coreboot_x220_notes

robbintt [20:43] 
First time: green power button blinked on once for a fraction of a second and then nothing

[20:43] 
Now (2nd time): sustained green light around power button, fan noise, no display

[20:45] 
I will try just pressing some buttons assuming seabios native vga doesn't work or something (edited)

robbintt [21:31] 
@danukeru: did you have to include a vga bios bin?


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robbintt [01:26] 
@danukeru: another question - on grub you are using a vga bin you pulled from your image right?  did you ever try actually using native vga on seabios?

[01:31] 
some notes from tonight. I tried to make the crossgcc stuff with multiple cores using `util/crossgcc/buildgcc -j 12` .. it built that fine. when I ran `make`, I had an error detailed in the irc conversation below
```00:13 < robbintt> went to rebuild my rom and try again and i ran into a strange error
00:13 < robbintt>     DD         Adding Intel Firmware Descriptor
00:13 < robbintt> src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Makefile.inc:47: recipe for target
                  'add_intel_firmware' failed
00:13 < robbintt> make: *** [add_intel_firmware] Error 1
00:21  -!- Yoshimo <~anything@unaffiliated/yoshimo> has joined #coreboot
00:22  -!- soulz <~soulz@unaffiliated/soulz> has joined #coreboot
00:28 < PaulePan1er> robbintt: Please run with `make V=1`.
00:31 < PaulePan1er> robbintt: The default SeaBIOS payload should boot from USB.
00:33 < PaulePan1er> robbintt: When you are done, please do not forget to upload to results
                     board status. See `util/board-status`.```

robbintt [12:05] 
@hzeller: i'm running in what i hope are temporary issues, are you interested in flashing one of your x220s' internal 8MB bios with a coreboot rom?

hzeller [12:06] 
The one that is already built in, or would I need to re-solder it ?

[12:06] 
I have one 220 which I am not using actively currently, so wouldn't miss it if it was not working for a couple of weeks.

[12:06] 
I could bring it to the space later @robbintt

robbintt [12:07] 
the built in chip

[12:08] 
ok @hzeller i can pick it up. what time will you be there? i may just build the rom and install coreboot this evening on that one, then if it works give it back and if not keep tinkering

robbintt [12:14] 
currently i am doing the `make crossgcc` step, then building another coreboot rom. i will flash that one (on my 16MB eeprom), i expect the same result but you never know. then at that point i will be at a dead end in which i need to compile all my data and wait for detailed help in freenode/#coreboot (edited)



11:15 < robbintt> ok continuing my issue from last night: http://pastebin.com/RYybkLRf  Here
                  is the result of `make -j 12 V=1`
11:16 < robbintt> in this build i attempted to `$ util/crossgcc/buildgcc -j 8
11:17 < robbintt> rather than just `make crossgcc`
11:18 < robbintt> i am doing another build because my other build had this error: on boot into
                  default payload, display remained black, heard fans and got sustained green
                  power ring.
11:19 < robbintt> this is for a lenovo x220 with a 16mb winbond W25Q128FVSIG-ND
11:20 < robbintt> i extracted me, gbe, descriptors with ifdtool, put them in the proscribed
                  place, used native vga in `make nconfig`
11:22 < robbintt> modified descriptor with one edit, changing the bits to show a 16mb eeprom
11:22 < robbintt> i will put all this in a gist