[coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 18:10:11 CET 2009


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please can you compare  last 128 bytes of image? I suspect that ROM SIP for
> HT bus settings is not right. I mean it is same issue as M2V-MX SE.
Thanks.  I always forget about that.

You can try the attached patch.  Make sure to:
rm -rf build
make oldconfig
make

after applying the patch.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

> It should contain:
>
> 0007FF80 AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50
> ?.DP?.?a?.DP?.?a?.DP
> 0007FF94 C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61 │ AA 00 44 50 │ C2 0F 97 61
> ?.?a?.DP?.?a?.DP?.?a
> 0007FFA8 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00
> ....................
> 0007FFBC 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00 │ 00 00 00 00
> ....................
> 0007FFD0 80 FF 0F 00 │ FF FF FF FF │ FF FF FF FF │ FF FF FF FF │ FF FF FF FF
> ??..????????????????
> 0007FFE4 FF FF FF FF │ FF FF FF FF │ FF FF FF FF │ E9 11 00 FF │ FF 00 00 00
> ?????????????..??...
> 0007FFF8 E9 5F 00 FF │ D0 FF FD FF │
>
> Repeated AA 00 44 50 at 0007FF80
 hexdump -C build/coreboot.rom | tail
*
0007ff80  aa 00 44 50 c2 0f 97 61  aa 00 44 50 c2 0f 97 61  |..DP...a..DP...a|
*
0007ffa0  aa 00 44 50 c2 0f 97 61  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |..DP...a........|
0007ffb0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
0007ffd0  80 ff 0f 00 00 00 41 53  55 53 00 41 38 56 2d 45  |......ASUS.A8V-E|
0007ffe0  20 53 45 00 2a 00 00 00  25 00 00 00 00 00 08 00  | SE.*...%.......|
0007fff0  e9 11 00 ff ff 00 00 00  e9 5f 00 ff e0 ff fe ff  |........._......|
00080000

Thanks,
Myles
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