[coreboot] Re: New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread Patrick Rudolph
On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 11:16 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:41 AM Patrick Rudolph > wrote: > > > > Hi coreboot folks, > > in order to support TEE like Intel TXT it is necessary to be able > > to > > clear all DRAM at boot on request. > > > > As all of the x86 coreboot code

[coreboot] CBMEM console to be made verbose

2019-02-26 Thread Kyösti Mälkki
Hi all A change [1] has been approved that applys a minimum loglevel of BIOS_DEBUG for CBMEM console. There should be miminal performance impact as it is nothing but writes to cacheable memory. For some platform this could cause that pre-ram console buffer runs out of space. My opinion is that

[coreboot] Re: New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread ron minnich
I looked for my CL from years back in which I showed a way to 64-bit amd64 ramstage, but I don't see it any more. But it was easy. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:11 PM Rudolf Marek wrote: > > Hi, > > Dne 26. 02. 19 v 22:58 Nico Huber napsal(a): > > On 26.02.19 20:16, ron minnich wrote: > >> On Tue,

[coreboot] Re: New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread Rudolf Marek
Hi, Dne 26. 02. 19 v 22:58 Nico Huber napsal(a): > On 26.02.19 20:16, ron minnich wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:41 AM Patrick Rudolph >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi coreboot folks, >>> in order to support TEE like Intel TXT it is necessary to be able to >>> clear all DRAM at boot on request. >>> >>>

[coreboot] Re: Data.vbt located in wrong directory

2019-02-26 Thread Nico Huber
Hello Neelix, On 26.02.19 22:54, Neelix via coreboot wrote: > I just compiled coreboot for a x220 and I got a error saying that > data.vbt wasn't located in src/mainboard/lenovo/x220. It's indeed not > in directory it should be in. Its located in > src/mainboard/lenovo/x220/variants/x220/. I

[coreboot] Re: New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread Nico Huber
On 26.02.19 20:16, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:41 AM Patrick Rudolph > wrote: >> >> Hi coreboot folks, >> in order to support TEE like Intel TXT it is necessary to be able to >> clear all DRAM at boot on request. >> >> As all of the x86 coreboot code is x86_32, it is necessary

[coreboot] Data.vbt located in wrong directory

2019-02-26 Thread Neelix via coreboot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I just compiled coreboot for a x220 and I got a error saying that data.vbt wasn't located in src/mainboard/lenovo/x220. It's indeed not in directory it should be in. Its located in src/mainboard/lenovo/x220/variants/x220/. Can you guys

[coreboot] Re: New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:41 AM Patrick Rudolph wrote: > > Hi coreboot folks, > in order to support TEE like Intel TXT it is necessary to be able to > clear all DRAM at boot on request. > > As all of the x86 coreboot code is x86_32, it is necessary to make use > of PAE to clear memory. I would

[coreboot] New API to clear DRAM at boot

2019-02-26 Thread Patrick Rudolph
Hi coreboot folks, in order to support TEE like Intel TXT it is necessary to be able to clear all DRAM at boot on request. As all of the x86 coreboot code is x86_32, it is necessary to make use of PAE to clear memory. Please find the attached patch series which proposes an architecure independed

[coreboot] Re: Microcode in ROM is not loaded with X60s

2019-02-26 Thread Nico Huber
Hello Masanori, sorry for the late reply, I guess I could have saved you from some confusion. Am 26.02.19 um 05:35 schrieb Masanori Ogino: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:27 AM Lance Zhao wrote: >> Current coreboot should have same level of microcode compare to >> intel-microcode for Linux. > >

[coreboot] Re: Locking coreboot against internal flashing

2019-02-26 Thread Frank Beuth
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 03:42:41PM -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: I'm reasonably sure that this is not true and security-conscious users can disable internal flashing, but I haven't been able to find any mention of such a setting in the documentation. Isn't it possible to set the flash chip

[coreboot] Re: Microcode in ROM is not loaded with X60s

2019-02-26 Thread Masanori Ogino
Dear Lance, Thank you for your reply. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:27 AM Lance Zhao wrote: > Current coreboot should have same level of microcode compare to > intel-microcode for Linux. Indeed. I saw a commit updating Intel microcode in last December, so I am sure the microcode is not so ancient

[coreboot] Re: Microcode in ROM is not loaded with X60s

2019-02-26 Thread Masanori Ogino
Dear Ivan, On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:26 AM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Please tell, do you observe the same results with more fresh Linux > distributions? > It is known that Debian usually contains the outdated packages and > some of the problems there - may have already been fixed. > Try running