On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Thomas Gstädtner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 20:08, Marc Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Gstädtner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I own a Supermicro H8SCM-F-O mainboard (AMDs SP5100 Chipset), one of >>> the boards AMD as of recently claims to officially support. >>> So I decided to try coreboot, but (as expected) it is not really an >>> out-of-the-box experience. >>> >>> First of all, flashrom does not support flashing out-of-the-box, but >>> Frederic Temporelli's patches ( >>> http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3326/ and >>> http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3326/ ) work fine for me (I tested >>> multiple reads and multiple writes, always worked), I can report that >>> to the flashrom list separately if you want. >>> >>> I built coreboot from the gerrit-branch (also tried a "stable" >>> revision), coreboot-4.0-1714-gf8adf7a, using the "default" >>> board-config incl. seabios (stable) as payload. >>> After powering on nothing happens (apart from the fans running and the >>> power led flashing) and it stays that way, it is silent on VGA as well >>> as serial. >>> After manually triggering a reset I immediately get the following >>> output on serial: >>> >>> coreboot-4.0-1714-gf8adf7a Wed Oct 5 00:31:05 CEST 2011 starting... >>> BSP Family_Model: >>> >>> Here it hangs, and I don't quite know how to move on and debug the issue. >>> >>> Can you give me any hints where to go on from here? I have external >>> flashing equipment at hand (which also works fine btw.), but no fancy >>> bios-debugging hardware. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> thomasg >>> >>> P.S. In case anyone else stumbles upon it: the board has 2 separate >>> flash chips, one Macronix MX25L12845E with 128 Mbit (the SOIC16W >>> package on the left of the board) as well as a SST25VF016B, 16 Mbit, >>> as the SOIC8W on the right. The first one holds the IPMI firmware, the >>> second one the AMI BIOS. >>> Flashing requires a testclip or some really serious soldering skills. >>> Attaching a SO8 socket can only be done with hot air soldering. >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Thanks for the report. While many people overlap with the flashrom >> list, please post about those patches on that list. Seems that you >> should be able to ack them. >> >> It looks like maybe the platform build doesn't support your CPU. >> There have been a number of recent contributions from AMD, but they >> don't all align with the platform contributions. So, the H8SCM should >> support all fam10 revD, but may have issue with Fam10 rev E. To get >> more information, you can turn the console debug output to SPEW in >> menuconfig. >> >> Marc >> >> >> >> -- >> http://se-eng.com >> > > Thanks for the advice Marc, > > I already had the loglevel set to spew (8). I additionally tried the > other "Verbose output" debugging options, unfortunately I don't get > any output at all when they are built in. > Also, while it is hard to find and AMD doesn't have any official > document confirming this, according to some google hits the processor > should be revision D1 not rev E (AMD model number: OS4170OFU6DGOWOF ). > > (Sry for sending the mail twice, hit the wrong button) >
Oh, I just recalled something about the H8SCM. There is jumper to disable the bmc which might have a watchdog that coreboot can't deal with. Did you disable that? Marc -- http://se-eng.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
