible, however unlikely that something where you are located happens to be blocking

Re: [coreboot] unifying `acpi_tables.c`

2011-05-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* shawn Bai programas...@hotmail.com [110522 06:28]: Hi,folks,   I searched for 'acpi_tables.c' in directory 'mainboard', and 49 entries come.They are as follows, but not all listed here,just for your reference. [..] I don't know ACPI and don't know the reason why there are so many files

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6608 - trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Did you check the output file? In my tests a .align 4 aligned to 4 bytes not 16. Sent from my mobile phone On 22.05.2011, at 19:18, Scott Duplichan sc...@notabs.org wrote: Stefan Reinauer wrote: ] +.align 4 ] Shouldn't this be .align 16 then? ] The as(1) info page says it's in bits

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6608 - trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jonathan A. Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net [110523 12:52]: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Stefan Reinauer wrote: On 5/22/11 8:39 AM, repository service wrote: Author: jakllsch Date: Sun May 22 17:39:25 2011 New Revision: 6608 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [patch] ck804 ACPI PIC/APIC interrupt logic

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jonathan A. Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net [110523 21:28]: Add ACPI automatic PIC/APIC interrupt routing logic for ck804. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Kollasch jakll...@kollasch.net Index: src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804/acpi/ck804.asl

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6608 - trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804

2011-05-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/22/11 8:39 AM, repository service wrote: Author: jakllsch Date: Sun May 22 17:39:25 2011 New Revision: 6608 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6608 Log: Ensure ck804 romstrap is 16-byte aligned. This alignment seems to be necessary for the chip to recognize it.

Re: [coreboot] [patch] ck804 mmconf

2011-05-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/22/11 8:12 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: Optionally treat ck804 memory-mapped PCI configuration space window as a resource. Not enabled by default because the resource should be non-posted and there's no way to express that to the resource allocator. Signed-off-by: Jonathan

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6608 - trunk/src/southbridge/nvidia/ck804

2011-05-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/22/11 1:02 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Stefan Reinauer wrote: On 5/22/11 8:39 AM, repository service wrote: Author: jakllsch Date: Sun May 22 17:39:25 2011 New Revision: 6608 URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/changeset/6608 Log

Re: [coreboot] [patch] ck804 mmconf

2011-05-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/22/11 1:07 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:28:41PM -0700, Stefan Reinauer wrote: On 5/22/11 8:12 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: Optionally treat ck804 memory-mapped PCI configuration space window as a resource. Not enabled by default because the resource

Re: [coreboot] [Fwd: coreboot at Plumbers Conf?]

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/20/11 2:03 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear coreboot folks, not knowing who would want to travel to the USA or through the USA, I am forwarding Lennart’s message to the list. Stefan, Peter, Ron, Scott, Marc, Rudolf, Sven, Patrick and everyone I forgot, it would be great if some of you could

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 3/3] Fix building into relative paths

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com [110520 13:54]: Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org --- Makefile.inc |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 2/3] Fix iasl with . in paths

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com [110520 13:54]: Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 1/3] Fix ccache behaviour if more than one ccache in PATH

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com [110520 13:54]: Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick.geo...@secunet.com --- Makefile |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [Fwd: coreboot at Plumbers Conf?]

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Alright, I just put in a place holder for a coreboot talk. If there is interest in a specific topic, please let me know. Otherwise it might be a mix of a general overview, ACPI, and security Stefan * Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net [110520 18:16]: On Fri, 20.05.11 08:36, Stefan

[coreboot] Fwd: Is there anything I can do to make coreboot better?

2011-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
this accidently went to the coreboot-announce list, resending. Original Message Subject:Is there anything I can do to make coreboot better? Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:31:53 + From: shawn Bai programas...@hotmail.com To: coreboot-annou...@coresystems.de

Re: [coreboot] How long will take to add coreboot support for my motherboard? Please, expert roughly estimation needed.

2011-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Vikram Narayanan vikram...@gmail.com [110517 16:50]: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Anders Jenbo and...@jenbo.dk wrote: Den 17-05-2011 10:41, Андрей Клаус skrev: Hello everybody, I'm thinking about porting coreboot to my motherboard (epox 9NPA3I / 9NPA3J / 9NPAJ-3 / 9NPA3 Ultra

Re: [coreboot] unifying `acpi_tables.c`

2011-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/18/11 3:21 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Paul Menzel wrote: Can `acpi_tables.c` be shared between certain families or even all new boards? If yes, maybe that could be put on a todo list. Yeah, I ranted about this a bit on IRC. Will take a look in Prague. I read a nice quote today: Why rant

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6591 - trunk/src/mainboard/amd/persimmon

2011-05-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/15/11 4:52 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: repository service wrote: Log: Enable rom cache early to reduce boot time. +++ trunk/src/mainboard/amd/persimmon/romstage.cMon May 16 00:06:09 2011(r6591) @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ u32 val; u8 reg8; + // all cores: allow caching of

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6584 - trunk/src/mainboard/amd/persimmon

2011-05-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/15/11 3:57 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: repository service wrote: +++ trunk/src/mainboard/amd/persimmon/romstage.cSun May 15 23:54:04 2011(r6584) .. + // early enable of PrefetchEnSPIFromHost + if (boot_cpu()) +{ +__outdword (0xcf8, 0x8000a3b8); +__outdword

Re: [coreboot] Alternate for serial port debug messages

2011-05-14 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/14/11 3:17 AM, Prakash Punnoor wrote: Are you sure? I didn't try it yet, but according to http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg32912.html it should be possible to use a Linux machine as USB debug port device. It might work if your controller has a USB device port. A USB host port

Re: [coreboot] Hardware donation for porting Coreboot / FlashROM

2011-05-13 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/13/11 5:07 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Yogev Ezra wrote: 2. Compulab Fit-PC2 nettop (Intel Atom Z510 / Z530 CPU + US15W chipset). This however is a rather advanced platform. coreboot supports none of the components on these platforms. Actually there is support for the CPU and chipset in

Re: [coreboot] Win7 on Intel Eagle Heights

2011-05-13 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/13/11 8:57 AM, Thomas JOURDAN wrote: I'm trying to get Windows 7 booting on my Intel Eagle Heights evaluation board. I tried to follow all the ACPI tips to get Window$ to boot but I can't figure out the bug I'm facing. I'm using a checked build version of Win 7 64-bits. When I start the

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Hide CMOS_VSTART_ and CMOS_VLEN_ prefixes for read_option() use

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
, somedefault) to read_option(foo, somedefault) Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de [PATCH] Hide CMOS_VSTART_ and CMOS_VLEN_ prefixes for read_option() use Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org --- src

Re: [coreboot] [PATCHes] Adopt coreboot build system for libpayload

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
? Add strlcpy from OpenBSD Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de This one is Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] src/drivers/generic/generic used but not there

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de [110510 23:07]: Am 10.05.2011 00:17, schrieb Stefan Reinauer: Looking for drivers/generic/generic in the source code, we use it quite a lot: Should we drop all those sub trees? Or try to fix them? What is needed to fix them? Fix what

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Hide CMOS_VSTART_ and CMOS_VLEN_ prefixes for read_option() use

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de [110510 23:55]: Am 10.05.2011 22:07, schrieb Stefan Reinauer: Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org r6565, thanks. thanks. But yes, there aren't any more read_option uses

Re: [coreboot] Alternate for serial port debug messages

2011-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Vikram Narayanan vikram...@gmail.com [110510 20:10]: Hi, I am using a DELL laptop. The superio used is Found Nuvoton WPCE775x / NPCE781x (id=0x03, rev=0x06) at 0x4e. Now the thing is there are no serial ports exposed outside in my laptop. Is there any other way out to see the debug

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Rudolf Marek r.ma...@assembler.cz [110509 08:34]: * implement a gdb stub for coreboot Why not use the one that is there? Yep, but it seems it does not use HW debugging features like HW watchpoints. Anyway this was just an idea. Ah this sounds great. Just wanted to make sure you didn't

[coreboot] [RFC] src/drivers/generic/generic used but not there

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi, Looking for drivers/generic/generic in the source code, we use it quite a lot: grep generic.generic src/mainboard/*/*/devicetree.cb |wc -l 391 However: ls src/drivers/generic/ Kconfig Makefile.inc debug It does not exist. Should we drop all those sub trees? Or try to fix them? What is

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/9/11 4:20 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: Again, probably a missunderstanding of coreboot on my behalf - U-Boot has a REALLY primative BIOS implementation (just enough to trick Linux into booting in an embedded environment). It is basically just some empty VGA stubs and simple e820 support. Why

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/9/11 5:53 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: Yes. The information is published by coreboot in the coreboot table AKA cbtable. libpayload already has code to find it. Hmm - I don't think linking U-Boot against libpayload is the right solution. U-Boot is designed to be the primary bootloader much like

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/9/11 6:15 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Graeme Russ wrote: U-Boot is build with the target address in Flash. It initialises memory and copies itself into RAM at an address calculated by the RAM init code. Here there should probably be a second possible entry point, for when U-Boot is a coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/9/11 7:18 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Peter Stugepe...@stuge.se wrote: Graeme Russ wrote: My point being that U-Boot needs to know about the arrangement of memory of the target board. Yes. The information is published by coreboot in the coreboot table AKA

Re: [coreboot] Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-05-08 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/8/11 10:37 PM, Rudolf Marek wrote: * implement a gdb stub for coreboot Why not use the one that is there? -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Keyboard not working on Thinkpad X60/T60

2011-05-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/7/11 12:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 08:48:45PM +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote: Kevin O'Connorke...@koconnor.net writes: Do you know how long it takes for your keyboard to become responsive? (You can pass -n to tools/readserial.py to have it report wall times instead

Re: [coreboot] Keyboard not working on Thinkpad X60/T60

2011-05-07 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 5/7/11 12:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 08:48:45PM +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote: Kevin O'Connorke...@koconnor.net writes: Do you know how long it takes for your keyboard to become responsive? (You can pass -n to tools/readserial.py to have it report wall times instead

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6553 - trunk/src/southbridge/intel/i82801gx

2011-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 03.05.2011, at 06:04, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: repository service wrote: +++ trunk/src/southbridge/intel/i82801gx/KconfigTue May 3 09:55:30 2011 (r6553) @@ -38,5 +38,10 @@ int default 1 +config BOOTBLOCK_SOUTHBRIDGE_INIT +string +default

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6553 - trunk/src/southbridge/intel/i82801gx

2011-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 03.05.2011, at 11:01, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Am 03.05.2011 18:10, schrieb Stefan Reinauer: I agree this belongs in the Makefiles.. Not sure why we chose to put it here but it might have required another makefile pass otherwise Back then the build system was a bit

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6554 - trunk/src/cpu/intel/model_6ex

2011-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Sven Schnelle sv...@stackframe.org [110503 10:23]: Hi Paul, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net writes: Am Dienstag, den 03.05.2011, 09:55 +0200 schrieb repository service: Author: svens Date: Tue May 3 09:55:43 2011 New Revision: 6554 URL:

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r6554 - trunk/src/cpu/intel/model_6ex

2011-05-03 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Sven Schnelle sv...@stackframe.org [110503 21:41]: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org writes: Can you do a new analysis on where the boot time goes now? It would be nice to see if there are more optimizations we can do... Will do. But right now i have the problem

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add option 'compress ramstage'

2011-05-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Sven Schnelle sv...@stackframe.org [110502 16:13]: Add an option to make compression of ramstage configurable. Right now it is always compressed. On my Thinkpad, the complete boot to grub takes 4s, with around 1s required for decompressing ramstage. This is probably caused by the fact the

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add option 'compress ramstage'

2011-05-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman ebied...@xmission.com [110502 22:00]: Sven Schnelle sv...@stackframe.org writes: Add an option to make compression of ramstage configurable. Right now it is always compressed. On my Thinkpad, the complete boot to grub takes 4s, with around 1s required for decompressing

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add option 'compress ramstage'

2011-05-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org [110502 20:34]: * Sven Schnelle sv...@stackframe.org [110502 16:13]: Add an option to make compression of ramstage configurable. Right now it is always compressed. On my Thinkpad, the complete boot to grub takes 4s, with around 1s required

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Add option 'compress ramstage'

2011-05-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman ebied...@xmission.com [110503 01:26]: Was that a destination hard code? The code itself should come out of the last couple of megabytes before 4G. Yes. Only the lower 1MB of the destination memory was cached, while coreboot's ram stage is now copied to 1MB. My other mail

Re: [coreboot] use gcc 4.6.0 link time optimization to reduce coreboot execution time

2011-04-28 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 4/28/11 8:01 PM, Scott Duplichan wrote: Adds a kconfig option to enable gcc link time optimization. Link time optimization reduces both rom stage and ram stage image size by removing unused functions and data. Reducing the image size saves boot time by minimizing the flash memory read and

Re: [coreboot] Sun Ultra 40 M2

2011-04-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Thom Lauret diracsh...@gmail.com [110427 17:05]: Hey all, I know the Sun Ultra 40 has a coreboot image available but is anyone working on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 ? You will have to make a new port. Give it a try and let us know how it goes. Thanks, Stefan -- coreboot mailing list:

Re: [coreboot] Issues porting the Iwave raibowG6

2011-04-26 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 26.04.2011, at 07:40, Den nis dnns...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Im trying to port the iwave RainbowG6 coreboot code to a platform with the same CPU (Intel Atom Z530) and chipset (Intel US15W), 1GB RAM (2 ranks, 1024 Mbits device density, x16 device width) and a winbond WPCN381U superio

Re: [coreboot] [patch] update ddr3 max frequency

2011-04-26 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de [110426 16:41]: Am 26.04.2011 15:59, schrieb Marc Jones: We found this with some testing at BTDC. This patch sets max freq defaults for ddr2 and ddr3for fam10. It may be overridden by a developer setting it in romstage.c. Please find a better place

Re: [coreboot] coreboot Digest, Vol 74, Issue 74

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 25.04.2011, at 03:07, Paulo Alexandre A.P. de Oliveira paulopeixotoolive...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to make a question: Is Toshiba NB305 netbook supported by coreboot? No. Stefan If so what bios flashing program should i use? Flash Rom or the manufacturer proprietary one?

Re: [coreboot] coreboot and Clang/LLVM

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Антон Кочков anton.koch...@gmail.com [110423 06:55]: Hello! I'm trying to build coreboot with Clang/LLVM. Why? Because Clang produce nice error/warning messages, which help find a bugs. Here will be discussion about such things. Attached first log: ROMCC

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] console/console.h cleanup

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org [110416 02:11]: * Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org [110414 23:46]: See patch - include usbdebug.c where appropriate - don't do ne2k_transmit()s without actual output Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina

[coreboot] [PATCH] Initialize i8259 in i82371eb southbridge code

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
This should allow to get rid of a hack when running u-boot as a coreboot payload. Stefan Initialize i8259 in the i82371eb southbridge (isa/lpc) code. All southbridges should do this, yet almost none do. Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org diff --git a/src/southbridge

Re: [coreboot] coreboot and Clang/LLVM

2011-04-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se [110425 22:48]: Антон Кочков wrote: ROMCC mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.inc clang -m32 -MM -MTbuild/mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/bootblock.inc \ I don't believe you can replace romcc with clang. This is just the dependency run failing. We

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH 1/4] ADVANSUS a785e-i Mainboard support

2011-04-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* She, Kerry kerry@amd.com [110422 05:08]: Hello, ADVANSUS a785e-i Mainboard support RS880(RS785E)+SB820 platform Signed-off-by: Kerry She kerry@amd.com Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reina...@coreboot.org -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http

Re: [coreboot] [Patch 2/4] compile sb800 code without agesav5

2011-04-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* She, Kerry kerry@amd.com [110422 05:12]: Signed-off-by: Kerry She kerry@amd.com SB800 CIMX code can share the AGESA V5 lib code, some platform only use sb800 cimx code, not use AGESA v5 code, compile the sb800 cimx and AGESA v5 lib code. Signed-off-by: Kerry She

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