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| author | Nicola Corna <nicola@corna.info> | 2018-06-21 14:57:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2018-06-25 08:19:16 +0000 |
| commit | 04d2601426b0633bc817e57f44e087098bab2f84 (patch) | |
| tree | 9bcdfa9e338fca1a3a2b060b34d986c69f2fba58 /src | |
| parent | 59790dded6d658b99031f73d788f250ecb2587b5 (diff) | |
sb/intel/common/firmware: Enable me_cleaner for Nehalem
Recent patches in coreboot have fixed the freeze issues related to the
use of me_cleaner on Nehalem.
However, at least on the Lenovo X201, with me_cleaner some PCIe devices
(like the SATA and USB controllers) disappear. In particular, setting
the AltMeDisable bit ("-S" or "-s" flag) makes them disappear
completely, while unsetting it makes them disappear only during cold
boots.
This kind of behaviour was already observed by Youness Alaoui on the
Purism Librem laptops ([1]), and it seems related to some required
board-specific PCIe configuration in the ME's MFS partition.
For this reason, on the Lenovo X201, "-w EFFS" has been added to the
me_cleaner arguments, which whitelists the MFS-equivalent partition for
ME generation 2. This fixes all the issues, and the PCIe devices work as
expected.
[1] https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/
Change-Id: Ie77a80d2cb4945cf1c984bdb0fb1cc2f18e82ebc
Signed-off-by: Nicola Corna <nicola@corna.info>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27178
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mainboard/lenovo/x201/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Kconfig | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/mainboard/lenovo/x201/Kconfig b/src/mainboard/lenovo/x201/Kconfig index 235120915d..a689bbcd4d 100644 --- a/src/mainboard/lenovo/x201/Kconfig +++ b/src/mainboard/lenovo/x201/Kconfig @@ -48,4 +48,10 @@ config CPU_ADDR_BITS int default 36 +# Without the Intel ME's EFFS partition some PCIe devices (like the USB and SATA +# controllers) don't work as expected +config ME_CLEANER_ARGS + string + default "-S -w EFFS" + endif diff --git a/src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Kconfig b/src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Kconfig index 4b882bd553..30c9aaf262 100644 --- a/src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Kconfig +++ b/src/southbridge/intel/common/firmware/Kconfig @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ config CHECK_ME config USE_ME_CLEANER bool "Strip down the Intel ME/TXE firmware" - depends on HAVE_ME_BIN && (NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SANDYBRIDGE || \ + depends on HAVE_ME_BIN && (NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_NEHALEM || \ + NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_SANDYBRIDGE || \ NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_IVYBRIDGE || NORTHBRIDGE_INTEL_HASWELL || \ SOC_INTEL_BROADWELL || SOC_INTEL_SKYLAKE || \ SOC_INTEL_KABYLAKE || SOC_INTEL_BAYTRAIL || SOC_INTEL_BRASWELL) |