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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When execution of VGA option ROM is configured in seabios, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>seabios first scans all PCI devices and looks for a vga type device as you can see in my attached log.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If seabios finds a pci vga device then it looks for a suitable VGA BIOS (Vendor id:Device id / 1002:9804) in CBFS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But if seabios does not find a vga device, it doesn't look for the VGA BIOS. That is what happens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In my issue seabios can only find the pci VGA device if I first enabled VGA ROM execution in coreboot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If seabios finds the vga device it will also find the correct VGA BIOS in CBFS and executes it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The log shows this. The issue is that the pci enumertion fails in seabios and it does not list all available devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Why is it broken? It could be a coreboot or seabios problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wolfgang<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> QingPei Wang [mailto:wangqingpei@gmail.com] <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 9. Juni 2012 20:48<br><b>An:</b> Wolfgang Kamp - datakamp<br><b>Cc:</b> Coreboot<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [coreboot] VGA Option ROM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> what does "seabios cannot run the vga option ROM" looks like?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>did seabios find the vbios from CBFS? </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>1. found, but vbios executed failed?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>2. seabios could not find vbios?<br clear=all></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><br><br><br>Best wishes<br>QingPei Wang<br>Phone: 86+018930528086</span><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Wolfgang Kamp - datakamp <<a href="mailto:wmkamp@datakamp.de" target="_blank">wmkamp@datakamp.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Normally seabios should run the option ROMs. But in my issue seabios cannot run the vga option ROM,<br>because it cannot find the vga pci device.<br>Seabios first looks for the vga pci device and if it finds a vga device it searches in CBFS for the correct ROM file.<br>So I think there is a pci enumeration problem which seems to be caused from coreboot.<br><br>Wolfgang<br><br>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br>Von: ron minnich [mailto:<a href="mailto:rminnich@gmail.com">rminnich@gmail.com</a>]<br>Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 17:16<br>An: Wolfgang Kamp - datakamp<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:coreboot@coreboot.org">coreboot@coreboot.org</a><br>Betreff: Re: [coreboot] VGA Option ROM<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>I wonder if we need another option :-( to configure the rom but not run it?<br><br>ron<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>coreboot mailing list: <a href="mailto:coreboot@coreboot.org">coreboot@coreboot.org</a><br><a href="http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot" target="_blank">http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>