2012/12/18 David Hubbard <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Bernhard Urban <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Rudolf Marek writes: >> >> Maybe it is slowly time to prepare a patch, I think I will need to write a >> >> porting guide + specific AGESA bits. >> > >> > I would be really helpful if you would write a guide. I've been trying to >> > port the asus m5a88 board to agesa but I haven't managed to get it working >> > correctly yet. >> > So a guide explaining how to port + AGESA would be great. >> >> +1 >> similar situation here with the asus m5a99x (yeah, progress is slow... :)) >> >> >> btw, great work ruik :-) >> > > Seconded! (Thirded?) I'd also be very interested to read a porting > guide even though I have the f2a85-m board. > > If I can assist with the m5a99x and m5a88 in any way, I'd be happy to. > > I got SerialICE to start up and respond to simple commands. (I haven't > run the BIOS image in Qemu yet, but commands such as *mb work.) > > I selected the Asus M4A77TD_PRO board. Since SerialICE only needs to > know how to init the chipset and superio enough to talk to the serial > port, this is close enough. If you'd like to try SerialICE on a board > other than mine (f2a85-m/csm) you should check src/mainboard/<your > board>/romstage.c and start at cache_as_ram_main() > > For example, src/mainboard/amd/thatcher/ > romstage.c has only a few lines before it8712f_enable_serial() gets > called. The code in it8712f_enable_serial() is also important. > > I compared the coreboot code to SerialICE/mainboard/asus_m4a77td_pro.c > chipset_init() > > The same i/o is done even though it is for a different chipset and > superio, so I decided to give it a try. I made sure to have a backup > flash chip in a safe place in case this didn't work. > > Here's a shell script to build SerialICE -- checks it out from svn,
SerialICE code is in a git repo nowadays: git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/serialice.git You should read this wiki page, http://www.coreboot.org/Git and push a changeset with git. Replace '/coreboot' with '/serialice', in this chapter: http://www.coreboot.org/Git#Pushing_changes > then builds serialice.rom in the current directory. The flash image is > filled with 0xff bytes because flashrom is smart enough to only write > to blocks that differ. SerialICE itself generates a flash image by > repeating the same 64K SerialICE rom from the start of the chip to the > end -- nothing wrong with that, I just wanted faster flashing by not > changing blocks unless necessary. > > You will most likely need to edit the script to change the size of the > flash image. SerialICE itself is only 64K, but for an 8MB flash I get: > sha256sum serialice.rom > cd5b283bdcc017b3f27ee4064b9ec238d8223a7b04a7e69cad2e85a158b3cd90 serialice.rom > > > ************************************************* > #!/bin/bash > # use set -e once errors handle ok > > MISSING="" > INSTALL="" > C="" > if type apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then > C="apt-get install" > elif type emerge >/dev/null 2>&1; then > C="emerge -av" > elif type yum >/dev/null 2>&1; then > C="yum install" > fi > export C > > add_install() > { > MISSING="$MISSING $1" > export MISSING > INSTALL="$INSTALL $2" > export INSTALL > } > > is_installed() > { > type $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || add_install $* > } > > is_installed svn subversion > is_installed gcc gcc > if [ -n "$INSTALL" ]; then > echo "Missing tools:$MISSING" > echo " Please type: sudo $C$INSTALL" > echo " and try again" > exit 1 > fi > > if [ ! -d SerialICE ]; then > svn co svn://serialice.com/serialice/trunk/SerialICE SerialICE || exit 1 > fi > > cd SerialICE || exit 1 > > # > # copy of my .config file: Asus M4A77TD_PRO board > # note: build/config.h is tightly coupled to .config: update both at > the same time > # > cat <<EOF > .config || exit 1 > CONFIG_BOARD_ASUS_M4A77TD_PRO=y > CONFIG_BOARD_INIT="asus_m4a77td-pro.c" > CONFIG_SERIAL=y > # CONFIG_USB is not set > CONFIG_SERIAL_COM1=y > # CONFIG_SERIAL_COM2 is not set > CONFIG_SERIAL_PORT=0x3f8 > CONFIG_SERIAL_115200=y > # CONFIG_SERIAL_57600 is not set > # CONFIG_SERIAL_38400 is not set > # CONFIG_SERIAL_19200 is not set > # CONFIG_SERIAL_9600 is not set > CONFIG_SERIAL_BAUDRATE=115200 > # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set > CONFIG_EXPERT=y > CONFIG_HAVE_SSE=y > CONFIG_BUILD_ROMCC=y > # CONFIG_BUILD_XMMSTACK is not set > EOF > > mkdir -p build || exit 1 > cat <<EOF > build/config.h || exit 1 > /* > * Automatically generated C config: don't edit > * SerialICE version: 1.5 > * Mon Dec 17 21:09:33 2012 > */ > #define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED > #define CONFIG_SERIAL_COM1 1 > #define CONFIG_BUILD_ROMCC 1 > #define CONFIG_SERIAL_115200 1 > #define CONFIG_SERIAL_PORT 0x3f8 > #define CONFIG_SERIAL_BAUDRATE 115200 > #define CONFIG_HAVE_SSE 1 > #define CONFIG_BOARD_ASUS_M4A77TD_PRO 1 > #define CONFIG_SERIAL 1 > #define CONFIG_EXPERT 1 > #define CONFIG_BOARD_INIT "asus_m4a77td-pro.c" > EOF > > # > # build serialice.rom > # > make -j5 || exit 1 > cd .. || exit 1 > > # pad serialice.rom to the size of the flash chip > S=$(( 8*1048576 )) > awk "BEGIN{for (i=0; i<$(( $S / 16 )); i++) printf > \"\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\";exit}" >> serialice.rom > dd if=SerialICE/build/serialice.rom of=serialice.rom bs=4096 > conv=notrunc # put serialice.rom at start of flash > dd if=SerialICE/build/serialice.rom of=serialice.rom bs=4096 seek=$(( > ( $S - `stat -c %s SerialICE/build/serialice.rom` )/4096 )) # and at > end of flash > echo "" > echo "Now build SerialICE QEMU Host (see SerialICE/patches/* and > serialice.com/Installation.html)" > ls --color=always -l serialice.rom > > > ************************************************* > > Regards, > David > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
