Black monitor with external AMD card and coreboot: `radeon_bo_create:132 alloc size 0M bigger than 0Mb limit`
Jerome Glisse
j.glisse at gmail.com
Mon May 13 06:51:52 PDT 2013
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear Linux graphics folks,
>
>
> using the ASRock E350M1 with coreboot [1] and plugging in an external
> AMD graphics card,
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450/6350] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>
> first I get Linux message output over the internal card, but then after
> the following error message
>
> [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-4-686-pae (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-15) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000001000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000c7fe0000 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000c7fe0000 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f8000000 - 00000000f9000000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000021f000000 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
> [ 0.000000] SMBIOS 2.7 present.
> [ 0.000000] DMI: ASROCK E350M1, BIOS 4.0-4145-g0d468e0 05/12/2013
> [ 0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x21f000 max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
> [ 0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable
> [ 0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
> [ 0.000000] 00000-9FFFF write-back
> [ 0.000000] A0000-BFFFF uncachable
> [ 0.000000] C0000-FFFFF write-back
> [ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
> [ 0.000000] 0 base 000000000 mask F80000000 write-back
> [ 0.000000] 1 base 080000000 mask FC0000000 write-back
> [ 0.000000] 2 base 0C0000000 mask FF8000000 write-back
> [ 0.000000] 3 disabled
> [ 0.000000] 4 disabled
> [ 0.000000] 5 disabled
> [ 0.000000] 6 base 0FFC00000 mask FFFC00000 write-protect
> [ 0.000000] 7 disabled
> [ 0.000000] TOM2: 000000021f000000 aka 8688M
> [ 0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f0400] f0400
> [ 0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 01a00000
> [ 0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [c009b000] 9b000 size 16384
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000379fe000
> [ 0.000000] 0000000000 - 0000200000 page 4k
> [ 0.000000] 0000200000 - 0037800000 page 2M
> [ 0.000000] 0037800000 - 00379fe000 page 4k
> [ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 379fe000 @ 19f9000-1a00000
> [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 3687a000 - 37435000
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000f0800 00014 (v00 CORE )
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT c7fe2424 00040 (v01 CORE COREBOOT 00000000 CORE 00000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP c7fe4fe8 000F4 (v04 CORE COREBOOT 00000000 CORE 00000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT c7fe24c8 02ADB (v02 ASROCK COREBOOT 00010001 INTL 20121114)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS c7fe4fa8 00040
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET c7fe50e0 00038 (v01 CORE COREBOOT 00000000 CORE 00000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC c7fe5118 0005C (v01 CORE COREBOOT 00000000 CORE 00000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: HEST c7fe5178 00028 (v01 CORE COREBOOT 00000000 CORE 00000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT c7fe51a0 0168E (v02 AMD ALIB 00000001 MSFT 04000000)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT c7fe6830 003DE (v01 AMD POWERNOW 00000001 AMD 00000001)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT c7fe6c10 00045 (v02 CORE COREBOOT 0000002A CORE 0000002A)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> [ 0.000000] 7798MB HIGHMEM available.
> [ 0.000000] 889MB LOWMEM available.
> [ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 379fe000
> [ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 379fe000
> [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> [ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
> [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x000379fe
> [ 0.000000] HighMem 0x000379fe -> 0x0021f000
> [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> [ 0.000000] early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
> [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000010 -> 0x000000a0
> [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x000c7fe0
> [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00100000 -> 0x0021f000
> [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 1994608
> [ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c1412600, node_mem_map f249a200
> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
> [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3952 pages, LIFO batch:0
> [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1748 pages used for memmap
> [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 221994 pages, LIFO batch:31
> [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 15597 pages used for memmap
> [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 1751285 pages, LIFO batch:31
> [ 0.000000] Using APIC driver default
> […]
> [ 25.583155] radeon 0000:00:01.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [ 25.583176] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (PALM 0x1002:0x9802 0x1002:0x9802).
> [ 25.583271] [drm] register mmio base: 0xF0200000
> [ 25.583275] [drm] register mmio size: 262144
> [ 25.583358] ATOM BIOS: AMD
> [ 25.583419] radeon 0000:00:01.0: VRAM: 384M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x0000000017FFFFFF (384M used)
> [ 25.583426] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000018000000 - 0x0000000037FFFFFF
> [ 25.583437] mtrr: zero sized request
> [ 25.583441] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=384M, BAR=0M
> [ 25.583445] [drm] RAM width 32bits DDR
> [ 25.583819] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 417800 kiB
> [ 25.583827] [TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 3951564 kiB
> [ 25.583832] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
> [ 25.583844] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
> [ 25.583880] radeon_bo_create:132 alloc size 0M bigger than 0Mb limit
> [ 25.583890] radeon 0000:00:01.0: Fatal error during GPU init
> [ 25.589745] [drm] radeon: finishing device.
> [ 25.590900] radeon 0000:00:01.0: no bo for sa manager
> [ 25.593365] HDMI status: Codec=0 Pin=3 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0
> [ 25.593749] input: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card2/input7
> […]
>
> the display just freezes although the system boots up fine otherwise as
> I could in over a serial line. Plugging the VGA into the port of the
> external graphics card did not seem to help either as the monitor stayed
> black.
>
> Please find the output of `sudo lspci -vvv -xx` without and with the
> external card plugged in attached.
>
> Do you have any suggestions, what the problem could be? Should coreboot
> set something up differently? Any suggestion what?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
Issue is with coreboot, when you plug in the pcie card it does not
disable fully the integrated gpu and especialy it disable the vram bar
of it that confuse the hell out of the radeon driver.
Cheers,
Jerome
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