> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rudolf Marek > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:37 PM > To: Coreboot > Cc: Kevin O'Connor > Subject: [coreboot] windows XP boots with ACPI HAL > > Hi all, > > I had a time and finally Windows XP boots with Coreboot + Seabios. In fact > it > was a clean install of WXP SP2. All went fine, windows work. > > I'm attaching two patches. The first (acpi-fixes2) fixes the ACPI related > problems. Some of them were identified previously by Kevin. I had just > solve > right _CRS reporting for PCI0 (as required by windows). This is > accomplished > with the k8-utils.asl code from Aruma. There was some problem, which I > fixed > simply by deleting that section of the code. I used acpiexec from ACPICA > tools > to debug the ACPI code (acpica-unix-20081204/tools/acpiexec). > > What was the missing part? Windows requires right _CRS reporting of PCI0 > bus. > Windows needs to know platform independent way, how is I/O routed on PCI0 > bus > (and other busses). For K8 it means to read the I/O and MMIO routing > registers > (same as k8resdump provides) and make it ACPI object. This was perhaps > done > previously on Aruma board. The actual PCI regs are read in acpi-k8 in > modelf and > stored as SSDT table. The k8-util.asl code will construct the resources > from > that SSDT table. The only catch was that it orinally added for SB also a > resource from TOM to PCI0_min. Which was invalid. This part was simply > deleted > as I did not need it and it was wrong anyway. > > The k8-util file is copyright by AMD but no licence. I just deleted small > part > so I did not added myself there. > > The attached patch fixes: > The FADT bootarch flags > Blacklists MSI for this chipset (maybe not needed) How could you test this?
> Adds modified amdk8_util.asl > Adds the SSDT table to chain of tables > Aligns the FACS correctly (this should be done for other boards) Should we put your align macros somewhere so all boards can use them? > Adds the _CRS method to Asus M2V-MX SE acpi DSDT. > Fixes the FACS table length. > > The second patch just monitors what else is needed to be able to boot > SeaBIOS > with ACPI and K8M890 VGA ROM. > > Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <[email protected]> Can we be sure about blacklisting MSI? Everything else: Acked-by: Myles Watson <[email protected]> Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
