Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Nico Huber
On 11/11/18 5:42 PM, Piotr Kubaj via coreboot wrote: > The size of AGESA is currently about 10% of coreboot. Nico, do you > think a single person working in spare time can reimplement 10% of > coreboot? I don't care how much it looks like. It's likely bloated vendor code. For instance, look at

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread kinky_nekoboi
BTW does anybody now if IOMMU ever has worked on F2A85M. Its kinda frustrating that there is nobody who seems to use this board. is it maybe only broken on the richland core since i use a A8-6600K Am 12. November 2018 00:46:26 MEZ schrieb Nico Huber : >On 11/11/18 2:52 PM, eche...@free.fr

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Nico Huber
On 11/11/18 2:52 PM, eche...@free.fr wrote: > So by force of circumstances, unfortunately, we can expect that the > g505s (of other agesa based boards) will indeed be dropped from the > coreboot master in the near future.. That's not what I said or intended to say (we might know if ppl.

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Nico Huber
On 11/11/18 4:09 AM, kinky_nekoboi wrote: > I strongly agree to what Mike said. > thats maybe the "i want a cheap but yet powerfull and as Free as > possible" point of view. > > Also with the recent AMDGPU driver for linux. amd hardware is a good > option to have a somewhat powerful and free

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Nico Huber
On 11/11/18 12:41 AM, Mike Banon wrote: >> There is no evidence that there is such a thing for Intel systems with AMT >> disabled, either. > > But it is easier not to have any AMT/ME/PSP at all: no need to clean > anything and nothing to worry about. > >> I could secure it with a hyper-visor, I

Re: [coreboot] romstage prints from qemu-440bx emualtor

2018-11-11 Thread ron minnich
I can confirm this fixes it. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 3:27 PM ron minnich wrote: > > ok, and because I was not thinking I hit submit on > https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/coreboot/+/29574/2 > > apologies in advance, it seems to cause no harm however. > > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 3:08 PM Patrick

Re: [coreboot] romstage prints from qemu-440bx emualtor

2018-11-11 Thread ron minnich
ok, and because I was not thinking I hit submit on https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/coreboot/+/29574/2 apologies in advance, it seems to cause no harm however. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 3:08 PM Patrick Rudolph wrote: > > Hi Ron, > There's a patch on Gerrit that (indirectly) fixes the issue: >

Re: [coreboot] FSP settings according to decode-dimms

2018-11-11 Thread Zvi Vered
Hi Nico, All, The DRAM is soldered. There is no DIMM module. After changing to "Enable Memory Down = Enabled" I got post code 0x92 just before calling to: FspInitApi() in src/drivers/intel/fsp1_0 >From there, romstage_main_continue in soc/intel/fsp_baytrail/romstage should be called but it

Re: [coreboot] romstage prints from qemu-440bx emualtor

2018-11-11 Thread Patrick Rudolph
Hi Ron, There's a patch on Gerrit that (indirectly) fixes the issue: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/29578 Regards On November 11, 2018 9:36:00 PM GMT+01:00, ron minnich wrote: >So, with latest tip of tree, I still get no romstage prints. I'm told >that's fixed, can someone here test

[coreboot] romstage prints from qemu-440bx emualtor

2018-11-11 Thread ron minnich
So, with latest tip of tree, I still get no romstage prints. I'm told that's fixed, can someone here test and let me know? I can work around it but it would be nice if we could get this fixed. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Piotr Kubaj via coreboot
@Nico By removing open-source AGESA and all boards that use them, you would remove many boards that can boot blobless (like KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8, there's also cheap low-end like E350M1, although I'm not sure this uses AGESA). This would mean that if we want blobless, we can either use much less

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread taii...@gmx.com
If you want an owner controlled coreboot-libre firmware (coreboot isn't always foss) available board get a kcma-d8, kgpe-d16, etc. or one of the raptor computing systems OpenPOWER boards which have foss firmware (not coreboot) from the factory, documentation and are owner controlled. You can

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Am So., 11. Nov. 2018 um 14:54 Uhr schrieb : > We (the owners of agesa based boards) need to prepare for this > eventuality, and maybe if we want to keep coreboot alive (and evolving) on > our platforms we should consider a fork... Please don't insult me for this > for this reasoning (it is not

Re: [coreboot] Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread Patrick Georgi via coreboot
Am So., 11. Nov. 2018 um 00:43 Uhr schrieb Mike Banon : > But it is easier not to have any AMT/ME/PSP at all: no need to clean > anything and nothing to worry about. > At least not to your knowledge. For all we know, POWER9 (to pick the ISA where you can even edit the microcode) could have

[coreboot] ReĀ : Re: Supported Motherboards

2018-11-11 Thread echelon
+1 Me too, I strongly support the point of view of Mike. Freedom, be it in software or hardware is not negotiable!.. But on the other hand the point of view of Nico is also very legitimate. Having had to deal in my professional life with legacy code which was badly written and unmaintained