[coreboot] SMP stop_this_cpu and AP_IN_SIPI_WAIT

2012-03-10 Thread Kyösti Mälkki
There are currently two different versions of stop_this_cpu() used to halt an AP CPU after init and microcode update. Alternative #1, the default stop_this_cpu() { while (1) { hlt() } } Alternative #2, used on selected Intel Cores stop_this_cpu() { send INIT IPI message to self /*

[coreboot] Patch set updated for coreboot: 8519ed4 Make libpayload alloc() memory pointers volatile

2012-03-10 Thread patr...@georgi-clan.de
Patrick Georgi (patr...@georgi-clan.de) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/705 -gerrit commit 8519ed434a743f7706c1644dba48bdbd90e0245c Author: Marc Jones marc.jo...@se-eng.com Date: Thu Mar 1 16:12:11 2012 -0700 Make libpayload

[coreboot] Patch merged into coreboot/master: 8519ed4 Make libpayload alloc() memory pointers volatile

2012-03-10 Thread gerrit
the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 8519ed434a743f7706c1644dba48bdbd90e0245c Author: Marc Jones marc.jo...@se-eng.com Date: Thu Mar 1 16:12:11 2012 -0700 Make libpayload alloc() memory pointers volatile gcc4.6.2 was optimizing the libpayload alloc() function

[coreboot] Problems with Winnet G270 Board / Igel Thin Client 3210 need help

2012-03-10 Thread Christian
Board is built in Igel Thin Client 3210 After a few problems, http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-March/068553.html now the board starts with coreboot, but very often coreboot hangs. It is very crazy. Sometimes the board starts three or fourtimes without problems, and sometimes I

Re: [coreboot] A bit of help needed

2012-03-10 Thread Patrick Georgi
Am 10.03.2012 11:49, schrieb Jaspal Dhillon: I was going through the coreboot.org http://coreboot.org/ and I am definitely interested in it. Welcome to coreboot, then! So wanted to ask couple of things. I have not read the source code yet but tried it out in this way : 1.Checked out latest

Re: [coreboot] [SerialICE] [ANNOUNCE] libhwremote 0.1

2012-03-10 Thread Idwer Vollering
2012/3/10 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net: I'm glad to announce libhwremote 0.1, a library which forwards hardware accesses over a serial line to a machine running SerialICE. No QEMU needed! All you have to do to run lspci/superiotool/... against a remote SerialICE

[coreboot] GSoC project ideas

2012-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, given the lack of affordable and available hardware tools for coreboot development, I propose to look for a different set of projects this year: Tools which would help developers, and which are usable especially with current hardware. A list of ideas follows. - Flash ICE device with SPI

[coreboot] separate mailling list for gerrit mails?

2012-03-10 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi, this came up on IRC again, but I think the issue requires wider discussion: Several people asked if gerrit mails can be moved to a separate mailing list to reduce the mechanic noise. We're highly flexible there, so we can keep it like it is, reduce the number of mail types, send different

Re: [coreboot] separate mailling list for gerrit mails?

2012-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Hi, this came up on IRC again, but I think the issue requires wider discussion: Several people asked if gerrit mails can be moved to a separate mailing list to reduce the mechanic noise. We're highly flexible

Re: [coreboot] GSoC project ideas

2012-03-10 Thread Bari Ari
On 03/10/2012 02:27 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Do we have mentors who can review VHDL/Verilog? I could help with that. BTW an open hardware AMD Fusion card is being spun in the EOMA68 form factor for notebooks/netbooks/tablets etc in addition to the open ARM modules.

Re: [coreboot] Set top box update

2012-03-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:12:28 -0400, Gregg Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Amazon tells me that there are now two people selling their Akimbo boxes. Perhaps I'll definitely buy one. And Joe here is the