[coreboot] Samsung 550 Chromebook own Coreboot

John Lewis jlewis at johnlewis.ie
Wed Jul 31 17:50:57 CEST 2013



On 31/07/2013 16:43, Aaron Durbin wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:34 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 31/07/2013 16:20, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Aaron Durbin 
>>> <adurbin at chromium.org
>>> [5]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie
>>>> [4][4]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 31/07/2013 15:33, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:24 AM, John Lewis
>>>>>> <jlewis at johnlewis.ie [3][3]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all, Just want to confirm where we are in terms of things
>>>>>>> working or not. The new system-agent binary works and
>>>>>>> recognises all 4 GB of RAM as long as an additional pei data
>>>>>>> field is added to Stefan's patches in
>>>>>>> http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3831/ [1] [1] [1] as detailed
>>>>>>> by Kyösti in the comments. The patches in
>>>>>>> http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/3830/ [2] [2] [2] don't appear
>>>>>>> to do anything for mrc.cache (it's still zero size) and this
>>>>>>> (or perhaps something else) results in a time to SeaBIOS
>>>>>>> prompt of between 5 to 9 seconds.
>>>>>> Can you show us 'ls -l $(obj)/mrc.cache' ? I didn't see
>>>>> -rw-rw-r--. 1 john john 0 Jul 31 11:04 mrc.cache
>>>> This is your problem. I was hoping for a build.log that was
>>>> completely clean. The build log attached does not show mrc.cache
>>>> being created. Can you try the following and rebuilt? dd
>>>> if=/dev/zero of=mrc.cache bs=16K count=1 | tr '00' '377' >
>>>> mrc.cache
>>> Apologies. I am doing too many things at once. Remove the
>>> 'of=mrc.cache' parameter to dd.
>> The good news is that cbfstool now reports a non-zero mrc.cache, the
>> bad news is it doesn't make any difference. cbmem -c reports 
>> Updating
>> MRC cache data. No FMAP found at ffe70000. FMAP: area RW_MRC_CACHE 
>> not
>> found find_current_mrc_cache_local: No valid MRC cache found. SF:
>> Detected W25Q64 with page size 1000, total 800000 Need to erase the 
>> MRC
>> cache region of -1 bytes at 0011037f SF: Erase offset/length not
>> multiple of erase size Finally: write MRC cache update to flash at
>> 0011037f ICH SPI: Data transaction error SF: Failed to send write
>> command (1 bytes): -1 SF: Winbond Page Program failed
>
> CONFIG_CHROMEOS=y
>
> You have that option enabled. That's why you are seeing fmap calls.
> Therefore, it is not using the mrc.cache cbfs file. There's also the
> fact that certain variables are not initialized properly and thinking
> the callee will initialize them. cache_base should be set to NULL in
> update_mrc_cache() before calling get_mrc_cahce_region(). You'll see
> more enlightening messages. That, or ensure get_mrc_cache_region
> NULL's out the parameter.
>
> In short, don't enable CONFIG_CHROMEOS.
>

Menuconfig enables it by default, and there is no option to uncheck. If 
I set it to 'n' or comment in .config I get:

build/generated/crt0.romstage.o: In function `main':
/home/john/coreboot/src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/romstage.c:215: 
undefined reference to `save_chromeos_gpios'
/home/john/coreboot/src/mainboard/samsung/lumpy/romstage.c:362: 
undefined reference to `init_chromeos'
build/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrccache.romstage.o: In function 
`get_mrc_cache_region':
/home/john/coreboot/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/mrccache.c:71: 
undefined reference to `find_fmap_entry'
build/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit.romstage.o: In function 
`sdram_initialize':
/home/john/coreboot/src/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit.c:240: 
undefined reference to `recovery_mode_enabled'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [build/cbfs/fallback/romstage_null.debug] Error 1

>>>>>> CONFIG_MRC_CACHE_SIZE in your .config. Also, what does
>>>>>> 'cbfstool
>>>>> Menuconfig doesn't allow you specify it, and there isn't
>>>>> currently a default being put in automatically.
>>>>>
>>>>>> image.rom print' say now? Build logs with V=1 would be helpful
>>>>>> to see
>>>>> coreboot.rom: 8192 kB, bootblocksize 1552, romsize 8388608,
>>>>> offset 0x700000 alignment: 64 bytes Name Offset Type Size
>>>>> cmos_layout.bin 0x700000 cmos_layout 1120 pci8086,0106.rom
>>>>> 0x7004c0 optionrom 65536 cpu_microcode_blob.bin 0x710500
>>>>> microcode 20544 fallback/romstage 0x7155c0 stage 36438
>>>>> fallback/coreboot_ram 0x71e480 stage 294016 fallback/payload
>>>>> 0x766140 payload 87816 (empty) 0x77b880 null 18200 mrc.cache
>>>>> 0x77ffc0 (unknown) 0 (empty) 0x780000 null 130968 mrc.bin
>>>>> 0x79ffc0 (unknown) 195732 (empty) 0x7cfcc0 null 49880 spd.bin
>>>>> 0x7dbfc0 (unknown) 1536 (empty) 0x7dc600 null 144280






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