Dear se7enge,
Am 05.06.21 um 19:52 schrieb se7enge via coreboot:
I am about to embark on a mission to install coreboot on an ASUS
F2A85-M PRO (w/ AMD A10-6800k) desktop machine. Admittedly, I don't
have much experience in this field and am not extremely technical;
but I am willing to learn and put in the effort needed.
My main question to you at this time is regarding the extraction of
the VGA BIOS binary, in order to make the integrated GPU function as
intended, and how one goes about doing it. I have downloaded the
available .CAP (BIOS image?) file from the official Asus support page
(https://www.asus.com/supportonly/F2A85-M%20PRO/HelpDesk_BIOS/) and I
can see that on your own documentation page for the ASUS F2A85-M
(https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/asus/f2a85-m.html) you have
recommended that one should use 'MMTool Aptio' in order to load the
image and extract the VGA binary. However, I have struggled to find
any official download or support page for this tool and it does not
appear to be in my official distro repository or the AUR either. I am
therefore seemingly unable to get a hold of it and follow your
documentation.
Please could you advise on the best way to solve this problem so that
I may successfully extract the needed binary and continue on to
compile the coreboot ROM. Any support is much appreciated :)
I extracted it directly from within GNU/Linux following the Wiki page
*VGA support* [1].
Note, to get graphics before the Linux kernel initializes it (using the
ROM), I have to run it in SeaBIOS. Letting coreboot run the VGA BIOS
Option ROM is not working here.
I never tried if there is an UEFI GOP driver(?) which could be used with
(?) TianoCore.
Kind regards,
Paul
PS: After you get it going, it’d be really great if you extended the
documentation and maybe even moved the information from the Wiki to the
documentation folder. You only need to know Markdown for that.
[1]: https://www.coreboot.org/VGA_support#Retrieval_via_Linux_kernel
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