Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-22 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:19:04PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:30PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > That worked! > > Great! > > > OK, I can now get to the boot menu, which is great. > > > > I

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:30PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > That worked! Great! > OK, I can now get to the boot menu, which is great. > > Ideally though, all output starting from 'Starting Seabios' would end up on > seria

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:30PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > > Now - the reason why I

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Ward Vandewege wrote: > Perhaps seabios could treat an optionrom with name > genroms/sgabios.rom as special and load it before all other option > roms? It would be nice if there was a more generic mechanism. SysV init script style comes to my mind immediately but that probably isn't the best way.

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios > > > console > > > outpu

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios > > > console > > > outpu

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios console > > output on serial. > > > > As you can see in the logs, sgabios is loaded too late to

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-21 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:25:35PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > Yes, that fixes the sgabios loading. Log files: > > > > with CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL set: > > > > > > http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090515-seabios-sg

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Yes, that fixes the sgabios loading. Log files: > > with CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL set: > > > http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090515-seabios-sgabios-serial-debug-on.cap > > (the seabios serial detection issue still persi

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-15 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios console > output on serial. > > As you can see in the logs, sgabios is loaded too late to be much use for > that (after the disk detection, and after seabios print

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-15 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:19:33AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:23:52PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > which is correct (the last two digits are 00). > > > > Huh: > > > > $ v ../payloads/sgabios.bin > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root src 3169 2009-04-29 13:56 ../payloads/sgab

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-15 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:07:46PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29:27PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > If CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL is set to 1, the bug persists, but sgabios works. > > Boot log: > > > > > > http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090513-seabios-se

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:23:52PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > which is correct (the last two digits are 00). > > Huh: > > $ v ../payloads/sgabios.bin > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root src 3169 2009-04-29 13:56 ../payloads/sgabios.bin* > $ tools/checksum.py <../payloads/sgabios.bin > sum=50b76 Heh - sg

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-13 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:07:46PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46:11AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04:07PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > > This looks to be an issue with SeaBIOS serial port detection. Can you > > > retry with the lat

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-13 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46:11AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04:07PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > This looks to be an issue with SeaBIOS serial port detection. Can you > > retry with the latest seabios git? Make sure CONFIG_SERIAL is enabled > > in SeaBIOS as g

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-13 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46:11AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04:07PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:16:47PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > I'm seeing the exact same issue on m57sli (which is also mcp55 based, > > > however). Has anyon

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-13 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04:07PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:16:47PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > I'm seeing the exact same issue on m57sli (which is also mcp55 based, > > however). Has anyone else tried coreboot + SeaBIOS + grub with serial? > > This looks to b

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-12 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:16:47PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > I'm seeing the exact same issue on m57sli (which is also mcp55 based, > however). Has anyone else tried coreboot + SeaBIOS + grub with serial? This looks to be an issue with SeaBIOS serial port detection. Can you retry with the lat

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:40:16PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:18:45PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > >> So - here's the problem with the sgabios approach. Unless I'm > >> misunderstanding how this works, using

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-05-01 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:39:31PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:26:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > What's really odd, is that if I have sgabios on, then grub does work > > okay. I didn't catch this last night because I was also playing with > > sgabios at the sam

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-30 Thread Myles Watson
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:18:45PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: >> So - here's the problem with the sgabios approach. Unless I'm >> misunderstanding how this works, using sgabios means that I'd have >> to disable serial in any payload starte

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:26:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > What's really odd, is that if I have sgabios on, then grub does work > okay. I didn't catch this last night because I was also playing with > sgabios at the same time. As a guess, sgabios is reinitializing the > serial port back to

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:18:45PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > So - here's the problem with the sgabios approach. Unless I'm > misunderstanding how this works, using sgabios means that I'd have > to disable serial in any payload started from grub, as well? It seems to work fine under qemu. In

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-30 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:00:59PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:04:32PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > I tried exactly that today (gmta ;), but that didn't seem to work for me - > > and SeaBIOS complained about an option rom checksum mismatch on the > > sgabios.bin op

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:04:32PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > I tried exactly that today (gmta ;), but that didn't seem to work for me - > and SeaBIOS complained about an option rom checksum mismatch on the > sgabios.bin option rom. That's odd - it works fine for me. Can you confirm the sgabi

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-29 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:08:22PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:10:23PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > I've been experimenting with SeaBIOS, and I like what I'm seeing a lot. > > Great > > work Kevin! > > Thanks! > > > Feature request: I'd really like a serial cons

Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:10:23PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > I've been experimenting with SeaBIOS, and I like what I'm seeing a lot. Great > work Kevin! Thanks! > Feature request: I'd really like a serial console for SeaBIOS. I 'd like > serial to just mirror the VGA console so that either c

[coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

2009-04-29 Thread Ward Vandewege
I've been experimenting with SeaBIOS, and I like what I'm seeing a lot. Great work Kevin! I think I found one bug, and I have a feature request. Feature request: I'd really like a serial console for SeaBIOS. I 'd like serial to just mirror the VGA console so that either could be used for viewing