Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread David Hendricks
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:06 PM, awokd via coreboot wrote: > On Thu, April 26, 2018 5:09 pm, Pierre P wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a KCMA-D8 and am willing to provide a status update but have no > > idea what is the formal way to do it. > > > > I guess it begins with

Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread awokd via coreboot
On Thu, April 26, 2018 11:13 pm, Duncan wrote: > How urgent is "urgent" given that the board remains in git, and all it > takes is for a new board status to be submitted (and any bugs fixed)? > > If it is so urgent, why don't you submit a report instead of phrasing > your email in a panic-like and

Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread Duncan
How urgent is "urgent" given that the board remains in git, and all it takes is for a new board status to be submitted (and any bugs fixed)? If it is so urgent, why don't you submit a report instead of phrasing your email in a panic-like and accusatory manner? taii...@gmx.com: > This is a great

Re: [coreboot] Re : Re: When does AMD release the fam15 spectre microcode updates?

2018-04-26 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi Florentin, Dne 25.4.2018 v 18:42 eche...@free.fr napsal(a): > Hello Rudolf, > First thank your for finding these blobs and the hack to use them, and for > testing and validating them. > But please could you tell us what was the setup for your tests : > - what was your hardware : cpu + mobo

Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:38 PM taii...@gmx.com wrote: > At the rate things are going soon there will be no non-development > boards that are still in the repos due to the arbitrary increasing of > standards. > I can tell you, based on the 19 years of this project's existence,

Re: [coreboot] x220: cannot modify nvramcui options with newest coreboot (git a96e31b)

2018-04-26 Thread Mat
I've compared configuration before and after. Here is the diff. The case is I didn't choose any new options, thus the difference probably appears because of new options added to coreboot in the meantime. 22,23c22,24 < # CONFIG_COLLECT_TIMESTAMPS is not set < CONFIG_USE_BLOBS=y --- >

[coreboot] x220: cannot modify nvramcui options with newest coreboot (git a96e31b)

2018-04-26 Thread Mat
People I've just upgraded my corebot BIOS. To have ctrl <-> fn keyboard switch, I use nvramcui as secondary payload. The problem is that when I press esc to enter menu, then choose nvramcui, the exit operation (with f1 key) results with immediate system hang with large number of hexadecimal

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread Mat
In the meantime I've decided to go in the following direction: 1. install intel microcode onto my ubuntu box the result is: x220$ $ dmesg | grep microcode [0.00] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2d, date = 2018-02-07 [0.881361] microcode: sig=0x206a7,

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread Mat
Thank You On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Matt DeVillier wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:05 AM diffusae via coreboot < > coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote: > >> >> Don't know, if gbe.bin or ifd.bin is vulnerable. >> > > they are configuration "blobs" not binary blobs,

Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread awokd via coreboot
On Thu, April 26, 2018 5:09 pm, Pierre P wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a KCMA-D8 and am willing to provide a status update but have no > idea what is the formal way to do it. > > I guess it begins with testing a specific version (4.7 or latest source > ?). Please could you point me to a procedure.

Re: [coreboot] [RFH] Status of the Lenovo X201

2018-04-26 Thread Kyösti Mälkki
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Nicola Corna wrote: > April 18, 2018 3:54 PM, "Kyösti Mälkki" wrote: > >> Having romstage stack smashed seems irrelevant for the no-boot issue. >> That nehalem raminit code, struct raminfo, seems to eat a lot of stack

Re: [coreboot] [URGENT] - The KCMA-D8 is going to be removed from coreboot unless people cough up a board status update

2018-04-26 Thread Pierre P
Hi, I have a KCMA-D8 and am willing to provide a status update but have no idea what is the formal way to do it. I guess it begins with testing a specific version (4.7 or latest source ?). Please could you point me to a procedure. Thanks From: coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [RFH] Status of the Lenovo X201

2018-04-26 Thread diffusae via coreboot
Hi! I'm also interested in a running version of current master. On 25.04.2018 12:51, Nicola Corna wrote: > If needed I can do some tests on this PC. I also would do some testing on this machine, if that helps. Regards, Reiner -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread Matt DeVillier
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:05 AM diffusae via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote: > > Don't know, if gbe.bin or ifd.bin is vulnerable. > they are configuration "blobs" not binary blobs, no executable code -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread diffusae via coreboot
Hello! On 24.04.2018 21:27, Mat wrote: > That's why I (believe I) need the blobs from the newest update. Is the > reasoning correct, or I could do it more wise? AFAIK: You only really need the microcode update from Intel. Don't know, if gbe.bin or ifd.bin is vulnerable. If you apply the

[coreboot] ANN: "corporate" group on gerrit

2018-04-26 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Hi everybody, yesterday I created a user group "corporate" on review.coreboot.org and added all people who I assume are paid for working on coreboot (based on their email address domains). Corporate contributions tend to be high volume and there are usually multiple people interested in getting

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread diffusae via coreboot
Hi! On 24.04.2018 21:27, Mat wrote: > I'd like to have system updated against spectre, and other possible > vulnerabilities as much as possible. With the retpoline option in the Linux kernel, it should be usually safe (see attachment). "IBPB is considered as a good addition to retpoline for

Re: [coreboot] lenovo x220, tool to extract binary blobs from BIOS update

2018-04-26 Thread diffusae via coreboot
Hi Nico, On 24.04.2018 19:38, Nico Huber wrote: > not sure what you are looking for, but I guess this is what you need, > because I only was testing the image with the different extracting tools. >> Error: Unable to detect BIOS Image type. I guess, if you flash the vendor bios and then reread