On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:57:35AM -0400, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > Joe Korty <[email protected]> writes: > > As a first time coreboot user, I thought that I should first try it out > > on a supported board. That way I would learn the ropes a bit before even > > thinking about doing something more challenging. > > > > Naturally I am having troubles. I suspect that as a newbie I am probably > > doing something stupid. But then I've heard that mb manufacturers like > > to change things around without notice, so maybe I'm doing things right > > and what was once a supported mb, no longer is. > > > > The hardware: > > SuperMicro H8DME-2. > > Four 1Gbyte DDR2-667/533/400 Registered ECC SDRAM sticks from Crucial. > > Two Quad-Core AMD 2378 2.4 GHz Processors. > > Onboard video. > > One SATA disk. > > One PATA DVD-ROM reader. > > NULL modem serial cable from COM1 to COM1 on another PC. > > > > The details: > > When booting coreboot, nothing happens for about 45 seconds. > > Then the fans speed up to high and some messages start appearing > > on the serial line. These messages print rather slowly (maybe > > 1 second/message). They are: > > > > coreboot-4.0-r5521M Wed May 5 10:53:42 EDT 2010 starting... > > *sysinfo range: [000cf000,000cf730] > > bsp_apicid=00 > > Enabling routing table for node 00 done. > > Enabling SMP settings > > (0,1) link=00 > > This looks like the bootup code for gen f Opterons. It doesn't look > like the h8dme has a fam10 variant yet, which is what you need for the > 2378 CPUs.
Thanks Arne! I'll have to figure out how to proceed from here. On a side note, it _looks_ like the slowdown might be due to the udelay unification. Still bisecting. Joe -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
