Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Mansoor wrote: > > maybe the graphics driver in Linux has the ability to initialize > > hardware completely? > > I tried this option. But it didn't initialize VGA Ok. If you prefer this solution you could, as I mentioned, try to contact the Linux graphics driver developers. There are people from

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-11-01 Thread Mansoor
boot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot > > Mansoor wrote: > > I have attached the YABEL output. > > Thanks. I think it is helpful. Please follow Kevin's suggestions to > find out more about what the ROM is trying to do. > > Yes. I will do it > > Eve

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-11-01 Thread Joseph Smith
On 10/31/2009 10:29 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:14:21PM +0530, Mansoor wrote: [...] c000:0087 0f01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE c000:0087: 01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE! halt_sys: file /prdmd/coreboot-v2/src/devices/../../util/x86emu/x86emu/ops2.c, line

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Stuge
Mansoor wrote: > I have attached the YABEL output. Thanks. I think it is helpful. Please follow Kevin's suggestions to find out more about what the ROM is trying to do. > Even though coreboot does only the hardware initialization, it has > to do a VGA rom init for payloads other than seabios? V

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-31 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:14:21PM +0530, Mansoor wrote: [...] > c000:0087 0f01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE > c000:0087: 01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE! > halt_sys: file > /prdmd/coreboot-v2/src/devices/../../util/x86emu/x86emu/ops2.c, line 60 > halted > AX= BX= CX=

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-31 Thread Mansoor
- > From: Joseph Smith [mailto:j...@settoplinux.org] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 6:22 PM > To: mans...@iwavesystems.com > Cc: coreboot > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot > Importance: Low > > > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:32:03 +0

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:32:03PM +0530, mans...@iwavesystems.com wrote: > From the log you can see seabios emits some warning messages(fail > handle_155fXX) but still it continues to run the VGA ROM, where x86emu or > realmode hangs with error messages > > in seabios > fail handle_155fXX:23(86):

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread ron minnich
BTW this sort of thing can happen when the code calls a function, the stack is bad, and it returns to la-la land. That's why I'm curious about %esp. ron -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread Stefan Reinauer
ron minnich wrote: > well how about this as a first step. We're getting exception 6. What > is that again? > Also: is 0x8e41a854 even remotely valid as a bios int? > And: 8831:eb60 -- 96E70 -- is that a sensible place for the CPU to be? > > It looks to me like the stack is somewhere odd: 774a. Is t

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread ron minnich
well how about this as a first step. We're getting exception 6. What is that again? Also: is 0x8e41a854 even remotely valid as a bios int? And: 8831:eb60 -- 96E70 -- is that a sensible place for the CPU to be? It looks to me like the stack is somewhere odd: 774a. Is that right? Where does the stac

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread Peter Stuge
mans...@iwavesystems.com wrote: > Why coreboot can't run a VGA ROM which seabios can? > What is the big difference while executing VGA ROM in coreboot and > seabios? Joe already mentioned it, but there is a big different in the amount and quality of legacy BIOS interrupt services available at VGA

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread Joseph Smith
..@settoplinux.org] >>>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:32 PM >>>> To: Mansoor >>>> Cc: 'coreboot' >>>> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot >>>> >>>> On 10/29/2009 07:38 AM, Mansoor wrote: &g

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread mansoor
> > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:11:36 +0530, "Mansoor" > wrote: >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Joe [mailto:j...@settoplinux.org] >>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:32 PM >>> To: Mansoor >>>

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-30 Thread Joseph Smith
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:11:36 +0530, "Mansoor" wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Joe [mailto:j...@settoplinux.org] >> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:32 PM >> To: Mansoor >> Cc: 'coreboot' >> Subject: Re: [coreb

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-29 Thread Mansoor
> -Original Message- > From: Joe [mailto:j...@settoplinux.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:32 PM > To: Mansoor > Cc: 'coreboot' > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot > > On 10/29/2009 07:38 AM, Mansoor wrote: >

Re: [coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-29 Thread Joe
On 10/29/2009 07:38 AM, Mansoor wrote: Hi I keep getting “ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!” from my VGA ROM while trying run VGA ROM in coreboot. I tried x86emu, yabel and real mode for running VGA ROM with no luck. But the same VGA ROM is running with seabios. I am attaching the boot logs with x8

[coreboot] Error executing VGA ROM with coreboot

2009-10-29 Thread Mansoor
Hi I keep getting "ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!" from my VGA ROM while trying run VGA ROM in coreboot. I tried x86emu, yabel and real mode for running VGA ROM with no luck. But the same VGA ROM is running with seabios. I am attaching the boot logs with x86emu, real mode and with seabios.