On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, John Lewis <jle...@johnlewis.ie> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just want to confirm where we are in terms of things working or not. > > The new system-agent binary works and recognises all 4 GB of RAM as long as > an additional pei data field is added to Stefan's patches in > http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3831/ as detailed by Kyösti in the comments. > > The patches in http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3830/ don't appear to do > anything for mrc.cache (it's still zero size) and this (or perhaps something > else) results in a time to SeaBIOS prompt of between 5 to 9 seconds.
Can you show us 'ls -l $(obj)/mrc.cache' ? I didn't see CONFIG_MRC_CACHE_SIZE in your .config. Also, what does 'cbfstool image.rom print' say now? Build logs with V=1 would be helpful to see what is occurring when mrc.cache is being created. > > I added a 64 GB SSD this afternoon, which I have working, but something > strange went on with geometry - if I tried to dd the partition itself back > it would crap out at 2 GB (this was after dd'ing the backed up mbr onto the > new drive). If I dd'ed the whole device it worked, but the partition > wouldn't mount, and fdisk would report that the partition was too large for > the device. Luckily, after reboot, it worked anyway. :) > > Summary: if we could get rid of the 5 to 9 second delay, and just confirm > the drive detection geometry is A1 I think we are there. > > John. > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
