[coreboot] issues with seabios on the m2a-vm
Ward Vandewege
ward at gnu.org
Thu Feb 26 19:53:04 CET 2009
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:06:01PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:13:12PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:41:17PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > The IRQs are probably messed up because the bios tables aren't being
> > > copied. Please apply the patch below to coreboot (after adjusting the
> > > memory size for your machine).
> > The patch you sent assumed one GB of ram, right? I reduced the amount of ram
> > in the system to 1GB.
>
> Oh, you don't need to reduce memory. Ideally, one would change the
> value in tables.c to reflect the top of memory for the machine, but
> even that isn't strictly necessary.
Right, it was just easier this way.
> >The patch does not appear to help.
>
> The patch didn't take:
Yeah, I don't know what I did - but I sure didn't patch the right tree.
Here are logs where the patch *did* get applied.
With menu enabled:
http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/m2a-vm/m2a-vm-menu-with-cb-and-seabios-patch.cap
With menu disabled:
http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/m2a-vm/m2a-vm-no-menu-with-cb-and-seabios-patch.cap
> Okay - I'm at a loss to explain what's going on. I wonder if there is
> a compiler bug. Can you place the out/rom16.o and out/rom32.o files
> somewhere where I can grab them? Also, the patch below will help with
> debugging.
Sure:
http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/m2a-vm/rom16.o
http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/m2a-vm/rom32.o
These are from the 'with menus' build of seabios.
Thanks,
Ward.
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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator
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