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

2022-04-09 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2021-12-15 06:44, AreYouLoco? wrote: Since https://del.dog paste service is no longer operating... I am re-sending the dumps to the mailing list as requested by Nico. I took a look at those inteltool dumps, and they don't seem to be consistent with what the schematic shows. As Nico mentio

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #401] edk2 hangs indefiniately

2022-10-18 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #401 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. Akura Ryu wrote in #note-8: > I've met the same problem on my ThinkPad X200. > > I enabled EDK2, and also applied SeaBIOS as secondary payload. It cannot boot > as well: freezes, and screen remains black. > > Is there any

[coreboot] Re: Status of maintained boards and policies?

2023-01-04 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Denis, Just a quick question about your last reply: On 1/4/23 09:33, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 04:37:01 +0100 (CET) Martin Roth wrote: Hey Denis, My reply got out of control here.  Apologies for the length, feel free to ignore the top and just skip to my replies.  :)

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #440] superiotool tells you to run it as root and stops even when ran as root

2023-01-14 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #440 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. J Nky wrote in #note-12: > Nicholas Chin wrote in #note-11: > > Could you run `uname -r` and post the result so that I can see what kernel > > you are running? Could you also check if the file `/proc/config.gz` > > (contai

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #440] superiotool tells you to run it as root and stops even when ran as root

2023-01-14 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #440 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. J Nky wrote in #note-5: > > Hmm, so I'm assuming you are using superiotool from the coreboot-utils > > package? > > Yes. Thanks to your instructions and after installation of `libpci-dev` i was > able to build it. > &

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #440] superiotool tells you to run it as root and stops even when ran as root

2023-01-23 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #440 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. Nicholas Chin wrote in #note-14: > Apparently on Ubuntu the config can be found under > `/boot/config-5.19.0-21-generic`. Could you check that? That said, when I > check that file on a live Ubuntu 21.10 ISO with that sa

[coreboot] Re: regarding edk2 payload to boot to uefi aware OS

2023-02-06 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Ritul, Yes, CorebootPayload was deprecated and UEFIPayload should be used going forward. It should be able to boot a UEFI OS with coreboot. Tianocore was renamed to edk2, as you probably noticed. Cheers, Nicholas Chin On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:58 AM ritul guru wrote: > > Hi, > I

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #455] superiotool recognizes the wrong chip and doesn't work.

2023-02-07 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #455 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. shen Liu wrote: > ``` shell > sudo ./superiotool > Found Aspeed AST2400 (id=0x00) at 0x4e > sudo ./superiotool > superiotool r4.19-306-g12ec7901b7 > No Super I/O found > ``` > Does superiotool provide debug s

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #455] superiotool recognizes the wrong chip and doesn't work.

2023-02-07 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #455 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. shen Liu wrote in #note-3: > > `Starting program: /home/test/coreboot/util/superiotool/superiotool > Debuginfod has been enabled. > To make this setting permanent, add 'set debuginfod enabled on' to .gdbinit. >

[coreboot] [coreboot - Refactoring #460] Make mainboards using the variant concept

2023-02-15 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #460 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. akjuxr3 akjuxr3 wrote in #note-1: > I vote against renaming any x7x board to ivybridge. Ivybridge is the CPU you > put into the x7x board. Not the board itself. > If you put a sandybridge CPU into the socket of the h77pro4-m, then

[coreboot] [coreboot - Feature #461] Replacing Haswell mrc.bin blob with free software

2023-02-16 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #461 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. akjuxr3 akjuxr3 wrote: > Currently in case of the ability to run as less amount of closed source > software as possible and still have Microcode updates the reduced Intel ME > with disabled bit in IFD and the lga1155 or the mobile versions

[coreboot] Re: [GSOC 2023] Fix POST code handling

2023-03-16 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 3/16/23 05:11, Joursoir wrote: Hello again, First of all, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. I have carefully reviewed the project "Libpayload based memtest payload" and have come to the conclusion that it's not aligned with my interests. I would prefer to work on somethi

[coreboot] Re: make menuconfig - is broken after commit 7eab8ef (Linux 6.2's kconfig) and follow-ups

2023-11-26 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2023-11-26 10:15, Mike Banon wrote: Dear friends, I just encountered a menuconfig problem on a fresh coreboot. Steps to reproduce: 1) Testing environment - fully updated Artix Linux (arch w/o systemd): 6.5.11 linux kernel etc. 2) At the freshly cloned coreboot directory (+ submodules checkout'

[coreboot] Re: 'make menuconfig' broken by commit 7eab8ef8b720e8744eea3c6c771bccc217fbe5ed

2023-11-26 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2023-11-26 21:42, Keith Hui wrote: Hi all, We have a problem. After commit 7eab8ef8b720e8744eea3c6c771bccc217fbe5ed (util/kconfig: Uprev to Linux 6.2's kconfig) [1], make menuconfig is completely borked. I found out using git bisect. After the gerrit link is the output I get when I run 'make

[coreboot] Re: BIOS Flashing

2024-04-11 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Orion, On 2024-04-09 18:25, Orion Brewer wrote: Is there a coreboot BIOS flash available for an unknown motherboard in a customized PC? The motherboard is more than 10 years old. If there is a coreboot BIOS flash for it, will it add secure boot and TPM 2.0? It's impossible to say without m

[coreboot] Technical details of VGA text mode in coreboot romstage

2024-04-29 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Jérémy, In the original thread about romstage VGA text mode on the coreboot mailing list [1], some ideas were brought up about using this functionality for early debug messages and porting this to older platforms. I was interested in these possibilities and started exploring an implementa

[coreboot] [coreboot - Feature #540] Support for Lenovo ThinkPad X250 - the competitor to the shortly added HP EliteBook 820 G2

2024-05-22 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #540 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. The reason there is no coreboot support for (Intel) ThinkPads newer than Haswell is because of Intel Boot Guard, an optional feature introduced with Haswell which prevents firmware that isn't signed by the vendor (so, coreboot) from booting.

[coreboot] Re: Two devicetree questions and two use cases

2024-12-27 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Keith, I can't speak to the devicetree stuff, but I did find something interesting regarding the PCH PCIe ports: p8z77-v and sabertooth_z77 have a third PCIe x4 slot serviced by the PCH, but the 4 lanes are shared with some other x1 slots and devices. They can configure the PCIe x4 slot to

[coreboot] Re: Two devicetree questions and two use cases

2025-01-09 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Keith, Hi Nicholas, Thanks for the reply, and the scoop, and pardon my second email to the list that essentially asked the same question again. The hidden register would be a boon to my goals. I have an Asus P8Z77-V LE Plus board on order that I will soon be able to test the idea on, si

[coreboot] Re: Two devicetree questions and two use cases

2025-01-09 Thread Nicholas Chin
Hi Keith, Hi Nicholas, Thanks for the reply, and the scoop, and pardon my second email to the list that essentially asked the same question again. The hidden register would be a boon to my goals. I have an Asus P8Z77- V LE Plus board on order that I will soon be able to test the idea on, s

[coreboot] Re: Two devicetree questions and two use cases

2025-01-18 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2025-01-16 00:48, Keith Hui wrote: The board is here. For some reason both my old Fedora installation and SystemRescue failed to boot on it so I can't run autoport yet. However, I did change that PCIe bandwidth setting and took a SPI flash dump before and after. That PCH soft strap DID chan

[coreboot] Re: Help me push coreboot's envelope on Asus P8Z77-V

2025-01-28 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2025-01-24 08:31, Keith Hui wrote: Hello all, Doing some work with (Bill's) Asus P8Z77-V board and running into some issues and limits. See it unfold at https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/85413 That said, I've run into a few issues and limits trying to bring feature parity to it. It w

[coreboot] [coreboot - Bug #586] autoport should sanitize at least its ACPI DSDT SLIC/MSDM key dumps?

2025-03-23 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #586 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. Autoport doesn't generate the contents of those logs directly; it runs other tools and then parses the output of some of them. Currently it runs `acpidump`, which dumps the binary contents of all the ACPI tables as hexadecimal to the aucpidum

[coreboot] [coreboot - Support #585] acpi MSDM / SLIC table usage?

2025-03-23 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #585 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. Walter Sonius wrote in #note-3: > Extracted using `dd` both MSDM and SLIC from `/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/` and > put `select HAVE_ACPI_SLIC` in the > `srs/mainboard/hp/snb_ivb_desktops/Kconfig` in the common board section. > Should

[coreboot] [coreboot - Support #585] acpi MSDM / SLIC table usage?

2025-03-23 Thread Nicholas Chin
Issue #585 has been updated by Nicholas Chin. Walter Sonius wrote in #note-5: > Just tried to add the SLIC file to the existing coreboot tianocore image > build without `select HAVE_ACPI_SLIC` and re-installed W10 Pro but it > wouldn't activate. >From some research it seem

[coreboot] Re: Adding Support to Dell Latitude 5420

2025-05-18 Thread Nicholas Chin
On 2025-05-18 08:43, Eneko X wrote: > Can you add support for Dell Latitude 5420 please, I still haven't dumped > the laptop bios but i can still do it in the future That system almost certainly has Intel Bootguard, which prevents firmware not signed by the vendor, like coreboot, from booting. So