[coreboot] Re: Instruction to verify emulation on GEM5

2020-07-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Vivek, (Please follow the mailing list etiquette and use interleaved style, when replying.) Am 21.07.20 um 04:09 schrieb Vivek Gupta: Actually I am not able to find Gem5 simulation environment as listed option in kconfig. It’s the first time I am hearing of the “Gem5 simulation

[coreboot] google/veyron: How to use emulator for development?

2020-07-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, I’d like to run upstream coreboot on the MEDION AKOYA S2013 (google/veyron_jaq) [1]. As I have access to a DediProg EM100Pro [1] including a 10-Pin Split Cable with a grabber on the hold pin [2], and a clip, I was wondering if I can hook it up without soldering to boot

[coreboot] Re: Instruction to verify emulation on GEM5

2020-07-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Vivek, Am 16.07.20 um 00:46 schrieb Vivek Gupta via coreboot: I am currently looking to setup AARCH64 platform simulation verification of coreboot on Gem5 simulation environment. Do we have any document/wikipage to understand the compilation and configuration process? The tutorial [1]

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

2020-07-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kyösti, dear coreboot folks, Am 11.02.20 um 16:11 schrieb Paul Menzel: On 2020-01-25 00:56, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: System *boots* with one of: 1. maxcpus=0 (equivalent nosmp) 2. maxcpus=1 3. nolapic (with e1000 warning about missing MSI-X System does *not* boot with one of: 1

[coreboot] Re: Lenovo T60p: Regression in master branch (resource allocator changes?)

2020-06-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nico, Am 28.06.20 um 13:21 schrieb Nico Huber: On 28.06.20 11:35, Paul Menzel wrote: The only remarkable difference in the logs is:     -PCI: 06:00.0 bridge ctrl <- 016b this seems very suspicious. Bit 3 enables VGA decoding. It shouldn't matter because it's behind another bri

[coreboot] Lenovo T60p: Regression in master branch (resource allocator changes?)

2020-06-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, On the Lenovo T60p (with external AMD/ATI graphics) there was unfortunately a regression in the master branch. As it is bricked now, I am only able to provide logs, and won’t be able to test or bisect for quite some time. I successfully tested 4.11-1593-g49111cd2ba [1]

[coreboot] Online Clang static analyzer scan-build results

2020-06-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Next to the Coverity Scan reports, sent to the list again [1], I wanted to remind everybody, that the Clang static analyzer scan-build is also checking the coreboot code, and the results are available online [2]. There are probably some false positives in there [3], but

[coreboot] Simple non-Linux payload for checking ARM devices (QEMU)

2020-06-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Elyes is working on upgrading the coreboot crossgcc toolchain, especially to GCC 10.1.0, and wants to test the results with the QEMU emulation. Unfortunately, for ARM devices – and probably all other non-x86 one – there seems to no simple payload to test with. It was

[coreboot] Re: Asrock E350M1: Display regression in Linux

2020-06-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear HacKurx, Am 04.06.20 um 12:49 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 04.06.20 um 11:26 schrieb HacKurx: Good morning, everyone, I hadn't updated my coreboot version for a long time on my Asrock E350M1 card because of lack of time and because this one was on a very I guess you mean *board

[coreboot] Re: Status of Supermicro X11 series?

2020-06-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stéphane, Am 06.06.20 um 14:45 schrieb Stéphane Delaunay via coreboot: On Monday, May 25, 2020 1:45 PM, Christian Walter wrote: currently following x11 Supermicro boards are supported: * x11ssh-tf * x11ssm-f [..] Let me know if you need to know more. Sorry for replying so late.

[coreboot] Re: Asrock E350M1: Display regression in Linux

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear HacKurx, Thank you for the report. Am 04.06.20 um 11:26 schrieb HacKurx: Good morning, everyone, I hadn't updated my coreboot version for a long time on my Asrock E350M1 card because of lack of time and because this one was on a very I guess you mean *board* and not *card*? stable

[coreboot] coreboot master and Lenovo T60 (was: Self-describing CBFS features)

2020-06-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jeremy, Am 01.06.20 um 15:16 schrieb Jeremy Jackson: I am looking at upgrading a Lenovo T60 that has a 4 year old Libreboot installed. Just a quick heads-up in case the Linux kernel does not start anymore. You should be able to work around it by adding `maxcpus=1` to the Linux

[coreboot] Re: Please solve this ACPI dilemma

2020-05-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Am 25.05.20 um 02:05 schrieb Keith Hui: I am attempting to build SCMI [1] support for the DSDT for asus/p3b-f to get around a PCI<->ACPI resource conflict that renders the whole SMBus and the hardware monitor inoperative. The board has ACPI AML hooks that run before and after

[coreboot] Re: qemu-i440fx regression: No graphics in payload

2020-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Furquan, dear Aaron, Am 14.05.20 um 12:02 schrieb Paul Menzel: Commit 3b02006afe (device: Enable resource allocator to use multiple ranges) [1] also breaks the qemu-i440fx, that SeaBIOS does not show any graphics. Please find the logs attached. Sorry, I missed that Furquan already

[coreboot] qemu-i440fx regression: No graphics in payload

2020-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Furquan, dear Aaron, Commit 3b02006afe (device: Enable resource allocator to use multiple ranges) [1] also breaks the qemu-i440fx, that SeaBIOS does not show any graphics. Please find the logs attached. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39486 $

[coreboot] [HEADS-UP] Current master broken

2020-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot users, Several users reported regressions with commit 3b02006afe (device: Enable resource allocator to use multiple ranges) [1] on their devices. $ git describe 3b02006afe8a85477dafa1bd149f1f0dba02afc7 4.12-9-g3b02006afe It is my understanding that the change exposes

[coreboot] Re: i440BX regression; P3B-F flashrom board enable is finally happening

2020-05-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Am 13.05.20 um 05:21 schrieb Keith Hui: I am still refining the P2B family of boards, now including the infamous P3B-F with an unusual appetite for hacks to make work. That said, I'm now finding that, on P3B-F, SeaBIOS hangs when it tries to relocate itself as part of its usual

[coreboot] Re: problems on X220

2020-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, dear Nico, Just some additions. Am 08.05.20 um 21:38 schrieb Nico Huber: On 08.05.20 11:25, JPT wrote: Sorry, I assumed the 11 branch was the branch for the soon to come release. I built with master again, but there isn't much difference. but, was there a difference? I've looked

[coreboot] Re: problems on X220

2020-05-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear JPT, Welcome to coreboot and congratulations for successfully running coreboot on a device. Thank you for your report. Am 07.05.20 um 17:38 schrieb JPT: I got several problems with coreboot on X220. I report them for you to improve coreboot. I's not important for me. If you need more

[coreboot] [RFH] Test link time optimization (LTO)

2020-04-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Despite ever increasing flash ROM chip sizes, small images are still desired for faster boot times, faster flash times, and more space for payloads, which is sometimes needed for adding several payloads (including GRUB/TianoCore) or Linux payloads. Jacob Garber did great

[coreboot] Re: Regarding Intel CPU frequency (Intel Denverton based)

2020-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nitin, Am 24.04.20 um 11:53 schrieb nitin.ramesh.si...@gmail.com: I have tried different measures to increase the load on CPU, but still the frequency reflects the same value ie. 800Mz. My question is why this behavior is different w.r.t the one when system boots up with BIOS. If you

[coreboot] Re: Regarding Intel CPU frequency.

2020-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nitin, Am 23.04.20 um 14:35 schrieb nitin.ramesh.si...@gmail.com: I am using coreboot to boot Denverton cpu (CPU C3558) based board. Nice. Are you going to send it upstream? I can see that the cpu frequency is set to the correct value i.e. "2200 Mhz" under the coreboot logs. . " CPU

[coreboot] Re: Memtest86+ stuck

2020-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Max, Am 23.04.20 um 12:34 schrieb Max Zim: On 23/04/2020 12:07, Paul Menzel wrote: So, coreboot master with Memtest86+ Stable does *not* work. coreboot master with Memtest86+ Master *does* work? Correct. The Memtest86+ stable tag was changed to v002 in coreboot 4.10 in commit

[coreboot] Re: Memtest86+ stuck

2020-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Max, Am 23.04.20 um 11:28 schrieb Max Zim: On 23/04/2020 09:24, Paul Menzel wrote: 1.  How do you build the Memtest86+ payload? 2.  What version do you choose? I believe there is *Stable* and *Master*? I just checked the box in the nconfig menu, so it should be Stable as defined

[coreboot] Re: Memtest86+ stuck

2020-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Max, Am 22.04.20 um 23:11 schrieb Max Zim: I discovered the issue with Memtest86+ stuck on my Thinkpad x230 on the very first tests. Always on the same point, 52%. Every release since 4.8 works this way, coreboot 4.7 works fine. Is this a known bug? Thank you for your report. I cannot

[coreboot] Re: Beginners questions

2020-04-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear JPT, Am 22.04.20 um 18:20 schrieb JPT: I successfully built coreboot for my X220. Great. Congratulations and welcome to coreboot. For the beginning, please write one message per problem with a descriptive subject line. Now I got a few questions: - tiano and grub payloads fail

[coreboot] Re: TPM in QEMU

2020-04-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matt, Am 09.04.20 um 23:19 schrieb Matt Judell via coreboot: It looks like QEMU supports TPM emulation via swtpm. The KConfig menu for the QEMU "boards" doesn't allow us to toggle TPM support as it does for say, the Chell board. Are there any blockers that would prevent the use of

[coreboot] Re: ThinkPad T420 and FireWire chip on Linux

2020-04-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear AreYouLoco, Am 08.04.20 um 10:59 schrieb AreYouLoco?: I am in the same situation. Same board and same controller. Still didn't flash coreboot but I also want to make FW work with coreboot. Could you please share your coreboot build config? Did you build master repo? Thanks. I am also

[coreboot] Re: Difference between GA-B75M-D3V and GA-B75M-D3H?

2020-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matt, Am 25.03.20 um 03:36 schrieb Matt B: Noticed someone running a GA-B75M-D3V with coreboot but that it hadn't had a status report since 2017. I did notice that GA-B75M-D3H is still around though with a status from may of 2019. Is the GA-B75M-D3H supported in the latest master?

[coreboot] [RFC] Documentation/Intel: s5 charging applet design document

2020-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, I’d like to draw your attention the change-set 37762 [1]. Documentation/Intel: s5 charging applet design document This document describes design details of s5 charging applet which we are proposing for Intel based chromebook designs. We can take advantage of FSP utility

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

2020-02-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kyösti, On 2020-01-25 00:56, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: >> >> System *boots* with one of: >> >> 1. maxcpus=0 (equivalent nosmp) >> 2. maxcpus=1 >> 3. nolapic (with e1000 warning about missing MSI-X >> >> System does *not* boot with one of: >> >> 1. maxcpus=2 >> 2. noapic Booting with

[coreboot] Revoke of Gerrit privileges and asking to fork (was: Gerrit etiquette)

2020-02-02 Thread Paul Menzel
[Your plain text email part of the mail is strangely indented.] Dear David, Am 01.02.20 um 19:16 schrieb dhendrix--- via coreboot: Recently there was some unpleasant activity on Gerrit which violated the guidelines [1] regarding respectful conduct. Unfortunately this has directly

[coreboot] Re: No video output?

2020-01-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mogens, Am 25.01.20 um 08:15 schrieb Mogens Jensen via coreboot: […] Thanks for your help. Both the suggestions you provided made video output work. I prefer to use the open-source libgfxinit option so I need one blob less. My Intense PC is now running latest coreboot, I can use the

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

2020-01-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, On 2019-12-15 11:54, Paul Menzel wrote: > On the Lenovo T60 (with AMD/ATI graphics) the Linux kernel (4.9, > 4.19, 5.3, 5.4) hangs after starting user space. As SeaBIOS, GRUB, > payloads and FreeDOS work, I tried to limit the number of CPUs, and > booting Linux

[coreboot] [RFT] Linux fails to detect devices on AGESA board with `nosmp`

2020-01-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, My coreboot test S-ATA hard disk had `nosmp` on the Linux command line configured so that Linux boots on the Lenovo T60. Now, testing this on the AGESA board ASRock E350M1, Linux failed to detect the disk (/dev/sda), and was unable to boot (USB and AHCI devices got error

[coreboot] Re: Asus P2B-LS board status upload after C environment bootblock conversion

2020-01-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Angel, On 2020-01-12 10:50, Angel Pons wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:25 AM Paul Menzel wrote: >> >> Dear Keith, >> >> Am 11.01.20 um 06:35 schrieb Keith Hui: >> >>> As I am still chasing how to enable SCSI termination on the board, >&g

[coreboot] Re: Asus P2B-LS board status upload after C environment bootblock conversion

2020-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Am 11.01.20 um 06:35 schrieb Keith Hui: As I am still chasing how to enable SCSI termination on the board, Due to the conversion, please always write if that worked with romcc, that means, a regression with C environment bootblock. I've recompiled a few more times. Therefore I

[coreboot] Asus P2B-LS board status upload after C environment bootblock conversion

2020-01-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Thank you for uploading the logs of the Asus P2B-LS to coreboot’s board status repository [1]. asus/p2b-ls/4.11-711-gd913036e18/2020-01-05T00_12_56Z Two notes: 1. The version in the logs unfortunately contain the *dirty* tag. Could you run `git status` or `git diff` to

[coreboot] interview with Ron from Dec. 16th, 2019: *On the Metal: Ron Minnich*

2019-12-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, For those, who have missed it, Ron was interviewed on *On the Metal* [1]. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-3-ron-minnich/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ coreboot

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

2019-12-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, On the Lenovo T60 (with AMD/ATI graphics) the Linux kernel (4.9, 4.19, 5.3, 5.4) hangs after starting user space. As SeaBIOS, GRUB, payloads and FreeDOS work, I tried to limit the number of CPUs, and booting Linux with `nosmp` gave me a booting system. It worked with

[coreboot] AMD Bettong board status upload (was: AMD Agesa Bettong board support)

2019-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jorge, On 2019-12-10 10:29, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo wrote: >> I've been able to push a Bettong board status (commit >> 31848f291a5f9b8ed0cf5e7c2f6651d1b56a1086) > > Sorry, commit edab74e8f3bddbab50fe6160da324fecf0fed329 > > commit edab74e8f3bddbab50fe6160da324fecf0fed329 > Author:

[coreboot] Re: No framebuffer available until amdgpu driver is loaded

2019-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jorge, On 2019-11-12 15:55, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo wrote: >> I do not understand that sentence. Do you see anything at all on >> the monitor before Linux starts? If so, what payload? But judging >> from the payload size, you are using the Linux kernel payload. > > No, the monitor is

[coreboot] Re: No framebuffer available until amdgpu driver is loaded

2019-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jorge, On 2019-11-12 15:12, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo wrote: > I have a little problem trying to get a vesa framebuffer when booting my > system. What board with what graphics device is it? > I have the system with the original bios and the vesa fb working. These are > the > relevant

[coreboot] TianoCore: Get PS/2 keyboard working in UefiPayloadPkg

2019-10-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Those of you, who missed it in #coreb...@irc.freenode.net and do not monitor the TianoCore bug tracker, Greg (myfreeweb) posted instructions on how to get PS/2 working in UefiPayloadPkg [1]. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2241#c1

[coreboot] Re: Graphics Initialization

2019-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Senthil, On 2019-10-04 16:19, Senthil Kumar G via coreboot wrote: > Is there any way to configure all uart of the processor. I am getting > only one serial controller in list of lspci. Coffeelake has three > uart ports but only one is getting listed. Please start a separate thread by

[coreboot] Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Menzel
[CC: +affected coreboot folks, +coreboot mailing list] Dear Thomas, More affected people discussed this issue on the coreboot mailing list [1]. On 2019-01-14 18:37, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/14/19 11:09 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/14/19 18:00, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: >&

[coreboot] Re: graphic preallocated memory

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jief, dear Michał, On 25.09.19 14:39, Michal Zygowski wrote: […] DVMT... this terminology is so confusing. I think it refers to the UMA memory which is configured here for x220: https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/blob/master/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/early_init.c#L116 Also,

[coreboot] Web site: Reword project summary/description (was: Web site revamp)

2019-09-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Timothy, On 9/2/19 10:17 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > - Original Message - >> Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 2:56:21 AM > >>> What about following proposal: >>> coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning >>> fast and secure boot experience on modern

[coreboot] Re: KGPE-d16 recent microcode (Adds IBPB) produces kernel panics

2019-07-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kinky, On 7/30/19 11:18 AM, Kinky Nekoboi wrote: > loading the microcode via Linux Kernel works. > > including it via coreboot causes General Protection Faults. > > See included bootlog. We hit the same issue on our board, and reported it to the Linux kernel developers [1].

[coreboot] Re: libpayload/i8042/keyboard: ERROR Keyboard reset failed when selecting Secondary Payload in SeaBIOS

2019-06-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, First, please try to use interleaved style for quoting. On 05.06.19 13:47, Martin Kepplinger wrote: Am 05.06.2019 07:58 schrieb Martin Kepplinger: I can test later but I think I can see what happens. It fixes the issue, but still prints "ERROR: Keyboard set scancode failed!".

[coreboot] Re: libpayload/i8042/keyboard: ERROR Keyboard reset failed when selecting Secondary Payload in SeaBIOS

2019-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, On 06/04/19 12:15, Paul Menzel wrote: > On 06/04/19 12:01, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> On 06/04/19 07:10, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >> >>> Just tested a build using this config: >>> https://github.com/merge/skulls/blob/master/x230/nonfree-de

[coreboot] Re: libpayload/i8042/keyboard: ERROR Keyboard reset failed when selecting Secondary Payload in SeaBIOS

2019-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, On 06/04/19 12:01, Paul Menzel wrote: > On 06/04/19 07:10, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > >> Just tested a build using this config: >> https://github.com/merge/skulls/blob/master/x230/nonfree-defconfig-139b3cef03 >> with a recent coreboot (my master bran

[coreboot] Re: libpayload/i8042/keyboard: ERROR Keyboard reset failed when selecting Secondary Payload in SeaBIOS

2019-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, On 06/04/19 07:10, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Just tested a build using this config: > https://github.com/merge/skulls/blob/master/x230/nonfree-defconfig-139b3cef03 > with a recent coreboot (my master branch HEAD is at 0da3a8a91b > soc/intel/baytrail: set default VBIOS filename

[coreboot] [PATCH] normal/menu: Do not treat error values as key presses

2019-02-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Currently, the time-out is cancelled/cleared. With the commit, it is not. With a small GRUB payload, this the problem is also reproducible on the ASRock E350M1. Link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-01/msg00037.html Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- grub-core/normal/menu.c | 3 ++- 1

[coreboot] Menu time-out missing when GRUB is loaded quickly and `at_keyboard`

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear GRUB folks, When the module `at_keyboard` is directly into the GRUB image (`--modules`), and GRUB is loaded really quickly, then the timer, which, after counting down to 0 (`GRUB_TIMEOUT`), starts the selected entry, is not shown. I noticed this issue on the ASRock E350M1 with

Re: [coreboot] Further coreboot releases, setting new standards

2018-11-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jay, Am Freitag, den 23.11.2018, 19:20 -0700 schrieb Jay Talbott: > I know I don't post much here, but I feel like I need to chime in on > this thread... Perhaps it's time that SysPro becomes a louder voice > in the community. > > Bay Trail and Broadwell DE are both still very popular

Re: [coreboot] Who is still using a 1980's tty for coreboot development?

2018-05-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nico, dear coreboot folks, Am Freitag, den 25.05.2018, 18:40 +0200 schrieb Nico Huber: > On 25.05.2018 10:15, Patrick Georgi via coreboot wrote: > > That is, who would unbearably suffer from 132 characters gper line of code? > > Humans. Code quality. > > Eyes get too tired too fast. The

Re: [coreboot] Proposing a change to Coding Style

2018-05-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Patrick, Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2018, 17:15 +0200 schrieb Patrick Georgi: > after just running into an issue on the EC code base, I hereby propose that > going forward, we should always wrap conditional blocks in braces, even > one-liners. > That is: > > if (foo) { >bar(); > } > >

Re: [coreboot] coreboot release 4.8 - Targeting May 15.

2018-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2018, 20:21 -0500 schrieb Martin Roth: > The coreboot 4.8 release is planned for May 15. That's the day that we'll > choose the commit to base the release on and create the release tag in > git. The tarballs will be available on the website shortly

[coreboot] [RFH] Testers with Intel devices for common SMM/SMI handler

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Arthur did great work and unified and improved a lot of code under the topic *common_smm_smihandler* [1]. To avoid regressions, could everyone with the appropriate hardware please test [2], and comment on the change-set with the test result? The instructions below should

[coreboot] [RFH] Status of the Lenovo X201

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot users, There is some uncertainty about the state of latest coreboot on the Lenovo X201. Does the most recent commit from coreboot work on it, or are there problems or regressions? Kind regards, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- coreboot

[coreboot] AMD Family 15h and 16h: ASSERTION ERROR

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Looking through the board status uploads, the AMD Family 15h and 16h uploads contain lines with *ASSERTION ERROR*. For example: asrock/imb-a180/4.6-812-g4a1d450/2017-07-22T05_25_01Z/coreboot_console.txt:ASSERTION ERROR: file

[coreboot] AMD Family 15h and 16h: ASSERTION ERROR

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Looking through the board status uploads, the AMD Family 15h and 16h uploads contain lines with *ASSERTION ERROR*. For example: asrock/imb-a180/4.6-812-g4a1d450/2017-07-22T05_25_01Z/coreboot_console.txt:ASSERTION ERROR: file

[coreboot] [RFH] Asus KGPE-D16: Tester for commit

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Could somebody please test if on the Asus KGPE-D16 the PS/2 keyboard still works after resume from ACPI S3 with the change-set *winbond/w83667hg-a: Disable mouse controller also during resume* [1] applied? Kind regards, Paul [1]

Re: [coreboot] Please upload board status Asus AM1I-A

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Eli, Am Montag, den 12.02.2018, 11:55 +0100 schrieb Elisenda Cuadros: > Sure, I will be happy to do it :-) Thank you very much for uploading the data to the board status repository [1]. I noticed, that the serial console is enabled in your run, which causes the boot time to be quite slow

[coreboot] [RFH] Please upload board status for your board

2018-03-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, I’d be great, if you took a few minutes to upload the status of your board to the board status repository [1]. Please make sure, that in the coreboot repository `git describe -- dirty` doesn’t return a string with *dirty* in it. Often it is caused by changes in the

[coreboot] [RFC] Fix undefined behavior with left shifts in whole code base

2018-02-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, TLDR; If coreboot wants to *make use of the undefined baviour sanitizer (UBSAN)* a solution needs to be found for left shift errors like in `1 << 31`, where the sign bit is ignored. The proposal is to adapt the code accordingly, that means `1U << 31`, although it’s not so

Re: [coreboot] QEMU x86_64 Q35 Automated Test Failure [master]

2018-02-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Timothy, Am Samstag, den 10.02.2018, 18:32 -0600 schrieb REACTS: > The QEMU x86_64 Q35 fails verification for branch master as of commit > 1b64ae1119fc7891b043d5d29bf93859ef9dbfa1 > > The following tests failed: > BOOT_FAILURE > > Commits since last successful test: > 1b64ae1

Re: [coreboot] Please upload board status Asus AM1I-A

2018-02-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Gergely, dear Elisenda, Welcome to coreboot and thank you for making and using the port for the Asus AM1I-A. Could one of you, please upload the current status to the board status repository? See the file `README` in `util/board_status/`. Please make sure, that you build from a non-dirty

[coreboot] [RFH] Draft release notes for coreboot 4.7

2017-12-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Martin said, that the missing/unwritten release notes are the reason holding up the coreboot 4.7 release. Could the maintainers, developers, and users please jump in and help write them. Please use the pad [1]. Some coreboot folks already contributed. Big thank you to them.

[coreboot] Asus P2-99: PS2 keyboard, time stamps, double logs

2017-12-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Branden, Thank you for uploading the results for your ASUS P2-99 to the board status repository [1]. You configured your board as below. ``` # This image was built using coreboot 4.6-2379-g0cc28d7e61 CONFIG_VENDOR_ASUS=y CONFIG_BOARD_ASUS_P2B=y CONFIG_DRIVERS_PS2_KEYBOARD=y

[coreboot] Move LinuxBoot mailing list to Mailman

2017-12-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ron, Am Montag, den 04.12.2017, 15:58 + schrieb ron minnich: > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:37 AM Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > I can’t find the mailing list. Could you please share the URL (and put > > the list in CC)? > > https://groups.google.com/forum

[coreboot] LinuxBoot (was: [RFC] Revive LinuxBIOS as new project for Linux in flash ROM chip)

2017-12-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ron, Am Samstag, den 02.12.2017, 21:26 + schrieb ron minnich: > Over the last few months I discussed reviving the LinuxBIOS name with a > number of folks inside and outside the coreboot community. I still pretty > much own the name: for old times's sake I kept the LinuxBIOS Inc. >

[coreboot] [RFC] Revive LinuxBIOS as new project for Linux in flash ROM chip

2017-12-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, As you all heard of NERF [1], Heads [2] and u-root [3], they try to get the Linux kernel into the flash ROM chip also without coreboot, by stripping down the UEFI firmware. Trammell is going to give a talk about it at 34C3 [4], and already uses the word *LinuxBIOS* there,

Re: [coreboot] Not able to compile drivers

2017-11-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Chinmoy, Am Donnerstag, den 16.11.2017, 17:48 +0530 schrieb chinmoy ghosh: > I am new to coreboot. Welcome! > I am able to clone the coreboot and able to compile for x86 arch. > I am not able to select any drivers in the menuconfig. I want compile some > coreboot/src/drivers/i2c drivers.

[coreboot] OCP Winterfell, NERF, Linux and u-root (was: Ability to remotely debug the grub menu in case of boot failure)

2017-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ron, Am Freitag, den 06.10.2017, 16:10 + schrieb ron minnich: > 2 weeks ago I started an OCP winterfell node booting this way. This was > NERF with linux and u-root in flash. it was about 20 seconds for a full > cycle of linux in flash, dhclient, wget, kexec. I ran it 10,000 times, got

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Successful build with GCC 7.2 and IASL 20170831 for coreboot 4.7

2017-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Patrick, Am Freitag, den 06.10.2017, 15:03 +0200 schrieb Patrick Georgi: > 2017-10-06 9:43 GMT+02:00 Paul Menzel: > > Having the code base compatible with future toolchains is quite > > important and convenient in my opinion. > > That's a great argument to switch out t

[coreboot] vboot/futility: Two Clang 5 warnings: address-of-packed-member and enum-conversion

2017-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Clang 5.0 shows the warnings below. I don’t know if Clang 4.0 also warns about these. ``` CCfirmware/lib/vboot_api_kernel.o firmware/lib/vboot_api_kernel.c:334:26: error: taking address of packed member 'kernel_version_tpm' of class or structure

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Successful build with GCC 7.2 and IASL 20170831 for coreboot 4.7

2017-10-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, Am Dienstag, den 03.10.2017, 08:07 -0600 schrieb Martin Roth: > I'd say that it doesn't make sense to require that coreboot builds > with anything other than the coreboot toolchain. > Additionally, It isn't reasonable to introduce a new requirement this > close to the release.

[coreboot] Old motherboards for taking

2017-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, A friend gave me four (old) systems, but I do not need them. All have a CPU plugged in, but no memory. If you would like some of them, please tell me. Otherwise, I’ll throw them away. 1. Asus M2A-VM (patch for coreboot v2 from Carl-Daniel exists in the mailing list

[coreboot] What’s the release plan for coreboot 4.7?

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, It’s October and coreboot 4.7 is supposed to be tagged in this month. Are there more specific plans already, when the release will happen? Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

[coreboot] [ANN] ECC 2017: Schedule and speakers published

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, I’d like to inform you that the schedule for the European coreboot conference was published and the speakers were announced [1]. A big thanks to everybody sending in proposals and to the program committee. Now, please spread the word, buy tickets, and plan your trip. I am

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Successful build with GCC 7.2 and IASL 20170831 for coreboot 4.7

2017-10-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Am Mittwoch, den 20.09.2017, 08:17 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > I’d like to propose the following goal for the upcoming coreboot 4.7 > release. > > All boards have to build with GCC 7.2 [1] and IASL 20170831 [2]. > > For the latter, several Intel board

[coreboot] Suggestions for efficient development setup for Google Chromebooks

2017-10-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Do you have any suggestions on how to get an efficient development setup for Google Chromebooks, which I’d describe as laptops with soldered flash ROM chip. In my case, it’s a Medion AKOYA S2013 (google/veyron_jaq), and an Acer Chromebook R 13 (google/elm). I have access to

Re: [coreboot] Unable to fetch from git server: `fatal: protocol error: bad pack header`

2017-09-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Shaunak, First, please just send plain text messages to mailing lists. Am Montag, den 25.09.2017, 19:36 -0700 schrieb shaunak saha: > I started seeing this issue today and was unable to fetch commits from > coreboot server. Please also provide the output of `LANG=C git fetch -vv

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot+SeaBios Boot speed: ~12sec till GRUB Boot Screen

2017-09-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear 17299, Am Montag, den 25.09.2017, 20:37 -0400 schrieb One7two99 via coreboot: > Original Message > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot+SeaBios Boot speed: ~12sec till Grub Boot > Screen > Local Time: 25 September 2017 9:17 AM > From: paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net > > >

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot+SeaBios Boot speed: ~12sec till Grub Boot Screen

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear 17299, First, please just sent plain text messages to mailing lists. Am Sonntag, den 24.09.2017, 17:32 -0400 schrieb One7two99 via coreboot: > Booting to my Grub Selection screen takes ~12sec on my X230, loosing lots of > second from pressing the Power Button to the "Hit Escape Key"

[coreboot] ECC’17: Fund developer travel costs

2017-09-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, The European coreboot conference 2017 is around the corner and starts on October 26th [1]. Are there developers who need funding of their travel costs? Kyösti, Arthur, Patrick, …? Please tell the community and note the amount. Until we know for sure, it’d be great if the

[coreboot] [RFC] Successful build with GCC 7.2 and IASL 20170831 for coreboot 4.7

2017-09-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, I’d like to propose the following goal for the upcoming coreboot 4.7 release. All boards have to build with GCC 7.2 [1] and IASL 20170831 [2]. For the latter, several Intel boards fail to build [3]. It’d be great if the maintainers looked into it. Thanks, Paul [1]

[coreboot] [RFH] Please test latest changes on Intel 440BX boards

2017-09-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot users, Keith is doing a tremendous job adding support for early CBMEM to boards with the Intel 440BX chipset [1]. Understandably, he can only do tests on the few boards he has access to, so it’s up to us, the community, to do the tests on the other boards on upload the results to

[coreboot] Support coreboot freelance developers (was: How is depreciating 95% of coreboot boards worth it for such minor improvements?)

2017-09-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Am Mittwoch, den 23.08.2017, 20:42 -0600 schrieb Aaron Durbin: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Kyösti Mälkki > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Taiidan at gmx.com > > wrote: > > > Ah I see thanks for explaining. > > > > > > I had read all the AGESA boards

[coreboot] SeaBIOS doesn’t detect hard drive on Asus KGPE-D16 (was: problems with kgpe-d16)

2017-09-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ian, Am Samstag, den 09.09.2017, 16:31 -0700 schrieb Ian Kelling: […] > 2. built from git master (588ccaa9), That commit is from April, isn’t it. So it’s pretty outdated. > crossgcc without -b this time as the build didn't complain about it. > SeaBIOS doesn't detect my hard drive. I

[coreboot] Problems building coreboot 4.6 (was: problems with kgpe-d16)

2017-09-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ian, Welcome to coreboot! Am Samstag, den 09.09.2017, 16:31 -0700 schrieb Ian Kelling: > 1. building 4.6 gives build erro > > $ make crossgcc-x64 BUILDGCC_OPTIONS=-b CPUS=16 > $ make > […] > HOSTCC cbfstool/lz4hc.o > HOSTCC cbfstool/lz4frame.o >

Re: [coreboot] Unable to build futility on 32-bit userspace

2017-08-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Paul, Am Donnerstag, den 31.08.2017, 09:36 +0300 schrieb Paul Kocialkowski: > Le jeudi 31 août 2017 à 09:30 +0300, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : > > Le jeudi 31 août 2017 à 08:13 +0200, Paul Menzel a écrit : > > > I haven’t tested this yet with a 64-bit userspace, but assum

[coreboot] Unable to build futility on 32-bit userspace

2017-08-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Trying to run `make test-abuild` on my system with a 32-bit userspace, it looks like quite some boards require the program futility from `util/futility`, but that fails to build with the error below. ``` /dev/shm/coreboot/util/futility(master) $ git describe

[coreboot] [RFC] How to deal with unchanged images in board status repository?

2017-08-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Thanks to Nico’s introduction of “timeless”/“comparable” builds in commit 566dd357 (Add option for "timeless" builds) [1], it’s for example possible to find out, if a commit changed something for a certain board. > Builds with BUILD_TIMELESS=1 shall always give a bit

[coreboot] [RFT] Linux 4.13: Intel 945 graphics driver changes

2017-07-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, As some of us still use Intel 945 devices, this is a heads-up, that the Linux Intel graphics driver was cleaned up in Linux 4.13 [1], whose first release candidate was published yesterday. There was at least one regression [2], so I encourage everyone to test the Linux 4.13

[coreboot] Unable to fetch from git server: `fatal: protocol error: bad pack header`

2017-07-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot administrators, Currently, I am unable to fetch the newest commits/objects(?) from the coreboot git server. ``` $ LANG=C git fetch -vv origin […] have ccbaabe5cf6b7eaa20fc323858680a404383537b got ack 3 dee643a360ad75787f2982a013c62a4d49352121 got ack 3

Re: [coreboot] Any intro available for adding cbmem support to an old platform?

2017-07-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Am Sonntag, den 09.07.2017, 10:38 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Freitag, den 07.07.2017, 21:55 -0400 schrieb Keith Hui: > > My original question got lost in the list probably because of a bad > > subject, so I'm asking again with a better one. > > Indeed

Re: [coreboot] Any intro available for adding cbmem support to an old platform?

2017-07-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Am Freitag, den 07.07.2017, 21:55 -0400 schrieb Keith Hui: > Hi (again) coreboot: Welcome back! > My original question got lost in the list probably because of a bad > subject, so I'm asking again with a better one. Indeed, a good, descriptive subject line is useful. > I read

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