[coreboot] AMD Phenom II 1055T was : Hackaton in Prague 2011

2011-07-12 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 05:04:43PM +0200, Florentin Demetrescu wrote: > > - my objective was to install coreboot on my new board MA785GMT-UDH2. I had > bring with me a Phenom II 1055T CPU with 6 cores. Unfortunately I met big > problems because: [...] > coreboot and give it a run, but I will do th

[coreboot] Do they preinstall coreboot from factory already ?

2011-08-24 Thread xdrudis
I've just seen these news about a new vehicle PC with 5 seconds boot time thanks to coreboot, but there is no information on pricing, software (if any, maybe it is sold without hard disks ?) or firmware (apparently they would ship it with coreboot, but the datasheet does only say "supports AMD

Re: [coreboot] coreboot support/port for Asus M3A78-EM matherboard?

2011-08-26 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:37:58PM -0700, SAL-e wrote: > Hi, > > I have old Asus M3A78-EM [1] board inside my HTPC. I'm looking to > speed up the boot process of my HTPC. I have heard that coreboot can > boot directly into Linux or GRUB. I checked the supported list and > found out that my board i

Re: [coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: b0cd5ca Add AMD Family 10h PH-EO support

2011-09-14 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:18:24PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f12/Proc/CPU/Family/0x10/RevE > > /F10MicrocodePatch01bf.c > > 2. I do not understand the commit message. What do you mean with patch > file? In this patch you are only adding a header file. > It

Re: [coreboot] M.Sc. thesis on x86 firmware alternatives

2012-01-11 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:41:49PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2012, 19:50 +0100 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > > Thanks a lot > > I second that! Thank you very much and congrats for finishing your > thesis. > +1 -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org ht

Re: [coreboot] Binary blobs in the source tree (was: Re: New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets)

2012-04-16 Thread xdrudis
Sorry for the rant, it's not aimed at any particular person, just to blobs which I don't think should get into coreboot. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Andrew Goodbody wrote: > To be honest I don't see the difference between having binary blobs > in a separate repo and having them in t

Re: [coreboot] building a coreboot (and 100% free software) compatible box

2013-02-07 Thread xdrudis
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 04:13:00PM +0100, "Kristóf, Csillag" wrote: > It seems that you are right. Yes, I'm afraid we lose. I'd love to hear about any success however, I'd be interested in such a system. At least with regards to freedom my requirements are the same, performance and features are m

Re: [coreboot] building a coreboot (and 100% free software) compatible box

2013-02-08 Thread xdrudis
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:52:47PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > on the radeon of the M4A785T-M (01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: > Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]) it can: > some time ago I commented the VGA option rom running but kept it in > memory and it w

Re: [coreboot] Microcodes

2013-04-06 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:47:06PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > Is the inclusion of the microcode in GPLv2 source code compatible with > the GPLv2? I think the correct thing legally would be to load the microcode from a file (or let the CPU work with the factory microcode and not update

[coreboot] [PATCH] small fix in mct_ddr3: missing brackets in if

2010-09-27 Thread xdrudis
Hello. While trying the latest svn code I've seen curious results. It mostly works better than before but still hangs at various places (it seems random which one of the places reaches at each boot attempt). Since I haven't finished fixes in fidvid.c it may well be that. But if I turn on post to

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] small fix in mct_ddr3: missing brackets in if

2010-09-27 Thread xdrudis
Sorry, I'm asleep, this patch is better. Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran Index: src/northbridge/amd/amdmct/mct_ddr3/mct_d.c === --- src/northbridge/amd/amdmct/mct_ddr3/mct_d.c (revision 5864) +++ src/northbridge/amd/amdmct/mct_ddr3

[coreboot] DUAL_VDD_BIT in cpu/amd/model_10xxx/fidvid.c

2010-09-29 Thread xdrudis
Hello. I'm looking at the fidvid code while trying to make it work for more revisions and so on, and I don't understand its logic. at src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/fidvid.c line 260 (in prep_fid_change()) it tests F3xA0[31] to tell whether it's in a dual power plane configuration. But according to

Re: [coreboot] coreboot certified hardware

2010-10-03 Thread xdrudis
My .02 from an end user (wannabe) pov: In general I agree with Warren Turkal: I'd like a certification that ensures coreboot and free sofware work with the hardware, irrelevant of what happens with non-free software. I don't mind having other certification (tags) for non-free software for whoev

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5976 - trunk/src/cpu/amd/car

2010-10-20 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:20:12PM -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote: >movl $(log2(CONFIG_MMCONF_BUS_NUMBER) << 2), %eax I have no idea of gas, but log2(x) for integer x > 0 is the position of the leftmost 1 in the binary representation of x (position 0=rightmost). int log2(unsigned int x) {

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5976 - trunk/src/cpu/amd/car

2010-10-20 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:20:12PM -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote: > But gas has no base 2 log function and could not figure out how to > write a macro that returns a constant. > Sorry, ignore my previous post . I misread and answered without thinking. It was about gas, not about log2. I'm surpri

Re: [coreboot] Questions about more AMD related flags

2010-11-06 Thread xdrudis
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:11:28PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > SET_FIDVID*: > These have _very_ weird behaviour, being set to some defaults in the two > init_cpus.c (and fidvid.c seems to expect to be included after that > one?), and some other settings somewhere else. > I tried to untangle that

Re: [coreboot] Buying a new mainboard. Which vendors support coreboot?

2010-11-06 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:52:27PM +0200, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi, > > I would like a mainboard from a vendor that supports coreboot, but also > has an Intel GMA(3D acceleration) on the same mainboard.(Intel GMA > because of my percieved 'good 3D FLOSS drivers'...though irrelevant to > coreb

Re: [coreboot] Questions about more AMD related flags

2010-11-06 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:32:30PM +0100, xdrudis wrote: > > So I would suppose you don't really need to check all cores in > a processor. If they share the northbridge how could they > require different frequencies for it ?. But this is only with > respect to the frecuenc

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Move SET_FIDVID* to Kconfig

2010-11-06 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:56:45PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Hi, > > I moved the SET_FIDVID family of configuration options to Kconfig, > adapting its use (CONFIG_ prefix), and tried to minimize the board > specific settings. > > They get some defaults in src/cpu/amd/model_*xx/Kconfig, which

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH]Move SET_FIDVID* to Kconfig

2010-11-07 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 08:37:00AM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Am 07.11.2010 02:28, schrieb xdrudis: > It is an option right now (just in romstage.c) - maybe we should drop > some of these options on Fam10 completely (and their uses as well), but > for now all I want to do is

Re: [coreboot] coreboot on dell mini 9

2010-11-07 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:16:28PM +0100, HacKurx wrote: > Please can someone help me know if I can install coreboot on my Laptop? I haven't looked at the components, but I hear that in general laptops are very difficult. I guess it has improved with usb console but still, assuming that the chip

[coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-15 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:07:50PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010, um 20:17:18 schrieb Xavi Drudis Ferran: > > If the later I don't like the idea and at least I would like a huge > > warning "BLOBS IN HERE !!!" at the end of the make output. > I avoid the term "blob"

Re: [coreboot] To bin or not to bin. was: Allow components to add files to CBFS

2010-12-17 Thread xdrudis
Warning: long, personal, philosophical, not even very original or insightful. Read at your leisure or not at all. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:14:29AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > While that last conclusion might sound logical, loading something at > runtime rather than onto a masked rom or F

Re: [coreboot] enabling expert mode -> build fails (warnings treated as errors) on fam10 boards

2011-01-13 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:57:39PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > Looks like a piece of Kconfig patch went missing? > I don't know but I think I already saw this last august. I didn't care because I didn't know what I wanted expert mode for, so I just disabled it. I was never sure whether it

[coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-29 Thread xdrudis
Hello. This patch works for me but needs a small function calc_id_buffer for each board/cpu/whatever. I only made one for amd quadcore because it is what I have. My board does not get to ramstage, so it might not work there. It works for my serial console but should work for net or usb if I'm no

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-30 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:09:05AM +0100, xdrudis wrote: > is what I have. My board does not get to ramstage, so it might not > work there. It works for my serial console but should work for net or Ok, now I see it. It won't work with sprintf in ramstage. I shouldn't have mo

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-30 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:09:05AM +0100, xdrudis wrote: > formats output. If someone has more than 16 cores does she really > want to see ouput from all at a time? Redefining the weak function > calc_id_buffer you can choose to have some of them mix into the same > buffer or jus

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-30 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:58PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * xdrudis [110130 15:46]: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:09:05AM +0100, xdrudis wrote: > > > is what I have. My board does not get to ramstage, so it might not > > > work there. It works for my serial

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-30 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:07:52PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * xdrudis [110130 20:59]: > > Yes, it'd be mostly unneeded, but anyway the patch I sent does not > > disable it in ramstage. So it still causes sprintf to consume > > the double of bytes maybe beyon

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] [sort of] multiplex console output from each core

2011-01-30 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 01:05:54PM -0700, Marc Jones wrote: > > I think that the locking can be added via the BSPs cache. All > multicore should use CAR and it is a matter of adding it where it > won't get stepped on by the normal use of CAR. For AMD fam10, the > sysinfo setup would need to be fix

Re: [coreboot] searching volunteer to install coreboot on asus m4a78 pro

2011-02-11 Thread xdrudis
My setup is similar to yours, I bought it trying to get easy coreboot support (easy, not immediate, and also some features), I've spent some 6 months trying to "install coreboot" and it still does not boot. But I'm not experienced in low level programming and I don't have that much spare time to

Re: [coreboot] searching volunteer to install coreboot on asus m4a78 pro

2011-02-12 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:33:44PM +0100, xdrudis wrote: > http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=W25Q80BVDAIG-ND > Forgot to say: this is the one I bought (thanks to Rudolf Marek for the advice) and it's working here with flashrom. The original chip in m

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 01/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patchPrepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . prep_fid_change was already long and it'd get longer with forthcoming patches. We now

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 02/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . prep_fid_change was already long and it'd get longer with forthcoming patches. W

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 03/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . prep_fid_change was already long and it'd get longer with forthcoming patches.

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 04/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . prep_fid_change was already long and it'd get longer with forthcoming patches. W

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 05/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . prep_fid_change was already long and it'd get longer with forthcoming patches. We

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 06/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid. Factor out a little common code. Also, our earlier config_clk_power_ctrl_reg0 was

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 07/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). No change of behaviour intended. Refactor FAM10 fidvid . Factor out the decision whether to update northbridge frequency and voltage becau

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 08/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Prepare for next patches (Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode). As suggested by a FIXME, factor out the common code in init_fidvid_ap and init_fidvid_core and put it into a new function init_fidvid_core

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 09/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Bring F3xD4 (Clock/Power Control Register 0) more in line with BKDG i more cases. It requires looking at the CPU package type so I add a function for that (in the wr

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 10/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. I didn't understand quite why it did that iwth F3xA0 (Power Control Misc Register) so I moved Pll Lock time to rules in defaults.h and reimplemented F3xA0 programming.

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 11/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. BKDG says nbSynPtrAdj may also be 6 sometimes. Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/fidvid.c 2011-02-13 19:30:42.0 +0100 +++ src/c

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 12/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Configuration of F3x[84:80] was hardcoded for rev B. I change that for some code that checks for revision and configures according to BKDG. Unfinished but hopefully

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 13/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Contemplate the possibility of nbCofVidUpdate not being defined, trying to get closer to BKDG Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/fidvid

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 14/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Factor out some common expressions. Add an error message when coreboots hangs waiting for a pstate that never comes (it happened to me), and throw some paranoia at it

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 15/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Looking at BKDG the process for updating Pstate Nb vid after warn reset seemed more similar to the codethat was there fo pvi than the one for svi, so I called the pv

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 16/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Add to init_fidvid_stage2 some step for my CPU (rev C3) mentioned in BKDG 2.4.2.6 (5) that was missing Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/amd/model_

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 17/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Add to init_fidvid_stage2 some step mentioned in BKDG 2.4.2.7 that was missing . Some lines are dead code now, but may handy if one day we support revison E CPUs.

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 18/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Add an untested step in BKDG 2.4.2.8. I don't have the hardware with Core Performance Boost and I think it's only available in revision E that does not even have a c

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 19/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Well, I understand it better like this, but maybe it's only me, part of the changes are paranoic, and the only effective change is for a factor depending on mobile

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 20/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. bits 13 - 15 of F3xd4 (StutterScrubEn, CacheFlushImmOnAllHalt and MTC1eEn are reserved for revisions D0 and earlier, so whe should not set them to 0 in fidvid.c conf

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 21/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. In fact I changed coreDelay before deleting the code in fidvid that called it. But there're still a couple of calls from src/northbridge/amd/amdmct/wrappers/mcti_d.c S

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 22/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. I don't understand what this was doing nor find docs for these regs Maybe it was left over from some copy & paste ? Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/a

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 23/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. I remove an unused parameter and a duplicated constant. Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/fidvid.c 2011-02-16 01:08:16.0 +0100

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 24/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch Improving BKDG implementation of P-states, CPU and northbridge frequency and voltage handling for Fam 10 in SVI mode. Documentation only. Adding a checklist to tell which function takes care of which requirement of BKDG . Signed-off-by: Xavi Drudis Ferran --- src/cpu/amd/model_1

[coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 25/25

2011-02-16 Thread xdrudis
see patch -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-19 Thread xdrudis
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Hi Xavi, > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:45:02PM +0100, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote: > > Should I send a patch making a Kconfig option to not upgrade microcode for > > fam10? Is there any interest in that ? > > Yes, please. I would t

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-22 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:44:35AM -0600, Scott Duplichan wrote: > > This really isn't relevant, but microcode patch source code > certainly exists, as does source code for the main microcode > that the patch modifies. A microcode assembler converts the > source code into binary form. > I think i

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Fam10 FIDVID in SVI 01/25

2011-02-24 Thread xdrudis
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:31:29PM +0100, Georgi, Patrick wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2011, 07:35 +0100 schrieb xdrudis: > > see patch > Any opinion on these patches? Patch 1-8 seem to be refactorings only, > and splitting functions into smaller logical units looks good to me,

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-25 Thread xdrudis
This is the patch for option B. You may not be able to test it without my next patch. At least for me selectiong EXPERT in make menuconfig breaks the build. Next patch fixes it. Make patching cpu microcode optional (for experts). It's been requested to not link update_microcode.c in that case,

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-25 Thread xdrudis
This patch tries to fix compilation when you select EXPERT in make menuconfig. If I select Expert mode in make menuconfig I couldn't compile because it complained of 2 missing configuration constants. I hope this is the right solution, but haven't really checked that the related code in src/nor

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:53:43AM +0200, Alex G. wrote: > On 02/26/2011 03:39 AM, xdrudis wrote: > > This patch tries to fix compilation when you select EXPERT in make > > menuconfig. > > > HT Frequencies are multiples of 200MHz AFAIK, so there are no 300MHz and > 5

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 04:01:56AM +0200, Alex G. wrote: > On 02/26/2011 03:38 AM, xdrudis wrote: > > This is the patch for option B. > > > > You may not be able to test it without my next patch. At least for me > > selectiong EXPERT in make menuconfig breaks the

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > xdrudis wrote: > > > HT Frequencies are multiples of 200MHz AFAIK, so there are no > > > 300MHz and 500MHz. > .. > > Oh! You may well be right. All others are multiples of 200 MHz . > > > >

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Alex G. wrote: > I look at the microcode as simply DIP switches used to configure the IRQ > line on the hardware. If the manual (microcode updates) gives me > erroneous information, then I put the switches back to their initial > position (factory microcod

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] disabling microcode update

2011-02-27 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:30:19AM +0200, Alex G. wrote: > On 02/27/2011 12:46 AM, xdrudis wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Alex G. wrote: >>> You will disagree and say that, as long as >>> it can be updated, and source code exists for it, it is

Re: [coreboot] Support for Core i3 and better

2011-03-12 Thread xdrudis
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:49:50PM +0200, Alex G. wrote: > > 1. Does Coreboot work with Phenom II Thuban CPU ? I want 6-core CPU of > > Phenom2 > > > It's supported. > I didn't know this had been tested. It's a little difficult for me to keep track of all mail in the list. http://www.coreboot.o

Re: [coreboot] Mail from a student who wants to apply for coreboot GSoC project

2011-03-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:58:54PM +0800, Hamo wrote: > Hi lists, > This is a student from China who wants to apply for coreboot GSoC > project. I am now studying Computer Science and Technology in Hebei > University of Technology, which is a key university in China. I > ardently love low-level dev

Re: [coreboot] [GSoC] Coreboot Spice Payload

2011-03-26 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:49:49PM -0400, Leandro Dorileo wrote: Excuse my ignorace, but you say : > > [1] - http://vps.dorilex.net/~dorileo/coreboot-spice-payload.txt > > 3. Coreboot Spice Payload > > Spice building blocks are Spice

Re: [coreboot] Mail from a student who wants to apply for coreboot GSoC project

2011-03-28 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:06:55AM +0800, Hamo wrote: > All of the free bootloaders now are focus on embedded systems, but > with the development of ARM architecture, it will not only be used on > embedded systems but also servers and low power consumption PCs. So we > need a full-function bootloa

[coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-12 Thread xdrudis
Hello. First things first: thank you all for working in coreboot, yet another free software project I wouldn't think possible if you hadn't made it real. I've been reading the archives and browsing coreboot.org, but I have little clue about firmware so I still have doubts I would like to clear

Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-13 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:44:02AM -0600, Marc Jones wrote: > Hi Xavi, > > Thanks for your interest in coreboot. This is a long email! :) > I'm bad at summarizing. Sorry. > > VGA BIOS is not required. You could have a headless system. Or a > system with a framebuffer driver like Geode. > Hea

Re: [coreboot] Doubts about necessity of propietary parts in the firmware

2010-04-17 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:18:50AM +0800, Qing Pei Wang wrote: > the 780 mainboard which coreboot support now is mahogany. I am trying to > porting a few more > mainboard as GSOC project. the mainboard i choose at this moment is > 1)Shine,2)Tilapia,3)Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H,4)ASUS M4A78-VM 5)Colorf

Re: [coreboot] [patch] DDR3 support of AMD Family 10

2010-04-23 Thread xdrudis
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:24:43AM +0800, Bao, Zheng wrote: > DDR3 supporting is added. > Thank you very much. I would thank you more but I'm too busy looking at what to buy from AMD... -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Dualbios on GA-MA770-UD3

2010-04-24 Thread xdrudis
Thank you for your work on Dual BIOS. What I don't understand is how is this supposed to work. >From what you say and what I asked sales cotact staff at gigabyte (no very useful insights) , there are two bios roms. One has the ability to check the other and run it only if it detects it's ok. If i

Re: [coreboot] Dualbios on GA-MA770-UD3

2010-04-25 Thread xdrudis
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Am 24.04.2010 19:43, schrieb xdrudis: > They might just use a watchdog: > - BIOS 1 sets a flag > - BIOS 1 configures the watchdog to trigger when it's not touched within > 2 seconds (or whatever). watchdog wou

Re: [coreboot] Dualbios on GA-MA770-UD3

2010-04-26 Thread xdrudis
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 01:45:19PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > xdrudis wrote: > > > They might just use a watchdog: > > > > Ok. I'm rereading the link Gigabyte gave me, > > Please read the US Patent. > I wasn't aware. I hadn't read your mail wh

Re: [coreboot] Dualbios on GA-MA770-UD3

2010-04-26 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:51:40AM +0200, xdrudis wrote: > broad (they claim a computer, not merely a BIOS, a whatchdog, some No, sorry, they claim "a selectable BIOS". I misread. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] FILO bug disk not seen at ata-0 (Doesn't try to detect on ATA only SIL3114)

2010-05-19 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:45:18PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > I think you're going to want SeaBIOS if you need to install Linux from > a CD. I think filo has cd booting support, but I'd guess standard > Linux distros wont work out of the box. > Mmmm... hadn't thought of that. Just a crazy

[coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. First step: buy spare flash chips...

2010-06-03 Thread xdrudis
Hello. I finally bought the hardware I told you and installed gnewsense 3 with a custom linux-libre 2.6.34 : mainboard Asus M4A77TD-PRO http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0AvsBb7WBZe2i9zK CPU AMD Phenom X4 910e stepping c3 AMD 770 AMD SB710 RAM 2 x 4Gb dual channel non-ECC G.Skill DDR3-133

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. First step: buy spare flash chips...

2010-06-03 Thread xdrudis
I forgot to add that the mainboard did not boot when I built the PC. It would only boot once when I cleared CMOS, and then never more until I cleared it again. I could fix it by downloading a BIOS image of a newer version from asus and flashing it (with a tool called EZ flash, I think, which was

[coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
ogs, do you want my .config, all files in the new mainboard dir ? the complete patch from the base revision, the diff between my m4a77td-pro and tilapia-fam10 dirs ?) - quit and wait for someone more knowleadgeable to do the port if ever ? Thanks for your time reading this. Not that I like top postin

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > >When I boot with the propietary BIOS I can get GRUB2 and linux console > >on the serial port, but only at 38400 bps. 118000 does not work. So > >I've put 38400 in kconfig too. > > > Hm this is strange. Maybe you can try with 9600 ?

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:20:54PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > On 02.08.2010, at 12:43, xdrudis wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > >>> When I boot with the propietary BIOS I can get GRUB2 and linux console > >&

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:20:54PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > On 02.08.2010, at 12:43, xdrudis wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > >>> When I boot with the propietary BIOS I can get GRUB2 and linux console > >&

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > > I would suggest to try to make it work with serialICE first, then > fix the coreboot console as second step. Go to www.serialice.com and > download it. > > It is some kind of simple monitor which can execute various IO > operations

Re: [coreboot] ASUS M4A77TD-PRO. No boot, nothing on the serial port. I'm quite lost.

2010-08-02 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:31:01AM +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > > Well please investigate because I put there already - it is the > write to reg 0x72. There might be watchdog in SB700 datasheet says > disabled by default but dunno if there is some possibility that it > is enabled by default by s

[coreboot] Light at the other side of the null modem cable

2010-08-03 Thread xdrudis
Ok. Now I've got two lines of output in the serial port from coreboot. Thank you very much. The way I got it is a dodge but at least maybe I can now add debug messages to find the proper way. I just replaced sb700_lpc_init by the corresponding code by Rudolf Marek in the serialICE mainboard . I

Re: [coreboot] Light at the other side of the null modem cable

2010-08-03 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:22:29AM +0200, xdrudis wrote: > > I could try to add code similar to that above to serialICE and see > what happens. > Done. It now boots serialICE once and starts the shell. I haven't downloaded qemu, patched it and tested with a coreboot image (

[coreboot] [PATCH] Eliminate some warnings treated as errors

2010-08-16 Thread xdrudis
After I copied mainboard/amd/tilapia-fam10 dir for mainboard/asus/m4a77td-pro, adapted it a litlle and changed mainboard/asus/Kconfig and makemenuconfig, I had to change a few small things because I got warnings treated as erroes for unused symbols. patch.warnerror With only this patch applied

[coreboot] Ban device scan to get serialport on ASUS M4A77TD-PRO

2010-08-16 Thread xdrudis
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 06:21:31PM +0200, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote: > > Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote: > >> 1.- In order to get sb700_lpc_init in sb700_early_setup.c to work > >> I've got to modifiy pci_locate_device in order to refrain from > >> scanning some functions in pci bus 0. > > > > Hm. Which f

[coreboot] [PATCH] update processor names for AMD

2010-08-16 Thread xdrudis
Hello. This is a patch for setting the processor names updated to the same doc as the original but revision June 2010. It applies to svn 5703 and I tested it with my previous patch.warnerrors and patch.serial1 and it makes no difference. I can't tell whether it works yet, but maybe someone else

[coreboot] [PATCH] ht init and some errata for AMD fam 10 RB_C3

2010-08-16 Thread xdrudis
Hi. This is the rest of patches to get until fidvid or staring ram stage, apparently at random. In fact once I've cleaned up the other patches a little I can't seem to make it stop at fidvid as it used to, but I guess with a dozen more tries it will... It's including RB-C3 in AMD_FAM10_ALL and

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5717 - in trunk/src/superio/fintek: . f71863fg

2010-08-18 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:07:04PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > > Most of the code in these files is trivial and identical to every > other super IO, with the exception of changing the model name/number. > If we kept the copyright notices from every previous "author" of those > files, it would pro

Re: [coreboot] [commit] r5717 - in trunk/src/superio/fintek: . f71863fg

2010-08-18 Thread xdrudis
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:53:19PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > > Here's the problem: some time ago, someone wrote a superio chip.h that > contained this: > [...] Sorry, I didn't understand the problem. I thought it was triviality and it was removal of the whole contribution of a previous auth

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] ht init and some errata for AMD fam 10 RB_C3

2010-08-19 Thread xdrudis
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:44:10AM +0200, xdrudis wrote: > > I know I should split it to smaller pieces, I just haven't had > the time yet, and there's some overlap, so I must take care... > > Signed off by: Xavi Drudis Ferran > I splitted the original patch in 8

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] ht init and some errata for AMD fam 10 RB_C3

2010-08-19 Thread xdrudis
My smallest patch ever I've checked Revision Guide for AMD Family10h processors (#41322) rev 3.74 June 2010 for errata 351 and it agrees with the comment on setting ForceFullT0= 000b but I believe the code didn't honor the comment. apply this after patch.rbc3infam10all Index: src/cpu/amd/model_1

[coreboot] [PATCH] include RB_C3 in erratum 346

2010-08-19 Thread xdrudis
Signed off by: Xavi Drudis Ferran diff -r -u src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/defaults.h ../coreboot-p/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/defaults.h --- src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/defaults.h 2010-08-19 08:06:11.0 +0200 +++ ../coreboot-p/src/cpu/amd/model_10xxx/defaults.h2010-08-19 08:09:06.0 +02

[coreboot] [PATCH] Complete AMD erratum 343 workaround

2010-08-19 Thread xdrudis
Up to this patch, tests did the same as without the patches, hang after setAMDMSR , but still I think they are useful, since they get closer to documentation and don't make things worse. Signed off by: Xavi Drudis Ferran Complete code for errata 343. Revision Guide for AMD Family10h processors (

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