Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-15 Thread awokd via coreboot
On Fri, December 15, 2017 10:00 am, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > awokd, could you please answer some questions: > > 1) From where you got that 0x06001119 microcode patch? > Is it a trusted source of a microcode? (hope its directly from AMD) > > > 2) Is there any way to determine that 0x06001119 is really t

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-15 Thread Ivan Ivanov
awokd, could you please answer some questions: 1) From where you got that 0x06001119 microcode patch? Is it a trusted source of a microcode? (hope its directly from AMD) 2) Is there any way to determine that 0x06001119 is really the latest microcode? Or there could be more recent versions availab

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-13 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Congratulations for following through on the investigation :D I am not sure how to do a commit, but I hope you are able to find out as you will have helped a lot of people. I am pleased with myself for noticing that the lack of microcode updates was the issue - as the CPU is similar to a pile

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-11 Thread awokd
On Mon, December 11, 2017 12:56 am, awokd wrote: > I got it [after many days of research and trial]! I had to update > src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/Family/0x15/TN/F15TnEquivalenceTable.c > from: > > STATIC CONST UINT16 ROMDATA CpuF15TnMicrocodeEquivalenceTable[] = > { > 0x6101, 0x6101

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-10 Thread awokd
On Fri, December 1, 2017 12:10 pm, awokd wrote: > On Thu, November 30, 2017 05:38, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: >>> Last resort is to flash back the OEM image but I'm hoping to avoid that. >> >> I would suggest to do this step now. As interim step, Then you can verify > Thanks, will report back > on

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-01 Thread awokd
On Fri, December 1, 2017 15:33, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > I have thought that if Qubes sees HVM available it is always using it. > (so if Qubes reports to you that HVM is enabled, that means its using > HVM and without any problems). Am I wrong here? That's true of 4.0 but not 3.2. Look for virt_mode

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-12-01 Thread awokd
On Thu, November 30, 2017 05:38, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: >> Last resort is to flash back the OEM image but I'm hoping to avoid that. > > I would suggest to do this step now. As interim step, Then you can verify > everything you are trying to do > with Coreboot. The first and obvious step is to c

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-11-29 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
> Last resort is to flash back the OEM image but I'm hoping to avoid that. I would suggest to do this step now. As interim step, Then you can verify everything you are trying to do with Coreboot. The first and obvious step is to check for MCU using dmesg, if any exists. If yes, the next step, prob

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-11-29 Thread awokd
On Wed, November 29, 2017 16:35, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi awokd, Hi and thanks for your reply! > are you sure that your HVM is correctly installed / has a > correct config ? > Because: you may have heard about Qubes OS - excellent OS which is based > on Xen, > has the same and even stronger securit

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-11-29 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hi awokd, are you sure that your HVM is correctly installed / has a correct config ? Because: you may have heard about Qubes OS - excellent OS which is based on Xen, has the same and even stronger security than Xen in some cases, and it is working perfectly at Lenovo G505S laptop with coreboot inst

[coreboot] Lenovo G505s AMD Hardware Virtualization

2017-11-28 Thread awokd
Have been struggling for the past couple months to get Xen hardware virtualization working on this Corebooted laptop. Paravirtualized VMs work, but whenever I start a fully virtualized VM (HVM) it hard freezes the entire system- no keyboard or mouse response. No related output is showing in any log