[coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

Aaron Durbin adurbin at chromium.org
Wed Jul 24 00:03:33 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:45 PM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> wrote:
> Actually file is in 3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/ but build isn't
> picking file up.

In your .config can you set
CONFIG_MRC_FILE="3rdparty/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/systemagent-r6.bin"
? I think that will pick it up properly.
>
>
> 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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