Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Mack
No hint, anyone? On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:44:15PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:59:01PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: Daniel Mack wrote: the effect is harder to trigger when booting from an external LPC flash emulator (in contrast to coreboot flashed to the internal

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Myles Watson
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Daniel Mack dan...@caiaq.de wrote: No hint, anyone? Maybe you could zero all the RAM. If you have to power it down for a specific amount of time, that could be the time for the RAM to lose its state. If that works, you could start finding uninitialized variables

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Mack dan...@caiaq.de wrote: No hint, anyone? Just about every time I had this problem on my geodes it was a problem with dram. Just about every time. It's quite weird how well DRAM can work even if it has not been programmed correctly. The correspondance

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel Mack
Hi Ron, thanks for your answer. On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:03:14AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Mack dan...@caiaq.de wrote: No hint, anyone? Just about every time I had this problem on my geodes it was a problem with dram. Just about every time. It's

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Mack
(sorry I can't post a proper reply message, I picked that up from the archives) Nathan Williams nathan at traverse.com.au wrote: I am suspicious that the reset problem only occurs when I'm using a laptop hard drive off the 44pin IDE connector on our board. I have tried booting with a 3.5

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Stuge
Daniel Mack wrote: the effect is harder to trigger when booting from an external LPC flash emulator (in contrast to coreboot flashed to the internal LPC). Then you could experiment with a few different flash chips. PC Engines makes a nice and neat Flash recovery board, which plugs onto the

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Mack
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:59:01PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: Daniel Mack wrote: the effect is harder to trigger when booting from an external LPC flash emulator (in contrast to coreboot flashed to the internal LPC). Then you could experiment with a few different flash chips. PC

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-30 Thread Marc Jones
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Nathan Williams wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-30 Thread Nathan Williams
Marc Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Nathan Williams wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-27 Thread Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: I managed to get the commercial BIOS to boot on my board and diffed it

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-25 Thread Nathan Williams
Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: I managed to get the commercial BIOS to boot on my board and diffed it with coreboot:

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-24 Thread Nathan Williams
Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: I managed to get the commercial BIOS to boot on my board and diffed it with coreboot: http://coreboot.pastebin.com/m39b22c21 The only differences I can see are related to interrupts, which

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-24 Thread Marc Jones
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: I managed to get the commercial BIOS to boot on my board and diffed it with coreboot:

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-23 Thread Marc Jones
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Another

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-22 Thread Nathan Williams
Marc Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Another observation I made was that by setting the debug_level to BIOS_CRIT, instead of dying at

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-10 Thread Nathan Williams
Marc Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Another observation I made was that by setting the debug_level to BIOS_CRIT, instead of dying at the usual spot in disable_car() and stopping, coreboot would reset continuously (cycling every 1-2

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-10 Thread Marc Jones
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Another observation I made was that by setting the debug_level to BIOS_CRIT, instead of dying at the usual spot in

Re: [coreboot] GeodeLX RAM initialisation issue

2009-11-09 Thread Marc Jones
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Nathan Williams nat...@traverse.com.au wrote: Marc Jones wrote: When linux does the reset, is the coreboot output the same? Does it do the Resetting the processor? Yes, it does Resetting the processor after PLL configuration for the changes to take effect I