[coreboot] Funny boot log in Coreinfo

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Sat Oct 18 01:36:36 CEST 2008


On 18/10/08 00:28 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 17.10.2008 23:57, Myles Watson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> > <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
> > <mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 17.10.2008 19:46, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> >     > On 17/10/08 11:29 -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> I haven't looked into the cause yet, but the boot log looks a
> >     little "funny"
> >     >> in coreinfo.  At least it's smiling.
> >     >>
> >     >
> >     > Hmm - that is very unfortunate.  I think we have boot log issues
> >     - I have
> >     > also discovered that the bootlog is apparently overwriting the v3
> >     > coreboot tables.  This could be a consequence of that.
> >     >
> >
> >     Is there any old version where you don't see the issues on qemu?
> >
> >
> > Yes.  I know when it was a new feature I tried it out and didn't see
> > this garbage.
> 
> I remember it working well some time ago. It would be great if you could
> do a binary search and narrow it down. I can then fix the problem.

I don't ever remember it working exactly right.  If you look at 
the output, it matches what ever is living at physical address 0x0 - 
at least for the first page or so.  Clearly there is come contention here.

Jordan





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