[coreboot] ASRock E350M1 as demo board for FrOSCon?

2011-08-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, I'll be at FrOSCon next weekend in St. Augustin (near Bonn, Germany) to show off coreboot, and I need a demo board. Buying an ASRock E350M1 is easy (the local computer shop has that board in stock), but I don't know the current state of the tree, and I don't have any matching spare flash chips

[coreboot] ASRock E350M1 demo image needed!

2011-08-16 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, does anyone have a working ASRock E350M1 coreboot image with SeaBIOS? I hope to demo that board this weekend at the FrOSCon conference. Thanks in advance, Carl-Daniel Am 15.08.2011 01:26 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > Hi, > > I'll be at FrOSCon next weekend in St. Augus

Re: [coreboot] On news-sides is mentioned, that you won a price

2011-08-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi! Am 19.08.2011 16:34 schrieb theUser BL: > http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/17403/thomas-krenn-open-source-foerderungen-2011-vergeben.html > http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Gewinner-der-Open-Source-Foerderaktion-stehen-fest-1326270.html > http://www.admin-magazin.de/News/Gewinner-von-Open-Source

Re: [coreboot] ASRock E350M1 demo image needed!

2011-08-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Scott, thanks a lot for the image! I'll try and report back. Regards, Carl-Daniel Am 17.08.2011 01:08 schrieb Scott Duplichan: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > ]Hi, > ] > ]does anyone have a working ASRock E350M1 coreboot image with SeaBIOS? > ]I hope to demo tha

Re: [coreboot] ASRock E350M1 demo image needed!

2011-08-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
t shows no messages, but the serial port works under Linux just fine Regards, Carl-Daniel Am 17.08.2011 01:08 schrieb Scott Duplichan: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > ]does anyone have a working ASRock E350M1 coreboot image with SeaBIOS? > ]I hope to demo that board this weekend at

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH v3 1/1] libpayload: add support for finding and parsing Coreboot BIOS tables

2011-08-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 23.08.2011 07:53 schrieb Philip Prindeville: > On 8/22/11 4:00 PM, Andres Salomon wrote: > >> Also, if you email the patch inline (rather than as an attachment), >> then we can include comments inline as well. >> > I wish I could, but alas I use Thunderbird. Some misguided hacker rewrot

[coreboot] FOSDEM 2012

2011-11-11 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hey, it seems we forgot to apply for a devroom (well, at least I didn't see anything on the mailing list). Should we submit talks to the individual devrooms? Should we ask for a coreboot/flashrom booth/table? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.corebo

[coreboot] FOSDEM 2012

2011-11-16 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Call for lightning talks and stands is NOW! http://fosdem.org/2012/call-for-participation I will be at FOSDEM. Anybody else? Regards, Carl-Daniel Am 11.11.2011 18:48 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > Hey, > > it seems we forgot to apply for a devroom (well, at least I didn't see

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] superiotool: add EOT for Infineon ports

2011-12-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 20.11.2011 21:07 schrieb Joshua Roys: > This patch prevents a long loop through memory until superiotool finds > an EOT. > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Roys Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] superiotool.h: Add `EOT` to end of entry

2011-12-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
es and writes random data to random I/O locations. > > Reported-by (on IRC): Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel > Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

[coreboot] crossgcc build problems on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64

2012-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, crossgcc won't build on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 because the gmp libraries end up in xgcc/lib64/ (as designed) but mpfr expects them to be in xgcc/lib/ (why?). Workaround is to add a symlink xgcc/lib -> xgcc/lib64 . autoconf is claimed to be needed to build binutils (at least according to buildgcc

Re: [coreboot] FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
We (coreboot+flashrom) will have one main talk (coreboot on laptops) and one joint booth at FOSDEM. Thanks to Rudolf Marek for applying for the booth. http://www.coreboot.org/FOSDEM_2012 I'll only have intermittent internet access while I finish the slides for the main talk. Could someone else pl

[coreboot] Patchwork/Django anti-spam cleanup script

2012-02-17 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
In case you ever want to clean a Patchwork instance of spam registrations and assuming that nothing on your site besides Patchwork uses Django, try the following script which should kill a majority of spam accounts. Disclaimer: This script is an absolutely gross 5-minute hack, and it should remove

Re: [coreboot] libpayload alloc() gcc 4.6.2 bug?

2012-02-29 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 29.02.2012 08:39 schrieb Patrick Georgi: > Am 28.02.2012 23:06, schrieb Marc Jones: >> I found this bug building tint with libpayload. libpayload is built >> with defconfig and using the same coreboot crosstools gcc. The bug >> happens in the first call to alloc() when the first header of the >>

[coreboot] [ANNOUNCE] libhwremote 0.1

2012-03-09 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
I'm glad to announce libhwremote 0.1, a library which forwards hardware accesses over a serial line to a machine running SerialICE. No QEMU needed! All you have to do to run lspci/superiotool/... against a remote SerialICE target is to compile those tools against libhwremote, and then just run them

Re: [coreboot] [SerialICE] [ANNOUNCE] libhwremote 0.1

2012-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 10.03.2012 17:52 schrieb Idwer Vollering: > 2012/3/10 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger : >> I'm glad to announce libhwremote 0.1, a library which forwards hardware >> accesses over a serial line to a machine running SerialICE. No QEMU needed! >> All you have to do to run lspci

[coreboot] GSoC project ideas

2012-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, given the lack of affordable and available hardware tools for coreboot development, I propose to look for a different set of projects this year: Tools which would help developers, and which are usable especially with current hardware. A list of ideas follows. - Flash ICE device with SPI suppo

Re: [coreboot] Asus M5A88-v evo

2012-04-03 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Adding the flashrom mailing list to CC: Please keep flash...@flashrom.org in CC for all flashrom related questions. Thanks! Am 21.03.2012 17:09 schrieb HighlyCaffeinated: > Two files attached. In fromregboot.txt the machine was booted to the factory > BIOS, the chips swapped, and flashrom-V execu

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Re-thinking the stages

2012-04-07 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 06.04.2012 22:38 schrieb ron minnich: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Marc Jones wrote: > >>> One such a nice app would be zmodem download of raminit. >> This is an interesting thought, but really a debug/development >> feature. > We even talked about this in v3. But it never got done, seems

Re: [coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets

2012-04-14 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 14.04.2012 01:11 schrieb Ronald G. Minnich (rminn...@gmail.com): > commit e4fc5283d5c2e5fe8f75875a8229319696f8990b > Author: Ron Minnich > Date: Thu Apr 12 04:26:22 2012 -0700 > > Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets > > This binary is required for anyone

[coreboot] Binary blobs in the source tree (was: Re: New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets)

2012-04-15 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 15.04.2012 04:57 schrieb ron minnich: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: > >> I hope this is not going into the main repository, but into some >> separate repository instead. >> Right now we can tell people that all code in our offici

Re: [coreboot] Binary blobs in the source tree (was: Re: New patch to review for coreboot: e4fc528 Add the memory reference code binary for sandybridge chipsets)

2012-04-15 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Am 15.04.2012 22:08 schrieb ron minnich: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: >> Am 15.04.2012 04:57 schrieb ron minnich: >> It's a slippery slope, though. We call the blob from coreboot and expect >> it to return to coreboot (wh

Re: [coreboot] [status] coreboot rename

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.01.2008 18:16, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 9:14 AM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think v1 should be completely unchanged. It's neither active nor >> supported so I don't think it should have the current name. >> > > I agree. > Same here. Regards, Carl-

Re: [coreboot] progress on lx

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
0:0x0003 > writeglmsr: MSR 0x4020, val 0x2000:0x000fff80 > writeglmsr: MSR 0x4021, val 0x2000:0x080fffe0 > sizeram: _MSR MC_CF07_DATA: 10076013:00061a40 > sizeram: sizem 0x100MB > sysmem_init: enable for 256MBytes > Usable RAM: 268304383 bytes > sysmem_init:

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 01:08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 19.01.2008 00:17, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 23:31 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks for reworking the code! I have factored out some common status >

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] superiotool: Fix Winbond W83627EHF support

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
the datasheet, but sensors-detect says > 0x8853 is also possible. Also, the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe > (W83627EHF) has an ID of 0x8854 (verified on actual hardware). > > So assume all 0x88?? IDs to mean W83627EHF/EF/EHG/EG. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [coreboot] [Patch] winbond w83627DHG superio support in superiotool

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
that on my board, it works ;) >>> Thanks for Uwe to help me make a SVN diff patch. >>> > > Looks good! > > > >>> signed-off-by : Bingxun Shi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > > Acked-by: Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 issue as promised...

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
h that fixed, or if no one thinks that will ever happen: >>>> Acked-by: Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If we used grep, the buildtarget snippet could probably be made a bit smaller: ld --help | grep -q build-id && EXTRA_LFLAGS+=" -Wl,--build-id=none" Next try (doe

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 01:23, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:18:11AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> +while (generic_spi_read_status_register() & JEDEC_RDSR_BIT_WIP) >> myusec_delay(10); >> > > Indent this prope

Re: [coreboot] r3055 - trunk/util/lxbios

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.01.2008 20:02, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:51:00PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >> Peter Stuge wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: >>> >>> > The utility will be renamed, too. > >

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 00:17, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 23:31 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Thanks for reworking the code! I have factored out some common status >> registers to duplicate less code and hope the code still works. Could >> you p

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.01.2008 21:09, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > OK, I've checked it again and fixed a few things, see the read function > and the erase also has the block protect disable, and it works again. > Thanks! It seems I was half asleep while coding the if (size > 512k) part. > It takes just under a m

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
--- Support SPI flash chips bigger than 512 kByte sitting behind IT8716F Super I/O performing LPC-to-SPI flash translation. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ronald Hoogenboom <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-18 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.01.2008 08:17, ron minnich wrote: > OK, SiS sent me this nice board with some 2 MB flash parts and I have > not gotten much past step 1, "Program the flash", as it is a 2 MB > flash. I had no idea what a mess the superio/flash interface was going > to be. > > So, Ronald, I am most interested

Re: [coreboot] pci_check_sanity is confusing; do we need VSA to read LX CS5536 config registers? ; how to handle VSA?

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 09:15, ron minnich wrote: > I am wondering for VSA if we should not have a post-ram step where we > find all LAR entries with names like > prestage2/* > and run them. Still not sure of the right approach for VSA. Is VSA so > special that we shouldn't worry about handling it in the ge

Re: [coreboot] progress on lx

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 07:39, ron minnich wrote: > Marc, should we modify the LX build to somehow wget the VSA and copy > it in to LAR? Or should we have a top-level "blob" directory in v3 > that includes the vsa file, and then build it in to LAR? > Please don't store any blobs in the v3 tree directly.

Re: [coreboot] progress on lx

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 18:07, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> On 19.01.2008 07:39, ron minnich wrote: >> >>> Marc, should we modify the LX build to somehow wget the VSA and copy >>> it in to LAR? Or should we have a top-level "blob" dir

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 19:34, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> */ >> -//while (generic_spi_read_status_register() & >> JEDEC_RDSR_BIT_WIP) >> +while (generic_spi_read_status_register() & JEDEC_RDSR_BIT_WIP) >>

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 18.01.2008 23:10, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:34:29PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > >>> Winbond W25X16VSSI >>> Winbond W25X32VSSI >>> >>> Problem with Winbond is they really only want to sell large >>> quantities. I haven't even gotten a quote and delivery time >>> bac

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 issue as promised...

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Marc! To commit your patch, I need a signoff from you because you created the patch. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/Development_Guidelines#Sign-off_Procedure for details. Thanks! On 19.01.2008 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [coreboot] r3065 build service

2008-01-19 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.01.2008 02:11, coreboot information wrote: > Change Log: > give it 2k more space for abuild. let's look into this anyways, but get rid of > the impression that the cheetah on fam10 is broken just because we're using a > too new compiler for abuild. (trivial) > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 20.01.2008 12:48, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 11:59 +0100, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > >> The read status register will take at least: >> 16*(2/33) us = about 1 us (excluding the LPC latency, which is?), so >> assuming that the first read status will show busy and the

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: add a check for a termination member

2008-01-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
New plan: Scratch all "special" LAR member stuff and simply add a normal file called "foo" or "placeholder" with the nocompress: parameter to the LAR. No new code needed, gives us almost everything we need right now. What do you think? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list coreboot@co

Re: [coreboot] Fixing usage of vendor, device to devid

2008-01-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
ng for the first time. > We are still failing in > "Finding PCI configuration type" > > Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Committed in r558 with one compile warning fixed. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Compressed (lzma/nrv2b) elf payload booting

2008-01-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.01.2008 01:03, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm investigating booting from ROM where the rom is larger than the LPC > mmapped area of the superio. In the 'stream' methods used by elfboot, > there is an option to use compressed payloads, where the stream takes > care of the decompression

[coreboot] v3 compilation failures

2008-01-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
3 of 5 targets in v3 fail to compile: - adl/msm800sev - amd/norwich - artecgroup/dbe61 While none of these targets worked on real hardware, we were at least able to compile them and could keep the code mostly warning-free to give later porters a good start. Right now the accumulated mess is rather

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Please add support for MX25L8005 and MX25L3205D

2008-01-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.01.2008 17:15, Harald Gutmann wrote: > Hello! > > As in the thread "Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F)" > there was added support for writing/reading lager SPI chips than 512kB i had > a look on the current flashrom code, in svn revision 3067. > > I recogniced that t

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
e of the > natural variance much larger than 10 us... > Patch follows... > > Signed-off-by: Ronald Hoogenboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Committed in r3068. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-21 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Harald: This patch should fix your problems writing to the chip. Use either "patch -l" or remove the // before //while (generic_spi_read_status_register() & JEDEC_RDSR_BIT_WIP) Ronald: I need an ack to commit this. On 20.01.2008 11:59, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote: > Carl-Daniel

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
the face of >>> genericness for other chips, it is indeed more correct to do the check >>> for the busy bit. >>> >> Ronald/Harald, can you please ack the change? It is reproduced below >> (whichspace-damaged). >> >> Regards, >> Ca

[coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: use the read function for verifying

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
an IT8716F flash translation chip. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: flashrom-big/flashrom.c === --- flashrom-big/flashrom.c (Revision 3069) +++ flashrom-big/flashrom.c (Arbeitskopie)

Re: [coreboot] progress on lx

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 19.01.2008 07:35, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 4:27 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Is this same situation as before or is it worse? If it is worse, please >> try to fix before you commit. >> > > Th

Re: [coreboot] SST25VF016B (2MB) flash on m57sli (IT8716F).

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 03:53, ron minnich wrote: > Just FYI, some luck writing this chip on the sis board ... > > The write had no errors. The -v failed. But on using the -r to read to > a file, I find > no differences between the file used for -w and the file used for -v! > Yes, very old lingering bug

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: use the read function for verifying

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 16:10, Harald Gutmann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 15:59:28 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: > >> Flashrom did not use the read function for verifying, it used direct memory >> access instead. That fails if the flash chip is not mapped completely. >&

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Please add support for MX25L8005 and MX25L3205D

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
; benchvice flashrom # ls -l test.4mb > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4194304 22. Jan 16:27 test.4mb > benchvice flashrom #" > > Signed-off-by: Harald Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, r3072. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: use the read function for verifying

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 16:59, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Flashrom did not use the read function for verifying, it used direct memory >> access instead. That fails if the flash chip is not mapped completely. >>

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on ga 2761gxdk

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Ron? On 10.01.2008 13:32, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Btw, the block lock bits are all set, so even if you manage to convince > the SPI translation to map more than 512 KByte and even if you use > enable LPC-to-SPI writes, you will still flash nothing. Try this for > better lock

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 issue as promised...

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 16:47, Marc Karasek wrote: > Been away for the weekend. Sun was closed on Monday. > > Signed of by Marc Karasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> On 09.01.2008 16:13, Marc Karasek wrote: >> >> &g

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on ga 2761gxdk

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 17:37, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 8:27 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ron? >> > > See my other note, this works but verify did not, which I think you > also just fixed. > Yes, but status regis

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Intel 3100 chipset, version 2

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 21.01.2008 17:42, Ed Swierk wrote: > On Dec 27, 2007 4:25 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm currently reviewing the rest of the patch. Looks nice so far. >> > > There's no urgency, but I'm wondering if th

Re: [coreboot] PCI BIOS Extension ROM in v3

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 18:59, Myles Watson wrote: > Coreboot v3 refuses to initialize the VGA in QEMU because the PCI device > ID's are mismatched. > > It turns out that the header has been overwritten by a copyright string, so > that v3 is following a bad pointer into the ROM looking for the PCI device > I

Re: [coreboot] progress on lx

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.01.2008 20:04, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 10:46 AM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Small thing; I would prefer something else than a comma after the >> type, so that it is separated from the real information. Maybe: >> id="pci:vendor,device"; >> >> I think that wou

Re: [coreboot] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 more issues...

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.01.2008 01:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Arugh!!! When I tested the patch eveerything worked ok but now with > the new svn version, when I try abuild it get this: > >Creating builddir...ok >Compiling image ..FAILED after 13s! Log excerpt: > gcc -m32 -nostd

[coreboot] Embedding VSA in a LAR

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
have to specify entry point and load address by hand. The following patch allows us to specify LAR entries like "entry=33:blobs/vsa" which then have entry point addr 33. This can be extended to a loadaddr= parameter. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In

Re: [coreboot] Patch file for ld/fedora 8 more issues...

2008-01-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.01.2008 02:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On 23.01.2008 01:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Arugh!!! When I tested the patch eveerything worked ok but now with >>> the n

Re: [coreboot] Embedding VSA in a LAR

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.01.2008 17:05, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Jordan Crouse wrote: >> Lets go back to basics on this one - put the blob in the LAR (easy to >> do), >> and then the code will know how to use it. Done and done. >> > Yes. All we need to know about the VSA binary is its start address in > the lar. T

Re: [coreboot] PATCH: Add Spansion S25FL016A to flashrom

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 24.01.2008 13:38, Peter Stuge wrote: > I put a Spansion chip on a m57sli. This patch lets flashrom read the > chip successfully. Writing is inconsistent. > > I've done two writes so far. Writing takes several minutes and I > don't get any progress messages from flashrom. > > The first run was 4*

Re: [coreboot] Embedding VSA in a LAR

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 24.01.2008 17:02, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 6:34 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > >> What about compression of the VSA? >> > > On v3, we have the 'use compression' option in the Kconfig dialog. > Long term, I intend to use the same compression

Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] flashrom on ga 2761gxdk

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.01.2008 05:25, ron minnich wrote: > OK, with 3073, something went worse. > r3073 and r3072 did not have any changes affecting you. > Last night, I was flashing just fine. As of today, it's not id'ing it > and it is reading 0xff back for that pass. Maybe the port it reads from gives 0xff

Re: [coreboot] patch: first steps to VSA support in v3

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 23.01.2008 20:19, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 11:06 AM, Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BUT, I don't think that you need them. VSA should default to reasonable >> settings without the in15 calls. I need to test it in v2 this afternoon. >> If VSA does require them I would r

Re: [coreboot] patch: first steps to VSA support in v3

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 24.01.2008 20:05, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 10:06 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > === > >>> --- northbridge/amd/geodelx/vsmsetup.c(revision 0) >

Re: [coreboot] PATCH: Add Spansion S25FL016A to flashrom

2008-01-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 02:11, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:57:35PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>> Then I wrote rand.bin which is 2MB of /dev/random. This >>> consistently reads back as something quite different >>> >> This loo

Re: [coreboot] [patch] 'dist' target for 'flashrom' Makefile

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 20:24, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:21:16PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >>> These are very good for distributions. Not all distributions can >>> deal with svn HEAD and few do it well IMO. >>> >> What would be the problem with a version "r3065"? I doubt

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 19:17, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 10:15 AM, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hmm - probably the right move, but the changes in buildrom are not >> trivial for v2. We would need to figure out what the ROM size is (by greping >> Config.lb, probably), compres

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
We need to rethink this whole source tree renaming business. It - messes up svn blame - causes lots of breakage when you try to go back to versions before the rename (try it with coreboot v2!) - introduces inconsistencies in at least half of the patches (some references to LB are changed, some rema

[coreboot] rename LAR to CBAR and LBTABLE to CBTABLE?

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, while I agree fully with renaming the project, we need to consider the point where we stop the renaming, also because some code referencing our code is outside of our control. We have LBTABLE structures and can rename them to CBTABLE. But will Linux kernel folks merge patches renaming the stru

Re: [coreboot] proposal to enable running vsa in geode northbridge

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
s not correct for all platforms. sc520 will > + * need some hands on here. > + */ > + archive->len = *(u32 *)0xfff4; > + archive->start =(void *)(0UL-archive->len); > + > + // FIXME check integrity > + > +} > /* until we get rid o

Re: [coreboot] stage2 access to LAR

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 22:30, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> how does stage 2 access LAR? The mem_file struct is an auto (local) >> for stage1. >> >> void __attribute__((stdcall)) stage1_main(u32 bist) >> { >> int ret; >> struct mem_file archive, result; >> int elfboo

Re: [coreboot] LZMA magic number

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 18:58, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:55:24AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote: > >> I accidentally used an uncompressed payload with v2 when it >> expected a compressed payload, and it gave me the message: >> >>Decoder scratchpad too small!! >>Decoding er

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Sorry Ron, this is not meant as a rant against you. The patch you posted just fitted a pattern I'm seeing more and more often. Our problem is that we try to handle copyright issues with perfection. That sometimes causes us to go overboard with attributions. On 25.01.2008 18:12, ron minnich wrote:

Re: [coreboot] LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, May 28-31

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 25.01.2008 16:17, Peter Stuge wrote: > The Call for Projects has been released. > http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/de/community/projects/cfpro.html > http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/community/projects/cfpro/call-for-projects.html > > Applications must be in before February 21st. > > I think we did O

Re: [coreboot] LinuxBIOS/coreboot and security

2008-01-25 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Philipp, On 25.01.2008 12:50, Philipp Marek wrote: > My question is this. I'd like to secure machines against the > people that should work with them [1]. > Ah. Classic DRM. > In most BIOSes I can set the boot order to "harddisk only". > (coreboot too, right?). That doesn't help if someone

Re: [coreboot] rename LAR to CBAR and LBTABLE to CBTABLE?

2008-01-26 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 26.01.2008 09:46, Corey Osgood wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2008 11:46 PM, Patrick Georgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> How about renaming LAR to "lightweight archive(r)" and keep the short >>> name? >> >> Good one. Works for me. > > Me too Same here. Regards, Carl-Da

Re: [coreboot] rename LAR to CBAR and LBTABLE to CBTABLE?

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 03:01, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080126 02:28]: > >> while I agree fully with renaming the project, we need to consider the >> point where we stop the renaming, also because some code referencing our >>

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: use the read function for verifying

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 05:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080122 15:59]: > >> Flashrom did not use the read function for verifying, it used direct memory >> access instead. That fails if the flash chip is not mapped completely. >>

Re: [coreboot] PATCH: Add Spansion S25FL016A to flashrom

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 08:08, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:15:58AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >>> #define ID is well tested but I'm not adamant in any way. You're >>> basically asking for less information in source and more at run >>> time. I like more info at run time but I still

Re: [coreboot] list headers

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 06:55, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > >> Hi Andreas, >> > > So, this wasn't really meant for the list. I only saw the list > address in To just as I hit send. No problem for me, but; > > Should we really have a Mail-Followup

Re: [coreboot] Donations?

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:00:43PM -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: >> >>> Can random people donate money or hardware to coreboot? I'd love to >>> see a page on the wiki with instructions for peopl

Re: [coreboot] rename LAR to CBAR and LBTABLE to CBTABLE?

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 13:55, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> On 27.01.2008 03:01, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> >>> * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080126 >>> 02:28]: >>> >>>> while I agree fully w

Re: [coreboot] LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, May 28-31

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 16:07, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:01:50PM +0100, Patrick Georgi wrote: > >> When that works, we could provide a .jar file with a demo bios >> image or something like that, for instant experimentation as java >> applet. >> > > Indeed neat! Do you know if jp

Re: [coreboot] alix1c and v3

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 06:35, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:07:23PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > >> OK, VSA is running fine. BUT, after VSA runs, memory at 0x1000 is >> ZERO'd. This is Bad, as this is where stage2 lives! >> > > Can you confirm it is not zero before calling do_vsmbio

Re: [coreboot] alix1c and v3

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 18:44, ron minnich wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 9:35 PM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Can you confirm it is not zero before calling do_vsmbios() and zero >> immediately after returning? That would indicate that the VSA setup >> empties the area. >> > > Confirmed.

Re: [coreboot] flashrom verify fails, CK804, MCP55

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 20:19, Tiago Marques wrote: > Yes, PLCC. > SuperIO? > See http://www.coreboot.org/Superiotool for details. > The chips are a w39v040B and a Pm49FL004. > Which boards? We need exact vendor name, board name and revision. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list coreboot

Re: [coreboot] Competition at LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, May 28-31

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 20:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:59:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I am pretty fluent in php / html. >>> >> Going back to the competition, we will need a database, an entry form >> an

Re: [coreboot] LinuxBIOS/coreboot and security

2008-01-27 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 27.01.2008 23:32, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2008, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Hi Philipp, >> >> On 25.01.2008 12:50, Philipp Marek wrote: >> >>> My question is this. I'd like to secure machines against

Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] Rename lxbios to nvramtool

2008-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.01.2008 04:14, Corey Osgood wrote: > Corey Osgood wrote: >> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >>> On 27.01.2008 01:53, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >>> >>>> * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> [080126 01:50]: >>>>

Re: [coreboot] v3 compilation failures

2008-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.01.2008 14:28, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080122 00:01]: > -/* smbus functions */ -int smbus_read_byte(unsigned device, unsigned address); >>> hmm. So where does the prototype live then? >>> > > They should not necessarily be i

Re: [coreboot] r3085 build service

2008-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.01.2008 22:12, Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 28/01/08 21:38 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> On 28.01.2008 21:12, coreboot information wrote: >> >>> revision 3085 >>> >>> Build Log: >>> Compilation of a

Re: [coreboot] patch: add Kconfig support for v3 north

2008-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.01.2008 21:55, Marc Jones wrote: > > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> On 25.01.2008 19:17, ron minnich wrote: >>> On Jan 25, 2008 10:15 AM, Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hmm - probably the right move,

Re: [coreboot] r3085 build service

2008-01-28 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
?revision=3085&device=serengeti_cheetah_fam10&vendor=amd > And we need another 2461 bytes increase due to the new compiler. Just in case anyone wonders which compiler causes continuous size increases: gcc version 4.3.0 20080117 (experimental) [trunk revision 131592] (SUSE Linux) Regards, Carl-Da

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