Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[albin]

Thanks for posting those details.

Also all roms is executed on GPU and i think this is not security hole, but  
if i have free vbios i will use it.


I agree with RMS in that firmware like this stored on ROMs or burned-in  
microcode inside a CPU shall be considered hardware rather than software. The  
particular ethical issues related to software therefore do not apply to them.  
That, however, does not make malicious hardware good. We simply need to  
reject hardware-implemented anti-features on other grounds than the four  
software freedoms.


I'm not saying that your Nvidia card is malicious (I don't know) but just  
wanted to make this point on hardware and software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

Ok i think i was read somewhere that nvidia bios was reversed and coreboot  
can use this this vbios file to boot system.

I use quadro 3800 1G vram like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133271

Also i can change card if this bios is not reversed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[eemeli . blasten]

According to http://libreboot.org/faq/#external-gpu it seems that the nonfree  
VBIOS might already be on in the ROM of the graphics card. Seabios will just  
execute it blindly. If the payload was GRUB, then this proprietary blob  
should be included when compiling coreboot.

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

Video :)

https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/lilos/m/asus-kfsn4-dre-coreboot/

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[vitacell]

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

I want to update to mesa 11.

Is building from source is best solution or i must search some repo that have  
backported to ubuntu 14.04 and install to trisquel ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[albin]

That's interesting! I didn't know it's possible to make an Nvidia card run  
without blobs in the boot process. Did you report to the libreboot people  
that you got it working?

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

After some time i was able to fix all my problem :)

Libreboot do not work.

Coreboot works ! I build with no microcode updates and with seabios!

Coreboot have one bug also but in irc we fixed configuration file generation!

 

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[tomlukeywood]

have you asked on #libreboot?

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

I spend 4-5 hours in IRC and it seems libreboot git for KFSN4-DRE is broken.

I will build coreboot tomorow wich is also blob free for this board.

I talked with one coreboot developer and he ask me to try coreboot git.

So tomorow will try to build from coreboot git.

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[tomlukeywood]

good luck!

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

Yes i have 30 delay.
Also for now it only boot with one CPU.If i put second cpu did`t boot.
Will try difrent memory configuration to see what will happend.My memory is 4  
GB hynix ECC REG DDR2 800.

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[lilos1]

Pics

Re: [Trisquel-users] asus/kfsn4-dre libreboot

[tomlukeywood]

the best place to ask would be the #libreboot irc channel on freenode

also i found this from the libreboot website:
There seems to be a 30 second bootblock delay (observed by tpearson); the  
system otherwise boots and works as expected. See text/kfsn4-dre/bootlog.txt  
- this uses the 'simple' bootblock, while tpearson uses the 'normal'  
bootblock, which tpearson suspects may be a possible cause. This person says  
that they will look into it. This config doesn't have the issue.


have you tried waiting 30 seconds?