[coreboot] coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not found

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andriy Gapon [mailto:avg at icyb.net.ua]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:43 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: 'Coreboot'
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not
> found
> 
> on 30/10/2008 16:34 Myles Watson said the following:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-
> bounces at coreboot.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Andriy Gapon
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:25 AM
> >> To: Coreboot
> >> Subject: [coreboot] coreboot.v2+seabios on 440bx: option roms not found
> >>
> >>
> >> In northbridge/intel/i440bx/raminit.c:sdram_set_spd_registers all PAM
> >> registers are programmed for RAM R/W access (0x33).
> >> When SeaBIOS searches for option ROMs (including VGA ROM) it doesn't do
> >> anything about PAM, so it sees empty memory instead of the ROMs.
> >>
> >> I am not sure what is the best solution here. It is debatable how
> >> coreboot should set PAM register, and it is not right to make SeaBIOS
> >> too hardware dependent.
> >>
> >> Maybe coreboot could somehow export functions for setting access to
> >> option ROM space (aka legacy memory segments) and SeaBIOS could call
> them.
> >>
> >
> > I think SeaBIOS expects Coreboot to copy the option ROM to 0xc0000 in
> RAM.
> > That way SeaBIOS gets to stay hardware agnostic.
> >
> 
> Makes sense!
> But it doesn't look like this does actually happen (by default).
> I am playing with msi/ms6147 target (under heavily tweaked qemu).

You're right.  It doesn't happen by default.  Kevin sent a simple patch to
the list, which I can't find right now :(

Basically you tell coreboot to run the ROM, but comment out the execution
right after the copy.  Let me know if you can't find it, and I'll try to
help you dig.

Thanks,
Myles

> 
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> Andriy Gapon