Re: [coreboot] Flash ROM access during boot

2017-01-21 Thread Andrey Petrov
Hi, On 01/21/2017 02:30 PM, Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote: Dear coreboot folks, Playing around with the trace feature of the Dediprog EM100Pro, I noticed several flash ROM accesses until the payload is loaded. Are there ways or strategies to preload the whole flash ROM chip content into

Re: [coreboot] Flash ROM access during boot

2017-01-21 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:32 PM Paul Menzel via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote: > > > Are there ways or strategies to preload the whole flash ROM chip > content into memory for faster access right after RAM is set up for > example? What does that depend on? Does that make any sense at

Re: [coreboot] Flash ROM access during boot

2017-01-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Paul Menzel via coreboot wrote: > Are there ways or strategies to preload the whole flash ROM chip > content into memory for faster access right after RAM is set up for > example? What does that depend on? Does that make any sense at all? That's called BIOS shadowing and was popular at least in

Re: [coreboot] 8 GB DIMMs on Nehalem (Arrandale)

2017-01-21 Thread Charlotte Plusplus
Addressing over 8G is not supported by the chipset used on nehalem thinkpad laptops (X201) Stupid limitation, but it is not the CPU fault. On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Stefan Tauner < stefan.tau...@alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Hi Vladimir, > > since you have REed the raminit for Nehalem

[coreboot] Flash ROM access during boot

2017-01-21 Thread Paul Menzel via coreboot
Dear coreboot folks, Playing around with the trace feature of the Dediprog EM100Pro, I noticed several flash ROM accesses until the payload is loaded. Are there ways or strategies to preload the whole flash ROM chip content into memory for faster access right after RAM is set up for example?

[coreboot] 8 GB DIMMs on Nehalem (Arrandale)

2017-01-21 Thread Stefan Tauner
Hi Vladimir, since you have REed the raminit for Nehalem I'd like you to ask if you have any knowledge, information or pointers about using 8 GB DIMMs with it or even using more than 8 GB in total. In my case it is about an Arrandale i5-520M (in a Thinkpad 410s). I know that an i7-820QM

Re: [coreboot] KGPE-D16 SR-IOV problems (iommu groups) - Anyone else tried this?

2017-01-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Logs (thought I would separate them) ARI-fwd+ on the root port devcap and devctl but it doesn't have ARI listed in capabilities, I am not sure if lspci should report that on a root port as there is so little documentation for IOMMU/SR-IOV on the internet 07:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel

Re: [coreboot] KGPE-D16 SR-IOV problems (iommu groups) - Anyone else tried this?

2017-01-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com
It seems the PCI-e root ports on the KGPE-D16 have ARI which is needed for SR-IOV, however it is not reported via # lspci -vv I assume that is why the VF's are not assigned to IOMMU groups and thus can't be assigned. I am running coreboot v4.5 (I forgot to note this as it is another late

[coreboot] KGPE-D16 SR-IOV problems (iommu groups) - Anyone else tried this?

2017-01-21 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Assigning regular devices such as a graphics card to a VM works just fine, but when I try to assign an intel i350 virtual function I receive the error "error: internal error: Invalid device :07:10.0 iommu_group file /sys/bus/pci/devices/:07:10.0/iommu_group is not a symlink" The