[coreboot] Re: Compatibility with legacy boards

2022-08-11 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, The p5gc-mx is still supported (src/mainboard/asus/p5gc-mx in a git snapshot). It seems the mainboard consists of i945GC northbridge and ICH7 southbridge (82801GX). Both are supported, in a fact I'm using a board with i945GM+ICH7 which is almost the same. However there may be some

[coreboot] Re: [BUG?] objcopy extracts a wrong section of cbfs_master_header.c

2022-07-11 Thread Petr Cvek
Dne 10. 07. 22 v 13:16 Nico Huber napsal(a): > Hello Petr, > > thanks for reporting this. Are you using your host toolchain to build > coreboot by any chance (CONFIG_ANY_TOOLCHAIN)? or do you use `make > crossgcc*`? > I do use CONFIG_ANY_TOOLCHAIN. > On 10.07.22 0

[coreboot] [BUG?] objcopy extracts a wrong section of cbfs_master_header.c

2022-07-09 Thread Petr Cvek
Hello, It seems since version 4.17 and since commit: 75226bb879837e2e4aa710aadb27dbadb4044ed3 Makefile.inc: Generate master header and pointer as C structs The coreboot miscompiles the ROM image. At the beginning of the image there should be usually something like: "cbfs_master_header"

[coreboot] [BUG] clear_memory triggers handle_deref_breakpoint()

2022-06-17 Thread Petr Cvek
Clearing the memory creates a situation, where an access to NULL pointer is actually valid. This causes a warning in the log: clear_memory: Clearing DRAM -5000 Null dereference at eip: 0x7f3ca51d clear_memory: Clearing DRAM

[coreboot] Re: [BUG] nb/intel/i945: smm_subregion() prints assert when it should not

2022-04-25 Thread Petr Cvek
OK thanks for info Petr Dne 25. 04. 22 v 8:30 Arthur Heymans napsal(a): > Hi > > 2M TSEG is hardcoded in nb/intel/i945/early_init.c so it should never have an > 8M value. > > -- > Arthur > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:22 AM Petr Cvek <mailto:petrcve...@gmail.co

[coreboot] Re: [BUG] nb/intel/i945: smm_subregion() prints assert when it should not

2022-04-25 Thread Petr Cvek
e goes up to 64MB, not 8M, but it's not documented in the > official documentation. > > Kind regards, > Arthur > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:54 PM Petr Cvek <mailto:petrcve...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Thanks! I would never find the SMRR feature. >

[coreboot] Re: [BUG] nb/intel/i945: smm_subregion() prints assert when it should not

2022-04-24 Thread Petr Cvek
04. 22 v 18:56 Arthur Heymans napsal(a): > Hi > > You want to align tseg for when smrr is supported by the CPU. I would just > drop support for 1MB stolen memory. > > Arthur > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, 05:40 Petr Cvek, <mailto:petrcve...@gmail.com>> wrote: > &g

[coreboot] [RFC] i945 problematic code for IGD device enable, BUG?

2022-04-24 Thread Petr Cvek
Hello again :-D, I'm working on a code for a simultaneous use of IGD (GMA950) and x16 PCIe slot GPU. I've made some success, but the code which handles the IGD initialization is really weird. The IGD is initialized by DEVEN register (DEVEN_D2F0 and DEVEN_D2F1 bits), which is first written in

[coreboot] PS/2 connected state and ACPI + BUG(s)

2022-04-24 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, Observing ACPI on my new ryzen machine it seems its UEFI can generate the state of PS/2 mouse and keyboard accordingly to which one of them is connected or disconnected. I was trying to add something like that to my Core 2 Duo testing setup, but it seems there is no easy way how to export

[coreboot] [RFC] i945 RAM init failure

2022-04-23 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, My board Kontron 986lcd-m (i945) sometimes fails in quick_ram_check_or_die() with RAM INIT FAILURE! The failure occurs in about 33% of reboots. RAM modules are fine (multiple memtest checks over the years), used RAM modules are rated with a reserve (DDR2-800 compatible modules

[coreboot] [BUG] nb/intel/i945: smm_subregion() prints assert when it should not

2022-04-23 Thread Petr Cvek
Hello, On i945 northbridge: ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/cpu/x86/smm/tseg_region.c', line 31 can be triggered by some configurations. The assert ASSERT(IS_ALIGNED(sub_base, sub_size)); tests alignment of SMM base with SMM size. The problem is that IGD stolen memory can offset

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
ave given up :)) > > glad to help > > Could you give me a hint, how this type of Rom could be handled ? It should be supported by flashrom, so just get the supported SPI adapter. Fingers crossed for making coreboot work. Petr > > Am 12.01.21 um 20:03 schrieb Petr Cvek:

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
chipset ? > > Sorry for asking maybe not sensible questions, I have yet too few knowledge > on these > bios hardware concepts. > > > > Am 12.01.21 um 17:45 schrieb Petr Cvek: >> Did you looked under black isolation stripes? >> >> There is one soic-8 a

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
Did you looked under black isolation stripes? There is one soic-8 at the top of this photo https://pasteboard.co/JJjRjLU.jpg next to superio U49. There can be more chips under expansion cards. BTW you can eliminate chips which doesn't have the standard SPI pinout (for example you can try

[coreboot] Re: Booting Linux kernel with nosmp required on Lenovo T60 (ATI/AMD)

2020-01-17 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, Well my system have only 4.10-637 coreboot version, so I don't know if it is relevant. My Kontron 986LCD-M (supported by coreboot) does the SMP without a problem. Kernel 4.20.0-rc2 (I didn't see any problem with current slackware kernel too). GPU is radeon RX460, kernel parameters

[coreboot] Re: Looking for INTEL board compatible with Coreboot

2019-10-31 Thread Petr Cvek
Dne 31. 10. 19 v 18:20 phakt--- via coreboot napsal(a): > Hello, > > on FreeBSD forum there was a discussion about > "FreeBSD friendly Motherboard compatible with Coreboot" > > link: > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-friendly-motherboard-compatible-with-coreboot.68346/ > > > the

[coreboot] Re: Postcodes to IO port 80

2019-10-16 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, I have/know only 10 years old boards. usually it is not mapped to anywhere. Some older superIO chips (ITE) supported to dump the values to the LPT port. There are cheap POST cards which can be plugged into ISA, PCI or PCIe slots, but a least in the case of PCIe I don't think they decodes

[coreboot] Re: Basic hardware documentation

2019-10-08 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, I'm considering to innovate kontron 986LCD-M wiki page. According to the new wiki it should be generated from /Documentation subdir of the coreboot source tree. Petr Dne 08. 10. 19 v 9:01 Matt B napsal(a): > Hello, > > Adding to this, it would also be good to have what

[coreboot] [BUG, RFC] mb/kontron/986lcd-m: missing gameport base destroys enumeration

2019-09-22 Thread Petr Cvek
the problem is there is no gameport routed on the board, so this allocation is overkill. Maybe the whole logical device could be disabled. Is there MIDI and GPIO port 1/5 routed anywhere? I'm not sure if PNP autodetection could be changed to ignore undefi

[coreboot] [BUG] nonexisting function current_time_from

2019-09-22 Thread Petr Cvek
_time_from() defined anywhere. Petr Cvek ___ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Kontron 986LCD-M support

2018-12-07 Thread Petr Cvek
Hi, sorry for delay it seems I didn't receive your answer. My card is SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon RX 460 4G D5 OC. I've read the sapphire cards usually lacks dual vbios, so using the coreboot is probably the only way. Petr > > I was trying to upgrade my Kontron 986LCD-M setup to AMD Radeon RX460 >

[coreboot] Kontron 986LCD-M support

2018-11-14 Thread Petr Cvek
flash chip needs to be disconnected when using these busses and which pins of the chipset are connected to SPI pins BOOT0 and BOOT1 (I suppose they are LPC/SPI/PCI priority?). Thanks for any help. Petr Cvek -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot