[SerialICE] The strangest post codes

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Fri Apr 1 02:19:52 CEST 2011


* Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org> [110401 01:19]:
> >You will have to figure out where the BIOS is taking a jump to the wrong
> >code path and make sure you satisfy its requirements.

Are you sure it's actually hanging there forever and not just waiting in
a very long delay loop? Disassemble the code there and find out what it
does.

> >Does this BIOS use Cache As RAM? Did you initialize the CAR region
> >correctly?

The code did not set up any MTRRs, so no CAR here (yet)

> >Try enabling some of the debug flags in the lua script.
> >
> Ok attached is a more verbose output of i855. Not sure if this bios
> uses CAR? How do I tell? So do I need to use gdb to backtrace what
> jumps to [eb00:1202]?

Looks like the code around eb00:03a8 does that.





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