Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Philipp Stanner
By the way: Is it true that coreboot consumes more power ( = shorter battery life) than vendor bios? Am 01.12.2016 um 18:04 schrieb ron minnich: > what's the latest best one? What's the battery life like (can't be > worse than this mac pro that's always hot and now seems to have a > life of 90

Re: [coreboot] non-coreboot question on gnu ldscripts

2016-12-01 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
> I can write an ldscript for riscv which will produce segments that have addresses aligned to 2M, but the alignment value is still 4K. Not expert (certainly) on ldscripts (far from that), but if you willing to write one script as per said/written above, and present it here, maybe we,

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Trammell Hudson
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:20:00PM +, ron minnich wrote: > If people are trying native graphics init I still think it's worth trying > the SPARK stuff from nico at least once. I'm intrigued by the use of Ada and excited about applying more formal methods as well as safer languages to the

Re: [coreboot] [WIP] amdfam10: Major ".c" include cleanup

2016-12-01 Thread Damien Zammit
On 02/12/16 03:11, Timothy Pearson wrote: > Have you uploaded your current patchset to Gerrit? That would probably > be the easiest way for us to comment on your changes. Yes, I forgot to mention my current gerrit link: https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/17625/ Thanks -- coreboot mailing list:

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Explicitly use C11/GNU11

2016-12-01 Thread Paul Menzel via coreboot
Dear Julius, Am Mittwoch, den 30.11.2016, 20:10 -0800 schrieb Julius Werner: > > Thank you for the elaborate explanation. I never intended to take on > > that task, but if I had, you would have convinced me. > > > > I hope using GNU11 suits everyone. > > Yes, just to be clear (this has split

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread ron minnich
If people are trying native graphics init I still think it's worth trying the SPARK stuff from nico at least once. It seems more complete to me than teh stuff I started. On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:54 PM Klemens Nanni wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:35:36AM -0700, Trammell

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Klemens Nanni
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:35:36AM -0700, Trammell Hudson wrote: The major drawback is the low res screen. I've been considering trying these hacked x230 machines with 2560x1440 screens for 2559Y (about $400?): https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=43820633263=main

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Nico Huber
On 01.12.2016 18:50, Klemens Nanni wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:04:36PM +, ron minnich wrote: >> what's the latest best one? What's the battery life like (can't be worse >> than this mac pro that's always hot and now seems to have a life of 90 >> minutes, always). How much dram/ssd can

Re: [coreboot] your preferred method for supplying power to chip for RPi spi flashing?

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: > I programmed most of INTEL platforms using dediprog SF100: ATOM: > from D4xx/D5xx (Pine Creek) series, TNC, BYT-M/I, BSW and CORE > (IVB, HSW, BDX-DE, BDW-H, SKL-Y/U), whereas for some HSW-U series it was > necessary to put platform in S5 state by shutting down them to

Re: [coreboot] your preferred method for supplying power to chip for RPi spi flashing?

2016-12-01 Thread Zoran Stojsavljevic
> Now I always unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery before > powering up my flasher (although I do leave the chip-clip connected). This is about right. I programmed most of INTEL platforms using dediprog SF100: ATOM: from D4xx/D5xx (Pine Creek) series, TNC, BYT-M/I, BSW and CORE (IVB,

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Trammell Hudson
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:50:13PM +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:04:36PM +, ron minnich wrote: > >what's the latest best one? [...] > > X230 if you'd ask me: 16G RAM, 12M ROM. runs fine with reduced (830K) ME You can also retrofit the proper x220 keyboard into the

Re: [coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread Klemens Nanni
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:04:36PM +, ron minnich wrote: what's the latest best one? What's the battery life like (can't be worse than this mac pro that's always hot and now seems to have a life of 90 minutes, always). How much dram/ssd can I jam in it? X230 if you'd ask me: 16G RAM, 12M

[coreboot] latest greatest thinkpad with coreboot

2016-12-01 Thread ron minnich
what's the latest best one? What's the battery life like (can't be worse than this mac pro that's always hot and now seems to have a life of 90 minutes, always). How much dram/ssd can I jam in it? thanks -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] non-coreboot question on gnu ldscripts

2016-12-01 Thread ron minnich
Apologies in advance: this is not a coreboot question but I'm counting on coreboot expertise. I need to find a way to force the value of the segment alignment variable. The problem is that on the riscv gld, they want to align segments on 4k boundaries. I need them aligned on 2M boundaries. Note

Re: [coreboot] [WIP] amdfam10: Major ".c" include cleanup

2016-12-01 Thread Timothy Pearson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/2016 10:58 PM, Damien Zammit wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning to do a cleanup of AMD Fam10-15 codebase, > (i.e., not AGESA). I have currently completed a first attempt > at removing most of the ".c" includes in romstage. > > It currently

Re: [coreboot] your preferred method for supplying power to chip for RPi spi flashing?

2016-12-01 Thread Trammell Hudson
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 01:15:59PM +, Peter Stuge wrote: > Michael Carbone wrote: > > I have been attempting to use a raspberry pi for spi flashing and when I > > use the 3.3v pin the raspberry pi doesn't power up as the chip draws too > > much power through the 3.3v pin for the raspberry pi

Re: [coreboot] your preferred method for supplying power to chip for RPi spi flashing?

2016-12-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Michael Carbone wrote: > I have been attempting to use a raspberry pi for spi flashing and when I > use the 3.3v pin the raspberry pi doesn't power up as the chip draws too > much power through the 3.3v pin for the raspberry pi to also run. It's not the flash chip drawing current, it's the rest

[coreboot] your preferred method for supplying power to chip for RPi spi flashing?

2016-12-01 Thread Michael Carbone
Hi coreboot list, I have been attempting to use a raspberry pi for spi flashing and when I use the 3.3v pin the raspberry pi doesn't power up as the chip draws too much power through the 3.3v pin for the raspberry pi to also run. I am powering the RPi through micro-USB, either connected to wall

[coreboot] [WIP] amdfam10: Major ".c" include cleanup

2016-12-01 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi all, I am planning to do a cleanup of AMD Fam10-15 codebase, (i.e., not AGESA). I have currently completed a first attempt at removing most of the ".c" includes in romstage. It currently builds on one board only, KFSN4-DRE, and only works on DDR2, (DDR3 is WIP). I would really appreciate