[coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

John Lewis jlewis at johnlewis.ie
Tue Jul 23 23:45:50 CEST 2013


Actually file is in 3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/ but build 
isn't picking file up.

On 23/07/2013 22:33, ron minnich wrote:

> If you set that, and you enable 3rd party binaries, it should get it 
> just
> fine.
>
> ron
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:31 PM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> 
> wrote:
>
>> So, I have been trying to do as Ron suggested. First obstacle is VGA
>> BIOS isn't pulled in automatically. I managed to extract that from
>> existing BIOS using fmap_decode and cbfstool, as per the VMX Hacking
>> instructions on the Chromium website, and Coreboot builds, but I'm 
>> left
>> with a brick. Can anyone advise what to do/try next? I've also 
>> noticed
>> an option which says "Add a system agent binary" in the Northbridge
>> setup, the help for which says "Without this binary Coreboot will 
>> not
>> work". Do I need this, and if so where do I get it? On 22/07/2013
>> 17:58, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>>> you need a vga bios for now. You must have the ME firmware. Try 
>>> this:
>>> make menuconfig go to general setup enable the 'third party 
>>> binaries'
>>> menu item (or whatever it's called) they should now get downloaded
>>> automagically. Do a cbfstool build/coreboot.rom print before and
>>> after this step, and it should look different. ron
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